Thursday, May 5, 2011

Iberoam .- Antunes, Rothenberg, Ranaldo and Margarit Barcelona explore the links between music and poetry

BARCELONA, 5 May. Brazilian musician and poet Arnaldo Antunes, American Jerome Rothenberg, Catalan Joan Margarit, and guitarist of the New York group Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo, will be among the more than 100 authors participating in the festival Barcelona Poesia 2011, to be held between Wednesday and May 17 this year will explore the links between music and poetry.

The first meeting will be the 'Nit Poetry to Palau' to be held in the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona and will open the XXVII edition of the event with some poets who "are so different that apart from representing a range of contemporary poetic production, represent a circle in which all points are as far away as possible from each other, "said the organization has said in a statement.

Participate in this first meeting the South African poetic Kgafaela or Magogodi, the Catalan Valenti Puig, the driver of the new Basque poetry Kirmen Uribe, and Rothenberg, which reconstructs poetry, ritual, art, nature, mysticism and revolution. Also be on the poet and philologist PalauThe heterodox, Luis Alberto Account, the urban poet Vernis Núria Martínez, a member of the group 'Tribalistas' and creator of concrete poetry, Antunes, the 'performer' U.S.

Pamela Z, and the poet and director the Arts in Santa Monica, Vicenç Altaió. Another major attraction of the festival is 'Noise Recitation: Against Refusing', a show of Ranaldo - based on his book of poems about spam on the Internet, 'Against Refusing' (WaterRower Press) - in which the musician recite poetry and play guitar together with projections.

The relationship between music and poetry will also be made clear in the closing day of the Barcelona Poetry, to be held in the Plaza del Rei on 17 and meet the poet Enric Casasses, the Bel Canto Orchestra, the composer Pascal Comelade and the group Barcelona Za!. Also participating artists the likes of Juan Gelman, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Cabo San Roque group, the group Accidents Polipoètics, Pessarrodona Marta, the young poet Miguel Luna, Antoni Clapp, Agustí Pons, Eugeni Bonet, Pere Rovira, Josep Lluís Aguiló.

This year, joining the competition seven libraries of the city - Central, Documentary, Espai Mallorca, Catalonia, Laie, Bertrand and Taifa - where they organize events and concerts, and where they give away copies of 'Yearbook poetic' created a source the festival. ALBERT ROIG, WINNER dels Jocs Florals The poems 'The Tempest' by Albert Roig, has been the award-winning poetry Floral Games of Barcelona 2011, an award almost 700 years of history and is considered the oldest poetic celebration West.

This year's jury was made up Vinyet Panyella writer, poet Altaió, poet and editor John Cornudella, journalist Pere Antoni Pons and Manel vocalist, Guillem Gisbert. The award ceremony will take place on 16 in the Salo de Cent of Barcelona City Council, in a ceremony that will be presented by Angels Bassas.

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