Faultlines by Caroline Maldonado

Images of exile and violence haunt many of the poems in Faultlines. The context moves from the city of Berlin to the reed-beds of East Anglia, but mainly it is Italy that breathes through this colllection. The central sequence 'Faultlines' responds to the actual and metaphorical resonances of the 2016 earthquake in Le Marche.  Throughout the collection, with an essential lyricism of tone, and occasionally returning to Italian forms of sonnet, terza rima and sestina, she explores the painful realities of 21st century life and the chasms, environmental, political and personal, that open up around us.