Stalker

<p>The insidious peril that haunts these pages appears in various guises against a backdrop of France Germany Greece the USA and the UK. <em>Stalker</em> is a collection of prose poems in which the narrator attempts to make sense of everyday experience turning to Rilke Van Gogh Steinbeck and others in her quest for understanding.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here is a mind engaged yet disengaged exploring 'that line between the visible and the invisible' steeped in art and literature empathetic to those characters on the edge-the unsettled soul both fictional ('Who is the cloaked woman pacing the platform near the engine trembling and distraught?') and real (the clochard 'like a winter lizard clinging to the grille over the metro vent'). Here is a fraught and fragile sensibility heightened by fear; a self explored-and exposed-through a disjunctured narrative language and content perfectly suited to the twists and turns of the prose poem. Here is a self in constant transit the evocation of place as intense and striking as the mind's internal machinations. -Linda Black</p>