JI am that kid launched into the world

Searching for "home" everywhere

Where smiles still remember

I am this exiled tongue

Whose legacy on the run

Holds him back by the skin of the Word

I am that cigarette too many

And who, once extinguished

Wisely waits for new mists

I am this being in the works

In search of the brother or the sister

Overcoming the few crumbs of blood

I am this wavering reason

Tied to the accursed

But refusing to share their sad fates

I am this gypsy hungry for sensations

Blinded by his chimeras

But desperately clinging to a branch of eternity

I am that impostor

Whose vengeful lucidity

Pointing to him the wound of the sun

Grégory Rateau (France)

Grégory RATEAU is a 37-year-old French writer and poet born in 93, in Clichy-sous-Bois. His poetry met with good echo in various reviews in France, Switzerland, Quebec, Portugal (Recours au poème, La revue internationale de la Sorbonne, Revue A, PoesiaRevelada, Cavale, Remue.net, Oupoli, La Page Blanche, Points and Counterpoints, Pro / prose…).

After many years of wandering (Lebanon, Ireland, Nepal ...), he now lives between Paris and Bucharest where he is the editor-in-chief and director of an online news media and radio columnist for the RRI . He also hosts debates for Romanian Cannes award-winning director Cristian Mungiu.

Bibliography:

- Travel story: Off-piste in Romania, story of the walker selected for the Pierre Loti Prize 2017 and then translated into Romanian by Polirom (with significant impact throughout the Romanian press).

-Roman: Noir de soleil by Éditions Maurice Nadeau - Les Lettres Nouvelles, selected for the 2020 France / Lebanon Prize of the Orient le Jour newspaper and the 2020 Ulysse Prize for the first novel.

-Poetry: Artists' book published by Editions de l'Oeil de la Méduse, “Pagan Poem”.

His first collection "Conspiracy of the real" will be released by Unicité in April.