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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 …
Forthcoming events
Katrina’s readings, workshops and other events are updated regularly: 7 November – Poetry workshop with Penzance Women’s Aid. By invitation only. 12 November – Japanese Poetry Workshop for Indian Kings Poets. FULL. 24 November – ‘The Young Americans’ – workshop on Terrance Hayes, Danez Smith and Ocean Vuong at Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival in Falmouth And …
Tutor on The Personal and the Political at Ty Newydd
Katrina is tutor on The Personal and the Political at Ty Newydd in August 2019. Katrina will be running The Personal and the Political poetry course with tutor Deryn Rees-Jones from 19 to 24 August 2019. Mona Arshi will be guest tutor. The course will consider ways of writing in response to the current political …
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Katrina interviewed by Literature Works
Katrina is interviewed by Literature Works here. In the interview, Katrina talks about her BBC commissioned poem and film for National Poetry Day, why she feels that poetry can lead to change and about the poetry scene in Cornwall. Finally, she discusses what she is currently working on, including a new collection and a new pamphlet. Read …
Reading at the Leach Pottery on 2 November
Katrina will be reading at the Leach Pottery in St Ives on 2 November. She has been the Leach Pottery’s first poet-in-residence and will be reading some of the poems she wrote at the pottery. She will also be reading some of her new poetry written while on an Arts Council England-sponsored trip to Japan. …
Katrina interviewed by Paul Brookes
Katrina is interviewed here by Paul Brookes In the interview, Katrina talks about how she started writing, which poets inspired her and which put her off. She discusses who she is currently reading, and sets out what a typical working day can look like. She also talks about several contemporary poets whose work she finds exciting. Click …
Authors’ Foundation grant
Katrina is delighted to have received an Authors’ Foundation grant from the Society of Authors. The award will enable her to complete work on her next collection, which is due from Seren in 2020. Katrina will announce more about her next collection shortly, watch this space. Her latest collection is The Way the Crocodile Taught Me (Seren, 2016). …
Article on Japanese poetry in The Poetry Review
Katrina’s article on Japanese poetry is in The Poetry Review. The article is entitled ‘The Edge of the Language: Poetry and Poets in Japan’ and is in the Summer 2018 issue. Katrina visited Japan to find out about Japanese poetry, with an Arts Council international development grant. During her six-week visit, she interviewed Hiromi Ito, …
BBC commission for National Poetry Day
Katrina has received a BBC poetry commission for National Poetry Day 2018. The commission is from BBC local radio. Katrina is representing the South-West and has been speaking to BBC Radio Cornwall and BBC Radio Devon for the BBC poetry commission, inviting listeners to send in a story about personal change, and hopes to write …