Catherine Owen reads @ Hot-Sauced Words

Hot-Sauced Words is a Toronto poetry performance venue hosted by Poet James Dewar that has been flourishing since 2006, and showcasing a wide variety of poets, from well-established, award-winning poets to young, ambitious, upcoming poets.

Catherine Owen’s poetry has been published in literary journals; The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, and Poetry Salzburg among others. With several books to her credit, she also “collaborates with multiple artists, including serving as bassist and singer in the metal bands INHUMAN and Helgrind.”

Poet Robert Priest describes her as “an extraordinarily gifted poet. It’s not just sheer sonic pleasure of her language or the largesse of her endlessly investive imagery but that she is unsettled and unsettling, deeply disobedient and yet almost selfless in her surrender to form.”