$2,500 marketing and publicity budget Reviews in national and local media Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's readings and speaking engagements Social media presence: LibraryThing, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr Promotion on the Talon website (www.talonbooks.com) Feature in BC Bookworld
Catriona Strang, a founding member of the Institute for Domestic Research, and former member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, is the author of Low Fancy and co-author with the late Nancy Shaw of Busted, Cold Trip, and Light Sweet Crude. Her collection of poetic responses to Proust, Corked, was published in 2014. She lives in Vancouver, where she and her two kids are active in the local home-learning community, and where she teaches at Simon Fraser University.
Reviews for author's previous work
“In Catriona Strang’s poetry, the domestic sphere is comfortably
private (spherically shaped) only because a globalized
technological continuum of warfare and manufacture makes it so ...
Corked touches down through vast internal distances to find a
spring of our condition – as seen from here, ‘the Strang terrain’ –
in Marcel Proust. The super-fine instrumentation of these poems
sends back big data on the intonational and rhythmical contours of
intimacy undertaking to live in a continuous (relentless) present
tense. Live it.” – Louis Cabri“[Corked is] a poetic, political, and
affective constellation that recalibrates how a poem might work
today as a representation of a moment that is both precarious and
self-assured, contradictory and confident. Yet, along with its
consideration of this ‘immobilized’ present, there is a compelling
historical depth to this book built through an address to Marcel
Proust. Strang uses the engagement with Proust as a ‘coincidental
hook’ to make a powerful poetic report on ‘the current situation’
by looping it through other historical contexts ... From her early
work, TEM and Low Fancy, through her collaboration with the late
Nancy Shaw, with Corked, Strang solidifies a unique position in
Canadian poetry.” – Jeff Derksen
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