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The Gift of Poverty

The Gift of Poverty

Pedro Flores

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El Don de la Pobreza or The Gift of Poverty is Pedro Flores' gift to all the romantics who find poetry in everyday life, no matter how harsh the conditions may be. His portraits of his grandparents, parents, friends and experiences show how no matter how hard the blows life deals you, there is poetry to be found although not always immediately, and how creativity and new perspectives on the ordinary can soften the edges of bitter experiences.

Translating Pedro Flores is a unique and rewarding experience. His constant probing into new ways of expressing human experience has led him to read vast realms of different works, the lessons of which he skilfully interweaves into his separate poetic gems, each shining in its own right, producing deep emotions we can all relate to and that may even change how we view things: what poetry is designed to do. It is a gift for a translator, and a gift now for the British public.


ISBN : 978-1-80074-940-5

Published: 29/06/2023

Pages : 56

Size : 205x140

Imprint : Olympia Publishers

Pedro Flores

Pedro Flores was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1968. He has published over thirty books of poetry, narrative and plays. Among other prizes he has obtained in Spain, he has been awarded the poetry prizes of José Hierro, Antonio Oliver Belmás, Flor de Jara, Fray Luis de León, Ciudad de Tudela, Gil de Biedma y Alba, Ciudad de Las Palmas, Pedro García Cabrera, Tomás Morales and Ciudad de Santa Cruz de La Palma de Poesía, together with the Isaac de Vega and Domingo Velázquez awards for short stories. He was one of the finalists in the Spanish National Poetry Critics’ Award in 2010. In 2016, the Seville publishing house, Renacimiento, brought out an anthology of his poetry under the title ‘Salir rana’. Texts of his have been translated into Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Slovak, Hungarian, and now into English. His poems have been published in Canary poetry journals, such as Espejo de Paciencia, La Página, La Fábrica, and Contemporánea. In Spain, he has had his poetry published in Cuadernos del Matemático, Clave Orión, Turia, Piedra del Molino, 21 versos, Nayagua, and Telegráfica. He has also been published abroad in Zeta, Outre Sud, Fraktal, OPUS, Uj Forras, and Mundo Hispánico, and on the Hungarian world literature webpage 1749.hu, among countless others. In November 2022, the poet won the two prestigious international prizes of Poesía Jorge Manrique and Generación del 27. The Canary poet won the prestigious International Miguel Hernández Prize in Poetry in March 2023

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