Shortlisted for the 2011 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translaton Prize The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen, by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after Surrealism. The writer Henri Thomas spoke of Follain as a poet "qui parle d'autre chose", who speaks of things outside himself; he admired his freedom from rhetoric. Follain's short, down-to-earth, subtle poems, many...
Related Subjects
Poetry