L'amour poète

Poetry gives voice!

A season of poetry, to express the world as it is perceived, as it is imagined, as it moves within and around each of us.

But also to explore how poetry is created, what its contours are, how it filters into our daily lives, spreads, and encounters the synchronicities that, day after day, make us sensitive to its signs, its calls, its urgencies.

A poem is movement: the movement of words, rhythms, silences, the music of a voice, the cadence of a breath. A poem carries images, sensations, and free thoughts. It speaks to each person and to everyone, because it is free from the obligation to explain. It is its own message, with form and substance completely intertwined.

​Over these 4 evenings devoted to a singular, offbeat world, between sharp-edged reality and boundless imagination, contemporary poets and poets of all time, the artists associated with the Théâtre des Calanques have chosen to get straight to the point: words make meaning and give the world of feeling the colors of a powerful humanity. They are also a struggle, a call, love, a cry. Wonder or uncertainty.

Around the themes “women in poetry,” “desire,” “poetry and humor,” and “love,” 4 carte blanche evenings will take shape, with actors and musicians at the service of the selected poets.

Fourth session: l'amour poète by Serge Noyelle and Marco Quesada

Love was the poets' first subject, and we have all been influenced by love poetry. What would we be without love? What would we be without poetry?

Love and poetry are inseparable; they have endured through every era, every style, every civilization, every imagination.

Artists, musicians, and composers have joined forces to sing of love.

Writers and composers have written about love poetically—Gainsbourg, Nougaro, Barbara, Ferré… Or composers have chosen poets to sing of love—Rimbaud, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Prévert, Aragon…

« Il n’aurait fallu qu’un moment de plus pour que la mort vienne Mais une main nue alors est venue Qui a pris la mienne » Louis Aragon