Sea Peach

by Catherine Kidd

Sea Peach, the highly-anticipated new collaboration between Catherine Kidd and Jack Beetz, features a collection of interlinked pieces which constitute a bonsai performance version of Kidd's novel Missing the Ark. The stories and poems focus on themes of memory and zoo animals, chickens and global warming, a giant leech that sucks up the whole world, and a gentler creature, the Sea Peach, who might inspire humans to restore the world to itself. Through voice, image, sound and text this CD/book recreates these performances. A lovely package, Sea Peach can sit on either your CD rack or your bookshelf.The CD is produced by Wired on Words .Winner of the MECCA 2003 for Best New Text!Voted Best Spoken Word Artist in Montreal Mirror!

Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

About the author

Homepage: www.catkidd.com
Audio: myspace.com/catherinekidd
Video: youtube.com/catkidddotcom
Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Catherine-Kidd

“Clearly one of Canada’s most talented wordsmiths... we may rightly hope that there will be more novels to come.” [BrokenPencil]

“Kidd’s ability to stretch words, to impregnate them with new meanings makes her prose sparkle.” [Gloss]

Catherine's much-anticipated debut novel 'Missing the Ark' hit shelves in Spring 2006.
As with her acclaimed performance poetry, the storyline of Missing the Ark turns on a helix of layered imagery which deepens with each revelation: “The book unfolds in three chronological threads which repeatedly twist together and separate again.”[Montreal Review of Books]. Yet the numerous strands of the novel are deftly gathered together by its conclusion, a stirring tour-de-force “so vividly evoked that I found myself phoning my parents repeatedly while reading the final chapters.”[Globe & Mail ].

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Catherine Kidd is our city's newest superstar...her routine, synchronized with a 'total theatre' hurricane of multi-media, is a knockout. Her kinetic presence puts on the coolest show in town...this Kidd is pure gold." [Montréal Gazette]

Catherine is one of Canada's premiere spoken word artists. Her performance work has toured to Singapore, South Africa, Germany, Norway, UK, US, and throughout Canada from Montreal to Vancouver, from Whitehorse to Toronto.

Reviews

[Laura Roberts]

A fabulous multimedia collaboration between spoken word performer and writer Catherine Kidd and beat-maker Jack Beetz. Love it. Recommended for anyone who loves animals, is curious about the oddities of the natural world, or who has ever felt more snarling beastie than human. MORE!

(Full disclosure: I am friends with this author, and have included this book on my "writer friends" shelf.)

[Catherine Kidd]

You can hear some of the recordings from the accompanying CD at http://www.myspace.com/catherinekidd. Cheers!