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Autobiography of Red (1998) is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.
A further collection, Turner: New and Selected Poems, was published in 1994, and reissued in 2002; the title-poem, Turner is an extended sequence or verse novel responding to a painting by J. M. W. Turner, "Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on" (1840).
The painting was the subject of an extended poetic sequence or verse novel by David Dabydeen, Turner (1994; reissued 2002).
Best known for the verse novel Nine Hours North (Penguin Books, 2006), he is also the author of the poetry collections Re:reading the dictionary (Cottage Industry Press, 2011) and Vapour Trails, and a collaborator (with Ben Winch) on the spoken word concept album Brothers of the Head.
View from Mount Diablo is a verse novel by Ralph Thompson (b. 1928), which won the Jamaican National Literary Award in manuscript in 2001, and was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003.
In a cover story in The New York Times Magazine, critic Sam Anderson discusses the plot and reputation of Caron's verse novel.