Battery Rocks by Katrina Naomi Ahren Warner Great Works

Great Works

If the ‘form is the measure of the obsession’ then this collection is a lifelong obsession with the truth-telling nature of art

she knows Gods often act like men: the same fragile egos

knows how to see and what to hear

her favourites among her poems on the theme of love

Battery Rocks by Katrina Naomi Ahren Warner Great WorksIn Battery Rocks, Katrina Naomi returns to the Cornish swimming spot Battery Rocks in Penzance every day for a year. On each swim, she finds something fresh and invigorating. Exploring the sea in all its mercurial forms, Naomi questions the world through the lens of nature and the more than human. Poems like And if there were no sea?, which recognises both the power and danger of the sea, as well as all that would be lost if it didnt exist, approach