Wild Persistence by Katrina Naomi Momtaza Mehri Growing up in Whitley Bay

Growing up in Whitley Bay

hopes and disappointments experienced by immigrants

In her first book of poems

Mslexia & elsewhere

These anarchic poems are the product of an original and febrile mind

Wild Persistence by Katrina Naomi Momtaza Mehri Growing up in Whitley BayKatrina Naomis 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: youd taken on airs become grandiose with the possibilities of capital. Yet the poem