![]() And a randomiser is what every Carson reader needs to be. Red Doc> carries this dedication: "for the randomizer". Throughout, Carson disregards convention in a way that only a demob-happy classicist could. With him on the icy road are Sad – his lover and a war veteran – and Ida, an artist, irresistibly described as looking like "a very tough experimental baby". He abandons his day job as herdsman of muskoxen and sets off on a picaresque journey that takes in a glacier, a psychiatric clinic, a volcano and ice bats "the size of toasters". Her writing is wayward, entertaining and testing. Even non-fans would have to concede that she is an original. ![]() ![]() And she has pulled in an audience who would not ordinarily read poetry. ![]() A Canadian-born classicist (she has taught Greek at Princeton and elsewhere), Carson has a pile-up of awards to her name, from the TS Eliot prize to the MacArthur "genius grant". A nne Carson's Autobiography of Red, published in 1998, caused a sensation, a verse novel that reconstituted mythical Geryon – a red-winged monster – and Heracles and invented a modern narrative for them. ![]()
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