NEW as of June 2011
A hand-made book by the artist Claire Dufresne with 62 bilingual haiku & tanka by JBLimited edition of eight copies
Read more about it on this web site
Manual update: July 2011
Co-editor of Take Five - tanka anthology 2011
Coeditor of Take Five - tanka anthology, volume 4, 2011, directed by M. Kei (US). Along with tanka colleagues Patricia Prime (N.-Z.), Magdalena Dale (Romania), Amelia Fielden (AUS/JP), Claire Everett (UK), Owen Bullock (N.-Z.), David Terelinck (AUS) and David Rice (US).Task: The editorial team reads, nominates and selects tanka published in English, in 2011, around the world… which amounts to nearly 20 000 tanka; only 300 of them will make it in the anthology which will be published in the Spring of 2012.
Manual update: June 2011
Canada-Japan Award 2010 for of souls and wings
JB, winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award 2010 (French-language section) for her bilingual collection D’âmes et d’ailes /of souls and wings. For details about this Award, click below.To read the summary of the book, click on the Tanka section; the Jury's comments and the words of the Ambassador of Japan in Canada, ISHIKAWA Kaoru and the reviews and interviews, click on English Media; for English-speaking customers or a Press Service, click on Order form.
manual update: July 25, 2011
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Women of influence
Toscana, a private garden
feature articles … by their books
1986. Winter. Contemporary Verse 2, Winnipeg
Direction by Jan Horner. Communication by JB: Women Writers’ Contribution to Language.
Abstract: Gertrude Stein, Marguerite Duras, Denise Boucher, Nicole Brossard have adapted the language to their Being or have defined and polished a language which is their own. Re/claim the language.
Translation from French by Adena Franz.
1983. August. HERizons Magazine, Winnipeg
Remarks collected at the time of the Conference Les femmes et les mots / Women and Words held on the campus of University of British Columbia (UBC) in July. Selected excerpts of French presentations by three lecturers: Louky Bersianik (Written in the feminine), Nicole Brossard (The lesbian writing) and Louise Cotnoir (The writing of women). Read complete article on the French side of this website.
The same issue also features two articles in English: by Adena Franz, ‘A new writing of body’ and by Debbie Holmberg-Schwartz, ‘Giving birth to creativity’.
feature articles … by their words – interviews granted to me while studying, as a adult, at the University of Ottawa:
1979. A Quebec lesbian writer, Jeanne d'Arc Jutras
1978. A French feminist writer, Marie Cardinal
1978. A professor of Religious Sciences, Elisabeth Lacelle
1978. A professor of XVIIIth century French Literature, Marie-Laure Swiderski
1977. A professor of Philosophy, Naomi Scheman