188 - [Magazine] Le Journal des Poètes. A monthly magazine of poetry and literary news. Edited by Pierre-Louis FLOUQUET. Brussels.

[Magazine] Le Journal des Poètes. A monthly magazine of poetry and literary news. Edited by Pierre-Louis FLOUQUET. Brussels. 50 by 32 cm. 4 or 6 pages per issue. Paperback. Fair condition for this magazine with fragile paper (creases on each issue, slightly yellowed paper, occasional tears along the folds with no missing pages). Year 1947: complete (issues 1 through 10). Year 1948: issues 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9–10. 1949: issues 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10. 1950: issues 2 and 4. Included are about thirty duplicate issues from 1947. Pierre-Louis FLOUQUET (1900–1967) was a Belgian painter and poet. A friend of René Magritte, with whom he shared a studio, he met writers such as Marcel Arland and Henri Barbusse. In 1919, he settled in Paris, where he met René Crevel, Marcel Arland, and Blaise Cendrars, with whom he founded the periodicals *Aventure* and *Dédé*. He also contributed to Henri Barbusse’s weekly *Monde*. *Le Journal des Poètes*, founded in 1930, featured unpublished works, critical essays, and tributes; it explored new directions in poetry and was illustrated. It featured works by Joë BOUSQUET, AUDIBERTI, SAINT-POL ROUX, Hubert JUIN’s essay on ARTAUD, poems by Mao Tse Tung, CENDRARS, as well as numerous works by lesser-known—and sometimes highly innovative—poets, of whom few traces remain… In particular, foreign poets, whom FLOUQUET’s insatiable curiosity brought to light…