Martine Audet

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 à l'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 à l'espèce qui brille ("I Beg Forgiveness of the Shining Species") (2010) Le ciel n'est qu'un détour à brûler ("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)