"I am doubly happy to participate in the presentation of this collection. Firstly, because with this new book, Virgule Editions continues its tradition of publishing poetry, something that publishers in Morocco and the world rarely do today," Virgule Éditions Director Hamid Abbou told M24, MAP's 24-hour-rolling news channel, during the ceremony held at the publishing house's pavilion at the SIEL in the presence of several personalities from the world of culture and the media.

"It is also a pleasure because the poet we celebrate today, in this beautiful setting of the 27th SIEL exceptionally held in Rabat, is none other than Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, a great friend and a great poet whose poetic experience is distinguished by its uniqueness and refinement," he said.

In the preface to this collection of 156 pages published in 2022, Writer Kebir Mustapha Ammi said that "there is anger and tenderness in this Anthologie Erratique, there is this rage imbued with wisdom that the ordeals have known to forge and which carries the inalienable desire to live together in the fabric of a new humanity."

"Khalil Hachimi Idrissi questions himself and us. He tries to understand under our eyes what is this thing called the world and which is worth us to be gathered there under the aegis of a destiny that spends too much time playing with improbable dice and rage often. Khalil Hachimi Idrissi plays with chance and words."

Author in 2005 of "Billets Bleus, Chroniques Marocaines 1994-2000" published by Eddif, Hachimi Idrissi has notably released "À la conquête de rien" published in 2011 at the Croisée des chemins.

This was followed by a collection of poems "Subterfuges ou les détours des rimes rebelles", in 2012 at Zanzibar Éditions, and "La foi n'est convoquée que les jours de fête", published in 2017 at the Croisée des chemins.

Born in Casablanca, Hachimi Idrissi was editor-in-chief of Maroc Hebdo International, before launching the French-language daily Aujourd'hui le Maroc (2001).

He was also president of the Moroccan Federation of Newspaper Publishers and of the jury of the Grand Prix National de la Presse (2007). He is also President and Grand Officer of the Compagnons de Gutenberg-Maroc. Hachimi Idrissi is the Director General of the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP).