31st Franco-anglais Poetry Festival (Paris & Melbourne)
Poésie et musique
Lectures publiques bilingues
Soirée Festival sur le podium du Marché le samedi 21 juin de 20 à 22 heures
2e partie - Melbourne et Castlemaine, du 8 au 12 octobre 2008, l’Australian Poetry
Centre, l’ Atrium, Federation Square, Athenaeum Library, Alliance Francaise :
Ateliers de traduction
Lectures publiques bilingues
Poéie et musique
Exposition “Sculpture sur prose”
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RECONNAISSANCE FRANÇAISE (LA) L’expédition Baudin en Australie (1801-1803)
ISBN : 2-296-01307-4 • 494 pages • 38 € • octobre 2006 Achetez LA RECONNAISSANCE FRANCAISE chez votre librairie voisine ou chez Harmattan. Prix éditeur : 38 € / 249 FF
BON DE COMMANDE
A retourner à L’HARMATTAN, 7 rue de l’École Polytechnique 75005 Paris Veuillez me faire parvenir ………… exemplaire(s) du livre : La reconnaissance française au prix unitaire de 38 €+ 5.10 € de frais de port + 0,80€ de frais de port par ouvrage supplémentaire soit un total de…………….€. NOM : ADRESSE : Ci-joint un chèque de ………… €. Pour l’étranger, vos règlements sont à effectuer: - en euros sur chèques domiciliés sur banque française. - par virement en euros sur notre CCP 23 625 44 N Paris - par carte bancaire (Visa uniquement) N°………………………….. date d’expiration…../…../…../ et le numéro CVx2 (les 3 derniers chiffres se trouvant au dos de votre carte, à gauche de votre signature) : ………………………….. Vous pouvez aussi commander cet ouvrage directement à votre libraire habituel
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp ISBN : 2-296-01307-4 • octobre 2006 • 494 pages
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 Descriptif : Serge d’Ignazio est une référence de premier plan dans le monde du boomerang. Dans cet ouvrage, richement illustré, il étudie cet objet sous tous ses aspects, historique, ludique, artistique, littéraire, cinématographique, sportif et surtout son fameux retour. Grand collectionneur, il nous fait découvrir une multitude de boomerangs aux formes et décorations variées et souvent étonnantes, tous les objets liés au boomerang qu’il a accumulés pendant des années (timbres, livres, pins, cartes postales, affiches, etc.). Pour les curieux, tourner les pages de « Boomerang Collection » procure plaisir et dépaysement garantis. Les collectionneurs y trouveront une mine de renseignements : comment dénicher des objets rares ? Quelles sont les méthodes efficaces pour échanger entre acheteurs ? Comment effectuer des recherches chez les brocanteurs, bouquinistes ? Quels sont les revues et sites internet spécialisés, fabricants ou salles de vente ? Où trouver des boomerangs authentiques ? Objet primitif, le boomerang, par son image et son symbolisme, traverse les siècles sans la moindre altérité. Son utilisation est sans cesse remise au goût du jour. Au-delà de la connaissance du marché, vous apprendrez dans cet ouvrage à apprécier cet objet extraordinaire pour son histoire et pas seulement pour ses qualités de retour.
POUR COMMANDER TO ORDER BOOMERANG COLLECTION FROM FRANCE 1. from www.atlantica.fr payment by bankcard (paiement securise) 2.Sur le site www.1mifox.com 3. Par courrier, en ecrivant directement a: EDITIONS ATLANTICA-SEGUIR-du PECARI, 18 Allee Marie Polizier, BP 90041, 64201 Biarritz Cedex. PRICE IN ENGLISH & IN FRENCH 27 euros POUR TOUS CONSEILS : serge.dignazio@free.fr
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Mireille Vignol écrit:
Chers amis,
Voici deux livres que j’ai traduits cette année et que j’ai très envie de soutenir.
Un recueil de nouvelles maori, poético-déjanté, qui vient juste de sortir :
“Le Festival des Miracles” d’Alice Tawhai
Editeur : Au vent des iles
http://jacbayle.club.fr/livres/NZ/Tawhai.html
Et un classique australien, de l’humour très noir dans un bush très con.
