Ivy Writers Paris vous invite à une soirée
de lectures multilingues et de projections de poésie visuelle
le dimanche 18 octobre 2026 à 17h
avec les auteurs
You are invited to an evening of multilingual poetry with authors:
Olivier Brossard (France)
David Hayward (UK)
18 Oct 2026 à 17h
à : Delaville Café, au 1er étage/salle Marguery, 34 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,
75010 Paris M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 or 9)
RDv au bar avant de monter au 1er! Meet at bar for drinks!
BIOS:
Olivier Brossard is professor of American literature at Gustave Eiffel University. An honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he co-directs the Poets & Critics program and the [urban writing] program. A co-founder of the Franco-American association double change, he is a translator and editor of the North American series published by Joca Seria. He has translated several American writers, including John Ashbery, Marcella Durand, Tonya Foster, Frank O’Hara, Ron Padgett, and Keith Waldrop. Since 2023, he has led a collective translation workshop at Gustave Eiffel University, which resulted in the volume Argent négatif by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (2026). Olivier Brossard is the author of two books of poetry, Let (2024) and autotune (2026), published by P.O.L.
David Hayward has studied History, International Relations, Creative Writing culminating in his Critical-Creative PhD in ‘Poetry: Text, Practice as Research’ defended at the University of Kent. His critical writing investigates the idea of Indeterminacy and its relationship to metaphor from literary, philosophical, and poetic perspectives, whereas his creative work, ‘Chanson’, incorporates elements of collage and translation with a pronounced visual dimension. He has presented mini papers for Erin Mouré and Claudia Rankine in the Poets & Critics seminars organized by his Ivy reading partner tonight. David's first poetry pamphlet, ‘Shells of a Distant Sea’, a combination of textual and visual poetry, was published by Muscaliet Press in 2022. He has also shared work related to pandemic poetry, been featured in ‘Seen as Heard’ (2021), an anthology of visual poetry edited by Steve Fowler, and appears in Fowler’s article in Periodicities (2020), ‘A small folio of poets: engerland’. For more, see his work on the Periodicities and Ottawa Poetry websites, or recent cover of Tears in the Fence Magazine from Dorsett, UK, 2026. David is on Bluesky as @columnist.bsky.social and Instagram as @davidhaywardwriter.








