Bipolar Bear

by Catherine Kidd

Following on the heels of Kidd's successful stageshow and award winning book / CD Sea Peach, which she has toured to the Edinburgh Fringe among other locales, comes her new book / DVD bipolar bear. Featuring almost all new material, it contains a story about meerkats, imaginary numbers and counting sheep, blue orbs, an iguana's flying leap from a window which provokes police intervention and choice, and the illogical and suicidal tendencies of human commerce as told by a philosophizing polar bear. Part Dr. Seuss for adults and part spiritual quest, Catherine Kidd's unique brand of performance literature has impressed audiences across the globe.Catherine Kidd's writing has been published in three other conundrum press everything I know about love I learned from taxidermy, psittacine flute, and Sea Peach . She has performed her writing all over the from New York to the Edinburgh Fringe, from Bavaria to Singapore to the Toronto Harbourfront World Stage, from Volapuk Oslo to Ladyfest Bristol and many points in between. To make ends meet her voice can be heard on numerous commercials, including back up for Celine Dion. She has written jingles for Maybeline and once spent eleven hours in a shower with Halle Berry.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

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.

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