Ponç Pons Biography
Ponç Pons (born in 1956 in Alayor, Minorca) was a precocious reader from a very early age. At present, he teaches at a high school in Minorca.
With a great knowledge of French, Portuguese and Italian literature, and after writing articles and papers on literary criticism for a number of newspapers and reviews in the Balearic Islands, he started to publish works in prose – short stories, novels and children’s books – and poetry. In 1995, he has published among others the collections: Where the Track Ends, winner of the Joan Alcover City of Palma Prize, Stigma, which was awarded the Jocs Florals [literary competition] of Barcelona Prize and the Josep Maria Llompart Critics’ Prize, Brine for which he received the Carles Riba Prize, and Nura, for which he received the Viola d'Or Prize, Serra d'Or Critic's Prize and the National Critic's Prize.
Out of an island of words,
among wild olive trees and books,
while I feel, listening to
the beauty of the wind,
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In the final world of Tomis,
covered in foreign earth,
lying in an anonymous tomb
buffeted by the saline wind,
...
It rains on my childhood
Octavio Paz
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Standing by the wild north-coast sea I see the rain raining
Behind this lump in my throat is my childhood heaped
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Tutto che mi resta è già perduto
Quasimodo
Ronsard's roses are long faded now
and God is only one memory more
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