Antoni Clapés

Invitado de Honor

Antoni Clapés is a poet, translator and poetry publisher.
To date, he has published some 30 poetry books and countless texts in art publications, forewords to books, opuscules (plaquettes) and anthologies. His poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, German, Polish, Romanian, Romansh and English. He has also translated poetry himself, mainly from French (Philippe Jaccottet especially) and Italian. He has translated the Québécois poets Denise Desautels, Nicole Brossard, Louise Dupré and Diane Régimbald, along with the Italian-language poets Pietro Civitareale and Remo Fasani.
On top of this, he is a poetry publisher and a cultural activist. Between 1970 and 1974 he helped to create and run Sala Tres, a space devoted to contemporary art. In 1976, he opened the book shop Els Dies in Sabadell, later creating the publishing house Les Edicions dels Dies (1981–1986).

Other activities involving the participant:

The Poetry Room
Talk. Translating diverse genres: a look at poetry and the poetic in literary translation [part I] and [part II]
Same flowers, different fields: dialogue between translators from Catalonia and Mexico

Josep Pedrals

Invitado de Honor

Josep Pedrals has devoted himself to poetry from multiple fronts: he writes works that explore the genre (novelised essays on poetics and life), recites poetry professionally (with appearances across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa), teaches poetry through courses and lectures (at universities, secondary schools and primary schools) and promotes it across various media (currently in El País, on Cadena SER, the podcast Tenim paraula by 3Cat and the magazines Esguard and Cavall Fort). He has organised a wide range of poetic events, including regular series (he hosted the legendary poetry nights at the Horiginal bar for thirteen years) and festivals (he co-directed the Barcelona Poesia festival from 2020 to 2023). He also writes lyrics for various composers, brings theatricality to verse and concerns himself with many other forms of poetic expression.

Other activities involving the participant:

Poetry recital