Now is the New Now: iPoem's Blog

iPoem's Blog: Now is the New Now was the official blog of CAT CATALYST for over a decade featuring unique and original esoteric, ecofeminist and didactic poetry with many titles published in magazines, anthologies and poetry journals. Now the best of iPoem's Blog is a comprehensive book presented as an epistolary novel comprised of modern verse. Via a combination of interwoven real and fictional auto-ethnographic memories, the collection serves as a methodology for thought optimisation and as an infrastructure to challenge binary thinking, whilst simultaneously attempting to remove the blocks to an awareness of Love's Presence. CAT CATALYST is a London born artist, designer, writer, curator and advocate for the Earth with a particular interest in the redemptive potential of art, installation and the spoken-word to activate, elevate and accelerate human-consciousness. Cat's former Artists bookworks are part of the special collections of Artist's books housed at The British Library, The Wellcome Trust Library, The Women's Art Library and the Tetley Arts Center.

About the Author :
Cat's former bookworks have been acquired by the Special Collections of Artist's Books at The Wellcome Library, The British Library, The Women's Art Library and the PAGES Artist's Book Collective at the Tetley Arts Centre in Leeds. Cat has written articles for the British Library's 'Artists Books Now' events and is published in The Blue Notebook and the Book Arts Newsletter. Cat is also an exhibiting artist with previous works featured at Late at Tate, The London Eye and Art on the London Underground.

Review :
"For those of us who have become jaded regarding the often static-state of modern poetry this is a joy to discover a voice with such fearless clarity. Part 21st century troubadour and part artistic chameleon, Cat Catalyst has created a hypnotic poetic vision that is quite literally a spiritual call to arms. Most of Cat Catalyst's work is connected directly to the state of humanity at this particular time in history, as well as how we do, or do not relate to one another. Cat Catalyst's poetry isn't merely a social critique, it is also a formula for self-understanding that is quite expansive socially. As a multimedia artist, poet and performance artist, Cat Catalyst's method of delivery is deliberate, and she pulls no punches with the message she is sending to her reader. A mistress of words and images, her work captivated and inspired me. Over time what I witnessed was the very open and on-going evolution of an artist as a work of art itself. This is a very brave act for any creative person; to candidly display the machinations of the creative process through each piece of art they share". - Val B. Russell, former Managing Editor of Tuck Magazine: (2011 - 2019).