Eva Gómez and Laura Miñarro set poet Maria Beneyto to music in Canet
Singer-songwriter Eva Gómez from Almenara presented her album Ací estic. Jo soc aquella on 3 July at the Blasco Ibáñez gardens in Canet d'En Berenguer, with music based on poems by Maria Beneyto.
The concert felt like more than an album launch, as guitarist Laura Miñarro added instrumental layers that gave weight to every line. The songs come from two real poetry books by Valencian writer Maria Beneyto (1920-2011): "Ratlles en l'aire", which won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona in 1956, and "Vidre ferit de sang", awarded the Premi Ausiàs March in 1976. Beneyto belonged to the Valencian post-war literary generation, alongside writers such as Vicent Andrés Estellés and Joan Fuster. In 2025, the Valencian Language Academy (Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua) named her "Writer of the Year", an annual honour previously given to Fuster, to Valencian exile writers, and to Maria Ibars. That official tribute connects with the message Gómez shared at the concert: setting Beneyto's poems to music is a way of giving visibility to Valencian women writers long overlooked. The audience at the Blasco Ibáñez gardens listened closely to a show blending literary memory with new creation. According to El Periódico de Aquí.