Wild Persistence

Katrina Naomi''s Wild Persistence is a confident and persuasive collection of poems. The first poem ''Anti-Ambient'' warns us to be on guard for the off-guard, to suspend our expectations of pure realism and to stay awake for what comes next. Initially, a move from London to Cornwall sparks poems that query and celebrate the natural world. London is mourned and also derided: "you''d taken on airs/...