Battery Rocks - Softcover

Naomi, Katrina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781727546 ISBN 13: 9781781727546

Publisher: Seren, 2024

Synopsis

In Battery Rocks Katrina Naomi returns to the Cornish swimming spot – Battery Rocks in Penzance – every day for a year. On each swim, she finds something fresh and invigorating, whether this is an encounter with a bull seal, an insight into the conflict in Palestine, or a realisation about herself.

Alongside poems exploring the sea in all its mercurial forms – rough and calm, wild and healing – she examines issues of fear, strength and vulnerability. Writing in response to an attempted rape and other experienced attacks, she questions how she can feel safer alone, in a raging sea in winter, in nothing but a swimming costume, than on dry land.

These poems also approach the climate emergency from aslant, offering several new takes on one of the most pressing concerns of our times. Finding joy through immersion in nature, Battery Rocks is a thoughtful meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea.

About this title

About the Author

Katrina is an award-winning poet, performer, mentor and judge. Her new collection, ‘Battery Rocks’, is due from Seren in July 2024. Katrina’s poetry collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, and she is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize. Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Poetry Please, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths, tutors for Arvon and the Poetry Society, and chairs the Society of Authors’ Poetry and Spoken Word Group. Katrina lives in Cornwall. Her website is www.katrinanaomi.co.uk

Edition details

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781727546
• ISBN 13: 9781781727546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150