dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Praise for Tigress:

Praise for Tigress:

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

Michael Groce

Surrounded by terrible slaughter

dance as if by Katrina Naomi John Birtwhistle Praise for Tigress:Published 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