The Way the Crocodile Taught Me
Seiten
2016
Seren (Verlag)
9781781723319 (ISBN)
Seren (Verlag)
9781781723319 (ISBN)
Katrina Naomi's The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is the eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet, reflecting with wit, grace and courage upon a troubled childhood. This collection will delight people who know Naomi's work and undoubtedly win new fans for her courageous and unabashedly entertaining poems.
Katrina Naomi’s The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is the eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet. With warmth, flair and a certain ferocious wit, Naomi tears into her subject matter: a childhood fraught with dislocation and violence but also redeemed by more tender memories of a sister and a kindly, although at times comically obtuse, grandmother. In the first half we meet the family which also includes: an often glamorous mother, a truly scary stepfather and the sort of relatives where one can expect fistfights to erupt at family weddings. The second half of the book is informed by the tragi-comic events of the first and includes: a bleak hotel, an attempted rape and a description of the sadistic relish with which the Kray twins dispatched their victims. The Way the Crocodile Taught Me will delight people who know Naomi’s work and undoubtedly win new fans for her courageous and unabashedly entertaining poems.
Katrina Naomi’s The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is the eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet. With warmth, flair and a certain ferocious wit, Naomi tears into her subject matter: a childhood fraught with dislocation and violence but also redeemed by more tender memories of a sister and a kindly, although at times comically obtuse, grandmother. In the first half we meet the family which also includes: an often glamorous mother, a truly scary stepfather and the sort of relatives where one can expect fistfights to erupt at family weddings. The second half of the book is informed by the tragi-comic events of the first and includes: a bleak hotel, an attempted rape and a description of the sadistic relish with which the Kray twins dispatched their victims. The Way the Crocodile Taught Me will delight people who know Naomi’s work and undoubtedly win new fans for her courageous and unabashedly entertaining poems.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bridgend |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 105 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-13 | 9781781723319 / 9781781723319 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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