"A playful, informed and briskly sensible discussion of the writing life" (Sunday Telegraph)
Powerful and startling, Margaret Atwood's poetry addresses the conflicts between humankind and nature, between men and women, and between nations.
"Atwood's poems are ... glistening with terse bright images, untentative, closing like a vise." (New York Times Book Review)
A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming palel, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the
