Flags in the Sea

Josep Lluis Aguilo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2025
Arc Publications (Verlag)
978-1-910345-94-8 (ISBN)

Autor

Josep Lluis Aguilo (born Island of Mallorca, 1967) is a poet writing in the Catalan language. In 1986 he published his first collection of poems, Cants d'arjau (Songs from the Helm). After an interval of eighteen years, he published two further collections, La biblioteca secreta (The Secret Library) and L'estacio de les Ombres (Season of Shadows), both in 2004. His collection Monstres (Monsters, 2005) was awarded the Ciutat de Palma Joan Alcocer Poetry Prize in 2004 and, in 2006, the National Critics' Prize for the best book of poems written in Catalan - the Spanish Pulitzer - while it also received a Special Mention from the jury of the 2006 Poetry Prize of the Association of Catalan Writers. In 2008, the present book, Llunari (Lunarium) was winner of the Jocs Florals de Barcelona Prize and Josep Lluis Aguilo was appointed Poet Laureate of the City of Barcelona during the period 2008-2009. According to Pere Ballart in the preface of Six Catalan Poets (Arc Publications, 2013), the sequence formed by his four most recent books "embraces a kaleidoscopic poetic adventure, that is culturalist in its symbols and in complete harmony with the eclecticism with which postmodernism juxtaposes the most learned and the most popular icons. In Aguilo's poetry, therefore, we find coexisting happily traditional rondeaux and the most bookish myths [...]" His poetry has appeared in several anthologies and has been translated into a number of languages. Anna Crowe, born in Plymouth in 1945, is a poet and translator and the author of four poetry collections in English: Figure in a Landscape (2010), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was translated into Catalan and published in a bilingual edition as Paisatge amb figura (Ensiola, 2011) and which also received the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award in 2011; Skating Out of the House (1997), A Secret History of Rhubarb (2006), Punk with Dulcimer (2006); one in Spanish / English bilingual edition: L'anima del teixidor (2000); and one in Catalan: Punk con salterio, translated by Joan Margarit (2008). She has translated three of Joan Margarit's collections: Tugs in the Fog (Bloodaxe, 2006, a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation); Barcelona, amor final (2007, Catalan / Castilian / English trilingual edition); Strangely Happy (Bloodaxe, 2011). She has also translated Anna Aguilar-Amat's Musica i escorbut (Blesok, 2006); with Iolanda Pelegri, an anthology of Catalan poetry, Miralls d'aigua (Light Off Water, Scottish Poetry Library / Carcanet Press, 2006); and, for Arc Publications Six Catalan Poets edited by Pere Ballart (2013), and Peatlands by the Mexican poet Pedro Serrano (2014). Along with several other writers, she was a founder member of StAnza, the Scottish international poetry festival, and was artistic director during its first seven years. She has twice won the Peterloo Open Poetry competition, and in 2005 won a travelling scholarship from the Society of Authors.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2025
• Verlagsort: Todmorden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-910345-94-6 / 1910345946
• ISBN-13: 978-1-910345-94-8 / 9781910345948
• Zustand: Neuware