No Spitting To Georges Gautré No spitting on the ground and the ceiling’s round. A chicken laid an egg [or…
French Book Week
* From the sea to the menhirs,From the menhirs to the sea, The same road, two contrary windsWith the one…
One of France’s most important contemporary poets, Eugène Guillevic (1907-1997) was born in Carnac in Brittany, and although he never…
leopardi’s tomb So many fingers have been singed, Sifting ashes in the Phoenix-nest; But he could harvest all this light…
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), regarded as France’s greatest poet of the last fifty years, was the author of many volumes of poetry…
25 DECEMBER The crows go cross cross cross across my old furrowed field My old delightful skies a crime for…
Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Burgundy, France and now lives in a small town near Paris, Saint-Ouen, well-known…
From ‘On Voit’ / ’Things seen’ Behind the window whose wood has been whitened (against the flies, against the ghosts)…
Topolalia A land made out of spillings. Here, and out of place Where no body can stand. Day by day…
Born in Switzerland in 1925, Philippe Jaccottet is one of the most prominent figures of the immediate post-war generation of…
On the hill, my tomb, marine cemetery On the hill, my tomb, marine cemetery Hidden in the mountain. Ghost-ancestors. Writing…
Landa wo is a poet from Angola, Cabinda and France. His work has and will appear in Bellingham Review, The…
