Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995

Description: The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. In this volume, two previous selections, Poems 1965-1975 and Poems 1976-1986 are presented together with Morning in the Burned House. 'Detached, ironic, loving by turns ...poems that sing off the page and sting' Michele Roberts

Review: Atwood is the quiet Mata Hari, the mysterious, violent figure ... who pits herself against the ordered too-clean world like an arsonist Michael Ondaatje An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal rum relations between women and men THE TIMES Detached, ironic... poems that sing off the page and sting Michele Roberts Lean, symbolic, thoroughly Atwoodesque prose honed into elegant columns... SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY





Author Biography: Margaret Atwood's novel, ALIAS GRACE, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1996. She has written many novels, including the prize-winning THE HANDMAID'S TALE, which was also a successful film. In 2000 she won the Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin.