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Paper Boat

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***A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2024***

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age

Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood – a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes – Paper Boat assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.

In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters – mythological figures, animals and everyday people – all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. ‘How can one live with such a heart?’ Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader, and ferrying us through life, death and whatever comes next. Walking the tightrope between reality and fantasy as only she can, Atwood’s journey through poetry illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.

Spanning six decades of work – from her earliest beginnings to brand new poems – this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.

‘We should regard Atwood as a poet first and foremost – just one who happens to be a highly regarded novelist’ Sunday Herald

© Margaret Atwood 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Critics Review

What a book of magic Paper Boat is . . . a bright and cornucopic life force of a book . . . It resounds with the acuteness of Atwood’s wisdom, the warmth of her cold eye, her uniquely lit courage
Guardian
Atwood is celebrated for her entertaining and electrifying prose works… Now, with the magnificent Paper Boat…it’s time to take note of her uniquely fascinating poetic voice… Beguiling and unsettling
Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*
By turns deeply introspective and outward looking, Atwood’s poetry is as clear-eyed, uncompromising and masterly as her prose
Financial Times, *Books of the Year*
Atwood at the height of her poetic powers: her imagery made tangible with sound
New York Times Book Review, on Dearly
Read these poems aloud, read them carefully, read them with joy and tears
Scotsman, on Dearly
She’s one of the few contemporary writers whose poetry and prose receive equal amounts of praise
Washington Post
Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Margaret Atwood
Duration 9 hours and 40 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529949940
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets
Availability AU, GB, IE

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