''Quaderns de poesia'' (in English ''Poetry Notebooks'') is a poetry Catalan magazine. Its publication started in June 1935 and continued until 1936 when it had to be interrupted due to the

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. In total 8 volumes were published monthly. It was directed by a staff including

Josep Vicenç Foix Josep Vicenç Foix i Mas (; 28 January 1893 in Barcelona – 29 January 1987) was a Catalan poet, writer, and essayist in Catalan. He usually signed his work by using the abbreviation J.V. Foix. Biography Born in Sarrià, Barcelona, Foix was th ...

Tomàs Garcés Tomàs Garcés i Miravet (; 9 October 1901 – 16 November 1993, Barcelona) was a Catalan poet and lawyer. Garcés was born in Barcelona. He studied law, philosophy, and literature at the University of Barcelona. At the time of the Spanish Civil ...

, Marià Manent, Carles Riba and Joan Teixidor. It was a high quality magazine regarding its presentation and its content. The magazine had 32 pages with 2 columns each and the dimensions were 240x185mm. The impression was done in Castells Bonet, S.A. and the editing office was in the Street Carrer de les Corts Catalanes 660 in

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. The price was one and a half peseta.

Theme and collaborators

The theme of the magazine was

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. They were published poetry texts from poets from that period. Almost all of them were written in Catalan, but there also were some in Spanish and

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. Furthermore, they published critical articles and essays about literature.TORRENT, Joan; TASIS, Rafael. Història de la premsa catalana. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1966.(volum I- pàg. 755) The collaborators of the magazine were Josep Carner, Carles Riba, García Lorca, Stephen Spender,

Jules Supervielle Jules Supervielle (16 January 1884 – 17 May 1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet and writer born in Montevideo. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. He opposed the surrealism movement in poetry and rejected automatic wri ...

, Riquer, Pedro Salinas, Josep Maria Capdevila, Marià Manent among others. Moreover, there were drawings by Francesc Domingo. The number 4 was dedicated to the poetry of

Ramon Llull Ramon Llull (; c. 1232 – c. 1315/16) was a philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, and Christian apologist from the Kingdom of Majorca. He invented a philosophical system known as the ''Art'', conceived as a type of universal logic to pro ...

. ''Quaderns de Poesia'' was one of the best recompilations of poetry from that period in

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. In addition, they were a clear exponent of

Noucentisme Noucentisme in Catalonia (, ''noucentista'' being its adjective) was a Catalan cultural movement of the early 20th century that originated largely as a reaction against Modernisme, both in art and ideology, and was, simultaneously, a perception o ...

and the beginnings of

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References

External links

Digitalization available in the ARCA Portal (archive of antique Catalan magazines)
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