In the former, he was placed in charge of the reorganisation of the Military Club library and he took advantage of the opportunity to develop an intense autodidactic process, reading avidly and widely.

On returning to Toledo, he was employed by the Town Council where he was later to take charge of the area of Art and Culture, a post he held for many years.

Such personal and artistic independence was to bring the toll of silence and neglect from the established groups and critical trends from the 1980s onwards.

Relevant in this respect are the appreciations of such poets and critics as Emilio Porta,[1] Pablo Luque Pinilla,[2] Roberto Carlos Hernández Ferro,[3] Enrique Gracia[4] and Michael Smith.

Poems, reviews, short stories and writings of different types can be found in such publications as ABC, Poesía Española (1ª y 2ª Épocas), Diario Ya, Poesía Hispánica, Diario de León, Le Journal des Poètes and El Mercurio de Chile.

In the seventies, Juan Antonio Villacañas explores a new way of creating: the union of poem and image to construct a unity of significance that he called “liriforma”.