Victoria Chang wins 2024 Forward prize for best collection
The American poet Victoria Chang has won the £10,000 Forward prize for best collection with ‘With My Back to the World’ (Corsair), which engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist. After being shortlisted for the prize, she told the Forward Arts Foundation that the collection “emerged rather organically, like most of my work, although it might not seem so. The Museum of Moder...
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