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Writers inspired by Can Torras

The first is by published poet, Martyn Crucefix.

Written in 2008, he writes of the ride up the St Mateu de Montnegre road, past the stripped cork oaks that surround us. It now appears in his new collection of poems, Hurt, published in 2010 by Enitharmon Press.

You can hear him reading Can Torras on:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOdSyWaIQSM

 

Martyn  Crucefix Martyn Crucefix has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published five collections, most recently An English Nazareth (Enitharmon, 2004). His translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies was published by Enitharmon in 2006, shortlisted for the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and hailed as “unlikely to be bettered for very many years” (Magma). His new collection, Hurt, was published in 2010.  www.poetrypf.co.uk/martyncrucefixpage.html

Our second poem was written in 2010  by Clare Robson after her stay here, again inspired by the St Mateu road to Can Torras:

                                    We climbed the mountain

                                                     cheating, drove,

                                     on and on it seemed to go,

                                     first close,

                                                        then precipice

                                     as she showed us her charms,

                                     our aim, to retreat from chores

                                     was another’s dream,

                                     small wonder with the view,

                                     the senses satisfied with

                                     sage, curry and rosemary

                                     herbs, hot colours, butterflies

                                     decorating flowers,

                                     a constant hum of bees

                                     and clicking cicadas,

                                     paradise for wildlife

                                     and the not so wild,

                                     but not without price

                                     and work to achieve

                                     enrichment for many

                                     with all that’s here naturally

                                     and generous company

                                     from such wonderful hosts.

Thanks to both Clare and Martyn.

Last updated 23/01/2012