Jean Désy

Jean Désy is a poet. He teaches at the University of Laval in literature and medicine. His passions were Nordic for much of his life. He still practices medicine as a convenience store on the North Shore and in Nunavik. His latest publications include an essay entitled “Being and not being,” about contemporary Inuit life, published by XYZ in March 2019; an essay entitled “Necessary irrationality,” published by XYZ in September 2020; a prose-poem entitled “Non je ne mourrai pas,” published by Mémoire d’encrier in January 2021; and finally an essay entitled “We are poetry,” published in January 2022 by XYZ and made from interviews with 31 poets and artists.