More than two centuries after it was first formulated in 1800, the question posed by the poet Hölderlin still resonates. Today, more than ever, it is urgently needed: what is poetry if not a rejection of silence and a response with words of hope, as a harbinger of the future?
In The Night is Never Complete, Aurélien Vandal sets out to meet eight "Watchers." Paul Eluard Confronting Fascism, Claude CahunIn resistance to German occupation, Aimé Césaire and Madeleine Rivaux in the face of the colonial regime, Mahmoud Darwish in exile... alongside Robert Desnos, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sofia de Mello Brenner-Andersen, their voices echo through dictatorships, wars and oblivion.
Each image is accompanied by a selection of poems. Some are unpublished or unknown, others are ripe for rediscovery. here,
