Poetic front
Tuesday 17 Mar 2026 from 7pm to 9:30pm
Free on booking
This first evening celebrates the voices of contemporary poetry through exchanges between Chouf, Shane Haddad, Wendy Delorme, Sara Mychkine and Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke.
Unpublished texts, intimate and political journeys: so many ways to forge links between each person's humanity, where words and music intertwine to compose a unique orchestra.
MC for the evening, Gorge Bataille accompanies and presents these readings.
She works with critical and pirate prose that blends social introspection, manifestos, political reflections and love poems. Her readings are revolutionary and schoolboyish moments in which patriarchal institutions are rigorously destroyed. The artist's primary targets are exploitative relationships on an emotional level, as well as class struggle and identity issues. With Fiévreuse plébéienne (2022, Édition ducommun), she introduces what she calls ‘Langue Bâtarde’ (Bastard Language), a proletarian, sexual, threatening and lesbian form of poetry. She likes to take poetry out of its usual setting and performs alone or in groups in lesbian bars or contemporary art institutions. She collaborates with sound artists, is part of the RER Q collective of authors and regularly leads collective writing workshops. Her latest book, Fatal*e ou l'impossible phantasme, was published in spring 2025 by Trou noir.
Her sung declamations, accompanied by guitarist Trustfall, form a hybrid between the spoken word and sentimental raï. Her writing subtly plays with love and despair, CHOUF writes about the living and the dead, the loneliness of being oneself, and the courage to say things.
A specialised educator since 2014 alongside her artistic practice, CHOUF initially focuses on the issue of drug addiction and parenthood as part of her research dissertation at the Institut régional du travail social. In 2020, she took up her post as a youth worker in the Goutte d'Or district, focusing her work on young people from the ZUPs. Her thoughts focus on the links between violence, delinquency (specifically in the context of brawls) and emotional and sexual precarity in neighbourhoods described as "sensitive".
In 2022, she performs in a series of cultural institutions and artistic events, including the Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva, the "TYPO" festival at the Ateliers Médicis, and the "Hors pistes" festival at the Centre Pompidou. She is currently working on several projects in collaboration with the Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues.
She has published two novels with P.O.L: Toni tout court in 2021 and Aimez Gil in the autumn of 2024. Alongside her novel writing, she co-writes several plays for two emerging theatre companies.
Her work explores identity and movement, whether geographical or internal, and attempts to portray women in their present.
She is currently writing her third text, which is somewhere between fiction and non-fiction, theatre and literature.