 The early Cunqueiro was fundamentally a poet, writing in Avant-Garde, neo-troubador and culturalist styles.He initiated neo-troubadourism with his poetry collections "Mar ao norde" (1932) and "Poemas do si e do non" (1933).He wrote "Cantiga nova que se chama Riveira" (1933) under the influence of the troubador tradition of the medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric.