with a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. She is a Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay Prize. Her writing has appeared in The FT Weekend Magazine, The Guardian, The TLS, The Economist, and others. She lives in London. Her first book, Amnion -- "a form of anti- or counter-epic: it is an attempt to honour a fractured family history and give it its due weight," Sy-Quia writes --is published by Granta Poetry.
At the Guardian Sy-Quia tagged ten of her favorite epics, including:
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne CarsonRead about the other entries on the list.
There’s a long tradition of using original epics as the departure point for new texts that foreground minor characters in their antecedents. Carson has been writing into the cracks of the classical corpus her whole career, but in this book she is partially following in the footsteps of HD’s Helen in Egypt, itself a modernist epic poem. Carson places Marilyn Monroe alongside Helen of Troy and investigates the incendiary, nation-shaking potential of sex appeal.
--Marshal Zeringue
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