This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.
Étienne Lalonde, originally from Quebec, Canada, released his first two poetry collections, Je cannibale and C’est encore la guerre, in 1999, at the age of twenty. C’est encore la guerre was a finalist for the Estuaire Terrasses Saint-Sulpice Prize for Poetry and also received a special mention for the Jacqueline Dery- Mochon Prize for Poetry. Histoires naturelles, published in 2010, was awarded the 2011 Felix-Leclerc Prize for Poetry. In 2012, Lalonde published Chemins mal éclairés and, in 2013, Vivier, Claude, finalist for both the Émile-Nelligan and the Montreal Poetry Festival Prizes for Poetry.
目錄
Un ciel rouge animal 6
紅色動物天空
A red-animal sky
La douleur a ses secrets 12
憂傷也有秘密
Grief has secrets
Je pouvais aller vite 18
我本來可以走得更快
I could have moved faster
Car le ciel était vrai 24
因為天空曾經真實
Because the sky was real
Faire le ménage de ça 27
打掃房間去吧
Need for house cleaning
Rentré dans ma tanière 30
回到我的隱居洞穴
Walking back into my den