Katrina Naomi je básnířka, která zkoumá složité vztahy mezi člověkem a přírodou, často s nečekanými a podnětnými obrazy. Její díla se vyznačují silnou vizuální složkou a hlubokým zkoumáním lidských emocí. Naomi se ve své tvorbě soustředí na témata, která rezonují s moderním životem, a zároveň čerpá inspiraci z historie a umění, čímž vytváří poezii, která je zároveň současná i nadčasová. Její básně se objevují na předních britských rozhlasových a televizních stanicích a v prestižních literárních časopisech.
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.