For the sixth consecutive year, the Ibero-Atlantic Culture Institute – ICIA celebrates World Poetry Day, on March 21, marking, this year, the centenary of the birth of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
In an atmosphere of literary get-together, ICIA associates and friends gather on that day, from 18:30 pm, at the A Travessa restaurant, in Portimão, to see a projection on the poet's life and work and read aloud – how anticipates João Ventura, chairman of the ICIA board – “poems in which two core motifs of Sophia's poetic creation converge: the roots of the Mediterranean heritage – inspired by Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Orpheu and Eurydice – and the appeal of the Atlantic, selected from books such as “Mar Novo”, “Geography”, “Day of the Sea”, “Coral”, “Geography”, “Navegações”, “Ilhas, among others”.
Carlos Osório, vice-president of the ICIA, will also evoke Sophia's relationship with the Algarve, with references to her crossing and stay places, such as «Cacela, “desired only for its beauty” and, above all, Lagos, “a meticulously clean city , full of honest people”, the fresh fish in the market, the sea baths and the caves of Dona Ana and Ponta da Piedade».
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