This is How Joan Petit Dances
by Julie Irigaray
Julie Irigaray is a French Basque poet who divides her time between the UK and the Basque Country. Her debut pamphlet Whalers, Witches and Gauchos will be published by Nine Pens in 2021. Born and raised in the south-west of France, she writes about her native region as well as Paris, Dublin, Bologna and London, where she has lived. Her poems appeared internationally (UK, USA, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Singapore) in Ambit, Magma, Stand, The White Review, Mslexia, among others. She is the winner and finalist of various prizes, including The 2020 Ambit Magazine Poetry Prize and The White Review Poet’s Prize 2019. Julie teaches creative writing and is currently doing a PhD in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield.