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The Ends and Beginnings of Language in Valérie Rouzeau’s “Pas revoir” 

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Valérie Rouzeau’s Pas revoir (1999) is a collection of poetry written shortly after the death of her father.

November 17, 2021 Academic Writing, Books, Home

Contemporary French Poetry

Contemporary French Poetry Daisy Sainsbury
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Over the last forty years, contemporary French poetry has been living in a state of crisis. Pronounced dead – or worse, irrelevant – it has sought to reassert its value, define its current specificity, and delineate its difference from the poetic practices of the past.

August 24, 2021 Academic Writing, Books, Home

Review: “Des chiffres et des mètres: la versification de Raymond Queneau” by Anne-Sophie Bories

If any twentieth-century French poet invites a methodical, quasi-mathematical approach to their work, it is Raymond Queneau, co-founder of the Oulipo and author of the proto-algorithmic Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961).

November 26, 2020 Academic Writing, Books, Home

Language and Statelessness in the Poetry of Olivier Cadiot

Taking Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of ‘déterritorialisation’ as a point of departure, this article explores how certain forms of literature dismantle or disrupt dominant linguistic codes

November 1, 2019 Academic Writing, Books, Home

Art, Poetry and Erasure

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In the mid-20th century, poets and artists started taking existing texts and images and then redacting and erasing them to form new ones.

July 1, 2019 Art, Books, Features, Home

Towards a Minor Poetry: Reading Twentieth-Century French Poetry with Deleuze–Guattari and Bakhtin

This article argues that the term ‘minor poetry’ gains an additional relevance for experimental twentieth-century poetry which grapples with its own generic identity, deterritorializing established conceptions of poetry, and making ‘minor’ the major poetic discourses on which it is contingent.

June 30, 2019 Academic Writing, Books, Home

#PoetsofInstagram: Tired Clichés or a New Lease of Life for Poetry?

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Among the cats and sunsets and carefully curated cappuccino shots, Instagram finds itself home to a new literary phenomenon: Instagram poetry.

April 4, 2019 Books, Features, Home

Review: “Running Upon the Wires” by Kate Tempest

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The book’s three-part structure, moving from “End” and “Middle” to “Beginning,” marks a departure from the well-trodden path of the broken-hearts poets club.

March 15, 2019 Books, Home
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