Maria Crawford selects her must-read titles
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023 by Margaret Atwood The Canadian novelist began her writing career as a poet and returned to the form in recent years with Dearly, one of the collections reproduced in this six-decade-spanning tome. By turns deeply introspective and outward looking, Atwood’s poetry is as clear-eyed, uncompromising and masterly as her prose.
The restlessness of these 34 cantos, which dart between personal experience and historical moment, creates a vital expression of the exile’s condition. Presented in parallel text with the original Mandarin. Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi Shortlisted for this year’s TS Eliot Prize , Fierce Elegy captures the state of grief while eschewing any hint of the maudlin.
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