Katrina Naomi est une poétesse qui explore les liens complexes entre l'humanité et le monde naturel, en utilisant souvent des images inattendues et évocatrices. Son œuvre se caractérise par un fort élément visuel et une exploration profonde des émotions humaines. Naomi concentre son écriture sur des thèmes qui résonnent avec la vie contemporaine tout en puisant son inspiration dans l'histoire et l'art, créant ainsi une poésie à la fois actuelle et intemporelle. Ses poèmes ont été présentés dans d'éminents programmes de radio et de télévision britanniques ainsi que dans des revues littéraires prestigieuses.
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.