Margaret Atwood’s first poetry collection in more than a decade moves through ageing, grief, desire and extinction; crowded with the stubbornness of love.

Atwood moves easily between the personal and the planetary: elegies for the dead sit beside poems about sex, slugs, mythic women, climate collapse and the absurd mechanics of being alive. The tone can turn from mournful to mordant within a few lines. Dearly is particularly interested in what survives — memory, language, species, attachments — and what it means to keep addressing a world already disappearing at the edges.

Chatto & Windus, London, 2020. First UK edition, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light shelf wear to jacket, with minor handling marks; internally clean and bright, binding firm. Very good to near fine condition.