{"product_id":"dearly-poems-margaret-atwood","title":"Dearly: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eBefore she became one of the world's most celebrated novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eDearly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis her first collection of poetry in over a decade - a reckoning with love, loss, time, and the strange, fragile beauty of a world that is always slipping away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFrom the ache of grief to the darkly comic presence of zombies, these poems remind us why Atwood remains one of our most essential voices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThe Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eDearly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings together over fifty poems that move between the intimately personal and the urgently global. Atwood writes of her late partner, Graeme Gibson, with a spare and devastating restraint - \"like hanging a hat \/ on a hook that's not there any longer\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e. She writes of an aging cat losing its mind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e, of passports that hold the ghostly procession of who we once were\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e, and of children growing up in a world without birds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThe Range\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eThis is a collection of astonishing range. There are poems about Frida Kahlo and Cassandra, werewolves and werewolves' kin, mushrooms bringing news from underground, and a drone scanning wreckage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/discover.poudrelibraries.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1938401__SAnger%20%20%20%20Poetry.__P0,2__Orightresult__X1?lang=eng\u0026amp;suite=mobile\u0026amp;ivts=B%2FORVAtlxrznQWYM26SlfQ%3D%3D\u0026amp;casts=5LTQ%2FisaX2qTkbOLIqd3yw%3D%3D\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThere are poems about the climate crisis, about the false weight given to what women wear, about the words we are losing to time - \"dearly\" and \"sorrow\" among them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAtwood moves from the traditional human grief to the fantastical, never losing her sharp, wry, unsentimental gaze.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eWhy This Book Matters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eAtwood is now in her eighties.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/23\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood-review-the-experience-of-a-lifetime\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eDearly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the work of a lifetime - a collection that is by turns moving, playful, and profoundly wise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIt is a book that burns in the here and now, shifting between pasts and futures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIt does not offer easy comfort. It offers truth, beauty, and the unmistakable voice of a writer who has seen it all and refuses to look away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitab Markaz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50934011166967,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0877\/8058\/9815\/files\/dearly-by-margaret-atwood.jpg?v=1783930349","url":"https:\/\/kitabmarkaz.shop\/products\/dearly-poems-margaret-atwood","provider":"Kitab Markaz","version":"1.0","type":"link"}