SUSANNA RAFART

Poet In Residence

Born in Ripoll (Girona, 1962), Susanna Rafart is a poet, fiction author, literary critic and cultural project promoter. Her poetic voice is comprised of elegant, delicate words, so well-chosen and precisely carved that they are able to occupy their place within the verse like the tesserae of a mosaic. Without any resonance or trumpeting, without vulgarity or outbursts, everything is said with subtlety and tenderness.

Since her first work, Pou de glaç (2002), she has garnered constant acclaim from her readers. Her most significant works include Baies (2005); the trilogy L’ocell a la cendra (2010), La mà interior (2011) and La llum constant (2013); En el teu nom (2014); and D’una sola branca (2021).

Her work is framed within a mirror-poetics of the female voice in the past and present, where the richness of her lexicon is not wielded to embellish images projected with a refined preciousness but instead serves the search for a disembodied semantics where words are organised around human emotions. Her oeuvre can be considered ‘posthumous’ as a whole, because it illustrates, with hindsight, the gradual way in which the subject achieves his or her own elimination. Therefore, when read in sequence, her volumes appear as separate sections in a single songbook.