Solitary Confinement Ivan Strpka she decides not to return

she decides not to return to the city

writing with rhythmic vitality and visual imagination

’ Elsewhere there is a careful attention to the quality of Jamaican light that subtly maps shifts of mood

and the changing shapes of power and privacy

Stephen Watts Here and There: a Selection of Poems by Basim Furat

Solitary Confinement Ivan Strpka she decides not to returnParachuted into France as a British secret agent, Christopher Burney was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he spent 526 days in complete isolation. With little human contact and nothing to distract him, Burney developed a mental and spiritual regime that enabled him not just to survive but to develop an internal resilience that enabled him to survive his subsequent time in Buchenwald