To celebrate World Poetry Day, Santa Mònica proposes a recital with three singular voices of current Catalan poetry. Their work has been recognised with long-standing and prestigious awards (among others: Calafell, Carles Riba Prize 2023; Plantada, Rosa Leveroni Prize 2021; Fiol, Rosselló-Pòrcel Prize 2019) and the three voices offer a highly committed proposal that challenges and shakes through the power of the word and images that shake.

Mireia Calafell
https://poeteca.cat/ca/autor/155
https://www.catorze.cat/biblioteca/mireia-calafell-em-sorpren-que-la-gent-tingui-tantes-coses-a-dir-164141/

Clara Fiol
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0UfmVPKdl0aXxXKF9bvTZq?si=XsyJTr8YS46PmuV2SAVdFg
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Fiol_Dols
https://www.youtube.com/user/clarafioldols

Esteve Plantada
https://llegim.ara.cat/actualitat/esteve-plantada-catalans-hem-patit-fracassat-resistim_1_1122669.html
https://www.eltemps.cat/article/11033/entrevista-esteve-plantada https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteve_Plantada_i_Hermoso
www.esteveplantada.cat

Thursdays of voice and word is a meeting place to enjoy a small-format artistic programme that explores the symbiosis between the human voice and language as a primordial vector of articulation of the spoken word, in the relaxed and close environment of the Bar Lounge.

By Teresa Pascual, Mireia Calafell, Clara Fiol Dols and Esteve Plantada

Mireia Calafell. Barcelona, 1980. Poet and cultural producer. She has just been awarded the Carles Riba Poetry Prize for "I si una emergència", the latest title by one of today's most outstanding voices. Her work, multi-awarded and with a large legion of readers, includes: "Poètiques del cos" (Amadeu Oller Prize 2006 and Anna Dodas Prize 2007 for the best book published by an unpublished author), "Costures" (Josep Maria López Picó Prize 2009) and "Tantes mudes" (Benvingut Oliver Prize 2013 and Lletra d'Or for being considered the best book published in Catalan in 2014), "Nosaltres, qui" (LaBreu Edicions, 2020), winner of the Mallorca Poetry Prize (2019) and recognised by the AELC with the Josep Maria Llopart Prize for the best collection of poems published in 2020. She has taken her poetry to international festivals in Argentina, Egypt, Canada, Luxembourg and Italy, among many others. She has been co-director of the Festival Poesia i més (2015-2016), and of Barcelona Poesia (2018-2021).

Photo: David Ruano

Clara Fiol Dols. Palma, 1995. She is a Mallorcan singer-songwriter and poet. She forms part of the vocal trio Marala with Selma Bruna and Sandra Monfort, and with Joan Vallbona (guitar) she performs her own songs with music linked to traditional Mallorcan song and singer-songwriters' songs. As a poet, she approaches poetry "like someone who looks and goes away". She has won the II Ona Musicat Contest (2017), the Enderrock Balearic Music Prize for the best new artist 2018, the Bartomeu Rosselló Pòrcel Prize 2019 and the 31 de Desembre Awards of the Obra Cultural Balear.

Esteve Plantada (Granollers, 1979) is a poet, cultural journalist and teacher (Master's degree in Literary Journalism at the UAB and poetry at the Bloom School). At the age of seventeen he won the Amadeu Oller prize and published "A l'ombra dels violins" (1997). In recent years he has published: "Fosca Límit" (best poetry book of the year by Llegir.cat), "Big bang Llàtzer", "Troncal" and "Rastre quimera" (Rosa Leveroni Prize 2021). He has been translated into French, Basque, Italian and Serbian, and has recited in France, England and Quebec, among others.

Thursdays of voice and word 2024 builds on the proposals of regularly invited creators by: Blanca Llum Vidal, Eduard Olesti, Sònia Moya, Esteve Plantada, Grup Jordi Hurtado, Àrea de Lletres de la Bonne, PEN Català and Sodepau.