Margaret Atwood to Publish First Poetry Collection Since 2007, Dearly

It's been over a decade since Margaret Atwood has composed a book of poems, writes Alison Flood for The Guardian. But her next book, to be published in November, will be a poetry collection called Dearly. Her UK publisher, Chatto & Windus (the book will be out from Ecco in the States), told Flood that it will feature "werewolves, sirens, aliens and dreams." More:

“Every poem in Dearly rings with all Margaret Atwood’s characteristic curiosity and energy,” said Chatto’s Becky Hardie. “It is a pure delight which stretches heart and mind.” Atwood, whose long-term partner Graeme Gibson died last year, will narrate the audiobook herself.

The author, who published her first collection, Double Persephone, in 1961, was a poet before she became a novelist. She told the Guardian in 2003 that she realised at high school, while walking home across the football field, that she would be a writer: “I wrote a poem in my head and then I wrote it down, and after that writing was the only thing I wanted to do.”

The full report is at The Guardian.