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“What The Dead Want”: A New Poetry Book by Paulette Claire Turcotte
Volume 33 Issue 10, 11 & 12 | Posted: December 20, 2019
Known for her work with dreams and creativity, Paulette has worked 30 years in Jungian analysis and studies and more than 40 years in the arts.
Canadian poet and editor, Patrick White said of her poetry, “Superlative, poignant, profound, where has she been hiding? Her work is supremely moving on all levels. Stunningly beautiful and powerful, her writing is urgent with ecstasy.”
“Her work is beautifully lucid and pure. It’s hard to remember when I've read anything as emotionally supple, darkly radiant and spiritually poignant as this in years. If the word masterpiece means anything anymore, this is definitely a prime-time candidate.” Patrick White (of Bride of Sorrows, cdris/ARTS Press, 2013)
Known for her work with dreams and creativity, Paulette has worked 30 years in Jungian analysis and studies and more than 40 years in the arts.
Canadian poet and editor, Patrick White said of her poetry, “Superlative, poignant, profound, where has she been hiding? Her work is supremely moving on all levels. Stunningly beautiful and powerful, her writing is urgent with ecstasy.”
“Her work is beautifully lucid and pure. It’s hard to remember when I've read anything as emotionally supple, darkly radiant and spiritually poignant as this in years. If the word masterpiece means anything anymore, this is definitely a prime-time candidate.” Patrick White (of Bride of Sorrows, cdris/ARTS Press, 2013)
The poems in What the Dead Want have grown out of a sense of social outrage, an immense love of this creatured world, wild nature, and out of her own journey through madness and Grace. They’ve grown out of a precious relationship with love and death, and hope.
“The boundaries between the living and the dead are more porous than we would like to think. My poems are my way of journeying when I am not dreaming and making art.
“They are my way of giving form and character to the unseen and unheard, the shadows, the untouchables, the unredeemed, and of stretching the boundaries between madness and sanity, between the banal and the mystical in an attempt to restore our quivering humanity.”
Paulette Claire Turcotte is an author, visionary and outsider poet and artist. Her work has been published in numerous presses in print and online. She is the founding editor of Banned Poetry, cdris/ARTS Press, co-founder of Split Quotation Press, a founding member of the Pacific Festival of the Book, Curator of a ZINE- Alternative & Modern Arts and Review and an AVANT-GARDE poetry ZINE.
She has been recipient of the ANTHOS Poetry prize and a Canada Council grant for writing (short stories). As well as two non-fiction books, she has three chapbooks of poetry with her art, and has a new chapbook, 2019, The Silence in the Centre of Bone, published by ICN Publishing. Forthcoming is a memoir, The Shaman in the House of Dreams, Ekstasis Editions.
