Canadian author’s work, shared exclusively with the Observer, is to be shown alongside art by Goya
Margaret Atwood has written a new protest poem about the impact of war that will be unveiled at the Venice Biennale on Monday.
The poem, shared this weekend exclusively with the Observer, was written to be shown alongside more than 200 works, including the art of painters Francisco de Goya and Otto Dix, in an exhibition designed to emphasise the futility of human conflict.
Many have travelled far
to the place of fire and blackout,
the time without words.
Some have survived,
though not intact.
No one comes back.
Damaged people damage people,
and so on.
