Talonbooks, 2023. (Order here)
About the Book
Another Order gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in Vancouver’s literary scene since the 1960s. Including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, Another Order captures Copithorne’s “embodied approach to text” and her tireless experiments with media – from typewriters and pens to computer software – in texts that engage issues of gender, sexuality, desire, subjectivity, spirituality, and revolution. Edited and introduced by Eric Schmaltz, this volume affirms Judith Copithorne’s position among the leading avant-garde poets and artists of her time.
Advanced Praise
“an inkrediblee beautiful book pushing all boundareez igniting evree spirit soul being glands evree page a work uv art copithornes line sew smooth running picking up evree nuance uv xpressyun point feeling in its wundrful mor thn magik weev hold a page within yr eyez heart meditate on n thru it find your selvs n othrs breething minds”
—bill bissett
Author of breth and its th sailors life / still in treatment
“Another Order gathers together Copithorne’s adamant practice, one that alternately pelts us like West Coast rain, coerces us along curvy labyrinths of words and other marks, and into thickets of light and shade. Prepare to let go of orderly reading and to turn the book to the left, to the left, and to the left again.”
-Lorna Brown
Author of Beginning with the Seventies
“Judith Copithorne’s poetry reveals to us a more capacious language than the world of referential meaning: a language saturated in the curvature of the letter, the vibration of sound, and the heat generated by the proximities of words and concepts. Every page creates the conditions of its own world – each time, new.”
-Deanna Fong
Co-editor of Gladys Hindmarch’s Wanting Everything: The Collected Works
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“[Schmaltz] celebrates Copithorne’s practice as a versatile and engaging body of work, worthy of recognition and acclaim, and provides a meticulous play-by-play of the works included in Another Order, giving context for those less familiar with Copithorne and her practice” (Amanda Earl in Arc Poetry)
Eric Schmaltz 