She’s collected many friends, poems, stories, photographs and dance moves along the way.
Home is currently Shoreham-by-sea, just along the coast from Brighton where she first started performing poems in 2006 (while studying Anthropology and Spanish!).
Katrina’s work has a strong sense of rhythm, shared with energy, passion and sensitivity. She writes often about belonging, spirituality and connection, inspired by true life stories.
She was recently a Callaloo Fellow for Creative Non-Fiction, part of the Writers’ Place Poets at New Writing South, and hosted Pier Poets Open Mic in Brighton.
“It’s exciting to watch someone whose poetry has such muscle power and who can communicate a strong personal presence. A poet no one is going to mess with, in other words”
Heathcote Williams
2018 Individual Medley @ Camden People’s Theatre
Poetry set @ Piston Broke, Shoreham-by-sea
Poetry set @ She Grrrowls, London
Poetry set @ Smoking Dragon Festival, Drakensberg, South Africa Hosting & Poetry @ Pier Poets, Brighton Individual Medley, ‘kitchen performance’, Colchester Writing and Movement Workshop, Colchester Featured poet @ Eastbourne Poetry Cafe WATCH VIDEO Interview with Cast Iron Theatre Podcast (LISTEN HERE) “Pursuing Your Passions”talk @ Share Your Story (LISTEN TO RECORDING) Solo show: Individual Medley @ Sweet Venues for Edinburgh Fringe Children & Family Poetry Set @ Elderflowerfields Festival Poetry set @ El Geebee Tea Queue Festival (Junkyard Dogs) Individual Medley @ Swindon Fringe Festival (Phoenix Theatre) READ THE REVIEW Poetry set @ Hickory Signals Presents FACEBOOK VIDEO Creative Movement Workshops @ Mumbai WATCH A VIDEO
2017 Poetry residency for Seedbed Foundation Callaloo Workshops Fellowship (Oxford University) Individual Medley @ Penzance Literary Festival Individual Medley @ Brighton Fringe
“Thank you for your stunning contribution to the two days. The poems were so beautiful and poignant”
Residency Organiser
“Thank you so much for your poems last night. You were once again bloody brilliant!”
Hickory Signals
I offer performances, bespoke poems, workshops and facilitation. I’m happy to travel. Please get in touch if you’d like to work together.
“Good stuff: The techniques you used to scaffold and support each one of us to start and continue to be creative. You were very sensitive to each person and took time to include and build up everyone”
(Workshop feedback)
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Nine Lives: a collection of poems inspired by places and people over the past decade.
“You have a truly unique voice, and you navigate the subject with intelligence, creativity and beauty. There’s a delightfully whimsical quality to the poem that is nevertheless incredibly powerful, building to a genuinely emotional crescendo in the last stanza.”
Gideon Heugh, Tearfund competition judge
