The spring of poets - Meeting with the poet Valérie Rouzeau

The Spring of Poets, a national event, aims to raise awareness of poetry in all its forms.
For a new highlight of this festival dedicated this year to La Grace, the Surgères media library welcomes the poet Valérie Rouzeau.

Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Cosne Sur Loire in Nièvre.
Poet, translator of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, lyricist of the Indochine group, she is one of the most important figures in contemporary French poetry.
His collection “Pas voir”, published by Le Dé Bleu and reissued by Editions de la Table Ronde in the La Petite Vermillon collection, made him known to a large audience. This text on mourning written after the death of his father is moving. Valérie Rouzeau evokes her memories in emotionally restrained sentences.
She has received several awards including the Guillaume Apollinaire prize in 2012 for her collection “Vrouz”.

His poetry plays with words. Valérie Rouzeau combines humor and sensitivity with a very developed sense of rhythm. She twists the language, twists ready-made expressions to give them meaning around the themes of childhood, friendship, love, death, life. She is a poet who must be read aloud. His poetry is cheeky, tender, funny. He is one of the most original voices in contemporary poetry, a non-conforming, unformatted language, an everyday poet but an everyday one with humor.

You can discover one of his poems on the desks installed along the Gères on the Voie des Poètes.