Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written

The verse was written three years before the poet was killed at the start of the Spanish civil war. Photograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori/Getty Images

A previously unknown verse attributed to Federico García Lorca has been discovered 93 years after the celebrated Spanish poet and playwright is believed to have jotted it on the back of one of his manuscripts.

Lorca is thought to have written the eight-line poem in 1933 while working on the collection Diván del Tamarit, a homage to the Arab poets of his native Granada.