Benoît Gréan

Benoît Gréan is a French poet currently living in Rome. He has published a number of volumes of poetry in French. In Germany, Hochroth (http://www.hochroth.de) has published him bilingually and he was a contributor to several issues of the German painter Markus Lüpertz's Frau und Hund. Several of his works have been translated and published into German, Greek and Italian; his volume Monstres tièdes has been translated by Massimo Sannelli and published in a bilingual Italian edition as Mostri tiepidi with a preface by Valerio Magrelli, and the Greek translation Chliara terata by Efi Chatziforou is bilingually published too.

He is deeply interested in ancient Greek verse and its fragmentary character. Mai and Monstres tièdes are generally linked to Mediterranean life, whereas PSB 24 (Petite suite blieuxoise en 24 heures) and PSA 14 (Petite suite attique en 14 pauses) are anchored in specific sites, respectively, of Haute-Provence, France, and ancient and modern Greece. corps et riens, Extinctions and Successions should be read as a trilogy (the second title refers to Thomas Bernhard). He has also enjoyed collaborating with artists: 80 is an artist's book with a lithograph by Luisa Gardini, an Italian artist who also contributed to Mai, Monstres tièdes, corps et riens and Successions (she also turned Monstres tièdes into a book of her own, WPMT15, published by cythère critique in 2005, ISBN 978-88-901696-2-5). Work by the French painter Caroline Coppey appears in PSA 14 and Extinctions, and "Bleu jour" is based on the work of the same artist. The poems he has addressed to the general work of Luisa Gardini, Caroline Coppey and Giorgio Bevignani can be viewed online at http://rhuthmos.eu/spip.php?rubrique68 and in à.

Bibliography

• Mai, atelier de l'agneau, 2001 (ISBN 978-2-930188-39-3)
• Monstres tièdes, atelier de l'agneau, 2003 (ISBN 978-2-930188-65-2), Mostri tiepidi, empirìa, 2013 (ISBN 978-88-96218-44-0), Chliara terata, endymion, 2014 (ISBN 978-9-6095453-0-3)
• corps et riens, atelier de l'agneau, 2006 (ISBN 978-2-930188-89-8)
• 80, cythère critique, 2009 (ISBN 978-8-890169-62-5)
• PSB 24, alidades, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-906266-98-8)
• PSA 14, hochroth, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-942161-11-4)
• Extinctions, hochroth, 2012 (ISBN 978-3-902871-13-8)
• Successions, alidades, 2013 (ISBN 978-2-919376-18-6)
• Bleu jour, les lieux dits, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-918113-21-8)
• à, alidades, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-919376-37-7)