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katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Just heard I've won the Holyer an Gof award for Poetry for Battery Rocks (pub by @serenbooks.bsky.social Holyer an Gof is the Cornish literary awards. I'm delighted.

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Woman with a big smile holding a copy of her book and a certificate.
July 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Daljit Nagra has chosen #BatteryRocks (Seren) as Book of the Month on Poetry Extra (Radio 4 Extra). The programme went out on Sunday 17 Nov 2024 & is available for a month on #BBCSounds, there's a great interview with #OceanVuong & then Daljit reads from Battery Rocks. #poetry #batteryrocks #radio
Photo of lots of copies of Battery Rocks, a poetry collection, in yellow with a black and white woman's face and a shell next to her ear Head and shoulders photo of the poet & BBC presenter Daljit Nagra in a grey jumper with the words 'Poetry Extra' under his chin
November 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
peakrambler.bsky.social
A rock pipit portfolio,
#BatteryRocks, #Penzance.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Reading from Battery Rocks @serenbooks.bsky.social in Norwich on Mon. Thanks to Samantha Wynne- Rhydderch for this 📸 & for travelling from Wales 🥰 #poetry #batteryrocks #poetrycommunity
Woman in a 1940s dress reading poetry in a theatre bar with people sat in the foreground.
June 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Photo of this morning's swim & a poem from the winter sequence in my Battery Rocks @serenbooks.bsky.social I hope you'll enjoy 'The Source'.

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#gettingcolder
#lovethesea
Prose poem on a white page Dark harbour with a slipway leading into a choppy sea. Church tower in the background.
December 9, 2024 at 11:46 AM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Book, set list, frocks & hair flowers. Away to Launceston Poetry Festival. I'm reading from Battery Rocks @serenbooks.bsky.social on Sat with @pascalepetit.bsky.social, doing a breakfast panel on Sun plus 1 to 1 mentoring sessions.

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Poetry book set against vintage clothes and hair flowers
May 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
My sister made me this charm of shells & hag stones to keep me safe in the sea.

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Photo of a poetry book with cover of a woman asleep with a large shell next to her ear. A string of hag stones and shells overlays the book.
December 30, 2024 at 12:02 PM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts
endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb...

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NCBF 2025: Poetry with Pascale Petit & Katrina Naomi - Endelienta Arts
endelienta.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
'If a poem doesn’t try to make you feel or to question or to challenge something in you, then the poetry isn’t doing its job.'
I'm interviewed in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social inkfishmag.com/interview-wi...

#poetry #batteryrocks #interview
@serenbooks.bsky.social
Show the book cover of 'Battery Rocks', by Katrina Naomi, which is in yellow and black and white, with a little tinting, of a woman asleep on a pillow with a large shell by her head
June 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
Off to the post office with orders of signed copies of Battery Rocks. I'm always happy to dedicate books to people when I sign them. You can order via my website (sorry UK only).

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Smiling woman in orange jumper clutching a large envelope by the door
January 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
poetryhilary.bsky.social
Wonderful to hear @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social read this evening in Cardiff at a Cardiff University event, alongside open mic from many great writers, including the MA students. #DanceAsIf #WildPersistence #BatteryRocks
Katriona Naomi in a stylist blue outfit sitting on stage in conversation with a long haired Cardiff uni academic Poet Katrina Naomi reading on stage with her poetry collection Battery Rock.
February 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social
A winter poem 'The Men' from Battery Rocks.
Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy of Battery Rocks since publication @serenbooks.bsky.social in July this year. Seren have already reprinted.
Battery Rocks is 'a meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea'.
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Poem called The Men typed on a page, by Katrina Naomì Yellow and grey book on a shelf titled Battery Rocks. The cover shows a woman asleep with a large shell by her ear.
December 23, 2024 at 11:22 AM