Catherine Owen

Catherine Owen is a Vancouver poet. Her poems have been published in journals across Canada and her books include - Somatic-The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions, 1998, nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award), Black Milk, Starvation Landscape, and The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak & Wynn, 2001, nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award). She also has a CD out - Cusp - and is working on the play Circe and Cougars with La Leona Productions. She is currently completing a book of sequences, FYRE, a West Coast collection, Seeing Lessons and Frenzy, featuring poems on the fusion of metal music and the troubadour culture.


Selected Publications
And the Silence, Stones (Wet Sickle Press, 1993)
Her (Wet Sickle Press, 1995)
Somatic-The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions, 1998)
Black Milk (Get to the Point Editions, 1999)
Starvation Landscape (Chameleon Fire Editions, 2000)
The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001)
Cusp (Krisananda Music, 2001)
The Inhumanist (Godlesswrath Records, 2003)
Caneide (Schena Editore, Italy, 2005), a dog sonnet collaboration with Joe Rosenblatt.
Shall:ghazals (Wolsak and Wynn, 2006)
Cusp/detritus: an experiment in alleyways (Anvil Press 2006)

Selected Anthologies
Wearing the Yellow Jacket (Wet Sickle Press, 1994)
Chasing Halley's Comet (Laughing Willow Books, 1995)
A Practice of Spirit (The St.Thomas Poetry Series, 2002)
Joe Rosenblatt: essays on his works (Guernica Editions, 2006)

Books in Print
Owen, Catherine
And the Silence, Stones (Wet Sickle Press, 1993)
Her (Wet Sickle Press, 1995)
Somatic-The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions, 1998)
Black Milk (Get to the Point Editions, 1999)
Starvation Landscape (Chameleon Fire Editions, 2000)
The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001)
Cusp, CD (Krisananda Music, 2001)
The Inhumanist, EP (Godlesswrath Records, 2003)
Exeunt Armageddon, CD (Godlesswrath Records,  2005)
Joe Rosenblatt: essays on his works (Guernica Editions, 2006)
Shall:ghazals
(Wolsak and Wynn, 2006)
Cusp/detritus: an experiment in alleyways
(Anvil Press 2006)
The Apocalypse, EP (Godlesswrath Records, 2006)

Catherine Owen
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http://www.cathowenpoet.150m.com