10 Nov 2020: News: Margaret Atwood Poetry Book Release


Dearly: New Poems
  
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.

While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood’s fiction—including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid’s TaleThe TestamentsOryx and Crake, among others—she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry.  This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.

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2 comments:

  1. I finally received this ebook at checked out from the library on Overdrive, but it was so jarring for the text to have page breaks that the author didnʻt intend just because of the size of the font on my ipad that I am waiting to look at this collection in hardback form. After I realized how much importance is placed on Atwoodʻs first collection of poems, "The Circle Game", I realized that I want to experience this one as its full collection- I want to see what story she tells. Quite fascinating, what a poem can become alone versus within itsʻ own family. And how the author could have formed two very different poems as two very different people and yet realize that they somehow belong together in a certain order.

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