Poetry.
Says 2019 judge Maggie Smith, The title TRANSFORMER invokes electricity and change, and this collection absolutely crackles with both.
The poems are concerned with memory and trauma, violence and vulnerability, the domestic and the wild.
'I want all these lambs / to escape being mutton, ' the poet writes, and yet we know what will happen to so many lambs, so many sisters and daughters, so many mothers and children.
How do we live with our fear--'a dense & solid thing / she knows must.
