The Animals in That Country
The Circle Game
Interlunar
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Morning in the Burned House
Procedures for Underground
Selected Poems [1966-1974]
Selected Poems 1966-1984
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986
True Stories
Two-Headed Poems
You Are Happy
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Bluebeard’s Egg
Bodily Harm
Cat’s Eye
Dancing Girls
The Edible Woman
Good Bones
Good Bones and Simple Murders
The Handmaid’s Tale
Lady Oracle
Life Before Man
Murder in the Dark
Oryx and Crake
The Robber Bride
Surfacing
Wilderness Tips
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose 1960-1982
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Two Solicitudes: Conversations [with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu]
Copyright © 1971 , 1996 Margaret Atwood
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Power politics
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Some of these poems appeared on CBC Anthology, and in the following magazines: Blew Ointment, Kayak, New Work, Saturday Night, Tuatara, and Vigilante. "Hesitations Outside the Door" and "You refuse to own / yourself" first appeared in Poetry (Chicago). "They are hostile nations" was published as a broadsheet by Peter Martin Associates.
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Author photograph: Dominic Turner
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you fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye