
Katrina Naomi
@katrinanaomi
Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (July 24, Seren). Winner of Arthur Welton Award, Keats-Shelley Prize & Saboteur Award. PhD @GoldsmithsUoL Also on Insta.
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Reading from Battery Rocks Seren Books this Weds evening, online. Tickets from Wordsworth Grasmere & it's hosted by the bloody brilliant @kimmoorepoet



This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Golden Shovel: After Iris Murdoch’ by Katrina Naomi from her collection ‘Battery Rocks’ in honour of it having been Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes serenbooks.com/2024/10/friday….


Delighted that my poem 'Golden Shovel: After Iris Murdoch from Battery Rocks Seren Books is highly commended in Forward Prizes 🥰

When you to get to read with Penelope Shuttle - one of my poetry heroes & great friend 🥰 Thanks Anna Chorlton for this lovely photo of the pair of us

My next event is The Society of Authors Thurs 24 Oct afternoon tea. I'll be interviewed by the creative force that is Sophie Herxheimer & I'll talk about Battery Rocks Seren Books & how I write. It's online & it's free. Contact the Society of Authors to book.


Thanks to Amanda Pyne who saw Battery Rocks & Wild Persistence (both Seren Books) in Foyles on London's Charing X Rd & sent me this photo


Do join me & Sophie Herxheimer at this online event tomorrow afternoon 24 Oct at 2.30 The Society of Authors I'll be talking about creativity & how I write & a little about Battery Rocks Seren Books Book via Society of Authors


Congratulations to the fab Dzifa Afi Benson on her Monster publication day - one of Verve Poetry Festival's favourite 50 poetry paperbacks of 2024. Delighted to find Battery Rocks peeking out alongside some bloody amazing poetry collection here 💛

Katrina's poetry news - short & sweet- for Nov 🧁 - mailchi.mp/08e95e4b03bc/k… featuring Seren Books Mslexia ✨ Ellora Sutton (she/her) Forward Prizes The Hypatia Trust Waterstones Truro The Writers' Block Cafe Writers John McCullough 🏳️🌈 Rebecca Swift Foundation Modern Poetry in Translation Keats-Shelley House



My next reading is this Fri 1 Nov The Hypatia Trust in Nov. There'll also be a Q&A, plenty of socialising & a bar. Tickets hypatia-trust.org.uk/talksandworksh…


Huge congratulations to all the winners & especially to Miruna Fulgeanu - Miruna Fulgeanu - for winning first prize in the Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry The Morrab Library

Saw 2 starfish on my swim this morning. Here's Asterias Rubens from Battery Rocks Seren Books


Battery Rocks @serenbooks is Daljit Nagra's Book of the Month on BBC Radio 4 extra You can hear Daljit read one of my Battery Rocks poems & say why he's chosen it at just over 29 mins into the programme. This means a lot to me. …ea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

We are so excited to welcome poet Katrina Naomi to Truro tomorrow night, discussing her stunning collection ‘Battery Rocks’. There’s still time to join us, too! Find more info here: waterstones.com/events/battery…

Battery Rocks is 4 months old. Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy of Battery Rocks, reviewed it, organised an event, read with me, featured the poems, or stocked it in their bookshop. Me & this collection Seren Books have been having a great time so far. 💛

