Last March, Alycia Dufour published her first collection of poems, My hand goes up, published by Poètes de brousse. This young 26-year-old poet, who hails from L’Isle-aux-Coudres, was outstanding at the Radio-Canada Poetry Prize in 2021. His poetic suite, whose verses can be seen in his collection , rose to five finalists.
Alycia Dufour learned poetry by listening to her grandmother recount her accent old woman from Charlevoix. This collection is, for him, a way of making a stunt. The poem is also there. With dirty hands, with a less polished tongue, with something more rough.
Her collection is marked by her connection to the territory, allowing her to address other topics, such as body, gender and filiation. My parenting is the fact that I come from a proletarian background, farmer, farmer, sailor, housewife. This is to pay homage to these lower origins.
Since his collection is self-fictional, his biggest challenge is not to censor himself. It’s about my family. I see my influences in my environment. His desire is to make his characters speak without ideal to them, to speak filiation as truly as possible.However, Alycia proves that her collection is a frame parallel to reality. The great -grandfathers of the collection are not his. The mother he described was not his either. Basically, what worries me is to evoke some trauma, like the hardship experienced in my family, being specific. I thought that’s what people would see at first, but people are carried away by the image.
” There is something very playful in poetry. I think this pleasure takes precedence over taboo. “
Re-inventing tradition
It is also about legend, tradition, legend and orality. The poet is aware of the lack of interest in legend and he understands it. He explains this by a lack of renewal, but also because it is associated with far-right discourse, nationalism, racism and xenophobia.
The idea is to figure out how, in a desire to deconstruct this tradition, recreate it and be a part of it. I recycled old materials and put them in my sauce.
A successful bet, if we believe the poet Hugues Corriveau, on the show The more the merrier, the more we read. I want him to be nominated for the Émile-Nelligan prize, and the winner, I don’t see that there is anything to be ashamed of.
A real springboard for Canadian writers, the Prix de la création Radio-Canada is open to anyone writing, whether novice or professional. Each year, they award the best stories (story experiences), short stories and unpublished poems submitted to the competition.
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Source: Radio-Canada
