dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Alan Girling

Alan Girling

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

Praise for Tigress:

In “As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us"

the poet shows his skill in compressed understatement

dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Alan GirlingPublished 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