Pascale Gouverneur is also a judge on the erbacce-prize panel; her prime responsibility is for cover-designs and all our art-work. Pascale is a Brussels based lecturer, poet and artist who read English and Dutch literature and linguistics at the Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles and at the Université catholique de Louvain where she is now a full-time lecturer teaching English grammar and phonetics on the BA courses (USLB, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting) and literary translation on the MA courses (UCL).

Her linguistic experience spans three worlds: born in Geel, Flanders, she grew up speaking Dutch before moving to Wallonia learning French, then to Libya where she was exposed to English and Arabic from an early age. Multiculturalism expanded with family in Britain, Argentina, the Philippines, Russia, Poland, and Sicily. 

Her artwork, mainly pencil and oil, explores the portrait and the bestiary. Her pencil portraits of poets have been selected for the catalogue by the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London and she illustrated Our Beating Heart with some excellent cartoons.

Her poems have appeared in Magma#51, erbacce#30 (Editors’ Choice), erbacce#50, erbacce#44 and Hildegard, visions & inspiration (an anthology edited by Gabriel Griffin). Her first full, perfect-bound collection, What sort of scream?, was published by erbacce-press in 2014. She has been invited to do readings mainly at The Troubadour in London, at the Bristol Poetry Festival, and at the Poetry on the Lake Festival in Orta, Italy. More recently (2018) she published the brilliant and highly acclaimed Pièces de résistance which is an innovative play written in unstructured poetic form. (available in the erbacce 'shop') and she organised a superbly recieved poetry and art 'happening' at Librebook in Brussels.

Pascale will be our euro-representative and her exceptionally sharp eye for all things ‘new’ will make her an invaluable judge on the annual erbacce-prize. Her artistic talents will help our poets to create amazing covers for their books.