Category Archives: Poetry

“I am in Bed with You, too” by Emma Barnes for New Zealand National Poetry Day

This August 25th, as part of New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, Victoria University of Wellington’s Wai-te-ata Press hosted Transpositions, an event celebrating New Zealand women poets and their translators. One of the event’s organizers, Francesca Benocci (My “Partner in Rhyme” … Continue reading

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Le Poète Public honours me with a poem!

A couple of days ago, one of my Italian students brought me a poem about me by Robert Séguin, Montreal’s very own public poet. Le Poète Public has set up his made-to-order poetry booth on Prince-Arthur Street, just next to … Continue reading

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Graphic Poetry: My article on Dino Buzzati’s “Poema a fumetti” in Image [&] Narrative

                    My article on Dino Buzzati’s proto graphic novel  Poema a fumetti (1969) appears today in the new special issue of Image [&] Narrative, a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and … Continue reading

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“Partners in Rhyme”: Oscar Wilde’s “Impression du Matin” in Atelier Magazine

The latest issue of Atelier, Italy’s foremost contemporary poetry magazine, is now out, and I’m honoured to be featured in it with a comics adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short poem “Impression du Matin” (1881). The comic is accompanied by an … Continue reading

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Sous mon lit de métal by Cato Fortin

Here is my adaptation of an extract from a poem by the Montreal poet Cato Fortin. The adaptation was created as an initiative of the Université de Montréal undergraduate literary journal Le Pied http://lepied.littfra.com/ for a series of “Poster Poems” … Continue reading

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Interview for The Oakland Arts Review

The Oakland Arts Review is a new international undergraduate literary journal published out of Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Their inaugural issue, which came out this March, featured a number of my poetry comics, and also included an interview … Continue reading

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Poetry Comics Presentations at Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean

Last Tuesday, I gave three presentations (two in French and one in English) to the students of the Collège Militaire Royal in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu. The subject was my work adapting classic poetry into comics. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and was … Continue reading

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“Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (English translation)

A couple of months ago, I created a comics adaptation of an extract from the poem “Dora Markus” by Eugenio Montale (1896-1981). The comic was commissioned by Atelier, Italy’s leading online poetry magazine. I subsequently asked my old collaborators Dr. … Continue reading

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J. Alfred Prufrock on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!

Last night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert featured a “Friday Night Fights” showdown pitting T. S. Eliot’s coffee-spoon-wielding time murderer J. Alfred Prufrock against Darth Vader’s grandson and known Universe disturber Kylo Ren, from the new Star … Continue reading

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Prufrock in The Hindu Business Line

Happy New Year to all! Eight pages from my comics adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” comic were featured in yesterday’s issue of BLink, the arts and culture supplement to The Hindu Business Line, … Continue reading

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