O Sul onde eu vivo...

Concurso

No próximo mês, vou participar num debate no Parlamento Europeu com escritores da Grécia, Espanha e Itália.

Vamos falar sobre a situação no sul da Europa. Nesse âmbito, há um concurso de escrita.

Espero que possam participar. 

Mais informações sobre o concurso aqui.

(José Luis Peixoto)

Let’s Amplify Your Voice

Click on the “Participate”menu, choose and complete one or all phrases.
The southintalk blogspot invites you to KEEP WRITING.

We “liked” what you write and, having announced the individuals YOU “LIKED” AND YOU NOMINATED to join us in Brussels, we want to ensure that no thought is lost and every voice is heard.
Watch the people you nominated through the live streaming on this blog on April 10th. And make sure you also leave us your mail, or visit this site so we can keep you posted on this and forthcoming events.
WE WILL PRODUCE AN E-BOOK WITH YOUR POSTS entitled precisely “The South I Live in.” And we will distribute this e-book to Members of the European Parliament and beyond!!!
SO KEEP POSTING until April 15th on the thesouthintalk.blogspot.gr.
During this period, EU citizens residing or originating from Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece, but also Cyprus and Slovenia, can participate in this COMPILATION OF CITIZEN’S THOUGHTS by completing the following phrases:

I belong to a generation…
I cannot…
I am seeking…
I want…

Participants are invited to visit our blog and complete these phrases with a short submission, expressing their thoughts, through their Facebook account.
The objective now is that this “participatory narrative” that describes the transformation of the European South, as citizens experience it, is exploited to the full.
Make sure you join us live on the event that will take in Brussels in the premises of the European Parliament on April 10th 2013, with the participation of four emblematic writers of modern literature in the European South: José Luís Peixoto (Portugal) Mariolina Venezia (Italy), Alexis Stamatis (Greece), and Santiago Roncagliolo (Spain). Tweet or post your questions and thoughts!
Thank you for your participation. Be there through your delegates, be there LIVE, be in out e-book and keep the South In Talk.

Alentejo

Folheia-se o caderno e eis o sul
E o sul é a palavra. E a palavra
Desdobra-se
No espaço com suas letras de
Solstício e de solfejo
Além de ti
Além do Tejo.

Verás o rio e talvez o azul
Não o de Mallarmé : soma de branco e de vazio
Mas aquela grande linha onde o abstracto
Começa lentamente a ser o
Sul.

Outro é o tempo
Outra a medida.

Tão grande a página
Tão curta a escrita

Entre o achigã e a perdiz
Entre o chaparro e o choupo

Tanto país
E tão pouco

Solidão é companheira
E de senhor são seus modos
Rei do céu de todos
E de chão nenhum

À sombra de uma azinheira
Há sempre sombra para mais um

Na brancura da cal o traço azul
Alentejo é a última utopia

Todas as aves partem para o sul
Todas as aves : como a poesia.

(in Alentejo e ninguém - Manuel Alegre)