Beverley Bie Brahic

Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry collection, White Sheets, was a finalist for the Forward Prize and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her translations include Guillaume Apollinaire:The Little Auto, winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize; Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud, a finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation; Yves Bonnefoy: The Present Hour; and books by Hélène Cixous, including Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Manhattan, and Hyperdream, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva.

Poetry

 * Catch and Release. (Wigtown, 2020). Winner of the Wigtown Book Festival Alastair Reid 2020 Pamphlet Prize.
 * Baudelaire: Invitation to the Voyage, Selected Poems, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic (Seagull Books, 2019)]
 * The Hotel Eden. (Carcanet, 2018).
 * Hunting the Boar. (CBeditions). Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 2016.
 * White Sheets. (CBeditions). 2012 Forward Prize Best Collection finalist; Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
 * White Sheets. (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012).
 * Against Gravity. (Worple Press, 2005)
 * Unfinished Ode to Mud by Francis Ponge. (CBeditions). 2009 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation finalist.
 * The Little Auto by Guillaume Apollinaire. (CBeditions, 2012). Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize. Northern California Book Awards finalist.
 * The Present Hour by Yves Bonnefoy (Seagull Books, 2013)
 * The Anchor's Long Chain by Yves Bonnefoy (Seagull Books)

Selected prose translations

 * Rue Traversière by Yves Bonnefoy.
 * Jacques Derrida. Geneses, Genealogies, Genre and Genius (Columbia and Edinburgh University Presses, 2006).
 * Julia Kristeva. This Incredible Need to Believe (Columbia University Press, 2009). 2010 French American Foundation Translation Award finalist.
 * Hélène Cixous. Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (Columbia University Press, 2004).
 * —. Reveries of the Wild Woman (Northwestern University Press, 2006).
 * —. The Day I Wasn't There (Northwestern University Press, 2006).
 * —. Dream I Tell You (Columbia and Edinburgh University Presses, 2006).
 * — and Roni Horn. Agua Viva (Rings of Lispector) (Steidl Verlag, 2006)
 * --. —. Manhattan  (Fordham University Press, 2007).
 * —. Hyperdream (Polity Press, 2009). Nominated for the Impac Dublin Prize 2011.
 * —. Hemlock (Polity Press, 2011).
 * — and Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. Conversations on Life and Writing'' (Polity Press, 2012).
 * —. Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic (Polity Press, 2014). 2014 PEN Translation Prize longlist.

Other

 * the eye goes after (limited edition artist's book of twenty digital images by Susan Cantrick accompanying twenty poems by Beverley Bie Brahic, Paris, 2007)
 * "Fractals" was set to music for violin and narration by Marcel Dortort, and inaugurated at The Rumanian Cultural Centre in Paris in 2008 as "If."