Work & Activities

He usually collaborates with the weekly papers ‘Heraldo de Vivero’, ‘La Voz de Ortigueira’ and ‘A Nosa Terra’. As a poet, he collaborated in several collective books, participated in many poetry redings all around Galicia and published the book Devalar das esperas (Espiral Maior, 1995) and was awarded ‘Prados Ledesma’ Poetry Prize (Viveiro, 2002) with his poetry book Acontece ás veces a ternura. He wrote the edition of the play Os evanxeos da risa absoluta by Antón Villar Ponte and the respective fascicle (O teatro das Irmandades da Fala, nº 20) for the collection Historia da Literatura Galega jointly published by the Galician Sociopedagogical Association and ‘A Nosa Terra’ Publications (1996-1998). He wrote the prologue of the poetry book Cantos da Seiva by Xesús Pereiras (Espiral Maior, A Coruña, 2002). ‘Francisco Pillado’ Library (A Coruña University) published two plays by Antón Villar Ponte in September 1998: Entre dous abismos and Nouturnio de medo e morte. In octubre 2002 he made the introduction of two plays by Antón Villar Ponte for the collection ‘Biblioteca 120’: A patria do labrego and Almas mortas. He is also the author of the work Achegamento á poesía de Manuel María desde a perspectiva ecoloxista in the collective book homage to the poet Manuel María published by ‘Xermolos’ Cultural Association in 2001. Together with Millán Otero, Carlos L. Bernárdez, Rei Romeu and Laura Tato he wrote the monograph Literatura Galega. Século XX (‘A Nosa Terra’ Publications, Vigo, 2001). He also participated as a rapporteur in several symposia and conferences related to Galician Language and Literature. Together with other authors he also wrote Galician Language and Literature textbooks for Secondary Education (Galician Publishing Consortium, 2003-2004).