Dearly (2022) is Margaret Atwood’s twenty-first collection of poetry. It is her first poetry anthology in over a decade, following the publication of The Door 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 The Guardian, titled “Caught in time’s current”, Atwood claims that Dearly “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”.
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Citation: Judge, Shelby. "Dearly". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 January 2023 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40825, accessed 07 October 2024.]