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Paper Boat
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  • Published: 15 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784745943
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $60.00
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Paper Boat

New and Selected Poems 1961-2023

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15 Oct 2024
EBook
10 Oct 2024
Audiobook
10 Oct 2024
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A collection of poems both old and new, spanning a career of ground-breaking writing. Dearly gave us Atwood’s first new poetry collection in over a decade; Paper Boat not only provides us with new wise, playful and thought stirring poems, but also for the first time collects a lifetime’s worth of older poems in one place.

*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 Atwood’s 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, Atwood’s 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
  • Published: 15 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784745943
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $60.00
Categories:

About the author

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She is the author of more than thirty works, which include fiction, poetry and critical essays. Oryx and Crake is her eleventh novel, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, as was The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's, and Alias Grace. Her novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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Also by Margaret Atwood

Freedom
The Testaments
The Handmaid's Tale
War Bears
Bodily Harm
Book of Lives
Dearly
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Praise for Paper Boat

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

She’s one of the few contemporary writers whose poetry and prose receive equal amounts of praise

Washington Post

What a book of magic Paper Boat is . . . a bright and cornucopic life force of a book . . . It resounds with the acuteness of Atwood’s 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 Boat…it’s 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, Atwood’s poetry is as clear-eyed, uncompromising and masterly as her prose

Maria Crawford, Financial Times, *Books of the Year*