{"id":3759,"date":"2019-08-29T08:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloghammam.localhost\/2019\/08\/29\/ben-clark-contar-cantando\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:53:08","slug":"ben-clark-contar-cantando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hammamalandalus.com\/blog\/ben-clark-contar-cantando\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Clark: contar cantando"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Contar emociones como sencillos cuentos que todos quieren aprender, con un lenguaje realista que sin embargo asume la magia y el temblor de la l\u00edrica. Es decir, contar y cantar, queriendo querer. As\u00ed es la poes\u00eda de Ben Clark (Ibiza, 1984), un escritor y traductor de origen brit\u00e1nico que vive en M\u00e1laga, cerca de las playas de El Palo y que ha conseguido dedicarse plenamente a la literatura, comenzando a escribir muy joven. Con solo veintid\u00f3s a\u00f1os obtuvo el Premio de Poes\u00eda Hiperi\u00f3n con un vistoso poemario titulado <em>Los hijos de los hijos de la ira<\/em>, en referencia a una generaci\u00f3n hippy, de la que \u00e9l mismo es v\u00e1stago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\u00ed, desde su propia identidad hasta la sublimaci\u00f3n de las ideas y la exposici\u00f3n de un mundo en crisis, al que hay que pasar revista para rescatar lo verdaderamente importante, lo que nos hace humanos, Clark destila poemas en un alarde contenido y capaz de trascender los sentimientos y las relaciones, siempre desde un punto de vista muy contempor\u00e1neo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adem\u00e1s del mencionado, ha publicado los siguientes poemarios:<em> Memor\u00eda<\/em> (Huacanamo, 2009); <em>Basura <\/em>(Delirio, 2011); <em>La mezcla confusa<\/em> (VII Premio Nacional de Poes\u00eda Joven F\u00e9lix Grande. UP Jos\u00e9 Hierro, 2011); <em>Mantener la cadena de fr\u00edo<\/em> (escrito con Andr\u00e9s Catal\u00e1n, IV Premio de Poes\u00eda Joven RNE. Pre-Textos, 2012); <em>La Fiera<\/em> (Sloper, 2014), por el que obtuvo el Premio Ciutat de Palma Joan Alcover y el Premio El Ojo Cr\u00edtico de RNE de Poes\u00eda 2014, <em>Los \u00faltimos perros de Shackleton<\/em> (Sloper, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-thumbnail wp-image-7646\" src=\"https:\/\/hammamalandalus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ben-clark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entre tantos reconocimientos, hace un a\u00f1o sorprendi\u00f3 a todos ganado el Premio Loewe de Poes\u00eda, con <em>La polic\u00eda <\/em><em>celeste<\/em> (Visor, 2018), a pesar de su juventud. Por diferente, por su inmersi\u00f3n el siglo XXI, por su apuesta por los recursos po\u00e9ticos y por entender que el poeta es conciencia y creador del artificio de un idioma al servicio de su tiempo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Por otra parte, ha sido becario de creaci\u00f3n literaria en la Fundaci\u00f3n Antonio Gala para J\u00f3venes Creadores; en The Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, (Escocia); en The Ch\u00e2teau de Lavigny International Writers\u2019 Residence (Suiza) y en la Fundaci\u00f3n Valpara\u00edso de Moj\u00e1car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No menos interesantes son sus traducciones: <em>Poemas de amor<\/em> de Anne Sexton (2009), <em>Poes\u00eda Completa<\/em> de Edward Thomas (2012) y, junto a Borja Aguil\u00f3, la antolog\u00eda <em>Tengo una cita con la Muerte (Poetas Muertos en la Gran Guerra)<\/em> (2011). Adem\u00e1s, junto al poeta Andr\u00e9s Catal\u00e1n, tradujo el poemario <em>En otro momento<\/em> (2013), del premio Pulitzer Stephen Dunn. Otras labores de traducci\u00f3n incluyen los libros de cuentos <em>Diez de diciembre<\/em> y <em>Pastoralia<\/em> del narrador estadounidense George Saunders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Con este sobresaliente bagaje, Ben Clark nos llega al Hammam Al \u00c1ndalus, como autor del mes de septiembre. Nos visita con su poes\u00eda y su talante sin soberbia, alejado de convencionalismos, para proponer su sensaci\u00f3n en las aguas, para sugerir belleza y redibujar el horizonte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foto de portada: Alberto de la Rocha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contar emociones como sencillos cuentos que todos quieren aprender, con un lenguaje realista que sin embargo asume la magia y el temblor de la l\u00edrica. Es decir, contar y cantar, queriendo querer. 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