Cormorant Anne Dean Alex McRae Dimsdale

Alex McRae Dimsdale

The Edge of Oblivion

Filled with dramatic monologues and personalities as various as Roger Bannister

trapped in ever-decreasing circles and

of memory and imagination

Cormorant Anne Dean Alex McRae DimsdaleElizabeth Parkers second collection, Cormorant, explores the creature of the title from all angles. The bird itself however is always untameable and irreducible to human impressions. It is a Devil Bird (Dart), omens in a dying beech (Cormorant), the bubble of an underwater diver, an enemy of anglers, or the elusive subject watched by humans. Parker plays close attention to the city of Bristol and its inhabitants whether they are human or more than