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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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It's publication day for Battery Rocks. Thanks to my publisher @SerenBooks & my brilliant editors @ZoeBrigley & @RhianEdwards5 & to everyone who critiqued the drafts or individual poems. Big thanks to @rrobinson72 @ShuttlePenelope @kimmoorepoet @DaljitNagra4 for endorsements 🌊

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Excited to hear that Daljit Nagra is reading another poem from Battery Rocks on his Poetry Extra show this Sunday on @BBCRadio4Extra Battery Rocks is Daljit's Book of the Month 💛 You can listen in via BBC Sounds any time on Sunday & then for a month. It airs after Ocean Vuong

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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 @SerenBooks have been having a great time so far. 💛

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We are so excited to welcome poet @KatrinaNaomi 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…

Join us for an evening of poetry with award-winning Penzance-based poet Katrina Naomi Following a reading and conversation about Katrina's career - and love of wild swimming, the inspiration behind the collection - there will be a Q&A and signing session Tickets available now

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Battery Rocks @serenbooks is Daljit Nagra's Book of the Month on @BBCRadio4Extra 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%…


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

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Katrina Naomi Reposted

Join us for an evening of poetry with award-winning Penzance-based poet Katrina Naomi Following a reading and conversation about Katrina's career - and love of wild swimming, the inspiration behind the collection - there will be a Q&A and signing session Tickets available now

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Huge congratulations to all the winners & especially to @libglib - Miruna Fulgeanu - for winning first prize in the Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry @morrablibrary

Huge congratulations to the winners of the Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry! A big thank you to our competition judges @KatrinaNaomi & Jodie Hollander to everyone who entered this year! bit.ly/40lF2S0

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

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Congratulations to the fab @DzifaBenson on her Monster publication day - one of @VervePoetryFest's favourite 50 poetry paperbacks of 2024. Delighted to find Battery Rocks peeking out alongside some bloody amazing poetry collection here 💛

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY for @DzifaBenson's debut full collection today - one of our 50 Favourite Poetry Paperbacks of 2024 in the online shop - see the full list here > vervepoetrybookshop.com/paperbacks-for… 😍

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

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

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My next event is @Soc_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 @SerenBooks & how I write. It's online & it's free. Contact the Society of Authors to book.

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When you to get to read with @ShuttlePenelope - one of my poetry heroes & great friend 🥰 Thanks @anna_chorlton for this lovely photo of the pair of us

A real treat listening to wonderful poets @ShuttlePenelope and @KatrinaNaomi read in Redruth this afternoon, lovely to see you both! #poetry #Cornwall

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

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Delighted that my poem 'Golden Shovel: After Iris Murdoch from Battery Rocks @SerenBooks is highly commended in @ForwardPrizes 🥰

Congratulations to @KatrinaNaomi! Whose poem ‘Golden Shovel: After Iris Murdoch’, from Battery Rocks published by @SerenBooks, is Highly Commended in The Forward Prizes for Poetry. Read it in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025. forwardartsfoundation.org/book/the-forwa…

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When your partner sends you a photo of your book face out in Waterstones 💛

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Reading from Battery Rocks @SerenBooks this Weds evening, online. Tickets from @WordsworthGras & it's hosted by the bloody brilliant @kimmoorepoet

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I'm really happy to see Battery Rocks @SerenBooks reviewed so stylishly in @Mslexia by @ellora_sutton Battery Rocks is summed up as 'By focusing intensely on place, Katrina Naomi is able to push at the horizons of freedom, self and risk'. 💛

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