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 more than ten years ago (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’s a recent alumni of Bryony Kimmings’ Autobiographical Theatre Making Course, a Callaloo Fellow for Creative Non-Fiction, was 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
Friday 31st Jan 6.30pm Poetry @ Australian Bushfire Fundraiser, Worlds End, Brighton
Thursday 20th Feb Poetry @ Saying Words at The Goose, Worthing
Friday 28th Feb 7.30pm Poetry @ Hickory Signals Presents, West Street Lofts
Tuesday 10th March 8pm Poetry @ Outspoken Words at The Welly
Sunday 20th March 7.30pm Poet in Residence @ TROPE, Brighton
Thursday 23rd April Show Excerpt @ Pick of the Fringe, The Brunswick
8th, 9th, 10th, 23rd, 24th May 4.30/5pm RHYTHM Has Your Two Hips Moving (new show!!!) @ Bees Mouth, Brighton (for Brighton Fringe)
PAST HIGHLIGHTS
2019 Hosting Shoreham Wordfest Open Mic @ Ropetackle, Shoreham-by-sea
Individual Medley @ Ventnor Fringe
Individual Medley @ Theatre Peckham
Wedding Night @ ‘Rejoice with Us’, Ovalhouse, London
Individual Medley @ The Warren for Brighton Fringe
Poetry set @ Laughing Labia, London
Individual Medley @ Camden People’s Theatre
Poetry set @ Piston Broke, Shoreham-by-sea
Poetry set @ She Grrrowls, London
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
