We are delighted to announce that Alba Cid, our last Lector in Galician, has won the 2020 Spanish National Poetry Prize for young poets. Alba, who is back in Galicia, says:
"Receiving 'Miguel Hernández' National Young Poetry Prize 2020 was a real honour, not only at a personal level, but also for shedding light on a poetry book originally written in Galician. Atlas, first published in 2019 (Editorial Galaxia), was my first poetry book. I began writing these natural history poems captivated by plants, etymologies, near and distant cultural practices and languages, and I agree with the jury, that highlighted the logic of wonder and stated that 'It is poetry of both knowledge and emotion, and presents a new cartography in which the map of the body merges with that of the planet, memory and the enigma'. Atlas is now in its third printing, and Galician poetry, with a rich historical tradition, seems to be quite visible again."
Here are a few translations into English, from the Kenyon Review online, from the Academy of American Poets and from Asymptote.
Please see here for more information about the National Poetry Prize.