Poetry at the Bistro le Ste-Cath

05/15/2023 Colin McGregor 0

Our favourite poet Sylvain Turner, author of In extremis, available on Éditions TNT, was a finalist for the prestigious « Prix d’excellence poésie » (Poetry Excellence Prize), awarded by the cultural website Lametropole.com. At the end of the day, poet and translator Francis Catallano (left) won first […] See more

20 Poets and Authors Celebrate Poetry

02/21/2023 Colin McGregor 0

Jean-Paul Daoust, Sylvain Turner, Jean-Simon Brisebois, Raymond Viger and their guests will mount the stage at the Bistro le Ste-Cath on Saturday February 25th, starting at 6 p.m. with their Nuit Blanche Hochelaga-Maisonneuve event. Jean-Paul Daoust and Raymond Viger will kick off the event. Our dean […] See more

In Extremis at the Librarie Bertrand

11/17/2022 Colin McGregor 1

By Colin McGregor At the Librairie Bertrand on rue Saint-Pierre in Old Montreal, Montreal poet Sylvain Turner (right), author of the best-selling French-language poetry book In Extremis, and his English translator, Colin McGregor of Éditions TNT, made an appearance as part of the Salon du […] See more

Sylvain Turner: Portrait of a Writer

07/21/2022 Raymond Viger 0

By Raymond Viger Sylvain Turner was 14 months old when his father died in a car accident. His mother, who survived, fell into a depression. Because of this, he was raised by his grandparents in Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, in the Mauricie, the land of Jacques Ferron, author […] See more