“Cinq matins de trop” de Kenneth Cook
Editeur : Autrement.
Voir les critiques :
http://www.evene.fr/livres/livre/kenneth-cook-cinq-matins-de-trop-20412.php
Ils sont tous deux disponibles dans votre excellente librairie (qui se fera un plaisir de les commander s’ils ne les ont pas en stock)
ou sur le site d’Amazon ou de la Fnac, si vous habitez comme moi dans le bush auvergnat.
Faites passer l’information par vos listes d’amis!
Faisons marcher le bouche à email !
C’est plus original que d’offrir le Goncourt, et en plus c’est moins cher, moins lourd et plus fantastique.
C’est les antipodes et c’est plus classe que de manger du kangourou pour le réveillon.
Merci, bonne lecture à tous…
Mireille
A BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS
Author: Dorothy McCormack & Elaine Lewis
Code: MP-599
Christmas music was never so easy! Here are 16 traditional and Australian carols, complete with teacher notes, illustrations and scores for piano, organ, vocal and guitar chords, as well as percussion addition and performance suggestions.
Ideal for carols by candlelight or school assembly or a sing-along at home.
Cassette also available - Code: MP-599A $15.95
Book: $21.95 Inc GST
Order direct from www.dominie.com.au
SELECTED COMMENTS
“The personal, conversational tone presents events with both immediacy and verve…….. the rollcall of authors who visited her shop, gave talks to French and expatriate Australian audiences and encouraged a greater awareness of Australian writing in France, is perhaps Lewis’ lasting legacy.” CHRISTOPHER BANTICK, The Sunday Age 16/04/06 (Melbourne, Australia)
“The little things …all convey the wonder of living in Paris and the labour of love that the shop becomes…. It’s impossible to overstate the value of such a place for Australians and gratifying to read that it becomes exactly the type of place that Lewis set out to create and that Australia needs.” MARK TEWFIK, London bookseller and reviewer for Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald 14-16/04/06 (Sydney, Australia)
“An engaging book about an interesting but alas doomed enterprise.” ROZ EVERETT, Good Reading (Australia)
“…. Lewis has it just right, as on the occasion when she walks along her quai to find ‘the light is a gentle blue and gold and the major buildings along the seine are flood-lit so that you have the impression of walking in the midst of a gigantic film set’.” MARK THOMAS, Canberra Times (Australia)
“Many readers have already commented it’s one of those stories you can’t put down: you feel for her all the way. You are thrilled at the many people who supported her idea and incensed at all those short-sighted cultural officials who didn’t.”
JANE SULLIVAN, The Sunday Age 7/05/06 (Melbourne, Australia)
“…Inspiring and very readable, this will particularly appeal to anyone who’s ever dreamt of living in Paris. Très bien!” Sunday Herald-Sun, Sunday Magazine 7/05/06 (Melbourne, Australia) and Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Magazine 7/05/06 (Sydney, Australia)
“I visited it once, and remember it jam-packed for readings; I accompanied the feisty Lewis and a bunch of authors to a bistro afterwards, thrilled that this Australian oasis existed.”
ANNE SUSSKIND Bulletin with Newsweek 23/05/06 (Australia)
“Lewis has made the story of a failed business venture in a foreign country into a real page-turner, gripping to the last.”
MARTIN STEVENSON, Launceston Examiner 6/05/06 (Tasmania, Australia)
“…..I feel sure that bibliophiles everywhere are going to enjoy this book.”
CANDICE CAPPE, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, March 2006 (Australia)
….Elaine and her many supporters were faced with a battle against the establishment that quickly became stranger than fiction.”
Cowra Guardian 22/05/06 (Cowra, NSW, Australia)
“Paris has always attracted writers of every nationality but not every nation boasts a bookshop in the intellectual chic of the Left Bank. …..her influence in spreading word of Australian literary talent is undiminished.”
JAN HALLAM, Sunday Times 21/05/06 (Perth, Australia)
“…..Lewis’ book is a demonstration of how far we have moved from the cultural cringe of my generation and the neurotic desire some of us had to live in faraway places where no hint of the familiar would impinge….. this book becomes curiously involving.”
