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Carmelo Guillén

Catedrático de Lengua y Literatura españolas desde 1979. Dirige la colección Adonáis desde 2003.

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Indran Amirthanayagam, a cosmopolitan poet for the times

Belonging to that lineage of those who carry poetry from one place to another and make it vibrate in cosmopoetic festivals, the poet Indran Amirthanayagam is recognized for his multilingual writing from which he assumes cultural views of a very diverse nature, and condenses, in his verbal music, the plural echo of the world.

Carmelo Guillén

24 Apr 2026

Vicente Gaos, between abyss and grace

Although not among the most representative of his generation, the poetic work of Vicente Gaos -always marked by existential inquiry and, above all, by an incessant dialogue with God- continues to offer today's reader an attentive and reflective look at human unease, transformed into a search for meaning.

Carmelo Guillén

21 Feb 2026

Passion for Rilke

Although no one questions the significance of Rainer Maria Rilke's work, his personality has been equally decisive in the interest his poetic universe arouses.

Carmelo Guillén

27 Dec 2025

Dana Gioia, a sacramental poet

Although Dana Gioia does not write in a confessional tone, his poetry reflects a deep Catholic root. Tyler Cowen, who interviewed him in his podcast Conversations with Tyler, William Oxley, author of the prologue to his only poetry anthology in Spanish, considers him the most relevant poet in his country since the eighties.

Carmelo Guillén

27 Oct 2025

The Presence of the Virgin Mary in Contemporary Poetry

Rooted in a tradition of enormous quality, whose origins go back to the Middle Ages, in Spain there are a handful of lay people who write magnificent Marian poetry, apart from pregones, devotional songs or rhetorical exercises of easy rhyme. It is not abundant, but it exists.

Carmelo Guillén

13 May 2025
Tolkien

An excellent spiritual biography of Tolkien

In addition to the good pace that characterizes this spiritual biography of Tolkien, the deeply instructive approach it presents stands out.

Carmelo Guillén

23 Jan 2025
Weil

Simone Weil, poet before philosopher

Qualified as the greatest thinker of love and misfortune of the twentieth century, Simone Weil is widely recognized for her essayistic work, but not for her genuinely literary writings, of which an unfinished play and a collection of poems that reaffirm her constant search for truth have been made known.

Carmelo Guillén

13 Jan 2025
duque

Marcela Duque: "Poetry is a way of being attentive".

Marcela Duque made a name for herself in 2018 with. Beautiful is the riska collection of poems that won him the prestigious Adonáis Prize, with which he stood out as one of the most emotionally intense young voices in the Spanish language. Six years later he published his second work, An enigma before your eyeswhich reaffirms its literary quality.  

Carmelo Guillén

25 Jun 2024

José Tolentino Mendonça or the conditions of existence

Although no Spanish publisher has so far published a minimal sample of Tolentino Mendonça's poetry, this author is one of the most representative voices of the latest Portuguese lyric poetry, equaling the most prestigious poets of the Portuguese language. In Spain he is recognized for his essays, some of which have reached several editions.

Carmelo Guillén

30 Apr 2024
Circe Maia

Circe Maia, the domestic poet

Barely known in Spain, the recent Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize has given Uruguayan author Circe Maia a well-deserved recognition for her ability to turn poetic creation into a means of clarifying reality, based on domestic experience, through precise language.

Carmelo Guillén

13 Feb 2024