- Published: 14 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781787332355
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $34.99
Wrong Norma
- Published: 14 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781787332355
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $34.99
Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today
Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient
She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote
Susan Sontag, author of Against Interpretation
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
Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn
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
New York Magazine
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
Teju Cole, author of Tremor
Strikes a range of scintillating, strangely affecting, and largely unconnected scenes… Each prose poem displays a precision, an attentiveness to the mildest of incidents as well as the most monumental of aftershocks
Skinny
Uncompromisingly intelligent, while being effortlessly readable, and – a word critics don’t often use about Carson – fun
Daily Telegraph
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
Observer
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
Guardian
Powerfully moving... Wrong Norma can also be funny… Full of wit, pain and the wonder of language
Spectator
Wrong Norma is the poet at her best: humorous, whimsical, erudite, moving, unpretentious
Times Literary Supplement
Reading these fizzingly intelligent short pieces…it’s easy to see why she’s regularly tipped to win a Nobel Prize
Daily Telegraph, *Summer Reads of 2024*