Axel Sourisseau
From 4 August to 1 September 2021

The French poet Axel Sourisseau was born in Nantes in 1988. After studying art history and archeology, he worked for several years in the field of contemporary art. Since becoming an itinerant author in 2015, he has published two collections of poems with Éditions de La Crypte, Le ravin aux ritournelles (2018) and Catafalque (2020), and a third with Lunatique, Au palais des ombres, featuring photographs by Nicholé Velásquez (special mention by the 2018 Prix Poésie21). An anthropology enthusiast, he explores in his writing the complex connections between territory, myth, and memory.