Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection La Société des cendres.
She was previously a nominee at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for Orbites, at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for Les manivelles, at the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Je demande pardon àl'espèce qui brille and at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Tête première / Dos / Contre dos, and won the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2001 for Les tables.
Selected works
- Poèmes du lendemain ("Poems from the following day") (1993)
- Les murs clairs ("The clear walls") (1996)
- Doublures ("Stuffings") (1998)
- Orbites ("Eye-sockets") (2000)
- Les tables ("The Tables") (2001)
- Les mélancolies ("The Wistful Sadnesses") (2003)
- Que ferais-je du jour ("What Would I Make of the Day") (2005)
- Les manivelles ("Cranks") (2006)
- L'amour des objets ("The Love of the Objects") (2009)
- Je demande pardon àl'espèce qui brille ("I Beg Forgiveness of the Shining Species") (2010)
- Le ciel n'est qu'un détour àbrûler ("The Sky is Just a Bend to Burn") (2010)
- Des lames entières ("Some Whole Blades") (2011)
- Des voix stridentes ou rompues (Some Voices either Shrill or Broken") (2013)
- Tête première / Dos / Contre dos ("First Head / Back / Against Back") (2015)
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