Lodève "Voix de la Méditerranée" festival (1)
Just back to our Pyrenean hide-out from 8 days in Lodève at the “Voix de la Méditerranée” festival. An excellent occasion, though exhausting, what with having to do at least one half-hour reading a day, trying to catch as many of the other readers as possible & spending social time with old friends and new acquaintances. I did not have easy access to the net, and even here, I only have occasional access, so I couldn’t blog while there but will try to slowly catch up & once I’ve edited the videos I took at Lodève I will post at least some of these. Meanwhile I consider the next 2 weeks as quiet hiking ‘n writing days, my holidays in fact. So I’ll take it easy & will pick hiking over posting, whenever the choice comes up…
Below, a few photos from the Lodève days:

Luxembourg poets Jean Portante, Serge Basso,Lambert Schlechter & cellist André Mergenthaler with whom I performed on the first evening.

Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000-2024
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Hello,
Adiu,
Lodèv’/Lodèva is not in the Pyrénées/Pirenèus… It’s in Languedoc/Lengadòc.
May be your geography need something as a leason about orientation ?
Regards,
Godilhaire
Of course — note that I say “I’m back in the Pyrenees” after a week in Lodève, so I actually don’t mix up the geography: I went to Lodève from my place in the Vallée d’Oueil, and then returned to Gascoun/Pyrenean Bourg d’Oueil from Languedocian Lodève…