Marc Alyn Celebrated by the SGDL: Birth of the Marc Alyn Poetry Prize
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- Mar 24
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On Wednesday, October 1st, the Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL) will pay solemn tribute to the poet Marc Alyn, in his presence.
On that date, the SGDL Poetry Prize will take on a new name: it will become the Marc Alyn Poetry Prize of the SGDL.
We are immensely pleased with this recognition, which honors one of the great poets of our time.
His work, already crowned with numerous literary prizes, continues to shine with its visionary power, its masterful musicality, and its unwavering fidelity to poetry.
On the occasion of this tribute, two artist's books created in collaboration with Bernard Alligand, painter and engraver, will also be presented, bearing witness to this rare alliance between words and images.
It's a beautiful way to celebrate a life devoted to poetry, and to remember how Marc Alyn's work remains a vibrant source for our memory and our present.
✨VENICE, THE IMAGE, THE MAGIC (2021)
This collection of three poems captures the brilliance and the shadow of the Serenissima. Marc Alyn doesn't just sing of Venice, he inhabits it: The Tortured Painting: "The pictorial space imprisoned by museums immeasurably increased the city's surface area. / The figures of crucifixions and nativity scenes mingled / on the quays with merchants, tourists..." Bernard Alligand responds with compositions where gold cracks, where translucent blue seeps into stained glass, where photographic fragments of the city—stones, reflections, textures—create the visible and the invisible. Here, poet and painter composes a Venice that is both carnal and spectral, sumptuous and fragile.
✨ SHARED TIME (2024)
In this work composed of two books (a collaboration with Nohad Salameh), Marc Alyn meditates on memory, love, and finitude. His poems speak of the moment snatched from silence, of beauty threatened by oblivion. Cosmic time or terrestrial time, Bernard Alligand creates a tension between the ephemeral and the eternal, transcending the linear perception of time through a play of mirrors and geometric forms, symbolizing the birth and expansion of the universe in contrasting red and black, sprinkled with silver and gold stars. In this alchemy, poetry and painting question what remains when everything else fades away – a shared, fragile, luminous time.
Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL)
🗓️ Wednesday, October 1, 2025 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
✨ Marc Alyn Grand Prize for Poetry from the SGDL
📍 Hôtel de Massa, 38 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris
📧 SGDL Grand Prize for Poetry 2025 | ☎️
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