Space and territory in the work of Ponç Pons. Notes for ecopoetics

Abstract

In the light of the theoretical precedents on the ecopoetics (Tom Pughe, Pierre Schoentjes, Adolf Piquer and Vicent Salvador), we propose here an ecopoetic reading of space and territory in the works of the poet of Menorca Ponç Pons. What is the place of the nature and how the poet represents, through and thanks to the poetry, his relationship to the native island? What is the scope of this environmental poetry? To answer these questions, we will focus specifically on the maritime space, the house and the hut of the poet, the marine and saline world, the natural heritage threatened, finally on the defense of the Catalan language, which are as many anchor points of its poetry and the affirmation of an identity that is also threatened.