Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Way the Crocodile Taught Me, The
Way the Crocodile Taught Me, The
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad o gerddi Katrina Naomi sy'n fywiog a theimladwy, yn ddoniol a thrasig. Adlewyrchir cyfnod plentyndod llawn anhrefn teuluol, gofidiau a thrais, ond trwy gelf, canfyddir eiliadau o ras, hiwmor ac achubiaeth.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A collection of the vibrant, heartfelt and tragi-comic poetry of Katrina Naomi revealing a childhood fraught with family dislocation, upsets and even occasional violence, and finding, through her art, moments of grace, humour and redemption.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781781723319
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781781723319
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Way the Crocodile Taught Me, The
- Awdur / Author
- Naomi, Katrina
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2016-04-11
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Seren
- Editor
- Wack, Amy
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 64 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Katrina Naomi has a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. She was the first writer-in-residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, W Yorks and was recently writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library in North Wales where she wrote a sequence on the Suffragettes, published by Rack Press as Hooligans. Her debut collection The Girl with the Cactus Handshake received an Arts Council Award and was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award. Her pamphlet Lunch at the Elephant & Castle won the 2008 Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition and her pamphlet Charlotte Brontë’s Corset was published to acclaim by the Brontë Society. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, a tutor at Falmouth University and runs Poetry Surgeries for the Poetry Society. Katrina’s recent work has been broadcast on Radio 4 and published by The TLS, The Spectator, The Poetry Review and Poetry Wales. She received an award from the Royal Literary Fund in 2014 for her writing. She enjoys performing her poetry and collaborating with visual artists, musicians and film-makers. She recently had an exhibition at London’s Poetry Café entitled ‘The Argument: Art V Poetry’, following a collaboration with the visual artist, Tim Ridley. She is originally from Margate and lives in Cornwall.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
About Seren: Seren is an independent publisher specialising in English-language writing from Wales. Seren’s wide-ranging list includes poetry, fiction, translation, biography, art and history. Seren’s authors are shortlisted for –and win – major literary prizes across Britain and America. Publishers of: 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize: Significance by Jo Mazelis 2014 Costa Poetry Awards Prize-Winner: My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards 2014 T S Eliot Shortlisted: Fauverie by Pascale Petit 2014 Wales Book of the Year, Fiction Category Winner: The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
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