Wrong Norma

Uncompromisingly intelligent, while being effortlessly readable , and – a word critics don’t often use about Carson – fun

Uncompromisingly intelligent, while being effortlessly readable , and – a word critics don’t often use about Carson – fun

I'm a big fan of her work ... There's a joy in encountering a mind that takes nothing for granted... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism

Wrong Norma is the poet at her best: humorous, whimsical, erudite, moving, unpretentious

Reading this astounding, virtuosic book is a sampling of interiority . It is extraordinary because the form partakes the unjoined nature of human thought…. A triumph of a book

Carson’s latest work displays her brilliance and originality through a series of hybrid, free-flowing text interspersed with images and digressions… These prose poems evince clarity, precision and attention

She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote

Powerfully moving ... Wrong Norma can also be funny… Full of wit, pain and the wonder of language

Carson applies the habits of classical scholarship, the linguistic rigor, the relentless search for evidence , the jigsaw approach to scattered facts, to the trivia of contemporary private life

Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today

Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. The poems play with character and plot, myth and magic; they are rich with attitude and wit and the undertow of grief. If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius

Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020.