Circle Game Author:Margaret Atwood The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works. Atwood writes compassionately about the risks of love in a technological age, a... more »nd the quest for identity in a universe that cannot quite be trusted. Containing many of Atwood's best and most famous poems, The Circle Game won the 1966 Governor General's Award for Poetry and rapidly attained an international reputation as a classic of modern poetry.« less
The Circle Game is a book of finely-made poems. Margaret Atwood writes pieces that invent memory for the reader; the duration and the delicate resonance of her work remain in the mind as natural things.