The Sea Peach is a creature who looks like a heart

Living at the bottom of the ocean

Rooted in place by a sucker on its underpart

Grounded, holding steady as devotion.

Sea Peach, the highly-anticipated new collaboration between Catherine Kidd and Jack Beetz, features a collection of interlinked pieces which constitute a bonsai performance version of Kidd's novel Bestial Rooms. The stories and poems focus on themes of memory and zoo animals, chickens and global warming, a giant leech that sucks up the whole world, and a gentler creature, the Sea Peach, who might inspire humans to restore the world to itself. Through voice, image, sound and text this CD/book recreates these performances. A lovely package, Sea Peach can sit on either your CD rack or your bookshelf.

Catherine Kidd is the author of the novel Bestial Rooms (Thomas Allen), as well as two previous conundrum releases. An unforgettable voice. A fine writer/performer originally from Vancouver, she settled in Montreal after travelling in India. Her prose is as focused as poetry, and her sophisticated understanding of theatre makes for a riveting show

Everybody's talking:

"She takes little shreds of language, and lifts them up and turns them in the light, holding them, playing with them - searching them for meaning as if they were toys that had just come out of a black box, without instructions."
- Ian Ferrier, Montreal Gazette

"Kidd's voice is the best cause for spoken word I've heard yet... Huge talent!"
- Terminal City

"Kidd's spontaneous prose brings physical attributes into a poetic consciousness. She
explores tangents based on a series of coincidental thoughts, then pulls back into a firm
unwavering center. Kidd writes with a deep concern for the physical, the tangible, and the
tactile nature of our own existence within a confusing, sometimes predatory environment."
- The Peak