"Clementina es deia, Clementina es diu"
20 November 2026
Biblioteca Clarà, les Tres Torres, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
"Clementina es deia, Clementina es diu" is a poetry performance for three voices built from the poems of Clementina Arderiu, woven together with fragments of texts about the poet left to us by experts on her work such as Maria Mercè Marçal and Cèlia Riba, and with other prose fragments that will put the poems in context. The "dolça fortuna", but also the "planys i les noses", follow one another to show the most tender and also the most committed sides of Clementina Arderiu's poetry. Combined with fragments of Clementina Arderiu's prose from reviews and anthologies, the performance brings the public closer to the poet's work as well as her personality and historical context. You will discover the formal delicacy and deep intelligence of a body of poetry that still deserves recognition, and also, revealed in the prose and glimpsed in the verses, the intimate confessions and passionate cries of Clementina in exile, returned, wife, mother, companion, enemy... and, crossing all these femininities and sublimating them, a great poet of Catalan letters. The poems by Arderiu and the accompanying prose will be brought to life by the poets and reciters Myriam Soteras, Eva Ortega and Carla…
Source: Generalitat de Catalunya · checked on 2 November 2026