Two new publications in French studies, co-edited by Emma Wagstaff

• Chantiers du poème : prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine, ed. by Hugues Azérad, Nina Parish, Michael G. Kelly and Emma Wagstaff, has been published by Peter Lang (2012). More information is available here.
• Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945, a double special issue of French Forum, 37, 1-2 (2012), ed. by Hugues Azérad, Nina Parish, Michael G. Kelly and Emma Wagstaff. Full text available here.

These companion volumes examine recent French poetry and poetic practice, in particular through their connections with other genres, media and disciplines, and considers what new directions in poetic practice can be discerned.