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22 Oct15
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Association Achille Laugé
Galerie la Forgerie
Association ‘A’
Russi Dordi
Poetry Magazines
Cinnamon Press
British Haiku Society
Burgundy Today
and in the shop…
collections –
“The Alfred Jewels”
Deco Partnership;
“Moving Still”
Cinnamon Press;
“Saxons in the Garden”
“Entre-Deux – Two Francophiles in Alaigne”
joint collection – “P r e s e n c e s”
pamphlet – “Airing Cupboard”
Pamphlet Poets
biography – “Achille Laugé”
Deco Partnership
In the Footsteps of Achille Laugé
Under a savage Midi sun,
in these winds: the Cers, the Autan,
and the dreaded Tramontane,
where honey-scented broom and pale-pink
almonds line the narrow roads of the Aude,
he made all this his own,
a legacy of the seasons.
Up with the lark and out of doors
to capture the sights of the south.
He knew the frisson of expectancy
of this special light that makes
everything glow, when all seems possible,
meadows glinting gold
under a cerulean sky.
Brushing borders of yellow broom
his roulotte atelier would rumble
by fields stacked high with hay
to-ing and fro-ing from l’Alouette
home of his family, his art.
The house stands here still, holding
its breath, awaiting his return.
Barbara Dordi
in biography Achille Laugé, Neo-Impressionist 1861-1944, A Brief History,
Foreword by Anny Laugé, the painter’s great-granddaughter, 2015, Deco Partnership,
ISBN 978-0-9536800-5-4
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