Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award.

"The most exciting poet writing in English today" Michael Ondaatje "Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. If she was a prose writer, she would be instantly recognised as a genius" -- Colm Toibin "Fragmentary, long-lined, often barely punctuated and flipping between the classical and the mdoern, it's a remarkable creation, funny and philosophical" Guardian "Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted" -- Ruth Padel New York Times Book Review "Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer" -- Susan Sontag

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award.

"The most exciting poet writing in English today" Michael Ondaatje "Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. If she was a prose writer, she would be instantly recognised as a genius" -- Colm Toibin "Fragmentary, long-lined, often barely punctuated and flipping between the classical and the mdoern, it's a remarkable creation, funny and philosophical" Guardian "Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted" -- Ruth Padel New York Times Book Review "Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer" -- Susan Sontag

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award.

"The most exciting poet writing in English today" Michael Ondaatje "Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. If she was a prose writer, she would be instantly recognised as a genius" -- Colm Toibin "Fragmentary, long-lined, often barely punctuated and flipping between the classical and the mdoern, it's a remarkable creation, funny and philosophical" Guardian "Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted" -- Ruth Padel New York Times Book Review "Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer" -- Susan Sontag