**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE** The poems in Ephemeron
deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief,
urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt,
anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school,
as remembered in 'Boarding-School Tales', or parenting's day-by-day
shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter
Mother'. The long central section, 'Translations from the
Pasiphae', gathers these themes together in a blistering,
unforgettable re-telling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, as seen
from the point of view of the bull-child's mother - the betrayed
and violated Pasiphae. The familiar legend of the dashing male hero
slaying the monster in the labyrinth is transformed here into a
story of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary cycle of
violence, power and the abuse of power. At the centre lies Pasiphae
calling for her son: 'They took him away from me/and they killed
him in the dark, for years.' Telling uncomfortable truths, going
deep into male and female drives and desires, our most tender and
vulnerable places, and speaking of them in frank, unshrinking ways
- these poems are afraid, certainly, but also beautiful, resolute
and brave.
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