Katrina Naomi
POET WRITER PERFORMER
new pamphlet
dance as if
Inspired by a collaboration with the dancer/choreographer Kyra Norman, dance as if (Verve Poetry Press, Sept 2025) sees Katrina Naomi exploring new territory in pamphlet form as a follow-up to her widely praised fourth full collection Battery Rocks (Seren, 2024).
‘dance as if is a glorious rediscovery of body, a radical relearning of the skin and bones of us. The poetry is sinuous, alive and in constant movement.’ – Joelle Taylor
‘Exuberant and celebratory’ – Tishani Doshi
new collection
Battery Rocks
Battery Rocks (as featured on Radio 4’s Open Country and in The Guardian) is ‘a meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea’.
Battery Rocks has won an Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors and the 2025 Holyer an Gof award for Poetry. Katrina’s new collection includes the poem ‘in the kelp forest’, which won the prestigious Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry.
You can order Battery Rocks from Seren Books,
or you can buy a signed copy from me here (UK only)
See Events page for book launches, readings and other events.
