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Anne Carson


March 2024

  • Nikki Giovanni

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le; Three Births by K Patrick; After You Were, I Am by Camille Ralphs; Wrong Norma by Anne Carson; Poems 1968-2020 by Nikki Giovanni

February 2024

  • Swimmers in a pool

    Book of the day
    Wrong Norma by Anne Carson review – unjoined-up thinking at its best

    The poet’s new collection of mainly prose pieces on subjects as diverse as Flaubert, snow and Roget’s Thesaurus is a nonstop triumph

June 2023

  • A double exposure of a spooky half transparent hooded figure. Over layered over a foggy path in the countryside. On a moody foggy winters day.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about missing persons

    These interrupted stories, in fiction and real life, are powerfully moving and key into a universal anxiety

November 2022

  • Tsitsi Dangarembga.

    Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Carson and Mary Gaitskill honoured by Royal Society of Literature

    New authors chosen for the RSL International Writers programme, championing ‘the power of literature to transcend borders’, are announced

October 2022

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Salman Rushdie among favourites for this year’s Nobel prize for literature

    The novelist, who was stabbed earlier this year as he was about to give a public lecture, is highly placed by bookmakers to win this year’s award

February 2022

  • Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love

    Shall I compare thee to a frozen food aisle? How to write a love poem in 2022

    In a world where emotions are cheap and the truth even cheaper, how can we write authentic odes to our beloved? Sharon Olds, Maged Zaher and Lil Nas X show one poet the way

January 2022

  • Captive Andromache by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896).

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths

    From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction

November 2021

  • Ian McKellen in the 2013 film of Lord of the Rings.

    Top 10s
    From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction

    From classic tales such as Paradise Lost to ‘counter-epics’ by Anne Carson and Tim O’Brien, these stories lend real grandeur to their subjects

May 2021

  • Detail from The Trojan Women: A Comic, by Rosanna Bruno and Anne Carson.

    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    The Trojan Women by Anne Carson; The Gododdin by Gillian Clarke; Hotel Raphael by Rachel Boast; American Mules by Martina Evans; pandemonium by Andrew McMillan

October 2020

  • 2014 W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony<br>CAMBRIDGE, MA - SEPTEMBER 30: Jamaica Kincaid attends the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony and introduces Maya Angelou (deceased) at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on September 30, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

    Nobel prize for literature tipped to make safe pick after years of scandal

    Having been postponed in 2018, last year’s return drew heavy fire for the selection of Peter Handke, so experts expect a cautious choice this week

October 2019

  • Leonardo DiCpario and Kate Winslet

    Burning down the house: the bittersweet appeal of break-up literature

    From Richard Yates and Maggie Nelson to Ocean Vuong and Alice Munro, many of the great love stories are really about its aftermath. What can we learn from the literature of heartbreak?

July 2018

  • Damien Johnson as Orpheus and Sarah Kundi as Eurydice in Ballet Black’s production of Orpheus.s

    Top 10s
    From Catullus to Dylan Thomas: the top 10 elegies

    They date back to ancient times and remain a strong current in modern poetry. Here are some of the best

October 2016

  • Anne Carson

    Meet the author
    Anne Carson: ‘I do not believe in art as therapy’

    The poet and classics professor talks about her new collection, Float, her love of volcanoes and the power of brevity

July 2016

  • Poet Emily Berry

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    If I’m Scared We Can’t Win: Penguin Modern Poets One review – a welcome return

    Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: In Emily Berry, Anne Carson and Sophie Collins, Penguin has showcased three funny, playful and creative writers

June 2016

  • ‘Introducing contemporary poetry to the general reader’ ... Penguin Modern Poets

    Penguin Modern Poets series gets 21st-century relaunch

    Iconic brand, which brought together groups of writers – including the bestselling Mersey poets – will release contemporary collections showcasing ‘a new golden age’

October 2014

  • Colm Toibin

    Colm Tóibín: the literature of grief

    Colm Tóibín explains how his new novel, Nora Webster, draws on his memories of his father's death, joining a rich tradition of writing about loss, from Sophocles to Joan Didion

March 2014

  • Copies of the books whose authors are finalists for the Folio Prize

    Anne Carson is bookies' favourite to win inaugural Folio prize

    Verse retelling of Greek myth leads a shortlist for the £40,000 prize with combined UK sales of fewer than 20,000 copies

February 2014

  • finalists for the folio prize 2014

    What's wrong with a readable book?

    Natalie Haynes

    Natalie Haynes: Writers like Anne Carson make the Folio longlist a pleasure for us literary judges

January 2014

  • Thomas Pynchon

    Thomas Pynchon in line for Kitschies' Red Tentacle award

    Famously reclusive author joins Anne Carson, Patrick Ness, Ruth Ozeki and James Smythe on science fiction prize shortlist

October 2013

  • Poets in conversation at the London Review of Books bookshop, London, Britain - 15 Mar 2011

    TS Eliot Prize 2013: shortlist announced

    Michael Symmons Roberts, Anne Carson and Daljit Nagra are among the lineup for this year's £15,000 prize

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