Valérie Rouzeau

Rouzeau earns her living as a poet by translating (notably Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes), giving readings and taking workshops. She has published a dozen collections, including Pas revoir (le Dé bleu, 1999), Va où (le Temps qu’il fait, 2002) and Quand je me deux. Stephen Romer has written of her work: 'Utterly unacademic, Rouzeau’s poetry draws deep on a tradition of popular poetry in France that includes such major figures as Apollinaire, Queneau, Desnos and Prévert and which is unafraid to experiment with the pun, the neologism, and even with a kind of child’s babil. This is something Rouzeau has made especially her own, and in her later poetry… it has become a finely modulated musical resource.'