Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet.
Dearly is her first collection in over a decade, bringing together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes; from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world, to myths, legends and pressing political issues.
The poems 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.
It was with these thematic leanings in mind, that a detail of ECHO (2018) was chosen as the cover image for this soon to be released title - and I couldn’t be more thrilled.