Eating Fire brings together three of Margaret's Atwood's key poetry collections: Poems 1965-1975, Poems 1976-1986 and Morning in the Burned House.
The landscape of Atwood's poetry is one of bus trips and postcards, wilderness, glass, and fires both savage and tender. Atwood's signature themes resound throughout all of them: the politics of sex, the darkness at the heart of every fairytale, and the pain - and triumph - of existing as a woman.
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It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME
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(@LittleBrownUK, I January 2010, paperback, 368 pages, bought from @SeahorseBookst1 via @bookshop_org_UK)
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I'm a huge fan of the author's fiction. I didn't realise she was a poet until I read Dearly last year which I loved so I've been on a mission to read more of her poetry. This is a door-stop of a volume bringing together poetry from several collections. I've read similar works by other poets and usually struggle to read so many poems brought together. I found the opposite with Eating Fire. I loved every poem I read. The poems are diverse in style and subject matter and powerfully written. I devoured Eating Fire.
