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“Walk and dream!”: Arthur Teboul’s injunction to reclaim poetry

2024-03-28T06:26:38.542Z

Highlights: The singer of Fire! Chatterton publishes “L’Adresse’, (Seghers) A collection of texts born after having had “poetic consultations” in his ephemeral Parisian office in March 2023. A look back at an extraordinary experience for the author. The doctor is a poet. He has just finished one of his famous minute poems in the “Déversoir”, anEphemeral office that he opened.


STORY – The singer of Fire! Chatterton publishes “L’Adresse”, (Seghers). A collection of texts born after having had “poetic consultations” in his ephemeral Parisian office in March 2023. A look back at an extraordinary experience.


In the waiting room, no one is coughing. No one is speaking. The phones are turned off. Instead, we read. Aragon, Lautréamont, Pessoa, Plath, Bobin, Prévert… When we are called. A door opens onto a blue square. Four blue walls. An orange carpet. A half-moon desk. Behind, a man. At least a head. His brown face seems to float on his night suit.

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The table seems to have grown. Two mushroom-shaped lamps emit yellow light. Not a sound. We read on a small sign:

“Silence is conducive to the germination of the poem. »

A painting, a reproduction of Matisse, catches our eye.

-I'm going to write now, you do what you want but you don't look at me.

Five minutes pass. The man scans his sheet and hands it to us. A handwritten page. Inuit arabesques.

The doctor is a poet. He has just finished one of his famous minute poems in the “Déversoir”, an ephemeral office that he opened…

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