Publisher's Synopsis
This is a new collection of poems by Margaret Atwood. Her poems evoke the natural world, reveal her observance of the anger, fear and sadness between the sexes and show an awareness of mortality and death.;Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the same year and in 1987 was Regional winner of the British Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her other works include "True Stories" (a collection of poems), the novels "Surfacing" and "The Edible Woman", and "Bluebeard's Egg" (a collection of short stories).