Dearly

A source of uncompromising elemental warmth Ali SmithBy 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 flux 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.Dearly is a pure Atwood delight and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight empathy and humour.GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 -- BEST POETRY*BOOK OF THE YEAR OBSERVER FINANCIAL TIMES * Review Here we see Atwood at the height of her poetic powers ―New York Times Book ReviewA poignant yet playful collection of verse about endings and departures it is sliced with clever sharp humour ―Daily TelegraphThis 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 ―ObserverAtwoods first poetry collection in over a decade is intimate lingering delicately between the human and the natural and this world and the next ―New StatesmanShes become world famous for The Handmaids 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 About the Author Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cats Eye The Robber Bride Alias Grace The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic The Handmaids Tale was followed in 2019 by a sequel The Testaments which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society the Franz Kafka Prize the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist illustrator librettist playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto Canada.