Rhizodont

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024

Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteous''s latest collection address current issues of social and environmental change. 

350 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close to Katrina Porteous’s Northumberland home was a tropical swamp inhabited by three-metre long predatory fish wi...