Compte rendu – Catherine Parayre (2016)

Festival de la Poésie de Montréal (2016)

Voici mon horaire:

D’Écosse, Dugas, Desbiens
lecture bilingue français-anglais

Une lecture transatlantique avec Peter Mackay, Rachel McCrum et JL Williams (Écosse), Daniel H. Dugas et Patrice Desbiens.

En collaboration avec le British Council

MERCREDI 1er JUIN, 19H
Librairie Drawn&Quartely
211 Rue Bernard O, Montréal
(métro Rosemont)

GRANDE LECTURE DU FESTIVAL
Lectures et performances d’ici et d’ailleurs

Avec Peter Mackay, Rachel McCrum et Jennifer Williams (Écosse), Carmen Villoro, Mariana Perez-Villoro (Mexique), Antoni Clapès, Marc Romera, Odile Arque (Catalogne), Martine Audet, Paul Bélanger, Daniel H. Dugas, Sonia Cotten, Phillipe Garon, Daniele Pieroni, Joséphine Bacon et Patrice Desbiens.

VENDREDI 3 JUIN, 21h
O Patro Výš
356 av. Mont-Royal Est, Montréal
(métro Mont-Royal)

Utopia/Dystopia – Bath (2016)

Good news from Bristol!
FLOW: BIG WATERS in collaboration with Valerie LeBlanc as well as Apples and Oranges have been included in the ‘Utopia/Dystopia’ screening 2nd June 7.00pm at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.

In association with Bath Fringe Festival
tickets: £5.00 / £3.00 cons available at: BRLSI on the door
16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Avon BA1 2HN : 01225 312084

ISSUU Publication

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Collateral damage (2016)

Pauline Pfeiffer, 1934

Collateral damage

You never know what you’re going to find,
where you’re going to end up.
I woke up this morning thinking about Hemingway,
Ernest, his house, the sun, Key West.

I went to his house once while visiting Key West.
I remember the pool, the catwalk connecting his home to his writing studio, the spacious art deco bathroom, the heat.

Hemingway lived in paradise and died in Idaho.
He was born in 1899.
There is now, only one person in the entire world,
one lonely soul that was born before him.

He was married four times.
His second wife,
the American journalist Pauline Pfeiffer,
died on October 1, 1951.
She and Ernest married in 1927,
honeymooned in Le Grau-du-Roi
in the South of France and
divorced on November 4, 1940.

Pauline Pfeiffer died of an acute state of shock.
It was precipitated by the news that her son Gregory,
who had experienced gender identity issues for most of his life,
had been arrested entering a woman’s restroom in a movie theater.

When I woke up this morning,
I didn’t know
that anyone had ever died because of a transgender bathroom issue.

You never know what you’re going to find,
where you’re going to end up.

Daniel H. Dugas
May 14, 2016

Le Zeitgeist contemporain en couleurs et en poèmes (2016)

Revue LIAISON n. 171
Printemps 2016
par Mathieu Simard

FLOW – daily features (2016)

Prompted by a 2014 tour through a missile launch site in the Everglades National Park, a woman reflects on the time when the Russian/Cuban/American nuclear standoff threatened to end life as we know it.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

A mystery begins to form when a researcher finds uprooted plants on a Loop Road bridge. Tension mounts when a second car stops in that remote location.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

There is one road that leads from the Everglades National Park entrance to Flamingo. There are no streets lights and at night, it is very dark.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

The deer pen was built in July 1934. There are a few photographs depicting the area but little information exists on why it was built. Although it is located in the forest near a well-known trail, it is difficult to find.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

Searching for a landmark in an overgrown setting, a woman is overcome by the atmosphere rising from the landscape.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

Some people say that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, there were surveillance bunkers built along the Old Ingraham Road. Others deny the existence of such structures.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

An abandoned mango forest is slipping back into the natural world. In July, the mango season is coming to an end and most of the fruit has fallen to the ground. Armed against the night with flashlights, two men set out into the rows of trees to find Burmese pythons

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

Nocturnal Desertion
Animals hiding in a deserted mango grove wait hopelessly for vindication.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

Chekika the Zone
This area of the Everglades National Park has been closed since 2013. The gates are chained shut and the Rangers’ houses are boarded up. Chekika is a zone, the ruins of dreams.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

Marion’s Car
Single lane and almost deserted, the Loop Road runs through the Big Cypress National Preserve. A sprinkling of people live there, mostly down narrow laneways that twist back into the trees. It has a reputation for being moonshine country.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

The End of the World
July 8, 1905. The Bay is calm. The shore is a thin line of land, the sky faint blue, white. From Oyster Key, Flamingo appears to be a distant mirage.

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas
Soundmap: http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

FLOW – Launch (2016)

FLOW: BIG WATERS by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas – Soundmap launch today.

12 soundworks inspired by geographic locations within the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and surrounding regions of South Florida and featuring the voices of Rebecca Rideout and Mark McPhee are available for listening.

http://flow.basicbruegel.com/soundmap/

She died in the sky (2016)

She died in the sky
in the Lockerbie bombing of 1988

We found a picture of her a few years later
A clipping from a newspaper
lining the bottom of a dresser
in a one room apartment
that we rented
on Schuyler St,
Utica,
New York

Daniel H. Dugas
January 2016

Jacques Prosper Bazié (2016)

Parchemins migrateurs, de Jacques Prosper Bazié, est un petit livre de rien du tout, 40 pages, mais les poèmes sont d’une incroyable intensité. En le relisant, je me suis demandé ce qu’il advenait de Jacques Prosper. Tristement, j’ai vite réalisé qu’il était parti le 1^er octobre 2014. J’ai eu la chance de le rencontrer en 2011 lors du Festival acadien de Poésie de Caraquet où nous étions tous les deux invités. Bon voyage Monsieur Brazié.

J’ai percé le secret de la brousse ;
J’en suis comblé d’essences rares.
J’ai défait ses colosses,
Arraché le savoir à des ténébreux commensaux.
J’ai bâti mon monde
Avec les oripeaux de la contingence,
Mais au seuil des arènes,
Je me réveille dans la solitude des nécropoles
Et le silence orphelin des pyramides

Parchemins migrateurs
Éditions Kraal, 2011

DECES DE JACQUES PROSPER BAZIE:Tristesse et consternation au domicile du défunt

FLOW: BIG WATERS soundworks (2016)

Storytelling through audio – These 12 soundworks, featuring the voices of Rebecca Rideout and Mark McPhee, were inspired by geographic locations within the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and surrounding regions of South Florida. Points of departure include evidence of human passage and its effect on the river of grass, tales of man versus nature and nature versus exotic. Conversations with local inhabitants, historical research and onsite recording have contributed to the atmosphere of these works.

LAUNCH IS ON MARCH 1st 2016 @ 1pm EST.