In 2020, when fourteen reel-to-reel tapes of Broodthaers reading some of his poetry were unearthed, Raf Wollaert availed himself with the goal of giving the material the treatment it deserved. Wollaert worked with Lotte Beckwé, Saskia Gevaert, Maria Gilissen, the MuKHA Antwerp, and Ivo Van Vaerenbergh (the tapes' private collector) to remaster them into a vinyl record titled La Lumière Manifeste. The album is replete with scholarly liner notes by Beckwé, Gilissen, and Wollaert as well as a complete booklet, in French, of the poems. We append here English versions of the poems worked out by Wollaert with input from French curator and critic François Piron and Broodthaers Society director Joe Scanlan.

Marcel Broodthaers: La Lumière Manifeste, 1962/2022 Offset ink on board, offset ink on paper, pressed vinyl 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 5/16 inch gatefold 31.4 x 31.4 x 0.8 cm 33 1/3 rpm, 17:28 minutes French language and French text with English text interleaved Produced by the M KHA and Ivo Van Vaerenbergh