Martine Audet

Martine Audet
Born	(1961-10-15) October 15, 1961 (age 65) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	poet
Writing career
Period	1990s-present
Notable works	Les tables, Tête première / Dos / Contre dos

Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection La Société des cendres.

She was previously a nominee at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for Orbites, at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for Les manivelles, at the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille and at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Tête première / Dos / Contre dos, and won the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2001 for Les tables.

Selected works

• Poèmes du lendemain ("Poems from the following day") (1993)
• Les murs clairs ("The clear walls") (1996)
• Doublures ("Stuffings") (1998)
• Orbites ("Eye-sockets") (2000)
• Les tables ("The Tables") (2001)
• Les mélancolies ("The Wistful Sadnesses") (2003)
• Que ferais-je du jour ("What Would I Make of the Day") (2005)
• Les manivelles ("Cranks") (2006)
• L'amour des objets ("The Love of the Objects") (2009)
• Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille ("I Beg Forgiveness of the Shining Species") (2010)
• Le ciel n'est qu'un détour à brûler ("The Sky is Just a Bend to Burn") (2010)
• Des lames entières ("Some Whole Blades") (2011)
• Des voix stridentes ou rompues (Some Voices either Shrill or Broken") (2013)
• Tête première / Dos / Contre dos ("First Head / Back / Against Back") (2015)

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers
• List of Quebec writers

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