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.

The IEI hosts the exhibition Art i paraula, a traveling exhibition in which twelve artists and twelve poets become a unit as they cross the paths of image and word.
Jordi Tolosa works with the alchemical material of iron to transform the words of J. V. Foix and contrast the parameters of measuring the depths with the impossible measurements of the poetic/artistic message.

Place: Zona Zero IEI de Lleida, Plaça de la Catedral, s/n Lleida
Days: from June 20 to September 3

On May 27, in the program L’irradiador of Catalunya Ràdio, directed by David Guzmán, Adolf Beltran commented on the book by J. V. Foix Entre llibres i llibres published by the Fundació i Edicions 62. This volume includes the correspondence between the poet and the publisher Joan Gili, his friend and brother-in-law, who in 1934 settled in England.

Here you can listen to the fragment of the program where the book is discussed.

Yesterday, May 16, ended the poetry course “Read, read…” on poems by J. V. Foix, taught by Literature teacher Òscar Rocabert. Organized in collaboration with the MUHBA, the course took place at Vil·la Joana.
The poems commented have been from four books by Foix: Gertrudis, Sol, i de dol, Les irreals omegues and Onze Nadals i un Cap d’Any.
Another course will be offered soon.