Margaret Atwood & Sarah Howe: Paper Boat

Before she became a well-known novelist, Margaret Atwood was an award-winning poet. She has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years, from the self-published, hand-set Double Persephone in 1961 to its follow up The Circle Game which won the Governor General’s Award, to her latest, critically-acclaimed collection dearly-poems-margaret-atwood">span> in 2020. paper-boat-new-and-selected-poems-1961-2023-margaret-atwood">span> (Chatto & Windus) draws on that impressive body of work, and expands on it with poems previously uncollected, revealing an artist who has somehow, always, managed to be at the height of her powers, and to have her finger on every pulse.

Atwood will be appearing at Conway Hall to read from her work, and to discuss it with poet, editor and critic Sarah Howe.