Léon Pradeau

I work on postmodern and contemporary poetry and poetics in France and Québec. My dissertation explores metaphors of the body which have structured the recent history of Western poetry—from the idea of the text as body, to the fascination with assemblages and prosthetics. I explore various ways of constructing bodies through writing and reading.

I am the founding editor of Transat’, a journal of poetry and poetics in French and English; and co-editor of Sardines & Marmelade, a small press that publishes mixed-media chapbooks.

Poems, book reviews and translations have appeared in various journals (including, in the US: Chicago Review, FENCE, Sarka, The Atlantic, Denver Quarterly; in France, Doc(k)s, Mouche, Cockpit...).

Recent Publications

• Liliane Giraudon. Fragments polyphoniques, coedited by Léon Pradeau, Abigail Lang, and Jean-François Puff; les presses du réel (2025)
• This is it by Léon Pradeau; Antiphony (2025)
• vaisseau instantané/instant shipping by Léon Pradeau; Les murmurations (2024)
• "Cécile Mainardi’s Sorties. Poetry as Desire and Performance", Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 125, Winter 2024, 79–88.
• "Une époque invalidée? Corps et écriture chez Liliane Giraudon", Études francophones, vol. 37, no. 1, 2024, 101–116.
• "Le bas voltage: Dominique Fourcade, Stéphane Bouquet et l’électricité poétique", Revue Européenne de Recherches sur la Poésie, no. 8, 2023, p. 145–157.