Wandering through the lost alleyways of a mind littered with cultural artifacts, songs on repeat and ever-changing favourite films, feelings, eros and thanatos, people caught in passing, on underground lines and overland trains, walking and sometimes buses. Flavours of chaos and confusion. Route-planners conceived in anguish and poetry.

I've blogged about Underground Diaries before, and I return to it today. Started in August 2001 the diaries now form a tight-packed trilogy which explore the city (of London), the brittle confines between fiction and confession, the anxious communities of commuters, the self reflected in media and the self drowned in emotion, dreams that explode.

Matt Grey is a metaphysical "man under train" who miraculously escapes, but not unharmed. In a spit, this is powerful writing.