Under the pseudonym Jacques Izoard, (from the mountain pass), he began writing poetry in 1962 with the release of a first opus: Ce manteau de pauvreté (This cloak of poverty).
Summarizing his poetic system, Lionel Ray speaks of it as a secret and tender attachment to what is the limit of perceptible, but which may have the body [3] The two volumes of his complete works were published in editions by la Difference in 2006 and that same year, the University of Liège devoted a symposium.
[4] The day after the funeral of his friend Gaston Compere, he died aged 72, suffered a heart attack at his home in the Liege neighborhood of Sainte-Marguerite.
He inspired the "school of Liège" with the challenge was to publish contemporary poetry in the spirit of the magazine Odradek (30 numbers from 1972 to 1980).
Attentive to the poetry of others, he discovered among other Savitzkaya Eugene, with whom he shared his house, street Chevaufosse, and has encouraged many poets, writers and artists such as Nicolas Ancion, Karel Logist, Serge Delaive, William Cliff, Robert Varlez, Jean Marie Mathoul, Selçuk Mutlu or Ben Ares.