Short poems: Gillian Allnutt and Pierre Chappuis

Reading short poems in French and English

I’ve slowly been making my way through the stack of books I bought at the poetry fair I mentioned a few weeks ago. One of my favourites so far is a collection by the Swiss poet Pierre Chappuis, Comme un léger sommeil (Paris: José Corti, 2009). Chappuis’ poems are all very short — none run over a page — and they reminded me of one of my favourite living…