Presentation of the collection of poems “Ciutat Sudari” by Lluís Vicent

LLUÍS VICENT BANYULS I FERRANDO (Valencia, 1978) is a musician and poet, better known as Lluís Vicent. He has his roots in the south of Valencia and his childhood, through nature and continued contact with his grandparents, marked him.
His first encounter with music is a broken guitar of his father that he used to play in secret. There comes a time when the guitar and song lyrics created by him are combined, already in adolescence.
At the age of 18, he began learning classical guitar. He stands out with Manuel Collado and Toni Iñíguez (Giner Musical Institute).
There is also its definitive connections to the city of Valencia and the commitment to certain groups.
He has also been in other groups and experienced other genres and currents. It would soon include poets from all lands and languages.
In 2005, “Cançons d'anar per casa” appears. But there have been more recitals and various areas. He is a member of the AELC and the Ovidi Montllor Collective.
AWARDS AND PUBLISHED LITERARY WORKS
Premi de Poesia Joan Duch uns quants cops
II Premi de Poesia Camí de la Nòria de Picanya
Primer premi de prosa “La Font de Ferro” (2009)
LIV Premi de Poesia Castellum Ripae 2009
Guardó en el Concurs de Creació Literària Puigmarí 2010
Publicació de “Les Penúltimes Paraules de Sísif”, Editorial Germania, 2012.
Premi del Colectiu Ovidi Montllor a la millor lletra “En la corda fluixa”, 2012.
Guanyador del certamen estatal de poesia Adolfo Utor Acevedo.
Col·laboració en el recull “Relats a Vora Mar”, Editorial Neopàtria.
“Quatre rius de sang”, Editorial Neopàtria, 2018.
Narrativa “El Cafè dels Somnis” (2020), Neopàtria.
Poemari “Mars enllunades de tarquim”, Ed. Círculo Rojo 2022.
Col·laboració amb Jaume Pérez-Muntaner, Francesc Mompó, Manel Alonso Català i Vicent Penya en el llibre “Les Veus de la Música” (2022)
Poemari “Ciutat Sudari”, Editorial Cuadrante, 2024.
Llibre de contes i altres proses “Mil Nits per No Dormir”, Editorial ViveLibros (2025).

PUBLISHED RECORD WORKS
Consciència Urgent, 2007 – Cambra Records
Tendres deixalles, 2008 – La Cúpula
El dia de després, 2013, Mesdemil
Segon Origen, 2019. La Cúpula
La tirania de la normalitat, 2020 – La Cúpula
Cançons d’anar per casa, 2020 – EP
Black Uprisin, 2021 – Lluís Vicent & La Free & Feelin’Band – La Cúpula
Per Versions, 2022 - Lluís Vicent & La Free & Feelin’Band
Amunt els cors i les destrals, 2024 - Lluís Vicent & La Free & Feelin’Band
Els paisatges anònims (Rare Edition), 2025 - Lluís Vicent & La Free & Feelin’Band.

CIUTAT SUDARI is a book of poems that seeks certain roots in Allen Ginsberg. I don't want to say anything that coincides with the Prologue by the poet Manel Alonso, because it is better that you buy the book and read it yourself. Also, I don't want to spoil…
In the first part, there is a return to the roots, to the search for a loss that contrasts with the harshness of the cityl. It's like that crib called “Rosebud” that apeeared in “Citizen Kane”. There is a little of that in this collections of poems. But, immediately, that past is longingly sought is replaced by the present that the city implies and that does not present any positive aspect and, above all, in linked to death.

INTERVIEW
We'll start with generalities…
To what extent have your southern roots influenced your personality and creativity?
How did childhood affect your musical and literary production?
Why did you secretly play the guitar?
What did you plat on the guitar?
Why did you want to learn classical guitar?
Whith which groups have you collaborated or do you collaborate?
Which Catalan and Valencian poets have influenced your work?
Why this “picoteig” of styles, of authors…?
Why poetry?
Why prose?
How has the pandemic affected you creatively?
Why have you dedicated this collection of poems to the Horta region?
Why this link between the city and death?
Your city is the complete opposite of the Greek polis or the Renaissance city or the capital of culture, encounter, dialogue… Why have you sought to transmit the spirit of automatons?
It is also a city that destroys all creativity. Ginsberg went through a period of “stuck”, which happens to everyone who is creative. When hi lived in India, he asked a guru how he could regain his creativity. He asked him what he wrote about and Ginsberg replied that it was about the city, but taht it no longer offered him news. Then, the guru told him to go out into the street again and try to see a different city with different eyes. That is, with a beginner's mind. He got it and created again. Could you get a different vision of the city that you present in this book?
This first part looks like a comic… Did you have it in mind?
Let's enter the second part thinking that the aura of the modern city par excellence will remove the bad taste in our mouths that the first one had left in us, but no, it turns out that it even worsens the anguish that we have had to experience.
There are really eschatological verses…
García Lorca suffered a lot in New York… Did he see the same city that you describe?
There is an intense distressing search for death…
Can you travel with poetry without having to go sightseeing?