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Benoît Gréan is a French poet currently living in Rome.[1] He has published a number of volumes of poetry in French with French, German and Italian publishers. He is collaborating with Hochroth, where his poems appear in French and German. Earlier, he was a regular contributor to Frau und Hund, a now defunct journal published by the German painter Markus Lüpertz. Apart from these German translations, his work has been translated into Italian, Greek and English. He is deeply interested in ancient Greek verse and its fragmentary character. Mai and Monstres tièdes are more linked to Mediterranean life, whereas PSB 24 and PSA 14 are anchored to some specific sites. corps et riens, Extinctions and Successions should be read as a trilogy (the second title refers to Thomas Bernhard), whereas 80 is an artist's book with a lithograph by Luisa Gardini, an Italian artist who also contributed to Mai, Monstres tièdes (making her own book out of it, WPMT15 published by cythère critique in 2005, ISBN 978-8-890169-62-1), corps et riens and Successions