Louis Armand is an artist and writer who has lived in Prague since 1994, where he currently directs the InterCultural Studies Programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University. His poetry, essays, translations and short prose have appeared in various publications, including Sulfur, Stand, TriQuarterly, Poetry Review, Meanjin, Frank and Van Gogh's Ear. In 1997 he was awarded the Max Harris Prize at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he received the Nassau Review Prize (New York). His books include Séances (Prague, 1998); Erosions (Sydney, 1999); Inexorable Weather (London, 2001); Land Partition (Melbourne, 2001); Strange Attractors (Cambridge, 2003); Malice in Underland (Melbourne, 2003); and a volume of prose, The Garden (Cambridge, 2001). He is editor of the PLR (Prague Literary Revue) and director of the Prague International Poetry Festival. www.louis-armand.com |
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rigid in the full tumult of that sky- as if solely for the lens the aperture the the line of the valley curves inwards |