Katrina Naomi's The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is the eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet, reflecting with wit, grace and courage upon a troubled childhood. This collection will delight people who know Naomi's work and undoubtedly win new fans for her courageous and unabashedly entertaining poems.

Katrina Naomi's The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is the eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet. With warmth, flair and a certain ferocious wit, Naomi tears into her subject matter: a childhood fraught with dislocation and violence but also redeemed by more tender memories of a sister and a kindly, although at times comically obtuse, grandmother.