Margaret Atwood, Dearly

Shelby Judge (University of Glasgow)

Ed. by Kerry Myler, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2020

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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Dearly

(2022) is Margaret Atwood’s twenty-first collection of poetry. It is her first poetry anthology in over a decade, following the publication of

The Door

in 2007. Her fiction spans the genres of historical fiction, speculative fiction, climate fiction, dystopian fiction, literary fiction, and feminist writing. In a 2020 piece for

TheGuardian

, titled “Caught in time’s current”, Atwood claims that

Dearly

“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”. Indeed, three of the key motifs within the anthology are grief, the passage of time and ageing, and environmentalism and conservation. All of the…

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Citation: Judge, Shelby. "Dearly". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 January 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40825, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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