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You could get waylaid here, or slip amazedinto your tangled head. You couldjust not come back. Most good poetry, in my opinion, is a little bit open to interpretation, but one thing is quite clear with this one: the 80-year-old Atwood had death on her mind when she put together this collection. If

Happy National Poetry Month! I'm going to boost a few poetry favorites all month so we can all celebrate! ‘ The world’s burning up. It always did. ’ ‘ The late poems are the ones / I turn to first now, wrote poet W.S. Merwin , ‘ it is the late poems / that are made of words / that have come the whole way. ’ Leggi tutto

Just posted my Goodreads Choice 2020 Reaction Video on Booktube! Click the link to check it out!! The Written Review So. This was among the two poetry books I read this year and I did like it more than the other. But. I'm not a good poetry reader. I just don't get it and poetry always feels like m

This is Margaret Atwood's first poetry collection in over a decade, and there's something soothing about reading her beautifully precise words during a pandemic, when we all seem stuck in a perpetual, uncertain present. Atwood's fiction has always been infused with poetry – she clearly loves words an Leggi tutto

I liked the themes of this poetry collection, particularly those about the environment as they felt relevant and important. Perhaps I would have enjoyed this more if I read it rather than listened to the audiobook. Although it was nice to hear Atwoods voice and I usually love audiobooks to be narrat Leggi tutto

Atwood should really stick to prose. She's no poet.

⭐ 3.75 / 5 ⭐ Altogether, an eerie, beautiful, and haunting collection of poems and prose from one of the world's most iconic writers. The hand on your shoulder. The almost-hand: Poetry, coming to claim you. What am I supposed to say? I mean, c’mon, it’s Margaret Atwood. She’s a literary icon. While Leggi tutto