J.L. Baxat

 J.L. Baxat J.L. Baxat (1969–2017) moved through European literary and theatre life like a signal briefly caught and then lost again. From the mid-1990s onward he wrote across forms—poetry, performance, radio, prose—drawing loosely together what later came to be described as European prose collage: writing made from fragments, overheard detail, and the quiet pressure of place. Among the central works is The Hotel Letters , composed between 1998 and 2008 on whatever paper happened to be at hand—hotel stationery, headed notepaper, the ephemera of rooms already being vacated. Part poetry, part micro-fiction, the book circles ideas of movement, memory, and the strangeness of temporary lives. A new trade paperback edition appeared in August 2024. Another key work, The Knowledge: Fifteen Prose Collages , began life as a performance in Clermont-Ferrand in 1998, before being re-imagined for Radio France Culture in 2004. The original 2006 chapbook was reissued in late 2024. Baxat’s method ...