Catriona Strang is a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and a founding member of the Institute for Domestic Research.
Her first book of poetry is Low Fancy (ECW, 1993), a translation of the mediaeval, vernacular Latin songs known collectively as the Carmina Burana from 13th century Western Europe.
Strang's 2022 collection of poetry Unfuckable Lardass (Talonbooks $16.95) takes its title from an outrageous insult directed at the former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Strang channeled her rage and grief at this disgraceful display of sexism through her new poems. By reflecting on more loving and enlightened possibilities, and viewing people in a holistic way including every individual’s complex personal story, Strang ameliorates destructive and unjust patriarchal treatments.
BOOKS:
Unfuckable Lardass (Talonbooks, 2022) $16.95 9781772013887
Reveries of a Solitary Biker (Talonbooks, 2017) $16.95 9781772011807
Corked (Talonbooks, 2014) $16.95 978-0-88922-852-8
Sleep: A Performance Notebook (Seeing Eye, 1997)
The Institute Songbook, with Nancy Shaw & Monika Kin Gagnon (The Institute, 1995)
Low Fancy (ECW, 1993)
The Barscheit Horse, The Berkeley Horse (1993)
TEM (Barscheit, 1992)
[BCBW 2022] "Poetry"
Her first book of poetry is Low Fancy (ECW, 1993), a translation of the mediaeval, vernacular Latin songs known collectively as the Carmina Burana from 13th century Western Europe.
Strang's 2022 collection of poetry Unfuckable Lardass (Talonbooks $16.95) takes its title from an outrageous insult directed at the former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Strang channeled her rage and grief at this disgraceful display of sexism through her new poems. By reflecting on more loving and enlightened possibilities, and viewing people in a holistic way including every individual’s complex personal story, Strang ameliorates destructive and unjust patriarchal treatments.
BOOKS:
Unfuckable Lardass (Talonbooks, 2022) $16.95 9781772013887
Reveries of a Solitary Biker (Talonbooks, 2017) $16.95 9781772011807
Corked (Talonbooks, 2014) $16.95 978-0-88922-852-8
Sleep: A Performance Notebook (Seeing Eye, 1997)
The Institute Songbook, with Nancy Shaw & Monika Kin Gagnon (The Institute, 1995)
Low Fancy (ECW, 1993)
The Barscheit Horse, The Berkeley Horse (1993)
TEM (Barscheit, 1992)
[BCBW 2022] "Poetry"
Articles: 1 Article for this author
In Reveries of a Solitary Biker (Talonbooks $16.95)
Article (2017)
In Reveries of a Solitary Biker
(Talonbooks $16.95), Catriona Strang’s poetry ponders the difficulties of living an anti-capitalist life; the invisibility of much of women’s labour; and the complexities of sustainability as she cycles around Vancouver. These poems reference and pay homage to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s unfinished 1776 manuscript of obsession, Reveries of the Solitary Walker. With cycling, Strang finds it particularly conducive to slow, non-deliberate thinking. She lives in Vancouver and has publicly performed parts of Reveries of a Solitary Biker with clarinetist François Houle.
9781772011807
BCBW 2017