“Poetry will save the world” dare the poet Jean-Pierre Simeon and grading his last test manifest (reprinted at Treader). Just read Eluard, Freedom, I write your name , to remember its importance in the twentieth century. And it is this poem as the Pompidou Centre has posted on its walls after the attacks in Paris on 13 November. The obvious link between the need for poetry and violence of the world, programming of the 18th edition of the Spring of Poets, as its director, the same Simeon, was placed under the sign of the “Great twentieth” makes it visible and alive everywhere in France. Here are some benchmarks to find on the site.
Support to Palestinian poet Fayad Ashraf
This edition is dedicated to the poet Fayad Ashraf condemned by Saudi Arabia, where it natively resides in Gaza, to 8 years in prison and 800 rounds whip to his words and poetic writings considered “atheists”. A translation of his poems just published by the editions of cherries Time, presented and translated from Arabic by the great poet Abdellatif Laabi.
The poetic galaxy twentieth century
From this weekend, poetry walks in all its forms, appears more than ever in the Paris metro where, for many years, the RATP – which gives her great poetry prize 14 – began a companionship with the poets the delight of its passengers. It runs on the airwaves of France Culture for an intensely poetic weekend, tagging the twentieth century. This one explores on the Web as a constellation, multimedia journey remarkable Ponge Char, Ginsberg to Cendrars.
Poetry Gallimard 50 years
With a catalog of over 500 titles, Gallimard poetry poetry slips over the world and of all time in the pockets of players, and is enriched by ten contemporary poets, Venus Khoury Gata Alain Duault: those who remember the ferryman of classical music their interest to discover his poetic universe. Should mention many others, of the Oulipo (Oulipo) Oscar Milosz Francois Cheng to Michel Houellebecq, in this less visible part of his work.
Pléaide d publishers
How many are there all year, to defend that? The Poéthèque, resource site, gives an idea of the variety of publishers who publish poetry and especially in spring. Bruno Doucey editions devote their entire catalog, La Difference has continued to publish, but the publisher Cheyne, Rougerie, Dumerchez, Obsidianne from childhood editions Rue du Monde among others offer their first poems for readers who are naturally … maybe we know less, but as generalists houses POL accompanying Bernard Christmas, or the Mercure de France which publishes Adonis (and its new collection Jerusalem ), until the month of May which will see the release of the new collection of Yves Bonnefoy, or Flammarion, do not give their poetry department. Frederick Brown novelist (author of Perla ) has decided to stake everything on it by creating his publishing house poesis, which has just published an anthology inviting, with Hölderlin, to “dwell poetically the world” . The formula comes from the poem In lovely blue . “The state of poetry, the only one, according to the Haitian poet René Depestre, which allows to walk barefoot for kilometers and fiery shards”, is not reserved to a small world of nostalgic. Poetry is doing much better in many corners of the world, if only just in Haiti, he has only to open the Haitian poetry anthology that publishes Points at the first on the scene of the House of poetry March 18, to learn something.
poetry on stage
the New morning opens March 6 poets in connection with the sharp voice festival of Sète one of the major events in the country, where many poets testify, the rooms are filled when it presented. March 8 at night, the Comédie-French honors the fifty candles Gallimard Poetry with kings tray. Throughout the year, in the capital, poetry lives on in a haven that makes the choice of the mix with other genres and to multiply, through music, performance, video, forms: the House of literary poetry Scene opens the show in “poetic intoxication” March 5 and continued programming that goes from the Belgian Jean-Pierre Verreghen the Syrian poet Maram al-Maasri. And in this room is always packed, the audience came to hear the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, when it read in English Robert Hayden’s poem The Middle Passage, was inhabited, we evidenced by a pure poetry of silence.
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