The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet.
By turns moving,playful and wise,the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings,ageing and retrospection,but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition,as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves,sirens and dreams make their appearance,as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.
Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists,Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes,but distilled - from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens,from pressing political issues to myth and legend.
It is a pure Atwood delight,and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight,empathy and humour.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781529113280Number of pages: 144Weight: 130 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm
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'Here we see Atwood at the height of her poetic powers'- New York Times Book Review
'A poignant yet playful collection of verse,about endings and departures,it is sliced with clever,sharp humour'- Daily Telegraph
'This collection of poems is a reckoning with the past that comes from a place of wisdom and control... You can almost hear her speaking voice,see the twinkle in her eye... wonderfully observed'- Observer
'Atwood's first poetry collection in over a decade is intimate,lingering delicately between the human and the natural,and this world and the next'- New Statesman
'She's become world famous for The Handmaid's Tale,and jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize for The Testaments,but Canadian author Margaret Atwood was once better known as a poet... this new volume brings together some of her favourite themes,from zombies,werewolves and aliens,to the passage of time and the most pressing political issues of the day'- Evening Standard
Margaret Atwood
Widely regarded as one of the world's leading writers,Margaret Atwood is an author,essayist,poet and activist whose inventive and diverse literary output ranges widely and deeply from feminist classics such as The Handmaid's Taleto complex blends of Science Fiction and reality such as her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Blind Assassin and chilling dystopian visions like Oryx and Crake.
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