MAUD JOIRET

MAUD JOIRET  (1986, Brussels). She is a poet and performer (on stage, on video, sometimes in front of a camera), and a literary columnist. For ten years, she has professionally accompanied Belgian authors on the website www.bela.be and continues to pass on texts and voices through articles, participation in dissertation juries, sharing her enthusiasm in literary programming, hosting readings and on social media (instagram: @maudjoiret / facebook: Maud Joiret). In 2023, she is teaching a workshop at La Cambre for students of the Master in Texts and Literary Creation.

Cobalt, her first book of poetry (published by Tétras-lyre, 2019) received the First Work Prize of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in 2020 and was adapted to video. Her second book, JERK, published in 2022 by l’Arbre de Diane, was brought to the stage in a production that combines text, music and dance. Marées vaches, her third book of poetry, is published by Le Castor astral in 2023.
She has published in magazines and anthologies in Belgium, France and Mexico.
Her writing grabs hold of desires and reality, tracks down taboos, influences and clichés, and searches for words of deployment. Her poetry is a willing hybridization of registers and genres, seeking the limits of sensations and narratives. By articulating her interior and exterior impulsions, she works on humour, melancholy, playfulness and biting commentary to give rhythm to a quest for meaning. Her language invents its own forms, bursts onto the page, aims at the place where it hurts. To translate the invulnerability of the sensitive. To lay bare an encounter between oneself, us and the world.