
author: Margaret Atwood
published: 10 November 2020
publisher: Ecco
genre(s): poetry
pages: 122
source: bought
format: eBook
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the blurb
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 Tale, The Testaments, Oryx 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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There is a very clear overall theme to this collection of poems by Atwood… and that is death. Death, grief, and sadness. Poetry is an odd thing. Sometimes “enjoyed” is not the right verb to describe the reading and interpretation of it. That is the case with this collection. The poems are often dark and depressing, morbid. So yes, “enjoyment” isn’t quite the correct word. But they were very compelling, even if I often felt disquieted as I read and absorbed them.
The poems are varied, moving from the death/grief of people, to zombies, to space, to even launguage. It was a fascinating journey along the spectrum of what death, grief, and loss look like. One of the many things I enjoyed was the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated topics within a single poem, the way they are woven together, somehow making perfect sense with Atwood’s words.
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