Autor/-in: Katrina Porteous

Katrina Porteous. has lived on the Northumberland coast since 1987. Many of the poems in her first collection, The Lost Music. (1996), explore the Northumbrian fishing community. Her second full-length collection from Bloodaxe, Two Countries. (2014), was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature in 2015. Her third full-length collection, Edge. (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), draws on collaborations commissioned for performance in Life Science Centre Planetarium, Newcastle, between 2013 and 2016, with multi-channel electronic music by Peter Zinovieff. Her fourth is Rhizondont. (2024). She has worked on many collaborations with other artists, often performs with musicians, and is particularly known for her radio-poetry broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4.