- Published: 31 October 2016
- ISBN: 9781910702574
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 226
- RRP: $39.99
Float















- Published: 31 October 2016
- ISBN: 9781910702574
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 226
- RRP: $39.99
These books.attempt to unleash the fragment's liberating force. The effect can be exhilarating.
Chris Power, Guardian
[A] captivating new work, Float, might be the most stunning example to date. Carson is an innovator. Carson is a strange and immersive poet. It's only after reading Float in its entirety - which I keep finding myself doing - that you realise its full effect.
Charlotte Runcie, Daily Telegraph
It's this beautiful lyricism, communicated through a form that is, at times, maddeningly vague that Carson has remained true to her sensibilities and artistry.
Taylor Kang, Culture Trip
A brilliant and provocative take on domestic life.
Fiona Sampson, New Statesman, Book of the Year
She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism.
Teju Cole, Observer, Book of the Year
[Float contains] achingly arty mini books.
Standard Issue Magazine
To describe her work as innovative, or groundbreaking, seems reductive, so we'll simply leave you to consider her latest publication: Float, out this year, is a collection presented in 23 'chapbooks' and offering works of both poetry and prose, to be enjoyed in no particular order.
Luke Abrahams, Culture Trip
Float is the best new "book" I've read this year, funny, bleak and urgent.
John McAuliffe, Irish Times, Book of the Year
Anyone who spends time with Anne Carson begins to feel cleverer. You read her work with the prevailing sense that you're getting something, and getting it fast.
Joanna O'Leary, Times Literary Supplement
If you don't know Anne Carson, then you're in for a joyous discovery.
Modern House