Launching-Invitation Promotion
English/French Tanka by a French-language tanka poetessFor the first time, in nearly half a century, a French speaking woman poet writes a complete collection of tanka (91) which is also offered in English: D’âmes et d’ailes/of souls and wings by Janick Belleau.
of souls and wings is introduced with a HERstory of tanka since the 9th century.
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manual update: February 12, 2010
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Bio-bibliography
Janick Belleau was born in Montreal. Graduated from the University of Ottawa in French Literature and Social Communications. Lived 7 years in Winnipeg. Back in Montreal since 1987. Published a sociocultural portrait, Le Manitoba des femmes répond – questionnaire Gabrielle-Roy (1985, Winnipeg); a short poems collection, L’en-dehors du désir (1988, Winnipeg) and a haiku and tanka collection, Humeur… Sensibility… Alma… (2003, Montreal) the latter, in three languages. She coauthored with Micheline Beaudry an erotic haiku and senryu anthology containing 182 previously unpublished poems from 77 contemporary poets, L’Erotique poème court / haiku (2006, Brussels). She authored another anthology composed of 86 haiku women and 283 of their previously unpublished poems, Regards de femmes – haikus francophones (2008, Lyon / Montreal). Her poetry (tanka and haiku) and her feature articles appear in feminist and literary journals mainly in French-speaking countries. She also gives talks on the writing of women in French and in English. She is a member of Association française de haiku (France), Haiku International Association (Japan) and Haiku Canada.