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| Festival international de poésie de Trois-Rivières | |
|---|---|
| Name | Festival international de poésie de Trois-Rivières |
| Location | Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Dates | annual |
| Genre | Poetry festival |
Festival international de poésie de Trois-Rivières is an annual literary festival held in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, that brings together poets, translators, publishers, and readers from Québec, Canada, and around the world. The festival has connections to institutions such as the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, and municipal cultural offices, and attracts figures associated with the Governor General's Awards, the Prix du Québec, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. It functions within networks that include PEN International, the International Poetry Society, and francophone cultural agencies.
The festival traces roots to cultural movements in Québec during the 1970s linked with personalities associated with the Quiet Revolution, the Parti Québécois, the Collège Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur, and literary circles that included names connected to the Prix Athanase-David, the Prix Gilles-Corbeil, and journals such as Les Herbes Rouges, Tropli, and Éditions du Noroît. Founders and early organizers collaborated with municipal bodies of Trois-Rivières, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts, alongside collaborators who had ties to the Salon du livre de Montréal, the Salon du livre de Québec, and the Festival international de la poésie de Montréal. Over the decades the event intersected with movements around the Quiet Revolution, the October Crisis, the FLQ inquiries, and cultural policies influenced by premiers like René Lévesque, while engaging with translator networks connected to Anne Hébert, Hubert Aquin, and Michel Tremblay. The festival evolved amid Quebecois debates that involved institutions such as the Assemblée nationale du Québec, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Organizers have included municipal cultural services of Trois-Rivières, programming committees with links to the Université Laval, McGill University, Concordia University, and the Université de Montréal, and partnerships with cultural organizations such as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, and the Conseil des arts de Trois-Rivières. Season programming often coordinates with publishers like Éditions de la Différence, Gallimard, Éditions du Seuil, House of Anansi Press, and Coach House Books, and with translators connected to Penguin Random House Canada and Éditions du Boréal. The festival presents readings, panels, workshops, and translation sessions that feature links to artists associated with the National Arts Centre, the Stratford Festival, the Festival d'été de Québec, and the Festival international de jazz de Montréal. Collaborations extend to cultural institutions including the Centre national du livre, the Institut français, the Goethe-Institut, the British Council, and the Embassy of Spain.
Over time the festival has hosted poets and guests with affiliations to the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bukowski Prize, bringing figures associated with names like Leonard Cohen, Gaston Miron, Anne Carson, Yves Bonnefoy, Odysseus Elytis, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, W. S. Merwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, and John Ashbery. International guests have included delegates from PEN America, PEN Canada, International PEN, and cultural delegates connected to UNESCO, the European Cultural Foundation, and the Aga Khan Music Awards, while francophone and Québec poets like Michel Beaulieu, Hélène Dorion, Dominique Sampiero, Marie Uguay, and Alain Grandbois have featured in programs.
The festival administers and presents awards and competitions in collaboration with literary bodies including the Governor General's Literary Awards, the Prix du Gouverneur Général, the Prix Robert-Cliche, the Prix littéraire Adrienne-Choquette, the Prix du Salon du livre, and translation prizes affiliated with the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the John Glassco Translation Prize, and the Canada Council Translation Grants. Prizes associated with festival events have intersected with juries drawn from members of the Académie des lettres du Québec, the Order of Canada cultural nominees, the Prix littéraire Guérin, and international awards like the Neustadt Prize selection committees and the Griffin Prize juries.
Events take place across venues in Trois-Rivières such as the Maison de la poésie, the Théâtre du Cégep de Trois-Rivières, the Salle J.-Antonio-Thompson, the Centre d'art contemporain, local branches of the Bibliothèque municipale, and public spaces along the Saint Lawrence River, with satellite events in Montréal, Québec City, Ottawa, and participation by institutions like the National Gallery of Canada, the Place des Arts, the Oratoire Saint-Joseph, the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec, and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Programming includes nocturnal readings, bilingual panels, slam sessions, translation workshops, and collaborative performances involving musicians from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, folk artists linked to La Bottine Souriante, and multidisciplinary artists from the Festival TransAmériques.
Critics and scholars from the Université du Québec à Montréal, York University, the University of Toronto, and international centers like the Centre Pompidou and the British Library have analyzed the festival's role in francophone and anglophone literary exchange, noting its influence on translation practices, the careers of Québec poets, and municipal cultural tourism policies. Reception has been discussed in outlets tied to Le Devoir, La Presse, The Globe and Mail, The New York Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement, and evaluated in studies referencing cultural policy frameworks of UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and networks such as Francophonie summits and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
Coverage appears in major media including Radio-Canada, CBC/Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, TVA, The Walrus, Maclean's, The New Yorker, Le Monde, El País, and Der Spiegel, and festival-affiliated publications have been produced by presses like Éditions du Noroît, Les Éditions du Quartanier, McClelland & Stewart, Faber & Faber, and New Directions. Proceedings, anthologies, and bilingual editions have involved editors and translators associated with the University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, and the University of Toronto Press, and have been indexed in databases managed by Library and Archives Canada, WorldCat, JSTOR, and Project MUSE.
Category:Poetry festivals in Canada Category:Culture of Trois-Rivières