Dearly

Dearly is Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade. In it she addresses love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature—and even zombies. The poems are introspective and personal in tone but wide-ranging in topic, moving between intimate recollection, speculative asides, and sharp observational pieces. In poem after poem Atwood casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived, testing memory, mortality, and the human capacity to keep meaning. While many readers know her for fiction such as The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, and Oryx and Crake, Atwood has long been an accomplished poet; Dearly continues that work and offers new, varied poems from one of her most sustained poetic efforts.