CONSOLAS POEMS
Simon Brown (1979) is a poet,
translator and artist from the traditional territory of the Peskotomuhkati
Nation (southwestern New Brunswick) currently based in Québec’s Montérégie-Est
region (Ndakinna). His French and English texts have been presented in books,
interdisciplinary artworks, collaborative performances, and via platforms such
as Lemon Hound, Estuaire, Le Sabord, Vallum, Poetry Is Dead, Watts,
and the Blasted Tree. As a translator, he has adapted texts by Erin Robinsong,
Maude Pilon, Angela Carr, Danielle LaFrance and Jacob Wren, among others. His
collections and artist’s books have been published in Québec, Canada and France
by Vanloo, Moult, Le laps, squint press, and Paper Pusher. He is currently
translating a series of above/ground press chapbooks (Ottawa) to be published
by Éditions Vanloo (Marseille) in 2019, beginning with Alice Burdick and Gary
Barwin’s Pleasure Bristles.