French Poet ‘Roselyne SIBILLE’ in Amoor Cottages.

French Poet ‘Roselyne SIBILLE’ in Amoor Cottages.

‘It was pleasant surprise to me to come to know during her recent visit to SEVAI during Pongal season, the noted French Roselyne SIBILLE is elder sister of late Anne Gavoty, a noted French architect and author of several books on cost effective technology, volunteered in SEVAI in mid eighties’ said K.Govindaraju Founder, SEVAI,Trichy.It is significant to note that ‘Anne Gavoty Award’ is named after late Anne Gavoty which has been conferred on personalities involved in outstanding services for poor and needy by OFI,France. Roselyne Sibille is a French poet who was born in 1953 in France. "Roselyne Sibille, a graduated geographer and librarian, lives in the beautiful region of Provence (France). Her passion for words led her to write delicate poems and refined poetical prose. Nature is her favorite inspirer. Roselyne describes it as vibrating, fragrant, benevolent or disturbing, terrifying and domineering. Her verses have the musical quality of a score. Language serves as a substitute for notes and forms a libretto.

The flow of words gives a meaning to the emotions. Each one of us can hear an echo full of joy, anyone can perceive the light, but the existential anxiety of Mankind is constantly subjacent. Her travel accounts are constructed as Odysseys: the enthralled reader follows each step of the course of the narration; the reader is in communion through this unexpected strangeness: no more distance between verb and feeling. In her compilations, Roselyne Sibille weaves tight bonds with images. She gives writing and listening lessons and created poetry workshops at the University of Avignon. She leads writing workgroups for the association "Share horizons. She has been organizing writing workshops in the desert of Sahara for the association "Wind's friend”. Her French poems have been translated by a couple of people in Chennai and Pondicherry, well chosen poetic words.
‘I live in the countryside and go for walks with a notebook. I walk in silence. I observe things. I open myself to the world… I smell things. I sense them. I feel a sense of gratitude for things that are living, for the fact that I am alive. I don't try to write. I stay calm. The words come and nest inside me. It is like an unformed stone and I turn it like a pebble in a river till I feel it is ready, finished. Sometimes there is a gift of a poem that arrives already shaped. I am not an intellectual poet. I write about nature as a metaphor for human nature. It is not just nature poetry. So there is a philosophical dimension to it’ Roselyne SIBILLE said. ‘The use of multimedia in poetry festivals attracts more people to poetry. As for people who already like poetry, it unfolds the form for them – like a fan. Certain ways of using sound can put poetry in 3 D. In my own work, the connection of poetry with other art forms like painting, music, dance and video takes it to another zone altogether’ Poet Roseline added to K.Govindaraju during chat with SEVAI team in Amoor.
During her visit to Amoor, Poet Roselyne SIBILLE said that she was moved to visit the villages where her sister worked 25 years back with SEVAI; she also mentioned that the Tamil population is kind, welcoming and friendly. She stayed in one of the cottages in Amoor and said that it is a beautiful morning with lush green paddy fields and very quiet and she could listen the birds and creatures. Etram News service