WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2024
'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' Raymond Antrobus
Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.
WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.
With My Back to the World won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection on the 10th October 2024
| ISBN: | 9781472158215 |
| Publication date: | 4th April 2024 |
| Author: | Victoria Chang |
| Publisher: | Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 101 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry Poetry by individual poets |
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2024
'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' Raymond Antrobus
Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.
WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.
With My Back to the World won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection on the 10th October 2024
With My Back to the World features in the following genres: Poetry, Poetry by individual poets
With My Back to the World is available in Hardback
With My Back to the World was written by Victoria Chang and published by Corsair an imprint of Little, Brown
With My Back to the World has 101 pages
£11.69