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Dominique Hecq

Dominique Hecq

Poeta del Mundo
Nationality: Australia
Email: dmhecq@gmail.com

Biography
Dominique Hecq grew up in the French-speaking part of Belgium. She read Germanic Philology at the University of Liège and then flew over to Australia where she completed a PhD on exile in Australian Literature. She also holds an MA in Literary Translation. Dominique is the author of a novel, three collections of short fiction, five books of poetry and two plays. Over the years, her work has been awarded a variety of prizes, including The Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Outstanding Writing and Spoken Word Performance (1998), The New England Review Prize for Poetry (2005), The Martha Richardson Medal for Poetry (2006), and the inaugural AALITRA Prize for Literary Translation in poetry from Spanish into English (2014). Her poems have been published in anthologies, journals and on websites in Australia and overseas. Having recently reconnected with her mother-tongue, Dominique is currently negotiating the pleasures and perils of self-translation. Hush: a fugue (2017) i ...
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Paisaje interior con pájaros
Arrullada por el difuso aliento nocturno,
la ciudad hiberna. Aspirando el viento en la cara,
bordeas el arroyo. Sigue el reguero de magulladuras
que la luz deja a su paso. Tomas el camino que baja hacia 
el puente, el no-sol envuelto en la niebla.
 
Aquí, maleza enredadera, re ...
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Innerscape with birds
Lulled by the night’s lingering breath, the city
hibernates. Sucking wind at your face, you skirt
the creek. Follow the trickle of bruises the light leaves
in its wake. You take the path down to
the bridge, the no-sun enfolded in fog.
 
Here, creeping bent grass, English broom, pric ...
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Laberintos

pasos por nadala sensación de alerta en un sueño
en las cuevas de Lascaux del siglo pasadomilenarias huellas de niños fueron halladas intactas
bisontes, caballos y toros, ahora congeladosen los tortuosos pasadizos de este laberintomiran cómo tu paso gira hacia la cuev ...
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Poetry on the Move 2020 | Dominique Hecq
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