Putting a Collection Together with Katrina Naomi with Falmouth Poetry Group

Putting a Collection Together - in this day's workshop, we'll look at questions & practicalities. How do I know when I'm ready? What are editors looking for? How do I find a publisher & how do I submit? Should my collection be themed? Should I be writing a pamphlet instead? Katrina will offer tops on making your collection as strong as it can be & will demystify the whole process from submission to publication & beyond. A day of discussion & practical exercises to give you confidence & a way ahead.

Katrina’s fourth poetry collection, Battery Rocks, (Seren, 2024) won the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors, the Holyer an Gof award for Poetry from the Cornish Gorsedh, and was recommended in The Guardian. Her previous collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, the latter jointly with Helen Mort. She is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize and has twice been highly commended in the Forward Prize. Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, The Verb, Open Country and Poetry Please, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. In September 2025, Katrina published the pamphlet dance as if with Verve, following a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Kyra Norman. Before poetry, Katrina worked as an activist and commissioning editor for an international human rights organisation. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon and the Poetry School. Katrina lives in Penzance. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk

The two bursary 'pay what you can places' are no longer available. 

This is a Falmouth Poetry Group workshop, Falmouth Poetry Group was founded in 1972 by acclaimed poets Penelope Shuttle and the late Peter Redgrove. It is one of the oldest poetry groups in the UK. We were delighted that in 2025 we became a Poetry Society Stanza Group to promote the use and enjoyment of poetry in the local area. https://falmouthpoetrygroup8.wordpress.com/welcome/