Atwood, Margaret.

Morning in the burned house. New poems.

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1995. 14 cm x 19 cm. 127 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted is a related newspaper – clipping on which John or Hilary Wakeman noted: “One of my favorite authors: She has bite”.

Includes for example the following poems: Miss July Grows Older / Helen of Troy does Counter Dancing / Vermilion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona etc etc.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada’s writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technology. She holds various patents related to the LongPen technologies.
While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper’s, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: From the Archive / Library of John and Hilary Wakeman [Poetry Magazine THE SHOP] · John & Hilary Wakeman Poetry Collection · Library & Collection Building · Poetry · Poetry – Rare · Wakeman Poetry Collection & Archive
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771008309
• Inventory Number: 43078AB