dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Surrounded by terrible slaughter

Surrounded by terrible slaughter

Praise for Tigress:

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

this book is a ‘savage enunciation’:

Alan Girling

dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Surrounded by terrible slaughterPublished 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