Nuit de la poésie augmentée

Born in rural Québec, Alexandre Dostie is a self-taught artist, filmmaker, poet, and playwright. His short films Mutants (2016), I’ll End Up in Jail (2019), and BOA (2025) have won numerous awards and screened at prestigious festivals, including Sundance, Locarno, and Clermont-Ferrand. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Shenley (2014) and Que ceux qui m’aiment me sauvent (2022), and contributes to several Québec literary magazines. Based in Trois-Rivières, he received the Mauricie Creator of the Year Award in 2021. His debut play, Kiki et la colère, played to sold-out audiences at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in 2026. He is currently developing his first feature film.

Annie Lafleur is the author of several poetry collections, including Puberté (2023; winner of the Grand Prix Québecor at the International Poetry Festival and the International Francophone Prize at the Festival de la poésie de Montréal; finalist for the Alain-Grandbois Prize), Ciguë (2019; finalist for the Alain-Grandbois Prize and the Prix des libraires du Québec), Bec-de-lièvre (2016; finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Prix des libraires du Québec), and Rosebud (2013), all published by Le Quartanier. She has contributed art criticism to various publications and served on the editorial board of the poetry magazine Estuaire. She lives in Québec City.

A duo of friends who play off each other through words and sound, Atolll is a project that explores the pleasure of spoken (or even unleashed) words, without aspiring to overly polished pop, but without shying away from the joy of a catchy hook either. The delicate voice of virginie fauve (author of the poetry collection la poussière nous cerne parce qu’elle nous ressemble, published by Le Lézard amoureux) contrasts with the angular soundscapes of David Turgeon (novelist, essayist, and electronic musician since 2000), creating a mesmerizing sonic labyrinth that challenges expectations of what a song or a poem can be. Atolll embraces risk-taking, experiments with new ways of approaching poetry, and revels in the pleasure of exploration.

Born in Montréal’s Rosemont neighbourhood, Carole David is a writer with a PhD in French Studies. After a career teaching literature at the college level, she now devotes herself to writing. Her award-winning work blends narrative and poetry, North American identity and femininity. Her books have been translated into English and Italian.

Emmanuelle Riendeau was born in 1993 in Drummondville, Quebec. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Literary Studies from UQAM. Her writing is rooted in live performance. Grad school dropout, stoned loner, literary junkie, basic millennial babe, delirious reader, she wreaks havoc in Montreal to her heart’s content.

Born in Valleyfield, Jean-Paul Daoust is a poet and novelist. He is the poet-in-residence at Radio-Canada and previously served as editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Estuaire. His body of work, comprising more than thirty books, has earned him numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Les cendres bleues (1990) and the International Poetry Festival Prize in 2009 for Le vitrail brisé. In 2012, he received the Jaime Sabines/Gatien Lapointe Prize for Poemas de Babilonia / Poèmes de Babylone, co-published by Écrits des Forges and Mexican publisher Mantis Editores. His poems have been translated into Slovenian, Spanish and English.

Born in Montréal, Martine Audet is the author of a dozen poetry collections, several artist’s books, and two children’s books. A finalist for numerous literary awards, she has received the Prix Estuaire, the Alain-Grandbois Prize, the Grand Prix Québecor (shared) at the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival, and the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. She regularly participates in literary and artistic events in Québec and beyond, and some of her poems have been translated into German, English, Catalan, Spanish, and Italian. She sometimes incorporates painting and photography into her writing practice and illustrated L’oiseau, le vieux-port et le charpentier by the late poet Michel Van Schendel. Her most recent poetry collection, Des formes utiles, was published in 2023 by Éditions du Noroît.

Motocross is a musical duo built for off-road adventures and rugged terrain. Blending the poetic vision of writer Mélissa Labonté with the sounds of musician Bobby Lehoux, their debut musical project reimagines the spatial poetry of the collection Scaphandre. Speed, distortion, sharp turns—Motocross reinvents itself with every race.

Nana Quinn is an antidisciplinary artist lost somewhere along Highway 20. Driven by a hybrid artistic practice, they create intimate, poetic worlds in which words are always in dialogue with gestures, sounds, images, or objects. Their works are acts of vulnerability that explore the experience of human existence and the fluid boundaries between seemingly contradictory concepts, such as life and death, memory and forgetting, the visible and the invisible, pain and rapture. Impermanence is a particular obsession of theirs. Whether in artistic spaces (established or unconventional) or in their personal life, Nana strives to create spaces for meaningful connection where dialogue and compassion can emerge.

Born in Chile, Nicholas Dawson is a writer, researcher, editor, and curator. He is the author of several books across various genres, including the narrative work Désormais, ma demeure (Triptyque, 2020; Bibliothèque québécoise, 2025; winner of the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and the Blue Metropolis Diversity Prize), the poetry collection Peur pietà (Noroît, 2024; finalist for the Prix des libraires du Québec), and the essay Vueltas. Affects diasporiques (Nota bene, 2025). He holds a master’s degree in literary studies and a PhD in Arts Studies and Practices from UQAM. He is completing a postdoctoral fellowship in literature at Université Laval, where he is currently a visiting professor. As a curator of exhibitions and literary arts events, he has also edited several collective works in creative writing and academia. He has been the director of Éditions Triptyque since 2021.

Egyptian-Quebecer Nour Symon offers lyrical, noise-based and intimate works, driven by a desire to bring back into focus the complexity of the interactions between their identities — queer, migratory, in love with the complexity of the world. A desiring encounter between visual art, concert music and poetry lies at the heart of their practice. This transdisciplinarity is reflected most clearly in their sound paintings — graphic scores performed here and elsewhere by musicians and artists whose paths are as winding as possible.