Thierry Dimanche

Trained in philosophy and literature, Thierry Dimanche has written several books of poetry since 2002. By turns critic, literary director and teacher, he's involving in various hybrid literary events, often in a musical context. In 2008-2010, he took part in the VSUP (Veuillez signaler un poème) project, a collaboration between five writers and five contemporary composers. He appears on the sound poetry compilations VQQV and Des monstres dans la gorge (Actuelle CD), and been part of the poetry-metal collective POMME (2012-2014). In 2015, his book Le milieu de partout (ed. Prise de parole) was awarded the Prix Champlain. With composer Robert Lemay, he worked on Deux mille mètres sous terre, including a recording made in Sudbury's underground particle observatory. In 2019, he published the mycological novel Cercles de feu (ed. le Quartanier), followed in 2022 by a paradoxical posthumous autobiography entitled Tombeau de Claude Gauvreau (ed. Leméac).