The Door

Features poems that range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes.

On the strength of The Door, we should regard Atwood as a poet first and foremost - just one who happens to be a highly regarded novelist SUNDAY HERALD One of the best books by one of the best poets writing in English, written in a sparse, elegaic tone that combines illuminating intelligence with caustic humour and wisdom Alberto Manguel, TLS Margaret Atwood is not only a riveting novelist, she is also a witty and inventive poet THE TIMES