Reading Anne Carson: Eros the Bittersweet

Join us for an intimate in-person session diving into the fascinating world of Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet. Whether you're a fan or new to her work, it's a great chance to explore themes of love and desire together.

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On these bookclubs
During the full year of 2026, we run a series of intimate book clubs dedicated to the work of Anne Carson. Throughout the year, we’ll read and explore the writing of this extraordinary poet, essayist, classicist, and translator. As Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “In the small world of people who keep up with contemporary poetry, Anne Carson has been cutting a large swath, inciting both envy and admiration.”.
Carson’s work is famously unclassifiable. Alongside her celebrated translations of classical writers such as Sappho and Euripides, she has published poems, essays, verse novels, libretti and many works that glide across genres. Known for her intimate erudition, her writing cuts through both your throat and your heart as she regularly writes on love, desire, sexual longing and despair.
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On tender prospects
tender prospects is an artist-run project space for artistic and literary research. Currently set up in Lisbon, Portugal as a gallery, library and bookstore. We host exhibitions, work-in residencies, workshops and events to bridge the artistic and scientific, opening up as a space to be curious, critical and tender. tender prospects was founded in january 2025 by Rolien Sandelowsky.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

tender prospects, 17A Travessa da Paz, Lisboa, Portugal

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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