Typhoon Etiquette

Verve Poetry Press are thrilled that the wonderful Katrina Naomi has asked us to publish the poems that came out of her recent Arts Council supported writing trip to Japan. And a wonderful group of poems they are, that at once depict Japan, its traditions, its customs with great enthusiasm but also a healthy dose of heart-on-sleave puzzlement. Katrina doesn't pretend she is an expert. She is very much an English poet abroad.
Also included are Katrina's translations of Haiku by two Japanese masters which have previously been published in MPT magazine. Altogether, this is Katrina trying something new, but with the quality, the wonderful way with words, the earnest grappling with the perceived world that characterises all her work.

Katrina is an award-winning poet, performer, mentor and judge. Her latest full collection' Battery Rocks' came out with Seren in 2024 and received the Arthur Welton Award from The Society of Authors. 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
'dance as if' is Katrina's second pamphlet with VERVE Poery Press after 2019's brilliant 'Typhoon Etiquette'.