The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1841
15 - 21 October 2020
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FLYING POET
RESIDENTS of Alicante, Elche, and everywhere in between, have begun the process of collecting signatures in order to change the name of the AlicanteElche air port. Organisers behind the pro posed plan want to change the name to the Miguel Hernández Airport to commemorate and highlight the famous Oriolano poet, with the first phase of their plan already launched as they look to praise the writer and bring new recognition to the po et’s work. One of the organisers, Julio Ríos said: “In the United States there are airports named after fa mous people, so we believe that
it is an opportunity to give rise to the poet and to represent the en tire province.” Miguel Hernández was a 20th century poet and playwright who died of tuberculosis in 1942, aged 31, after being imprisoned due to his active participation on the Re publican side of the civil war. Having escaped the death penalty, his last book, Cancionero
y Romancero de Ausencias, was published after his death, and this collection of the poems written in prison, some on pieces of toilet paper and others preserved in letters to his wife, is considered one of the finest pieces of Spanish poetry of the 20th century.
AIRPORT: Residents want to change its name.
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