Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood Mike White An elegy for a dead

An elegy for a dead lover ends with a quiet recognition of everyday beauty – first sun streaming through the trees … a skylark in the near field

” – Menna Elfyn

' – Eley Williams on Feral

It ends with you realizing that even the silent beyond has been colonised by wankers’   Texts quoted from or paraphrased repeatedly and/or prominently include Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary’s The Psychedelic Experience

did not have a space where they could be heard - and so this writing collective was a necessary and political act'

Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood Mike White An elegy for a deadAn extraordinary career spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our ageTracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary literary landscapes Paper Boat assembles Atwoods most vital poems in one essential volume. In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful and hyper imagined, Atwood gives voices to remarkably drawn characters mythological figures, animals and everyday