Starting November 9, it is possible to visit this semi-permanent exhibition at the Centre d’Arts Lliures de la Fundació Brossa. Curated by Anna Llopis, it is organized into twelve areas and features visual poems, scenic or paratheatrical objects.
Among these objects there is a Poema de pedra (Stone Poem) by J. V. Foix, who was a friend of Brossa and who influenced his development as a poet.

Place: Fundació Brossa, Flassaders, 40, Barcelone
Visiting hours: Tuesdays, from de 3.30 to 20h, from Wednesday to Satrudays, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This is the title of the new poetry course that proposes a re-reading of the literary and intellectual thought of J. V. Foix, classic author of Catalan literature and one of the main poets of the European avant-garde of the 20th century. The course will be taught by the professor of Comparative Literature of the UB Antoni Martí Monterde.

Place: MUHBA Vil·la Joana
Days and times: Wednesday 8, 15, 22, 29 November and 13 and 20 December from 5 to 6.30 pm

The name of Gertrudis is present in the prose poems of J. V. Foix. It already appears in the “Poema de Sitges”, published in the magazine Terramar (1919-1920) and is the title of his first book, published in 1927. In the books that make up the Diari 1918 Gertrudis disappears and reappears in the last one, Cròniques de l’ultrason(1985).

In one of the journeys in Mercè Rodoreda’s Viatges i flors, a little girl explains to the narrator that when one girl gets lost, in the village they give a doll the lost girl’s name and they make it into the patron saint of the village. The girl in question ends up saying: “My name is Gertrudis”. More than a wink from Rodoreda to Foix, it’s a nudge, says Enric Casasses in the Quadern on El País of October 7.

Here you can read the article.

The book, which came out in 2022 at the initiative of Biblioteques de Barcelona, ​​commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Toy Museum of Catalonia. Julià Guillamon brings us closer to the classics of literature from surprising points of view. In the case of J. V. Foix, we find the Numancia plane, from Casa Rico, a photograph in which he appears with a group of people in front of the Aeroclub de Barcelona plane and, all this, accompanied by one sonnet “Pistes desertes, avingudes mortes” (“Desert tracks, dead avenues”), which he published in the book KRTU in 1932.

On Sunday 17 September, in front of the current Hotel Porto Cristo, former Vergés house, in Port de la Selva, the Association la Pedra d’Amarra, dedicated to the preservation of heritage, paid tribute to the journalist, politician, writer and translator Joaquim Ventalló Vergés (Terrassa, 1899 – Barcelona, ​​1996).
His children Eulàlia and Joan and representatives of the Port Council, the Josep Irla Foundation and the Catalan Association of Tintinarires 1001 took part in it.

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On the blog Lletres Bàrbares you will find reproduced a few paragraphs of a conference by Josep Carner, on June 2, 1913, on poetry and literary dignity, which J. V. Foix compiled for number 11 of the magazine Serra d’Or in 1960 and which also appear in the book documents propis i texts d’altri, published by the Fundació J V. Foix and Edicions 62.

Here you can read them.

The professor of Catalan Literature Andreu Pérez-Mignorance writes, on his blog Lletres Bàrbares, an article in which he compares the poetic proses of J. V. Foix and those of García Lorca, specifically Gertrudis and KRTU, in the first case, and Poeta en Nueva York, in the second. Both have a great command of words and experiment with surrealism.

Here you can read the text.

The Fundació commissioned professor Òscar Rocabert to create a dossier for high school language and literature teachers, which is included in the dissemination of training news and was sent to secondary school teachers who participated in the training courses of Department of Education.

The material can be found in the “Resources” section of Catalan literature on the xtec website, and can be consulted at Linguistic Support and Resources Service, of the General Sub-Directorate of Languages of the Department of Education. You can also consult the news at the Language and Literature Project.

For the second consecutive year, the FNEC has held the J. V. Foix Literary Competition at the Foundation headquarters. On Wednesday, July 12, the award ceremony of this 4th competition took place. The winners in the three categories were Clara Mas Martí (narrative), Jan Miramanda (essay) and Clara Alcover (poetry).
The Foundation received the FNEC award for militancy for Catalonia for the work of disseminating and preserving the work of J. V. Foix from the hands of president Eduard Pla. .

On TV3’s noon news, Pere Gaviria talked about L’estiu passat by Joan Safont, a book edited by Comanegra which collects, expanded, the articles about the summer vacation places of writers and artists published last summer at El Nacional.
J. V. Foix al Port de la Selva or the importance of wearing suitable trousers was the title of the first article, dedicated to J. V. Foix.

Here you can see the video of the piece of news.