Katrina Naomi ist eine Dichterin, die sich mit den komplexen Verbindungen zwischen Mensch und Natur auseinandersetzt, oft mit unerwarteten und eindringlichen Bildern. Ihre Arbeit zeichnet sich durch ein starkes visuelles Element und eine tiefgründige Erforschung menschlicher Emotionen aus. Naomi konzentriert sich in ihren Schriften auf Themen, die im Einklang mit dem gegenwärtigen Leben stehen, und schöpft gleichzeitig Inspiration aus Geschichte und Kunst, um Poesie zu schaffen, die sowohl aktuell als auch zeitlos ist. Ihre Gedichte wurden in führenden britischen Radio- und Fernsehprogrammen sowie in angesehenen Literaturzeitschriften veröffentlicht.
Katrina Naomi’s poetry collection, Wild Persistence , written after a move from London to Cornwall, considers distance and closeness, and questions how to live. She dissects ‘dualism’ and arrival, sex and dance, a trip to Japan. There is a strong section of poems about the aftermath of an attempted rape. Her voice is convincing and contemporary.
Verve Poetry Press are thrilled that the wonderful Katrina Naomi has asked us to publish the poems that came out of her recent Arts Council supported writing trip to Japan. And a wonderful group of poems they are, that at once depict Japan, its traditions, its customs with great enthusiasm but also a healthy dose of heart-on-sleave puzzlement. Katrina doesn't pretend she is an expert. She is very much an English poet abroad. Also included are Katrina's translations of Haiku by two Japanese masters which have previously been published in MPT magazine. Altogether, this is Katrina trying something new, but with the quality, the wonderful way with words, the earnest grappling with the perceived world that characterises all her work.
'The Way the Crocodile Taught Me', is Katrina Naomi's vibrant, heartfelt and tragi-comic collection of poetry. She reveals a childhood fraught with family dislocation, upsets and even occasional violence, and finds, through her art, moments of grace, humour and redemption.