Mallorca schools get illustrated Joan Alcover booklet
Mallorca’s secondary schools now have an illustrated booklet on Joan Alcover’s life and poetry. Obra Cultural Balear says it has distributed copies to schools across the island. The cultural group announced the move on Tuesday, 29 September.
The booklet, Joan Alcover Maspons: El poeta humà al servei de poble, includes excerpts from poems such as La Balanguera, Cançó dels pins and Desolació. It gives pupils a way to explore his writing about nature, loss, memory and society.
Maria Antònia Perelló wrote the text. Obra Cultural Balear has also named her coordinator of its Joan Alcover centenary in 2026. Margalida Vinyes drew the illustrations. Together, the words and pictures are intended to introduce young readers to sides of Alcover beyond his best-known verses.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com