JOHN CLAIRE Sydney Sun Herald 14/05/06 (Sydney, Australia)
“ a very readable story about establishing her shop, her life in Paris and the events leading up to the shop’s closure.”
GAIL KNOX Hawkesbury Gazette 12/07/06 (Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia)
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The wheel has turned full circle for Elaine Lewis who, at sixty years of age, opened the Australian Bookshop on the Quai des Grands Augustins Paris in 1996. Ten years later she returned to Paris for the launch of her book “Left Bank Waltz: the Australian Bookshop in Paris (Vintage, April 2006).
And yes, the launch was on the Left Bank hosted by Brian Spence of the Abbey Bookshop, rue de la Parcheminerie. The Abbey Booksop was built in the 1730’s under the shadow of Saint Severin and it was said that it was a stopping-off place for mediaeval pilgrims setting out for Compostella in northern Spain - the cockle shell over the door is a symbol of Saint James whose tomb was the pilgrims’ destination. Similar shell designs line the path to Compostella. Normally there is a large Canadian flag flying above the ancient doorway but on June Brian has found a large Australian flag to replace it temporarily. On a showery Spring evening about 65 friends and former customers lined the cobbled street in front of the bookshop and most were armed with colourful umbrellas. Fortunately the rain held off until Jeanne Ryckmans (commissioning editor of Random House Australia) and Brian Spence introduced the author and spoke warmly about the Australian Bookshop and the book “Left Bank Waltz”. Elaine Lewis said that this occasion would be a treasured memory for her, not only because of the presence of friends of the Australian Bookshop and her French family, but because the words spoken that evening emphasised yet again the value of promoting and displaying Australian books in both French and English to the French public. “The dream is over but the need still exists.” |
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It is difficult to express the peculiar mixture of elation and pride one felt coming upon the Australian Bookshop in Paris. There it was, utterly national, precious, devoted to writers mostly unknown in Europe, yet it sat conspicuously on the Left Bank, a short walk across from the Louvre, as a feisty affirmation of Australian literary assertion and incursion.’ – GAIL JONES
At a time in her life when friends were retiring and spending time with their grandchildren, a night out in Paris while she visited her musician son inspired Elaine Lewis to dream of a daring venture in this most enchanting of cities. Her vision was more than just fanciful. After doing the necessary research and groundwork, Elaine packed her bags and left Australia to open, on the Left Bank, the first Australian bookshop in central Paris. |
| Full of incredible energy and enthusiasm, and with the help of locals and visiting Australians, she created her shop in the heart of the St-Germain-des-Prés literary quarter. Situated just around the corner from Notre Dame, her cosy literary haven quickly became an important cultural centre and a home away from home for Australian writers and artists in Paris. Writers who were visitors at the bookshop included David Malouf, Helen Garner, Nikki Gemmell and Nick Earls. Elaine hosted events, book readings and encouraged an exchange of ideas and a love of literature, as well as midnight swims in the Seine!
But when some bumbling and nasty French bureaucrats threatened to close down the shop, Elaine and her many staunch supporters were faced with a battle against the establishment that quickly became stranger than fiction … |
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Product’s description : Serge d’Ignazio is a major specialist in boomerang history, acknowledged throughout the world. As from the age of 10, the subject became his main hobby and passion and, over the years, he has built up a remarkable collection of objects and archives that as not only become a source of reference for the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, but has also been listed by the State Library of Victoria in Australia. He has published many articles in the press and has often been filmed or interviewed for television and radio ; he is an inexhaustible source of information for students, research workers and journalists. This book is intended for inquisitive of mind, but also for professionals and collectors. It makes reference to documents that have rarely or never been published and, because the visual aspect of the boomerang is so essential, a wide variety of photos and drawings is included in order to illustratethe many different forms this mysterious object can take on, with its surprising, unusual and sometimes strange decorations. The author offers a hoard of information and tips on how to get communicating with fellow boomerang lovers, how to search for printed matter in second-hand bookshops and junk shops and how to buy an authentic item. He also indicates various magazines, specialized websites, manufacturers and auction rooms. For those who want to know more about this extraordinary object, famous not only for its return flight, but also for its history, and which this book helps us to appreciate, a very detailed bibliography, making reference to works in several languages, is included.
