Two sides (extremes, perhaps?) of orality converge and act as counterpoint in this encounter between the Mallorcan poet and glossator Miquel Àngel Adrover and the Barcelona slammer Adriana Bertran. If she uses poetry to name what had not been given space, he describes the world without naming it, because there are things that don't even deserve to have their own name.

Links of interest: 

http://adrianabertran.com/
https://adrianabertran.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@socladriana
https://www.instagram.com/socladriana/
https://twitter.com/socladriana 
https://www.facebook.com/miquelangel.adroverperello/ 
https://www.instagram.com/locampaner/
https://x.com/locampaner

Image: ©Laura Moya / ©Miquel Àngel Cugulla

With the participation of Adriana Bertran and Miquel Àngel Adrover

Adriana Bertran Anía (Barcelona, 1985) is a performance poet and one of the leaders of the European Poetry Slam. Her poems politicise shared social unrest and investigate the role of emotions in historical processes of oppression. In 2018 she was Spanish Champion and European Sub-Champion of Poetry Slam, where she also won the Jury Prize. She has published the play Allà on s'estimen els peixos, co-written with Emiliano Pastor and winner of the Teatre Principal Award, and the poetry book Viaje de Vuelta, currently in its 2nd edition. He recites in Catalan, Spanish and English at cultural, academic and institutional events both locally and internationally.

Miquel Àngel Adrover Perelló (1994) was born in Campos, in the midday of Mallorca, just as he was born in the autumn of that year. From a very early age he developed a taste for the sonority of syllables, the musicality of words and for the impossible horizons that teach you to see. In 2012, when he was finishing high school at the IES Damià Huguet in his village, he discovered the improvised spoken word and that same year he joined the Glosadors de Mallorca Cultural Association and since then he has never stopped singing the world around him, both in Mallorca, Menorca and the Principality, for better or for worse. He graduated in Catalan language and literature from the UIB and is currently trying to teach what he is passionate about in public education. In 2019, with AdiA Edicions he published his opera prima Ara he vist passar una mèrlera, while at the same time he has been winning several awards for written glosses in Mallorca and Menorca. In the spring of 2023 he won the Miquel Bauçà de Felanitx prize with Les cares de la cugula, also published by AdiA Edicions. In 2024 he won the VI J.F. López Casesnoves prize for the best codolada.

Thursday of voice and word 2024 builds on the proposals of creators regularly invited by:
Blanca Llum Vidal
Eduard Olesti
Sònia Moya
Esteve Plantada
Grup Jordi Hurtado
Àrea de Lletres de la Bonne
PEN Català
Sodepau
Grup Obert d'Art Polític (GOAP)