When terrible things are happening in the world, Margaret Atwood’s poetry helps me to face them.
Category: Book Reviews
Temeraire
An unashamedly fantastical adventure with a sharp, inventive eye for detail and believeable characterisation.
Persepolis
A vivid portrait of life in Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution.
The Creel (poem)
Beautiful Scottish imagery illuminating the burden on women.
Late October (poem)
Late October is a great poem describing autumn, what colours, what sounds and drama.
The Kiss
It’s a true story of incest but it reads like a novel and is written with real insight and absence of self-pity.
Sixty Women Poets
This made me fall in love with poetry and learn how to read it.
The Women’s History of the World
Hugely informative and entertaining and went round my friends like wildfire.
Mr Sandman
She has a wonderful way of expressing lives that are outside the norm and keeping empathy with ALL her characters.
The Tenderness of Wolves
Transports you to Canada in 1867, to the wilderness and terrible weather endured by Scots who emigrated there.