*A Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times Book of the Year 2024*
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age
Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes Paper Boat assembles Atwoods most vital poems in one essential volume.
In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters mythological figures, animals and everyday people all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. How can one live with such a heart? Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader, and ferrying us through life, death and whatever comes next. Walking the tightrope between reality and fantasy as only she can, Atwoods journey through poetry illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.
Spanning six decades of work from her earliest beginnings to brand new poems this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
We should regard Atwood as a poet first and foremost just one who happens to be a highly regarded novelist Sunday Herald
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What a book of magic Paper Boat is . . . a bright and cornucopic life force of a book . . . It resounds with the acuteness of Atwoods wisdom, the warmth of her cold eye, her uniquely lit courage -- Ali Smith * Guardian * Atwood is celebrated for her entertaining and electrifying prose works Now, with the magnificent Paper Boatits time to take note of her uniquely fascinating poetic voice Beguiling and unsettling -- Patricia Craig * Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year* * By turns deeply introspective and outward looking, Atwoods poetry is as clear-eyed, uncompromising and masterly as her prose -- Maria Crawford * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* * Atwood at the height of her poetic powers: her imagery made tangible with sound * New York Times Book Review, on Dearly * Read these poems aloud, read them carefully, read them with joy and tears * Scotsman, on Dearly * Shes one of the few contemporary writers whose poetry and prose receive equal amounts of praise * Washington Post *
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic The Handmaid's Tale was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat; Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the Wood, a volume of short stories.
Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and 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. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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