Apotheosis:
Poems and Manifestos for a New Paradigm

by Cat Catalyst

Apotheosis - A Portal

My personal contribution to: Athenaeum - The Library Reimagined, is a publication entitled: Apotheosis, which means ‘a perfect example’, and is a methodology for thought-optimisation via the ‘shared space of the word’, serving as an infrastructure to challenge binary-thinking.

The aim of Apotheosis is to reaffirm Nature as the real economy, where the currency of Life is sacred. This can be achieved by extending empathy and compassion to encompass the rights of women, children and the natural-world.

I believe that a deeper respect for all life can be forged simply and effortlessly by aligning with one’s inner-sovereignty, and all that is needed to effect beneficent change in the world is a minor shift in the human psyche.

Potentially, the pandemic can serve as a portal between two worlds and what we must now ask ourselves is: how are we going to walk through it? Are we really dying, or is this an opportunity to be reborn? What ‘Apotheosis’ can offer is a way through the portal, towards a new paradigm that is totally supportive.

Athenaeum - The Library Reimagined, represents an outer-voice and each entry in Apotheosis represents an inner-voice. The inner-voice symbolises connecting with inner-tacit wisdom and hidden-knowledge through the self-archival process of documenting both fictional and non-fictional memories, thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Through the act of sharing and disseminating, the internal then becomes the external. Apotheosis is an epistolary novel formed of diary entries in poem format symbolising a ‘library of the self’, which when presented as part of this group project, becomes a ‘library within a library’.

Available from Amazon.co.uk: https://tinyurl.com/1jl59mes

Angel Sky.docx

Angel Skies

From Apotheosis

Kaleidoscope Memories by Cat Catalyst.docx

Kaleidoscope Memories

From Apotheosis

Bio

Cat Catalyst is a British book-artist, designer, writer, events-curator, researcher and eco-feminist poet. Cat's work has been acquired by the Special Collections of Artist's Books at The British Library, The Wellcome Library, The Women's Art Library, the PAGES Artist's Book Collective, housed at the Tetley Arts Centre in Leeds, and is part of their travelling collection of Artists Books. Cat has written articles for the British Library's 'Artists Books Now' events, and has 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’ at Baker Street Tube Station.

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 ongoing 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 Russell, Tuck Magazine.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/apotheosispoems

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