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In all her writing her careful craftsmanship and preci- Cat sEye,Toronto:McClelland & Stewart,1988
sion of language, which give a sense of inevitability and a The Robber Bride,Toronto:McClelland & Stewart,1993
resonance to her words, are recognized. In her fiction, AliasGrace,Toronto: McClelland &Stewart,1996
The Margaret Atwood Omnibus: The EdibleWoman, Sur-
Atwood hasexplored the issues of our time,capturing them
in the satirical, self-reflexive mode of the contemporary facing,and Lady Oracle,London:Andre Deutsch, 1987
novel. Atwood has had continued criticalsuccesssince the
mid-1960s; her many honours include the MOLSON Short Fiction
PRIZE in 1981, the Philips Information Systems Literary
Prize (1986).Toronto.Arts Award (1986).Ms Magazine ’s Dancing Girls and Other Stories,Toronto: McClelland &
Woman of the Yearfor 1986.the Ida Nudel Humanitarian Stewart,1977
Award from the Canadian Jewish Congress (1986), the Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems,To-
. American Humanist of the Year Award (1987). the Com- ronto:Coach House,1983
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monwealth Writers Prize (1992) and the Sunday Times Bluebeard sEgg,Toronto:McClelland &Stewart,1983
Prize (1994). Atwood is a Companion of the Order of Wilderness Tips,Toronto: McClelland & Stewart,1991
Canada. Good Bones,Toronto:Coach House, 1992

Bibliography: Some of her poems ii'iis Ur . . Ill
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Poetry Collections Night Poem

TheCircle Game, Toronto:House of Anansi,1967·
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TheAnimalsin ThatCountry,Toronto:Oxford UP,1968 There is nothing to be afraid of,
Procedures for Underground,Toronto:Oxford UP,1970 it is only the wind
TheJournalsof Susanna Moodie:Poems,Toronto: Oxford changing to the east, it is only
UP,1970 your father the thunder
Power Politics,Toronto: House of Anansi,1971 your mother the rain
Lobsticks [poems], Guelph, Ont.:Alive Press,[197-]
You Are Happy,Toronto:Oxford UP,1974. In this country of water
Selected Poems,Toronto:Oxford UP, 1976. with its beige moon damp as a mushroom,
Two- Headed Poems,Toronto:Oxford UP,1978 its drowned stumps and long birds
True Stories,Toronto: Oxford UP, 1981. that swim, where the moss grows
Interlunar,Toronto:Oxford UP,1984 on all sides of the trees
and your shadow is not your shadow
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Selected Poems II:Poems Selected and New,1976 1986 but your reflection,
Toronto:Oxford UP,1986
Selected Poems1965- 1975,Boston:Houghton Mifflin,1987 your true parents disappear
Selected Poems:1966- 1984,Toronto:Oxford UP,1990 when the curtain covers your door.
Morning in the Burned House, Toronto: McClelland & We are the others,
Stewart,1995 the ones from under the lake
The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Toronto: McFarlane who stand silently beside your bed
Walter Ross,1997.Eating Fire:Selected Poems,1965-1995, with our heads of darkness.
London:Virago,1998 We have come to cover you
with red wool,
Novels with our tears and distant whispers.

The EdibleWoman,Toronto: McClelland & Stewart,1969 Your rock in the rain’s arms,
Surfacing,Toronto:McClelland & Stewart,1972 the chilly ark of your sleep ,
Lady Oracle.Toronto: McClelland &Stewart,1976 while we wait, your night
Life Before Man.Toronto:McClelland &Stewart,1979 father and mother,
Bodily Harm ,Toronto:McClelland &Stewart, 1981 with our cold hands and dead flashlight,
The Handmaid s Tale.Toronto:McClelland &Stewart,1985 knowing we are only
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the wavering shadows thrown
by one candle, in this echo
you will hear twenty years later.
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