Samedi 5 avril à 19h
Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading avec Erin Moure et Chantal Neveu - un événement bilingue organisé par le Département d'anglais

Joignez-vous à SFU English et Poetry in Canada pour la troisième lecture commémorative annuelle Phyllis Webb, avec les lauréates Erín Moure et Chantal Neveu provenant du Québec en conversation avec les invitées spéciales Oana Avasilichioaei et Annie Lafleur.

Cet événement est bilingue (français / anglais).

Profitez des lectures, des discussions animées et des rafraîchissements.

Description complète (disponible en anglais):

Erín Moure and Chantal Neveu will be joined by special guests Oana Avasilichioaei and Annie Lafleur. This free event takes place on Saturday, April 5th (Doors: 6:15 PM; Event: 7-9 PM) at the SFU Segal Building (SG 1300). Enjoy readings, discussion, and light refreshments.

The Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading honours a Canadian poet(s) with a cash award and a celebration of their work. This event will occur each April and will be organized and administered by the Poetry in Canada Society, https://www.poetrycanada.org/.

A Governor General’s Award–winning poet and a member of the Order of Canada, Phyllis Webb was a major Canadian cultural figure from the 1950s through the 1980s, publishing ten celebrated collections of poetry and prose and co-founding the CBC Radio program Ideas (in 1965). When “words abandoned” her in the early 1990s and she was no longer able to write, she took up photography, photocollage, and eventually painting.

As Stephen Scobie once wrote, the work of Phyllis Webb “has always been distinguished by the profundity of her insights, the depth of her emotional feeling, the delicacy and accuracy of her rhythms, the beauty and mysterious resonance of her images – and by her luminous intelligence.” It is this legacy that the Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading seeks to honour, by selecting a poet who is distinguished by similar qualities.

In 2025, the third annual Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading honours two poets: Erín Moure and Chantal Neveu.

Bios of Phyllis Webb Award Winners

Erín Moure

Since 1979, Montréaler Erín Moure has published 24 books—poetry, essays, texts on translation, memoir/biofiction, collaborative poetry/essay—and is translator or co-translator of 33 books of poetry from French, Galician, Portunhol, Portuguese, Spanish, from Ukrainian (with Roman Ivashkiv) into English, as well as two books of poetry into French, from Galician (Pato) and from English (Avasilichioaei). Most recent translations into English (2024): Chus Pato’s The Poem Writes Itself in Final Lines from Galician, Chantal Neveu’s you from French, Andrés Ajens’s So-Lair Storm, from Chilean Spanish. Theophylline: an a-poretic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké, is Moure’s own latest poetry/hybrid (Anansi, 2023). Her work in poetry and translation has twice received a Governor General’s Literary Award (poetry 1988, Furious; translation 2021, This Radiant Life by Chantal Neveu). She holds two honorary doctorates, from U Brandon in Canada and U Vigo in Spain, and has been International Translator in Residence at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and Creative Fellow, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Says Moure: “All my life, poetry.” https://erinmoure.mystrikingly.com/

Chantal Neveu

Chantal Neveu is a Québécoise francophone author of seven books of poetry including La vie radieuse and you published by La Peuplade. She has created several solo and collaborative interdisciplinary literary works presented in Canada and abroad. At the heart of her practice, a method of scriptage, based on listening, irrigates a literal and physical poetry in which she explores idyll—in a multidimensional way. To favor writing “in relation" and "on site", she was part of the research group Artistic strategies of knowledge spatialization affiliated with Laval University, and she has held several residencies, including Maison de la poésie de Nantes (France); Passa Porta and Villa Hellebosch (Belgium); and Villa Waldberta (Germany). Her books translated into English are published by Book*hug Press: Coït by Angela Carr; A Spectacular Influence by Nathanaël; This Radiant Life by Erín Moure (Winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, Winner of the 2021 Nelson Ball Prize); and you, also recently translated by Erín Moure. Chantal Neveu is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.

Erín Moure and Chantal Neveu will be joined in conversation with Oana Avasilichioaei and Annie Lafleur

Bios of Special Guests

Oana Avasilichioaei

Oana Avasilichioaei (http://www.oanalab.com/) interweaves poetry, sound, photography, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language, histories, polyphonic structures, and borders of listening. Her seven collections of poetry hybrids include Chambersonic (Talonbooks, 2024), Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019, finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) and Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015). She has created many performance/sound works that mix electronics, ambient textures, noise, and vocal play, written a libretto for a one-act opera (Cells of Wind, 2020–22), translated many books of poetry and prose from French and Romanian, and is based in Montreal.

Annie Lafleur

Annie Lafleur is a writer, researcher and editor specializing in the fine arts. At Le Quartanier, she has published a writing cycle consisting of four books, the most recent of which, Puberté (2023), won the Prix francophone international at the Festival de la poésie de Montréal, the Grand Prix Québecor at the Festival international de la poésie de Trois-Rivières, and a nomination for the Prix Alain-Grandbois from the Académie des lettres du Québec.

Also critically acclaimed, Ciguë (2019) and Bec-de-lièvre (2016) were finalists for the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Governor General’s Literary Awards. She has participated in poetry readings in Quebec, France and Belgium, and presented a performance based on her book Ciguë in several Canadian cities. She was a member of the editorial board of Estuaire magazine from 2014 to 2018, and has contributed as an art critic to Spirale magazine and Espace art actuel.

In 2024, Lafleur was one of the guests of honor at the Salon du Livre de Paris and took part in the prestigious “Libé des écrivain-e-s” issue of the French newspaper Libération. She is currently a research and teaching assistant at Université Laval, and a member of the Conseil de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines. She lives between Quebec City, Montreal and Vancouver.