Description
Pocket Hedgehogs are beautifully formed wee poetry collections for you to love and collect.
Coming in two varieties, Pocket Books and Pocket Broadsheets, this the first in the series of the latter, and collects four beautifully formed Lessons in Language Learning from the uber talented Katrina Moinet.
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“’Portrait of a Young Girl Falling’ is the feminist poetry I want for my train journey, my bath, my coffee, and my life. Katrina is in control of her themes yet shows a sensitivity to the subjects within her poems, and this gives power. This is why I read poetry. We need poetry like this, unexpected as it is confident, hard at times, messy, bodily, but alive with women.”
Wendy Allen, Plastic Tubed Little Bird
“From the outset, Katrina Moinet’s debut collection pulls us into the world of the ‘she/i was told to be’ with honest and rich poems that explore feminine trauma and healing. We are led from the chilling ‘Out of Harm’s Way’ through to the fighting ‘Vivisection’. We can stand with the emerging ‘pretty seen-and-now-heard’, bear witness with the ‘We’ in the ‘Wrong state’ and listen to the ‘I have a voice’ that should be heard.”
Ness Owen, Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim
“All too often, women exist in the negative space of language; we are defined by what we are not. Moinet, with her dexterous and remarkable poetry, captures this and revolts against language itself, unveiling the trauma that inevitably follows a life lived in patriarchal shadows. ‘Portrait of a Young Girl Falling’ is intense, visceral, and will leave its teeth in you for a long time after reading. It is a staggering accomplishment.”
Briony Collins, The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees
“If ‘Portrait of a Young Girl Falling’ looks back on the vulnerability that its title suggests, it does so with accumulated strength, verve, and a visceral rage that is also a form of love, both for those it holds close and for those to follow in potentially changed futures. The lively inventiveness of these poems is part of the work of making space for new ways of thinking and being, for developing ‘star-stuffed ears’ that might attune us differently to others and to the world.”
Zoë Skoulding, A Marginal Sea
About Katrina Moinet
Katrina Moinet’s debut Portrait of a Young Girl Falling shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2025. State of the Nations is out with Atomic Bohemian and The Art of Silence is a Hedgehog winning pamphlet. Katrina hosts Versify open mic, and was BBC Radio Cymru Bardd Y Mis. Words in: Poetry Wales, iamb, Raw Lit, Black Iris, Ffosfforws, Mslexia Best Women’s Short Fiction.
@KMoinetwrites ; katrinamoinet.com
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Product details
- Pocket Broadsheet: One sheet of beautifully folded paper
- Official Release Date: 1st January 2026
- Order Signed Copies Direct From Katrina Moinet HERE
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