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Katrina Naomi and Fiona Benson run 2019 tutored retreat for Arvon
Developing Strengths and Finding New Avenues will run from 18-23 November 2019.
Versions of Yasuaki Inoue haiku in Modern Poetry in Translation
Katrina’s versions of Yasuaki Inoue’s haiku are in Modern Poetry in Translation. She translated these five poems during an Arts Council- funded trip to Japan, and is grateful to Professor Michiyo Takano of Yamanashi Prefectural University for her literal translations. Yasuaki Inoue is editor of Kakko (Cuckoo) haiku society and journal in Japan. In 2019, Katrina will be publishing, Typhoon Etiquette, a pamphlet of Japan-themed poems with Verve Poetry Press.
Katrina’s news – ‘short & sweet’
Katrina’s news can be sent to you in the form of ‘short & sweet’, a brief emailed poetry newsletter, each month. Click here if you’d like to join Katrina’s 400 + subscribers to ‘short & sweet’. Subscribers receive ‘short & sweet’ around the start of the month – here’s December’s ‘short & sweet’. Each issue contains information on Katrina’s forthcoming poetry readings, workshops, latest books and other events. Each ‘short & sweet’ also recommends a new poetry collection and offers various opportunities for writers. Its quick and easy to sign up and your email will never be passed on to anyone else. You’ll just receive ‘short & sweet’ once a month and nothing else – no junk, no adverts. Happy reading.
Announcing Typhoon Etiquette
Typhoon Etiquette will be published by Verve Poetry Press in April 2019. Katrina wrote the Japanese-themed pamphlet after receiving an Arts Council Artists’ International Development Fund award, spending six weeks travelling in Japan. During the trip, she walked in Basho’s footsteps, travelling to northern Japan, worked with Yamanashi Prefectural University and carried out translation work. She also ate lots of vegan sushi, found a love of sumo and found that singing Shirley Bassey songs loudly is very off-putting to bears. Typhoon Etiquette is available to pre-order, priced at £7.50 (UK), with free postage. Typhoon Etiquette will be Katrina’s sixth poetry publication. She is working on her third full collection, which will be published by Seren in 2020. Click here to see Katrina’s full range of poetry collections.
Katrina at Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival
Katrina is at Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival running a workshop called ‘The Young Americans’ on Saturday 24 November. The workshop is £15 full price or £10 for concessions. Click here to book. Katrina’s workshop, from 10 am to 12 am on 24 November, focuses on Terrance Hayes, Danez Smith and Ocean Vuong, and will consider how to write good political poetry. Katrina’s workshop will also consider the use of form and free verse. The Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival runs from Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 November in Falmouth, click here for the full programme. For more on Katrina’s events, see her forthcoming worshops and reading for 2019.