“Some poets you read and forget. But some poets you read and cannot ever forget, not only because they have struck a chord in our soul, but because they drain us and leave us out in the cold.” Manel Queralt i Utrilla (Barcelona, 1959) is a poet and computer engineer. He has published fifteen books of poetry in Catalan and his work has been translated into English, Basque, Spanish, Korean, Galician and Japanese.