Hello Poetry

Content : "Please, can you write me the first poem you would have liked to read as a child?"
Thirteen poetesses have responded, in this illustrated collection for young and old alike.

Each poem offers a singular version of a world. Doubtless because of the subject of childhood to which the writing returns, it is inevitably a question of self, other, transmission or dream.
The chosen order of the poems traces for the reader a kind of path, a journey, crossed by discoveries, obstacles, bridges or halts. As if to gently guide us, the illustrations give shapes and colours to this journey. The river, symbolizing continuity, and the blue representing dreams, are recurrent and varied, implying movement and transformation, while giving meaning to the book as a whole. This meaning is never confined. This book is a river of a thousand possibilities.

The poetesses: Babouillec, Rim Battal, Rébecca Chaillon, Hélène Dorion, Roxana Hashemi, Kiyemis, Lisette Lombé, Sara Mychkine, Aurélie Olivier, Nathalie Quintane, Valérie Rouzeau, Laura Vazquez, Luz Volckmann.
Already published by numerous publishing houses (P.O.L., Point, Albin Michel, éd. du sous-sol, La Table Ronde, Cheyne, éd. du Noroît, Le Castor astral, L'Arche, éd. du commun, L'Iconoclaste, Blast...), some with awards (Grand Prix de poésie de l'Académie française 2024, Chevalière de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2024, Poétesse nationale de Belgique 2024 et 2025, Prix Goncourt poésie 2023, Prix Guillaume Apollinaire 2012. ...), the poetesses of "Hello Poetry" include activists, journalists, teachers, slammers, actresses, directors and performers. A diversity of voices reflecting the current poetry scene.

The illustrator:
Clémence Monnet - a graduate of ESAD Orléans - lives and works just outside Paris. Her highly poetic work in Indian ink and watercolor has already been published many times. "Hector et les bêtes sauvages", published by Seuil Jeunesse, has become a classic of children's illustration. This will be her eleventh album.