Media review of souls and wings
To read some of the book reviews and comments from the readership, please go to the publisher’s web site Editions du Tanka francophone (Click on the title of the book; the English section comes after the French one).manual update: August 3rd 2010
English/French Tanka collection by a French-language poetess
For the first time, in nearly 50 years, a French language 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 (from Ono no Komachi to Tawara Machi including Jehanne Grandjean, the first Francophone poetess).
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manual update: August 3rd, 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 She coauthored with Micheline Beaudry an erotic haiku and senryu anthology containing 182 previously unpublished poems from 77 contemporary poets, L’Erotique poème court / haiku (2006, Brussels). She authored another anthology composed of 86 haiku women and 283 of their previously unpublished poems, Regards de femmes – haikus francophones (2008, Lyon / Montreal).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.