Instituto Cervantes Manchester and Leeds Poetry’s Club continues in May, reading poems by Spanish poet Berta García Faet.

Berta García Faet is a poet and translator. She is author of several books of poetry: Corazón tradicionalista . Poesía 2008-2011 (2018), Los salmos fosforitos [Fluorescent Psalms, 2017], La edad de merecer [The Elegible Age, 2015]. Most recently she won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Miguel Hernández in 2018.

The Poetry club is coordinated by Diana Cullell, Professor at the University of Liverpool.

Diana Cullell is a Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool and a specialist in Spanish and Catalan literature and culture. She has published on different authors and literary movements, with an interest in new forms of poetry and its new interpretations; contemporary Spanish and Catalan poetry; representations of the body in literature or the Spanish poetry market from 1980 to the present. His publications include La perfopoesía española en el siglo XXI: una revolución poética (Madrid: Amargord, 2019); Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology(Manchester University Press, 2014); or La Poesía de la Experiencia Española de Finales del Siglo XX al XXI (Madrid: Devenir, 2010).