Judith Copithorne

Judith Copithorne (1939–2025) was born and raised in Vancouver. Well known as a leading concrete poet and intermedia artist, Copithorne was a member of the “downtown poets” community in the 1960s and 70s, and was involved in such alternative art venues as Intermedia, Sound Gallery, and Motion Studio. She published in early issues of Ganglia and blewointment and has had work included in both gallery exhibitions and such print publications as New Direction in Canadian Poetry (1971), The Cosmic Chef (1970), Four Parts Sand (1972), THE LAST BLEWOINTMENT ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (1985), The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry, 1998–2008 (2012), and Judith: An Anthology of Women Making Visual Poetry (2021). Most recently, Copithorne’s Another Order: Selected Works edited by Eric Schmaltz was published by Talonbooks.