The literary resumption (the rentrée(if you prefer the Gallicism) has brought new books by Gabriel Janer Manila, Antonia Vicens, and Antoni Vidal Ferrando to the bookstores. The three have in common that they are members of the same generation and that they are from Mallorca, but above all, they are three great authors of contemporary Catalan literature.

In Take up your cross, new collection of poems byAntonia Vicens (Santanyí, 1941), "echoes of a bloody battle are felt everywhere," tanks advance with solitary executioners inside, and birds of prey "tear out the eyes of combatants" to make their nests. The omnipresence of struggle, blood, and war coexists with the human spirit of survival and the vindication of words like "redemption" and "memory." Once again, the Mallorcan author manages to move the reader with a compact and dense collection of verses published by LaBreu, as well as All the horses (2017) and Father, what do we do with the dead mother? (2020).