Les Grottes – Excavating Insanity

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Les Mystères du Château de DĂ© – May Ray (1929)

Excavating Insanity

It could be the fury of our times
the absurd
— or the tilting folly

Standing firm from within
— scream muted and soundless —
with images for buoys

Les Grottes – Excavating Insanity was published on 16 October 2025 by French publisher Le Castor Astral, in their main Poetry collection.
Written in both French and English, this collection in five acts explores madness and its thresholds in the contemporary world—a dive overflowing with images that questions our capacity to stand firm in the face of our shared violence and insanity.

The book was awarded the Discovery Poetry Grant by France’s Centre National du Livre.

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