Short-Listed For The Felix Dennis Best First Collection Prize
(Forward Prizes For Poetry 2007) 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. The name Galatea itself refers to the
female figure in Greek myth sculpted from stone by the hands of
Pygmalion. Becoming enamoured of the statue, Pygmalion asks of the
gods that they might turn her to flesh. Drawing her themes from
this central story, Challenger portrays her subjects in trembling
poise between action and inaction, consummation and defeat. A
series of little epiphanies, the poems are witness to the
uncovering of a mediaeval woman's body in earth churned by the
boots of soldiers at war, a sea of five hundred naked bodies
marching across the urban horizon of a city, the transplanting of a
titanium heart in the folds of an unknown individual's chest.
Whatever her centre of attention, Challenger transforms the
singularity of her subject into a universal experience with a
deliberately harsh lyricism much her own. The result is a series of
lyrics - unsettling and otherwordly - whose searches for grace
reveal a dark humour and intense compassion for all the reaches of
human nature.
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