Festival Poésie

For its second edition, the Festival Poésie is giving carte blanche to Éditions de l'Arche and will conclude with an exceptional evening in tribute to Pierre Guyotat.

The first evening of the festival, hosted by Gorge Bataille, will feature powerful words and voices with readings by authors Chouf, Shane Haddad, Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke, Sara Mychkine and Wendy Delorme.

For the second evening, l'Arche éditeur present stories told by unique voices: three readings performed by authors Joëlle Sambi, Sonia Chiambretto and Athena Farrokhzad, followed by a round table discussion led by publisher Claire Stavaux.

To conclude the festival, the Association Pierre Guyotat, founded by the author and chaired by Donatien Grau, invites Pierre Chopinaud, Sephora Pondi, Alice Diop, Constance Debré and Clément Ribes to give their reading of Histoires de Samora Mâchel, the last great unpublished work of modern French-language poetry. Pierre Guyotat announced this text in the 1980s and continued to work on it, creating a space where all the layers of the French language could coexist and open a voice for the words of tomorrow, beyond oppression.