How I Failed to be a Novelist: a Conversation with Poet Jérôme Game
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Centre for French, Francophone and Comparative Studies (CFFCS)
Birkbeck, University of London
You are warmly invited to join us on Friday 20 March 2026 at 17h for an exciting new event by the CFFCS.
How I Failed to be a Novelist: a Conversation with Poet Jérôme Game
on the occasion of the publication of his latest book
INTR/ANSITIF : Poétique de l’interstice
to be followed by a Q & A
The book
In a collection of interviews conducted over nearly twenty years, a poet seeks to learn more about his creative process by confronting his practice to other art forms (visual, sound, and performance). Part study trip (of the works of others) and part logbook (of an artistic exploration), INTR/ANSITIF is a multi-voiced inquiry that establishes a general translation between poetic methods and non-literary grammars. Interspersing its section with quotes from Maurice Blanchot to Gertrude Stein, Marguerite Duras to Jean-Luc Godard, Virginia Woolf to Walker Evans, Chantal Akerman to Jean Eustache, Jia Zhang-ke to Dorothea Lange, Jeff Wall to Diane Arbus, or Jacques Rancière to Andrea Fraser, the book fosters a conversation around what resistance to current overall semiotic saturation might look like through that hitherto resilient verbal practice—“poetry”.
The poet
Jérôme Game is a French poet and visual artist author of more than twenty volumes (collections, essays, stories, translations, sound poetry recordings, plays and radio dramas,) as well as numerous exhibitions (video and photopoem installations, sound and textual spatializations, digital photography). Also presented as public performances, his work explores contemporary experience at the intersection of words, sounds, and images. Correspondences between practices, cross-border inquiries, shared frameworks: it is within these gaps and links that his writing probes the reality of bodies, events, and narratives, collective or individual, through that of signs and their grammar. He frequently collaborates with stage directors (Hubert Colas, Antoine Oppenheim, Sophie Cattani, Cyril Teste, etc.), filmmakers (Valérie Kempeeners, Stéphane Baz), and musicians (DJ Chloé, Olivier Lamarche, Sylvain Devaux, etc.), and regularly gives public readings in France and abroad. His texts, published in numerous journals, have been translated into English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Dutch, and have been adapted for the stage and in art spaces. He recently published Light turbulences, an EP of sound poetry (*DUUU, 2025) and INTR/ANSITIF. Poétique de l'interstice (Presses du Réel, 2025). Feuilles de salle, his book of documentary poetry, will be published by La Kunsthalle / Presses du Réel in spring 2026. He teaches aesthetics at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin and film studies at Columbia University, in New York. www.jeromegame.com
Contact name: Nathalie Wourm
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