dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Each poem deploys a forensic

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

Surrounded by terrible slaughter

asemic poetry

the poet shows his skill in compressed understatement

this book is a ‘savage enunciation’:

dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Each poem deploys a forensicPublished 25th September 2025. Katrina Naomis glorious new suite of poems, dance as if, is at once a celebration of the body and a quest for the euphoria of movement without shame, without self criticism. dance as if follows Katrina's fruitful collaboration with the dancer choreographer Kyra Norman, and Katrina draws on a variety of poetic forms to capture this joyful re engagement with the physical. In these poems Katrina is rediscovering dance in