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The insidious peril that haunts these pages appears in various guises against a backdrop of France, Germany, Greece, the USA and the UK. Stalker 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.

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The insidious peril that haunts these pages appears in various guises against a backdrop of France, Germany, Greece, the USA and the UK. Stalker 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.
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Lucy Hamilton grew up in Norfok, England with her French mother and Liverpudlian father, the youngest of six children. She lived in Paris in her late teens before returning to study in Birmingham. She began a career in secondary school teaching in London (Whitechapel and Brixton) and worked in schools across the UK. Most recently she taught English as an Alternative Language to Chinese and South Korean boarding students at Ashford School, Kent. She has run poetry workshops for the Poetry School and the University of Cambridge.She was joint-winner of the Poetry School Award in 2007 and since then has published a pamphlet, Sonnets for my Mother (Hearing Eye, 2009), and two collections of prose poems with Shearsman Books. Stalker (2012) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and a sequence, 'Blood-Letting' from Of Heads & Hearts (2018), was Highly Commended in the Forward Book of Poetry 2019. The poem 'Messengers', from her work-in-progress 'Travelling with the I Ching', won First Prize in the SL Artemis poetry competition, 2020.Lucy co-edited Long Poem Magazine from its inception in 2008 until 2018. Since 2015 she has worked as a freelance writer, editor, poet, organiser and coordinator for Cam Rivers Publishing and the annual Xu Zhimo Poetry & Arts Festival, a UK-China partnership based at King's College Cambridge and Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. In this capacity she has contributed to several work residencies in Sichuan, Jiangxi, and elsewhere in China.She was awarded the Xu Zhimo Lifelong Achievement Award 2023.