Books by Joan Margarit

Catalan poet Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. In this final collection he faces the approach of death with courage, humility and even humour. 'Each of Margarit's poems is its own being, like a living creature with its own body-shape and voice, its own breath and heart-beat.'-Sharon Olds

Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language. In Love Is a Place, a translation of his three most recent collections, he finds himself face to face with the prospect of his own death, while rediscovering love.

Explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a 'road toward inner growth'. This book is suitable for poets young and old, writers, and readers seeking insights into the creative process and 'the way both poet and reader can find their own way to face solitude'.

Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and has become Spain's most widely acclaimed contemporary poet. This edition draws on two collections published since his 2006 Bloodaxe retrospective, "Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems".

Joan Margarit's poems that evoke the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief at the death of his beloved handicapped daughter. His poetry reminds us that it is not death we have to understand but life.