Ahead of Canzine West, we will be doing short profiles of some vendors and presenters we’d like you to know about. If you like what you see, please come support their work at Canzine West on Saturday November 2!
Catherine Owen is a poet, essayist, artist and musician based in New Westminster, BC. At Canzine West, she will be presenting a talk entitled ““Spark That Says: Technological & Old School Seeds for Art Making.” She’ll be discussing three modes of creation – chapbooks, songmaking and shooting still photography – in relation to indie free-flow culture.
Among other items of miscellaneous badassery, Catherine has played bass in the death metal bands Inhuman, Helgrind and Medea, runs her own editing and tutoring business and her poetic works have been nominated for the BC Book Award, the ReLit Award and the CBC/Air Canada Award. Her new book of poems Designated Mourner is coming out on ECW Press next spring.
A lot of Catherine’s interests and preoccupations come together in her collection Trobairitz, a collection of poems about female troubadors and heavy metal. We reviewed it in Issue 60 of Broken Pencil. Reviewer Nico Mara-McKay said Owen gives “a voice to women whose songs are rarely heard.”
We are really looking forward to meeting this intriguing creator at Canzine West! Come and hang out with us.