Anne Carson: Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind

Parkinson’s disease turns off certain genes in the cells of the brain. What does it mean for a writer to confront scriptural disintegration and can boxing help rewire the spluttering brain?

’s collections of poetry include , Men in the Off Hours, , , which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and most recently, . Her many translations of classical works include An Oresteia, , Antigone and . A new production of her translation of Sophokles’ Elektra, starring Brie Larson, opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London two days after the lecture.

This year’s other Winter Lectures:
Friday 10 January: Katherine Rundell: What is children’s literature for?
Friday 14 February: Perry Anderson: Regime Change in the West

Tickets are £15 per lecture, or £35 for the series.

Now in their fourteenth year, the annual ‘London Review of Books’ Winter Lectures have been the occasion for many of the paper’s most widely discussed interventions of recent years, from Judith Butler on who owns Kafka to Hilary Mantel on royal bodies, Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange to Mary Beard on women in power, Meehan Crist on childbearing in the age of climate crisis to Pankaj Mishra on the Shoah after Gaza.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Beveridge Hall, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom