Veronique Thivierge

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Clement Jacques on language, passion and life

“Maybe I should go back and drive up to the north/Far from all that I’ve been trying to flee […] Came here to find some truth not easy to believe […] I’m afraid it is too late.” He wrote these lyrics after the move from his native home to Montreal a couple of years ago, uncertain about this shift.
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Perreau gets by with a little help from his friends

A couple of years ago, the poet Claude Péloquin gave Yann Perreau 300 pages of poetry and said: “you can do what you wish with this.” With the recent death of his father, the liberty to draw from this sea of prose came as a full breath of fresh air. From this ocean of words, À genoux devant le désir stood out as the title.