Pierre Guéry
Pierre Guery (born 1965) is a French writer, poet and performer.
Life and work
Born in Marseille (France), he studied music, drama and modern dance and gained a doctorate in literature and phonetics.
These various strands merge together in his poetic work. He is a performance poet, for whom very different places can be stages for his reading. Illness, madness and mourning are the main subjects of his sound poetry. He uses his voice in many different ways in his performances, from whispering to screaming, from sounds that are not words to formal reciting.
Since 2006 he has been taking part in various poetic and artistic events in France, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Lebanon.
In 2009 he translated the Poems of Guantanamo into French, and he has translated some work of important beat poets and spoken word artists such as Anne Waldman and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from the American.
Works
Audio Recordings
Kit to be hacked, electronic poems, L' Ovni Tendre/Bourbaki, 2000
Slackness, electronic poems 2, L' Ovni Tendre/Bourbaki, 2002
Alien-Nation, Plaine Page, 2008
Books
Author
Alien-Nation (poetry), Bookleg, Maelstrom, 2006
Bascule (poetry), Bookleg, Maelstrom, 2006
Erotographie (poetry), Biliki, 2007
En quel pays etrange (poetry), Compact, Maelstrom, 2009
HP 1999 (novel), Sens&Tonka/L' une&l' autre, 2009
Week-end avec Hellenes- Error in fabula (novel), Sens&Tonka/L' une&l' autre, 2010
Poestreet, des marches de poesie urbaine (poetry), Compact, Maelstrom, 2011
La Rhetorique des culs (novel), Sens&Tonka/L' une&l' autre, 2011
Translator
Fast Speaking Woman, Anne Waldman, Maelstrom, 2008
Poems of Guantanamo- Poemes de Guantanamo, Biliki, 2009
Soldiering/ Soldatesque, Anne Waldman, Maelstrom, 2011
References
1965 births
Living people
French poets