Here we see Atwood at the height of her poetic powers

A poignant yet playful collection of verse, about endings and departures, it is sliced with clever, sharp humour

This collection of poems is a reckoning with the past that comes from a place of wisdom and control . . . You can almost hear her speaking voice, see the twinkle in her eye . . . wonderfully observed

Atwood's first poetry collection in over a decade is intimate, lingering delicately between the human and the natural, and this world and the next

She's become world famous for The Handmaid's Tale, and jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize for The Testaments, but Canadian author Margaret Atwood was once better known as a poet . . . this new volume brings together some of her favourite themes, from zombies, werewolves and aliens, to the passage of time and the most pressing political issues of the day

She turns her eye to the past, to nature, to fantasy, to current affairs, all with the calm eye of a writer who has nothing to prove

Atwood is surely one of our planet's most priceless commodities

Margaret Atwood has always been a poet; her poetry collections make visible the taproot of the wry wise metaphysic that runs through her fiction and essays, and in a precarious time her new collection, Dearly, is a source of uncompromising elemental warmth

I finished this collection deeply impressed by Atwood's capacity for powerful, lyric description

A new volume of poetry by the writer of wit and optimism . . . Just when we needed her most

This whole collection stands as a mighty demonstration of how great poetry can embody and celebrate the sheer vibrancy and beauty of life, in the face of the most profound sorrow and terror. Read these poems aloud, read them carefully, read them with joy and tears; savour the raw power of their rhythms and assonances, and the sheer mastery with which Atwood, at the height of her powers, transforms anger and grief into glinting beauty and brilliance. And then ask yourself whether, if humanity survives, any future historian could ever find a richer, more courageous or more truthful account of what it was, and how it felt, to be alive in these times; and give yourself the answer - no, most truly, she could not

Elegaic yet cautionary, Atwood's first new collection since 2007's The Door revolves around themes of mortality, environmental jeopardy, memory, feminism, and loss . . . Combining the wit of Dorothy Parker with the wisdom of Emily Dickinson, Atwood adds a steely grace and richness all her own. If there is beauty in despair, one may find it here

She's one of the few contemporary writers whose poetry and prose receive equal amounts of praise. Dearly, which collects her first new poems in 10 years, covers love and loss, humanity and nature. Also: Zombies. She's keeping us on our toes, as usual

Atwood, one of the most celebrated, decorated and admired novelists in the world, started out as a poet

Poems, Atwood argues, aren't the rhetoric of the immediate; they emerge slowly out of human understanding's glacial melt . . . Here we see Atwood at the height of her poetic powers: her imagery made tangible with sound . . . The more Atwood wields specifics, the more of the world she skewers with her fantastically sharp imagination

A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful

Gyasi's second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is a very different book, and, I think, a better one - contemporary, personal, acutely focused on a single family, and intensely felt

Exquisitely written with a lightness of touch despite its difficult themes; this novel is a triumph

Raw, powerful storytelling that tackles race, religion, addiction and grief in a thoughtful way

With deft agility and undeniable artistry, Gyasi's latest is an eloquent examination of resilient survival

The Ghanaian-American has become a firm literary favour...Transcendent Kingdom is sure to cement her spot further

Meticulous, psychologically complex ... At once a vivid evocation of the immigrant experience and a sharp delineation of an individual's inner struggle, the novel brilliantly succeeds on both counts

Transcendent Kingdom is quiet in the way a wise soul will sit in the corner, clear their throat and when they speak, everyone listens...Transcendent Kingdom is a book always asking this question: how did we get here?

The range Gyasi displays in just two books is staggering

Remarkable, a devastating account of America . . . explores horror without ever losing sight of humanity or hope

A stirringly gifted writer. It's impossible not to admire the ambition and scope of Homegoing

If you want to know why the world is this way, try this book for starters

I need a book like this to remember what is possible

Beautifully written . . . a raw look at the personal destruction caused by the opioid crisis

A poignant story of family love, loss and ambition

Yaa Gyasi's writing is shining even as the tangled traumas of the past come to the surface

'Yaa's depiction of these illnesses; substance addiction and depression and the family's deep-rooted tangled traumas, is skilful . . . Transcendent Kingdom is a story of love, loss and redemption, and holds a mirror up to one version of the first-generation immigrant experience that will sadly seem familiar to many of us