Poetry
Le Chant du roi errant
Not translated into English
Tahar Bekri · 1985
Synopsis
A collection of poems in French, published in Paris in 1985; it runs to one hundred and fifteen pages. It is the work of a Tunisian poet who has lived in exile in France since 1976.
Context
The collection appeared in 1985 from L'Harmattan, in Paris, as the sixteenth title in the “Écritures arabes” series, in a nineteen-centimetre volume. The Bibliothèque nationale de France and the university library of Nantes hold copies. It belongs to the first books of a poet who writes far from his country, and whose critics note the palm grove of Gabès and the migratory birds of the land of exile, a poetry of freedom removed from strict versification. His English publisher, Arc Publications, counts it among its notable collections.
Who it is for
A collection of poetry in French, for readers who want to read Tahar Bekri in his first books of exile.
Prizes and reception
Cited by Arc Publications in the poet's bibliography; no reissue is reported by the BnF.
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