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READINGS CARLTON
EVENT | Thursday 15 April 2010 at 6:30pm
The Poetry of Francis Jammes
Launch of Under the Azure
at St Jude’s Church, corner Elgin and Lygon Street, Carlton

A very special night. Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email

Please join us for the launch and celebration of Under the Azure, translations from the work of French poet, Francis Jammes by Californian poet, Janine Canan.

Mrs Patricia Polites (Honorary Consul General of France in Melbourne) will introduce publisher Christine Mathieu, translator Janine Canan and Melbourne singer Kavisha Mazella who will sing some of Jammes’ poems she has set to music.

The most famous of Jammes’s verses are from his poem Le rosaire, (The Rosary) which were immortalized in George Brassens song, La prière (the Prayer). Kavisha brings her rich Mediterranean background to interpret this and other poems.

“You don’t read Francis Jammes, you breathe him, you inhale him… In Jammes’ work, there is nothing but poetry and perfume… once you have abandoned yourself to him, you will think he is the only poet there is.”André Gide

A world premiere…