Verses against touristification

Ecolinguism in two poets of the Catalan Countries

Abstract

This article studies the treatment of touristification in two poets from the Catalan Countries, Ponç Pons (Alaior, 1956) and Jordi Julià (Sant Celoni, 1972). The paper is based on the ideas put forward by Guillem Colom-Montero about mass tourism in Mallorca and how it is formulated literary in the narrative of some island writers. The aim is to go a little further and analyse how this subject is dealt with from another literary genre and with two autors from different areas of the linguistic domain. The choice of the autors responds to the interest of holding dialogue with two poets who have read each other books and who claim ecolinguism as one of the ways to reverse, at least in the collective imagination, the loss of their cultural identity.