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

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

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

“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 21 November 2024.]