Ecco to Publish Margaret Atwood’s First Poetry Collection in Over a Decade, Dearly
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HarperCollins imprint Ecco will publish Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s forthcoming book of poetry, Dearly, on Nov. 10. Dearly is Atwood’s first poetry collection in more than a decade.
A press release describes Dearly as follows:
Both [Atwood’s] longtime readers and new fans will be delighted by the book’s insight, empathy and wit. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems in Dearly are about absences and endings, aging and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, and aliens make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.