Poets

Laure Cambau lives in Paris. Poet and pianist, she is also the author of children’s stories and song lyrics. In permanent balance between the “fertility of sounds” and the “magical reality of words” (D.H. Lawrence), she claims her right to strangeness.

She has published ten collections of poetry and received the SGDL’s Poncetton Prize for Lettres au voyou céleste (Amandier, 2010). Her latest works include La fille peinte en bleu (Caractères/Ecrits des Forges, Quebec), and Ma peau ne protège que vous (Le Castor Astral). In 2017, Le Manteau rapiécé, un voyage au fil du souffle (Unicité) was published, a book inspired by her encounter – spiritual and temporal – with the Bektachis (“cousins” of the Sufis); this book received the 2018 Vénus Khoury-Ghata prize. Her collection, Grand Motel du Biotope was published by APIC (Algiers) in 2021 and was a finalist for the Apollinaire and Mallarmé prizes and received the “Léon Paul Fargue prize” in 2022 in Paris . In 2023 she published Les Yeux de la Mouche (Le Castor Astral) and was also finalist for several prizes. She is a member of the Compagnia delle Poete (Mia Lecomte) and is a contributor to the journal Apulée.

As a pianist, she has released a CD of romantic music, with oboe (Laurent Hacquard, Hybridmusic); and another, L’Invitation au voyage, ou Le Tour du Monde en 88 notes, is in preparation. She regularly performs chamber music, with lyric artists and writers.