On 30 may, Cândido de Oliveira Martins, a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University - Braga, moderated a talk about the latest book by poet Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, ‘As Manhãs Que Não Conheces’, at the Centésima Página bookshop.

Luís Castro Mendes is the author of a very long literary oeuvre, which began in the 1980s, with several works in various genres, from poetry to prose, being recognised above all as a poet. Among other public functions, he was a career diplomat (Budapest, New Delhi, at UNESCO and at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg) and more recently former Minister of Culture.

After Coming Back (2021), Luís Filipe Castro Mendes composes the disheartening mosaic of recent years - polarisation, war - by attuning it to the author's personal losses or daily life. Under the sign of Vallejo's ‘black heralds’, there is, however, a redemptive morning that announces itself in the dawn of poetry.