Judith Copithorne

Bio:

Judith Copithorne was a concrete poet born in Vancouver, Canada. Her early writing engaged with meditation and community, referring to mandalas, maps and yogic texts, and later expanded to include explorations into digital means of composing poem-drawings. Copithorne’s engagement with concrete poetry and other forms of experimental writing led to collaborations with artists associated with the Sound Gallery, Motion Studio, and Intermedia, as well as performances with Helen Goodwin’s dance company TheCo. She worked alongside many artist-poets as part of Downtown Vancouver Poets, an informal group conceived as a counterpoint to the TISH collective. Throughout her career, Copithorne published more than forty books, and numerous chapbooks and works on paper.