“The Horiginal Poetry, evicted”. Finally, the new ownership of the premises has dismissed the continuity of the poetry cycle that had been going on since 2001 and which had turned it into a meeting point and place of worship for those interested in poetry.
This was announced this Monday by the coordinators of the cycle, Laia Carbonell, Maria Sevilla and Raquel Santanera, who denounced “the late night, contempt and lack of communication with which the transfer has been carried out”, in addition to “the destruction of a space of reference that has long been part of the cultural, literary and poetic history of the 21st century in Barcelona, ??with the set of sculptural works and visual poetry that made it up”.
Ferran Garcia, who coordinated the cycle between the end of 2001 and 2019, and who had numerous sculptural pieces on display, remembers that he spoke with the new owners at the end of June and it seemed that there was some hope, but that ultimately has not been the case. “Now we have to think about a new stage of re-founding, because the work that was done here must continue,” concludes Garcia. He has been in contact with the property and has been able to keep a good part of the pieces that were there, although he regrets that some that must have gone to the garbage, like a huge metal fish that he hung on a wall. Garcia understands that it is the law of the market, but he also thinks that there could have been better communication, given the long poetic history of the place.
And it is that since its inception, under the programming and guidance of Meritxell Cucurella-Jorba, it had been a bar where poetic performances of all kinds were held, a fact that brought together weekly many of those interested in the most restless poetry, which grew with time and coordination after Garcia himself and the poet Josep Pedrals.
In the networks there have been numerous those who have raised their voices in the last hours to regret it, such as Dolors Miquel (the last recital, in June, was to present one of his books), Joan Todó (he gave the first recitals here), Míriam Cano (remembering having met his best friends), Miquel Adam, Laia MaLo or Marçal Font.
The coordinators have announced, however, that the recitals will not end, that for now they will resume at the Llibreria Calders on September 13.
Catalan version, here
