Poetry

Conversation avec les plis (Conversation with the Folds) explores the history of the everyday landscape and questions our habits.

The collaboration between artist and poet Charles Pennequin, the band Gun-Gi and Laurie Franck.

A poetic text investigating the writing of desire.

Anthology dedicated to the poetic and theoretical work of Ilse & Pierre Garnier, the founders of spatialism.

These notebooks recount the scientific-poetic journeys of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language.

CD presenting 37 solo text-pieces, phonetic poems and poetry duets (with Monika Lichtenfeld) written and composed between 1952 and 2010.

A picaresque novel taking place in a psychiatric institution. Bertin's “raw” style is reminiscent of Bukowski, Céline, and Artaud.

In this text, poet Jacques Sivan creates an imaginary planet populated by mortals, a mirror of our world through which he investigates the nature of language.

This poetic text borrows from the vocabulary of the tale to express the experience of maternal suicide.

Collection of poetry written in jail by award-winning poet and opponent to the Syrian regime Faraj Bayrakdar. With a foreword by French poet Michel Deguy.

A collaboration of the sound poet Anne-James Chaton, guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and musician Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai): a dense and structured sound design, in which words, rhythms, and melodic loops inexorably blend.

The continuation and end of Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose, written in 1216 but unfinished, by artist and writer Bruno Di Rosa.

An anthology of the most important experimental poetry review in 1970s France (25 issues + 1).

An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.

Artist's book.

Artist and comic book author L.L. de Mars, together with poet Laurent Grisel, draws inspiration from the prints of French engraver Jacques Callot (1592–1635), who bore witness to the horrors of the Thirty Years' War.

A war story narrated by a soldier, from the Second World War to the decolonization.

The magazine of publisher Al Dante gathers contributions of philosophical, poetic, artistic, and political interest to find new ways of thinking and creating.

Paintings by Christopher Le Brun / poems by 7 English authors (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Turner, Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, David Gascoyne).

Facsimile edition of the artist book “L'Asparagus” from 1963. Book includes the poem “L'Asparagus” by Francis Ponge and 8 lithographs by Jean Fautrier.

A book/DVD featuring a performance by Fabrikdelabeslot and Julien Blaine on a text by the latter (Je parle à la machine) in the printing workshops of the École Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence.

33 "flat" and highly precise sonnets, each consisting of fourteen lines divided into two quatrains and two tercets.

A text that blends poetry, prose, fiction, and investigative writing, accompanied by a CD of audio poems.

A polyphonic funeral comedy: a narrative text, not without humor, centered on the precise, codified, and theatrical moment of the deceased’s presentation in funeral homes.

A theater play in two acts (the fifth book by Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson).

The anthology of the founder of the concrete poetry movement in Brazil.

Limited edition of the anthology, with an original signed silkscreen.

La bouillabaisse: a world tour of recipes.

A narrative divided in 28 chapters, each made up of one long sentence. A violent confrontation between the abstraction of the language and the subject dealing with pornography.

Poetess Vannina Maestri presents A Stazzona, a theater place conceived by Jean-Michel Battesti and Dominique Villa in the Corsican town of Pioggiola.

A text on the need of love communication, through the story of a narrator who strives to learn music on a keyboard drawn on a cardboard piece.

Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.

Jérôme Bertin's autobiographical novel tells a dissolute youth in the margins of society, from addictions and violence to psychiatric stays. With still the fierce desire to write.

An autobiographical tale in which the author tells the story of his addiction to a powerful sleeping pill.

Artist Cédric Pigot created a bruitist composition to accompany the words and voice of poet Jacques Sivan. The CD recording comes with a 80-page publication printed on internet-found images. With an afterword by Bernard Heidsieck.

Two talks about John Cage and the concept of structure by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).

An ambitious project of minimalist poetry centered on the relationship between two words.

Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.

A poetic exploration of Cherokee history and spirituality.

A lesson on contemporary poetry.

Vannina Maestri splits contemporary discourse into textual fragments, experiencing with the spatiality of the page and typography to better reflect the cacophony of the world.

This experimental prose composed with large colored typographic compositions is a reflection on the act of writing: a deep metaphysical and melancholic text in which we meet Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, and Marinetti.

A poetic text on travel.

A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.