Xavier Mas Craviotto in conversation with Helena Buffery

A conversation and reading with Catalan novelist and multi-award-winning poet Xavier Mas Craviotto, who will be joined onstage by long-time CWBF collaborator Professor Helena Buffery, for our annual celebration of the Catalan San Jordi Day of Books and Roses. Craviotto’s most recent collection, The Subterranean Light, begins where his previous collection, The Great Nausea, ended, ‘with a poetic mapping of exhaustion, wear and eventual devastation. The Subterranean Light rises from this devastation: a ‘you’ and an ‘I’ embarking on a journey, which becomes an itinerary of reconstruction, not of what there was previously, but of new realities that may help us survive in a worn-out world with new meanings to which we can cling.’      

Saturday 25 April 2026

City Library | 4.30pm | Free