TurncoatPoems set in a state of heavy surveillance as the speaker navigates uncertainty and shifting realities. Through the poems in Turncoat, Molly Bendall's sixth collection, the speaker and other figures dwell under the ever present eye of surveillance by unspecified authorities. Mistrust and dread become part of the fabric of their lives, as they never know who may be a turncoata person who disguises her allegiances and traffics in betrayal. These poems