This residency is for a writer of international renown who comes to Cove Park for up to four weeks. During their stay the resident is the guest of honour at events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also has time at Cove Park to work on their own projects.

During her residency Anne Carson will be hosted at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, for a reception and at the Centre of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, for a reading event with poet Robin Robertson. She will also be taking the opportunity to see more of Scotland and to pursue her own projects at Cove Park.

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, Professor of Classics, and translator. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award. A professor of  classics, with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernises, and translates Greek mythology. She has published fifteen books as of 2010, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction.

Anne Carson was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007. The Classic Stage Company, a New York–based theatre company, produced three of Carson’s translations: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Sophocles’ Electra; and Euripides’ Orestes (as An Oresteia), in repertory, in the 2008/2009 season. She was Poet-in-Residence at New York University. Carson is a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.