Anne Carson

Winner of the 2020 Princess of Asturias Prize, Anne Carson is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary poetry. A specialist in classical language and culture and with an oeuvre that fuses styles, references and formats, she will visit the CCCB for the first time.

Together with the collaboration of the Barcelona Poesia Festival, Anne Carson presents an interdisciplinary show in which she will perform the sonnets of “Possessive Used as Drink (Me) A Lecture on Pronouns” on the relationship between language, pronouns and gender identity and the poetic essay on the history of the Cycladic civilization “By Chance the Cycladic people”. The audiovisuals of the artists James Merry and Robert Currie, the dance of the dancer Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir and the translation into Catalan of the texts by Núria Busquet Molist will accompany the poet in this journey through her literary universe.

After the recital, Anne Carson and the other performers will talk to the writer and editor Valerie Miles.