Carlos Oroza placeholder image He was born in 1929 in Viveiro (Lugo). He lived in Madrid between the 1940s and 1970s, where he dedicated himself exclusively to poetry, becoming a prominent poet known for his excellent recitals. It was here that he constructed the core of his work: an extensive oral poem. The elaboration and refinement of his poetry has always depended on its radical orality: he has never needed to write in order to remember.

The first issue of Tropos magazine opens with an extensive interview accompanied by his poems. He is a Beat Prize winner and recipient of the International Underground Poetry Prize. He travels reciting poetry both within and outside of Spain and lived for a time in Ibiza. During the 1970s, he resided intermittently in El Caurel (Lugo), from where he traveled to give numerous recitals.

In 1974, encouraged by the poet Uxío Novoneyra and the painter Reimundo Patiño, he published List, published by the avant-garde Madrid publishing house Tres.Catorce.Diecisiete. A rare poet, a figure and character of Madrid's bohemian scene, a unique voice in Spanish poetry, with followers but no disciples. Carlos Oroza lives in Vigo, very close to the sea, the element that guides his latest poetry.

In 2012, Editorial Elvira compiled her complete poetry in Evame and dedicates three special editions to his verses that, like automatic rivers, drag us far away and deep within reality.

Featured work:
List (Three.Fourteen.Seventeen, Madrid, 1974)
Cabalum (Ediciós do Castro, A Coruña, 1980)
In the north there is a sea that is higher than the sky (Publications Service of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra, 2005)
Evame (Editorial Elvira, Vigo, 2012)