Galatea

In Galatea, her first collection, Challenger casts a poet's sensitive eye across the hours of a tumultuous century to create startling poems whose voice - resolute, compassionate, original - both celebrates and mourns the tensions of human nature. Drawing her themes from the Pygmalion myth, Challenger portrays her subjects in trembling poise between action and inaction, consummation and defeat.

List of contents

• Galatea
• The Service of the Heart
• The Spark of Transgression

About the author

Melanie Challenger's first collection of poems, Galatea (Salt Publishing: 2006), received the Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Award and nomination for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. She is Creative Fellow at the Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity at University College London, and Associate Artist at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy. She lives in the Scottish highlands.

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Challenger
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2006
• EAN: 9781844712908
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-290-8
• No. of pages: 76
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 109 g
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama