For Francisco Mateu, maître at the restaurant Chez-Lyon in Valencia, poetry can be a gesture of solidarity. He began giving his lines as a present. Then he though of bottle them in order to sell them with a solidarity purpose. The earnings of this project are entirely for the Asociación de Padres de Niños con Cáncer (Aspanion). More than 1,600 bottles have already been sold. They contain poems by prestigious poets who altruistically contribute in this project fusing poetry and solidarity.
Now these bottled poems take on the form of a book. They become, as the title points out, Un mar de poemas solidarios (A sea of solidarity poems). The book is going was presented yesterday at La Nau’ Aula Magna, at 19:00. Entrance is free.
The book gathers a selection of poems by more than 250 poets and artists like Francisco Brines, Marc Granell, Genaro Talens, Alfons Cervera, Mabel Valero, and Esperanza Camps, among others. The book allows the bottled poems to keep on sailing outside the bottle. That is the reason why the book shows the manuscripts, drawings and caligrams of the bottled poems. The book earned with these poems’ selling is entirely sent to Aspanion. The people in charge of making this book a reality have collaborated in the project in an altruistic way.
Mabel Valero and María Peiró took part in the presentation. Other people attending the event are Luis Barbé, member of Aspanion, Daniel Nebot, designer, Antoni Tordera, lecturer and writer and Francisco Mateu, the maître.
After the presentation, a poetry reading was conducted by Lorena del Hierro, María Peiró, María José Mormeneo, Natalia Ruiz de Cenzano, Carmen Megias, Mabel Valero, Paloma Ángel, Elena García, and Lucía Sabater – member of Akelarre -, Juan Manuel Vera, and Esther Blázquez – from Laboratorio de Valores.
Last update: 22 de june de 2012 09:32.
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