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School workshop : COUPER, COLLER, the cut-up technique

Workshop
Atelier toupie annenivet 060

Friday 19 September
13.00u - 14.30u

Price: Gratuit sur réservation - Gratis op inschrijving - Free upon registration Language: French Location: Alcôves

Réservé aux scolaires, sur inscription - Voor scholen, op inschrijving - For schools only, upon registration

with

Roxane Desjardins

Presentations

A writing workshop on the cut-up technique: bring scissors and attack old books, cutting out words or pieces to be assembled later to create new poetic images.

The material for writing a poem is the same as for writing an essay, telling a story, or confessing your feelings to someone: words. In our minds, words often come in clusters, in ready-made phrases; it's as if they stick together on their own. But a poem is precisely a place where words can be assembled differently, where one can play with what is logical, expected, or obvious.

Roxane Desjardins, head of Les Herbes Rouges publishing house, is a Quebec writer and editor. At Poetik Bazar, she will lead the COUPER-COLLER workshop, exploring the transition between everyday language and the invention of a poem.

This workshop invites participants to bring scissors and tackle existing texts: old books, various texts. They will cut out pieces that will then be assembled on a blank page. This playful workshop is an opportunity to experiment with free association, to practice oblique reading methods (to find words on a page, linear reading is not necessarily the best method), and to discover the inner workings of poetic image construction.

ABOUT SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

Poetik Bazar is once again offering workshops and special events for schools this year. All school programs are available by reservation only. Please contact Marie Monfils at poetikbazar@gmail.com to organize a program for your class.

Our speakers

Desjardins Roxane

Roxane Desjardins

Roxane Desjardins, born in Montreal in 1991, is a writer and editor. She has been leading Les Éditions Les Herbes rouges for nearly five years. As a poet, she published Ciseaux, which earned her the Émile-Nelligan and Félix-Leclerc prizes, both dedicated to young poets, followed by Le revers and Trou noir (2023). She is also the author of a handwritten memoir, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire, and creates zines.