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"Timeful Motif" by Carmine Denis

Pierre Turcotte Editor is proud to announce the publication poetry collection Timeful Motif by the French poet Carmine Denis.

Timeful Motif is a haunting and luminous collection that explores the fragile intersections of time, memory, desire, and perception. Through a wide range of forms—lyrical fragments, narrative reveries, and meditative sequences—Carmine Denis invites the reader into landscapes where inner and outer worlds blur, and where meaning is constantly assembled and undone. These poems move through cities and small towns, houses and thresholds, winter mornings and summer interiors, tracing moments of stillness charged with unease or wonder. Familiar scenes—a window, a bell, a road, a body at rest—become sites of transformation, where language probes the limits of vision, faith, and intimacy. Throughout the collection, time is not linear but folded, recurring in motifs of return, loss, and suspended expectancy. Drawing on myth, ritual, and everyday experience alike, Denis’s voice is both precise and elusive, attentive to texture, light, and silence. The poems resist easy resolution, offering instead a sustained meditation on how we inhabit the present while haunted by what has passed and what remains out of reach. Timeful Motif is a work of quiet intensity, inviting readers to linger, to look again, and to listen closely to what unfolds between words.

Carmine Denis was born in 1998 in Clichy, France. He obtained degrees in philosophy and French language and literature at the Sorbonne University before graduating with a master’s degree in comparative literature in 2021. He lives in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, where he works as a freelance transcriber and translator. His inspirations include medieval literature and modernist poetry as well as jazz and baroque religious music, and architecture both ancient and contemporary: he is particularly interested in paradoxes, imitations, and intersections as a whole. Poetry has been a steady presence in his life since adolescence. He first started writing in French, but quickly began experimenting with English as well as mixing the two languages. His work seeks to explore the frontiers between (and within) language(s), where memory and imagination blur, and mystery grows.

You can buy the digital book in EPUB format in our store for €9,99. The paperback format is on sale on Amazon sites.



DENIS, Carmine. Timeful Motif. Montreal: Pierre Turcotte Editor, 2026, 163 p.




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