The critic Greg Bem has published a fine review of Pierre Voélin’s « To Each Unfolding Leaf: Selected Poems 1976-2015 » (Bitter Oleander Press, 2017) in the January 2018 issue of Rain Taxi: « This first major collection of English translations of Pierre Voélin’s poetry is monumental. Translator John Taylor shows himself capable of taking these works in their […]
Read MorePublication of the poem « La Pivoine noire » (The Black Peony), illustrated by the artist Anne-Marie Donaint-Bonave, as part of the « L3V » project. Here is the poem in English: black peony of language let me strip you of every petal every metaphor but even then you say “follow me” and gleam alluring […]
Read MorePublication at AEncrages & Co. of Wind-Vent, a bilingual livre d’artiste in 21 copies, with original drawings by Caroline François-Rubino, French translation by Françoise Daviet-Taylor. An excerpt from the sequence: imagine wind in your cupped palm holding it there for instants instants you seek to feel again winds remembered and none […]
Read MoreInterview with Andrew Singer of Trafika Europe about translating French and Francophone poetry. Here is the interview.
Read MoreExcerpts from the poetic sequence « But it was not yet night » / « Mais il ne faisait pas encore nuit » (translated by Françoise Daviet, with drawings by Caroline François-Rubino) in the second issue of the French review « Babel heureuse », as well as excerpts in French and English from Pierre Chappuis’s Cahier de nuages. To order the issue, […]
Read MoreParticipation in the « Umetnost Kritike » (« The Art of Criticism ») Symposium, Ljubljana. Interviewed by Maja Sučur in Dnevnik.
Read MoreIn the latest issue of the Antioch Review (Volume 75, No. 3, Summer 2017), the essay « A Heart on the Line: The Poetry of Anthony Rudolf. »
Read MoreInvited to the Journées Paul Valéry in Sète, France, to give a reading of Portholes (Hublots) and The Apocalypse Tapestries (La Fontaine invisible).
Read MorePublication of the translation Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Prose 1974-2014, by Pierre Chappuis, Seagull Books. One poem from the series « Full Margins »: On the page of the waters in vain you inscribe your flight Dual bird chasing yourself The book is distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
Read MorePresent at the Livre-Paris Book Fair for the publication of Boire à la source / Drink from the Source, watercolors by Caroline-François-Rubino, French translation by Françoise Daviet, Éditions Voix d’Encres, Stand 1-G83.
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