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.  It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled- from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend.
Dearly is a pure Atwood delight,  and long term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight,  empathy and humour.