Children's reading : Bonjour poésies
Reading
Saturday 20 September
11.15u - 12.00u
Price: Gratuit - Gratis - Free
Language: FR
Location: Grande Halle
with
Lisette Lombé, Rim Battal & Luz Volckmann
Presentations
Please, can you write me the first poem you would have liked to read as a child?
Thirteen poetesses have responded, in this illustrated collection for young and old.
With texts by : Babouillec, Rim Battal, Rébecca Chaillon, Hélène Dorion, Roxana Hashemi, Kiyemis, Lisette Lombé, Sara Mychkine, Aurélie Olivier, Nathalie Quintane, Valérie Rouzeau, Laura Vazquez, Luz Volckmann.
Together at Poetik Bazar, poets Lisette Lombé, Rim Battal and Luz Volckmann will read from their contributions to the collection.
TO DISCOVER AN EXTRACT OF RIM BATTAL'S TEXTS:
J'ai embrassé un crapaud
Il s'est transformé en bœuf
Je l'ai embrassé encore
Et il m'a pondu un œuf
De l'œuf est sortie
Une dinde dodue qui m'a dit
« Salut !
Qu'as-tu ?
As-tu perdu la langue ?
L'as-tu donnée au chat ? »
J'ai haussé les épaules
Sous ma tête qui tangue
Pas un mot n'est sorti
Ma langue est bien partie
Faire le tour du monde
« Peu pour moi le laid crapaud !
J'en ai assez de ce rôle !
Moi, j'aimerais voir du pays.
Écrire ma poésie
Et non pas me taire
Sourire comme la Joconde »
Voilà ce qu'a dit ma langue
Dans sa propre langue
Alors je l'ai suivie
Mon sac sur le dos
À pied ou à vélo
Rabat puis Nairobi
Marseille et Bornéo
En passant par Paris
On va croquer la vie
Our speakers
Lisette Lombé
Lisette Lombé is a multi-faceted, border-crossing artist whose work is animated by poetic, scenic, plastic, militant and pedagogical practices. Her writings and struggles are based on her own personal experience as a woman, mother and teacher. The result is collages, performances, books and workshops, transmitters of rage and eros. Co-founder of the Collectif L-SLAM, in 2017 she was awarded the Citoyenne d'Honneur de la Ville de Liège for her work as an artivist and ambassador of slam to the four corners of the French-speaking world. In 2020, she received a Golden Afro Artistic Award for her novel Vénus Poética (ed. L'Arbre à Paroles) and the Prix Grenades/RTBF for her collection Brûler brûler brûler (ed. l'Iconoclaste). She is the current Belgium's National Poetess 2024-2025.
Luz Volckmann
Luz Volckmann is a writer living in Marseille. A feminist, trans, and activist, she published her first book, Les Chants du placard, in 2020.
Aller la rivière, published in 2021 by blast editions, is a collection of political poetry blending verse and prose, continues her exploration of voices that are rarely heard.
Rim Battal
Rim Battal is a poet, born in Casablanca in 1987. After studying at the Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication in Rabat and the ESJ in Paris, she now devotes her time to writing and photography. Her books include Vingt poèmes et des poussières, Transport commun (Lanskine), Les quatrains de l'all inclusive, Mine de rien, her first personal anthology (Le Castor Astral), and Pommes girl (Kulte éditions).