Vrouz

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UK (Arc Publications)

"I'm good for this or nothing
Never learnt to swim can't dance can't drive
A single car not even one that's small
Can't sew can't count can't fight can't fuck
Can't master how to eat or cook
(I'll ask someone to scramble me an egg)
And as for drinking that's a real dead loss
But dying is impossible right now
I’m useless on the flute can't ride a hobby horse
Or wow you with my hair can't let it all hang out
Sustain a conversation
Vegetate a lot expect a single child
ot up to interrupting murmurs that run wild
Among my leaves in season."

Valérie Rouzeau is the author of twenty-five collections of poetry, among which Pas revoir / Neige rien (La Table Ronde, 2010), Vrouz (La Table Ronde, 2012) and Sens averse (La Table Ronde, 2018), and of numerous songs for the band Indochine. She was chosen to represent France at the Poetry Parnassus during the Olympic Games in London. Her poems are frequently reproduced in the anthologies devoted to French and European poetry. In 2012, Vrouz has been awarded Prix Apollinaire.