Wild Persistence

by Katrina Naomi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781725818
Publisher:	Seren
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Katrina Naomi received an Authors’ Foundation award from the Society of Authors for her new collection, Wild Persistence (Seren, 2020). Katrina has also published four pamphlets of poetry, including the Japan-themed Typhoon Etiquette (Verve Poetry Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared on Radio 4’s Front Row and Poetry Please, BBC TV’s Spotlight and is forthcoming on Poems on the Underground. Katrina was the first poet-in-residence at the Parsonage Bronte Museum and was highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2017, she has a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, and tutors for Arvon, Ty Newydd, and the Poetry School.

Table of Contents

Anti- ambient 7

London: A Reply 8

How to Celebrate a Birthday 9

At Noongallas 10

Swaling on Boscathow 11

Bardhonek May Hwisk Hi Ynno Hy Fows Dhemmedhyans Meurgerys 12

Poem in Which She Wears Her Favourite Wedding Dress 13

Maybe Owls 14

Dualism: A Manifesto 15

Elemental 17

Interpretation 18

Open Letter 19

Mentor 21

Spared 22

After the Shock of your Photo on Facebook 24

On Fucking 25

On Suitors 26

Beat 27

What Arrival Feels Like 28

How Is It 29

As if This were Someone Else's Drama 30

Holidayish 31

You Told Yourself 32

Ghazal for Tim 33

The University 34

House as Tent 35

The Gift 36

The Table my Father Made 37

The Snug 38

How Religion Works 39

Taking Off Billy Collins's Clothes 40

The Only Truly Memorable New Year's Eve 41

Elsewhere 42

Boasting Sonnet 43

The Smiling of Children While They Sleep 44

This Isn't a Yellow Cake 45

The Beach Couldn't be Found 47

I Saw Them Making Love 48

What I Will Tell my Daughter 49

The Reveal 50

Three Horses 51

It was Nothing to Do with Any of You 52

Circling in Flippers 53

If I Were a Different Person I Might be Able to Forgive 54

The Blade 55

She'd Feel Differently 56

Not Really About Snow 57

Hello Wilhemina 58

Dent-de-Lion: Our First Farm 60

You Can't Know of This 61

Talisman 62

My Sister and the Heavy Magic 63

All Those Years 64

The Sun & Me 65

The Future Ends Soon 67

Transistor 68

Yellow Eyes, the Usual Big Teeth 69

The Guns 70

Acknowledgements 71