Catherine Owen

January 29, 2015

Catherine Owen has been publishing and performing her poetry across Canada and other places in the world since 1993. She has appeared in literary magazines, festivals, cafés, bars, colleges, high schools and retirement homes. Along with ten books of poetry, Catherine also sees her work in anthologies, has degrees, is translated, writes essays and plays bass in her own metal band, Inhuman.


Works by Catherine Owen

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Poetry by Catherine Owen

Sonnet on First Seeing It
By Catherine Owen
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 12.
Severence Package
By Catherine Owen
Published in Canadian Literature 160 (Spring 1999): 27.
Poetry
Eros, 1911
By Catherine Owen
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 51.
Moving through: for Chris Matzigkeit (1981–2010)
By Catherine Owen
Published in Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 69.

Book Reviews by Catherine Owen

Vigorous Collisions in Future Times
By Catherine Owen
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 169-170.
  • 9x11 and other poems like Bird, Nine, x, and Eleven by Michael Turner
  • Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy by Paul Vermeersch
Skew-whiffing the Visible
By Catherine Owen
Published in Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 130-130.
  • Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove
  • Feel Happier in Nine Seconds by Linda Besner
Poetry
Eloquent Elegies
By Catherine Owen
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 174-175.
  • Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras by Sina Queyras and Erin Wunker (Editor)
  • Abnormal Brain Sonnets by David McFadden
Poetry
Narrative Transparencies & Other Melodies
By Catherine Owen
Published in Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 175-177.
  • My Shoes Are Killing Me by Robyn Sarah
  • He Leaves his Face in the Funeral Car by Arleen Paré
  • Al Pittman: Collected Poems by Michael Crummey (Editor)
Poetry
Forms of Passage
By Catherine Owen
Published in Radio, Film, and Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 225 (Summer 2015): 157-158.
  • Albrecht Dürer and Me by David Zieroth
  • Polari by John Barton
Poetry
Time’s Wild Ghosts
By Catherine Owen
Published in Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 113-114.
  • Washita: Poems by Patrick Lane
  • Selected Poems by Tim Bowling
Poetry Travel Writing
Excavating Childhood by Lexicon & Song
By Catherine Owen
Published in Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 157-58.
  • Needs Improvement by Jon Paul Fiorentino
  • Allegheny, BC by Rodney DeCroo
Poetry
Ectoplasmic Insanities
By Catherine Owen
Published in Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 178-180.
  • The Lunatic Muse by Joe Rosenblatt
  • Parrot Fever by Michel Christensen and Joe Rosenblatt
Biography British Columbia Poetry

Book Reviews of Catherine Owen's Works

Dear Ghost,
By Catherine Owen
Reviewed in Scorching Air by Myra Bloom
Catalysts: Confrontations with the Muse
By Catherine Owen
Reviewed in “Language to Live By” by Tiffany Johnstone
Gender Poetry
Seeing Lessons
By Catherine Owen
Reviewed in Hidden and Exposed in BC by Reece Steinberg
Trobairitz
By Catherine Owen
Reviewed in A Sound Withheld by Paul Watkins
Biography British Columbia Historical Fiction Poetry
Shall: Ghazals
By Catherine Owen
Reviewed in Varied Voices by Darlene Shatford