Galatea

by Melanie Challenger

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.

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Melanie Challenger is a British writer and philosopher whose work explores what it means to be a living being. Her books investigate embodiment, animality, mortality, agency, and humanity’s relationship with the living world. She is the author of On Extinction, How to Be Animal, and Alive. She is host of the podcast The Psychosphere. She is also an award-winning poet and librettist for opera and oratorios, and a National Geographic Explorer.