Born in 1950, writer, poet, artist, between archaeology and ethnology, Serge Pey remains one of the most singular creators of international poetry-action. Experience of the limits of language, political and philosophical commitment to poetry, critical examination of performance, questioning the contradictions of a modernity reflecting an hallucinated society of the war of egos, status of the role of the avant-garde, are the central themes evoked in his theoretical research.
His creative texts illuminate in a relevant and polemical way the role that the poet can play in the urban spaces of a society that propels poetry out of the book. Serge Pey recently published Ahuc, poèmes stratégiques (Flammarion), Le trésor de la guerre d’Espagneet la Boîte aux lettres du cimetière (Zulma), Le manifeste magdalénien (Dernier Télégramme), Dialectique de la Tour de Pise (Dernier Télégramme), Jérôme Bosch, avertissement d’incendie (Voixéditions), Histoires sardes d’espérance, d’assassinat et d’animaux particuliers (Castor Astral), Occupation des cimetières (Jacques Brémond), Poésie-action, manifeste pour un temps intranquille (Castor Astral), Mathématique générale de l’infini (NRFGallimard), Le carnaval des poètes (Flammarion), and Victor Hugo, Notre Âme des Paris (La rumeur libre), among others.