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La Blava and the poetry of Miquel Martí i Pol

Roda de Ter, Osona, Barcelona

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La Blava and the poetry of Miquel Martí i Pol

Historical milestone · Roda de Ter, Osona, Barcelona

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Miquel Martí i Pol was born in Roda de Ter, beside the river Ter in the Osona county, on 19 March 1929, into a humble family, and studied at the village school until he was fourteen, when he went to work at the Tecla Sala textile factory, known as La Blava. There he began writing poems, first in Spanish and, from 1946, in Catalan; pulmonary tuberculosis in 1948 kept him bedridden for a year, a time during which he discovered the great Catalan poets and turned his work toward social poetry. In 1969 the first symptoms of the multiple sclerosis that would accompany him for the rest of his life appeared, and in 1973 it forced him to leave the factory. He lived in Roda de Ter until his death in Vic on 11 November 2003, having become the most widely read living Catalan poet of his time.

1929-2003

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