Poetry Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Esprit De Corps
Quebec Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century in Translation
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors), Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896239187
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Esprit de Corps is an exciting anthology of contemporary Quebec poetry by more than forty of the most important francophone writers. Contributors include Denise Boucher, Yolande Villemaire, Nicole Brossard, Yves Boisvert, Anne Hebert, Gilles Vigneault, and Pierre Morency.
About the authors
Louise Blouin was born in Montreal. She is production manager for Ecrits des Forges, as well as a teacher at the Collegede Rosemont. She has published a collection of poems entitled Griffes de Soie and has edited two anthologies, Des mots pour rever and De Villon a Vigneault. Bernard Pozier was born in Three Rivers. He is literary director of Ecrits des Forges. L'Orange Bleue has published a section of his poetry under the title, Scenes Publiques. He is also the author of a volume devoted to hockey, Les poetes chanteront ce but. D.G. Jones is a poet who has translated the work of various Quebec poets, the most recent being Emile Martel’s For Orchestra and Solo Poet (The Muses’ Company). He won the Governor General’s Award for his translation of Norman de Bellefeuille’s Categories (1992).
Bernard Pozier was born in Three Rivers. He is the literary director of Ècrits des Forges. L’Orange Bleue has published a section of his poetry under the title, Scènes publiques. He is also the author of a volume devoted to hockey, Les poètes chanteront ce but.
Douglas Gordon Jones was a Canadian writer, translator and critic. Born in 1929 in Bancroft, ON, he studied English Literature in university at McGill and Queen's. He continued his career in academia, teaching at Bishop's University before settling into a post at the Université de Sherbrooke. While there, he co-founded a bilingual literary journal ellipse: Writers in Translation (1969-2012), the only magazine of its kind in Canada. Jones was the author of ten books of poetry, and won the A. J. M. Smith Award for Poetry (1977), the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry (1989, 1995) and the Governor General's Award, once in 1977 for his collection of poems, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth, and again in 1993 for his translation of Normand de Bellefeuille's Categorics: 1, 2 & 3. In 2007, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. Jones passed away in March 2016 in North Hatley, Quebec.