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).
Click on either links (tanka or Sappho) for details and the totality of media coverage and comments from the readership.
manual update: August 3rd, 2010
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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