Festa de la poesia XXV Poetry Festival of the Mediterranean

This year, the Poetry Festival of the Mediterranean celebrates a quarter of a century, indicating that we already achieved a safe and trustworthy tradition, given the unstable scene of spoken poetry and its outreach throughout society. New poets take part this year: four in Catalan, one in Portuguese, one in Basque, one in Galician, one in Spanish and one in French, presenting a wide variety of singularities in five languages. Seven women and three men will delight us with their vocal music, which they will recite accompanied by a composer and musician on the accordion. We will dedicate the festival to the memory of two poets. First to the Vallfogona Chancellor, Francesc Vicent Garcia i Ferrandis, dead 400 years ago—a great classic of baroque poetry, who wrote a clear and uninhibited eroticism persecuted by the Inquisition. We will also recite Jaume Vidal Alcover, born a hundred years ago in Manacor, who has left us a valuable poetic, narrative and stage work that has already achieved the category of a contemporary classic.