‘No one comes back’: Margaret Atwood’s anti-war poem debuts at Venice Biennale

Author Margaret Atwood who has written a new poem about the impact of war. Photograph: Derek Shapton/The Guardian

Margaret Atwood has written a new protest poem about the impact of war that will be unveiled at the Venice Biennale on Tuesday.

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.