In March the magazine Frontissa, a digital publication of the Coordinadora del Centre d’Estudis de Parla Catalana, founded in 1992 to coordinate and promote activities and interests of study centers and institutes that aim to study, disseminate and defend the cultural and natural heritage in the area of ​​Catalan-speaking territories.

In this issue, it dedicates a space to the prose poem “Quan vaig saber que el meu oncle…” from From the «Diari 1918» (1956).

In 1999, the General Conference of UNESCO proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day (WPD). The Institució de les Lletres Catalanes and the Catalan Federation of Unesco Associations and Clubs are promoting this celebration with the choice of a poet and his poem for the occasion. In the seventeenth edition of the DMP, the ILC has chosen the poem “m’he estimat molt la vida” by Vicent Andrés Estellés, whose birth centenary we commemorate this year.

This year the Foundation has chosen a poetic prose by J. V. Foix of Gertrudis, his first book. Here you can read it.

Within the project «Today’s writers invite us to read yesterday’s writers» started in 2021 by Espais Escrits, now we have the opportunity to know what the artist and writer Perejaume says about the poetJ. V. Foix: when he met him, what he admires most about him and what are the most important place names in his work. Likewise, we will hear him read the poem “L’espiamonges.” The video can be seen here.

Here you can see the video.

The Olot artist Quim Domene presents the exhibition Narratives del desconcert at the Museu d’Art de la Pell of Vic. J. V. Foix is ​​represented there with the work Dibuixàvem rellotges de sol…, from the book Desa aquests llibres al calaix de baix.

Days: from February 17 to April 7, 2024
Place: Leather Art Museum. Arquebisbe Alemany, 5. Vic

Here you can read the Dibuixàvem rellotges de sol… poem.

The bilingual Catalan-Spanish edition of Gertrudis and KRTU, the first two books by J. V. Foix, with translation by Antonio Jiménez Millán and editing and presentation by Enric Bou has just been published.
These two books of poetic prose are fundamental to the Iberian and European avant-garde and illustrate an aspect of the author’s characteristic duplicity.

Jordi Marrugat proposes that Sol, i de dol is a process of knowledge of individual, historical and metaphysical reality and for this Foix carries out a review of modern Catalan culture and society between 1913 and 1923.
Likewise, it is an initiatory journey in which J. V. Foix constructs his own poetic position within post-symbolism. This structure is inextricably linked to the symbolic use of numbers and dates, as well as their main intertexts.

Edited by Jordi Cornudella, this volume collects, in the first part, all of Ferrater’s extant writings on Catalan literature: in addition to Ausiàs March, la Renaixença, Maragall and Carner, there are also Riba, Foix, Pla, Vinyoli and some young writers. The second part gathers reviews, articles and forewords on other literatures, many of them unknown until now.
Specifically, on J. V. Foix there is a letter from Ferrater to Foix, a dictionary article, materials for an annotated anthology and the foreword to Els loms transparents, which appeared in 1969.

From 1917 until the outbreak of war, J. V. Foix made available to readers many poems in verse and prose, some of which he recovered in the books Gertrudis and KRTU, from 1927 and 1932, and others in some later ones. There are, however, some poems that he never recovered. This book collects for the first time all these poems as they originally appeared and offers us a portrait of the first twenty years of Foix’s poetry, at the height of the avant-garde.
From January 10 you can find it in bookstores

… i tot en Vós. Tants de cors, i una Mare,
I Un sol Infant entre tots, i a l’estiba
De tants de reis, Una corona viva;
Un Arbre al cim, brogent, que res no assola,
I ombra la llar de tots quan l’Hora arriba,
I en astres, fars i esguards. Una llum sola.

«Tot és ací» (fragment), El Port de la Selva, 1949

This is the title of the thesis that Sergi Castellà-Martínez, PhD student at Pompeu Fabra University, presented in June of this year, which deals with Foix’s reception, interpretation and appropriation of Lullian material.
Some aspects of Ramon Llull’s Ars are indispensable elements in the Foixian configuration of poetic work, understood as “research in poetry.” The Lullian method of “finding truth” is discovered from the incursions of J. V. Foix as a paradigm and example of the realistic ideal towards which poetry must tend. The study deals with exposing the congruence of the overall purpose of the poet’s work in relation to the assimilation and variation of Lullian techniques and themes.

Here you can read the thesis.