The Poems of Margaret Atwood

Works

Summary Bibliography[206]

Novels
  • The Edible Woman (1969)
  • Surfacing (1972)
  • Lady Oracle (1976)
  • Life Before Man (1979, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
  • Bodily Harm (1981)
  • The Handmaid's Tale (1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize)
  • Cat's Eye (1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize)
  • The Robber Bride (1993, finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award)
  • Alias Grace (1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction)
  • The Blind Assassin (2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
  • Oryx and Crake (2003, finalist for the 2003 Booker Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
  • The Penelopiad (2005, nominated for the 2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and longlisted for the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award)
  • The Year of the Flood (2009, Oryx and Crake companion, longlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award)
  • MaddAddam (2013) (Third novel in Oryx and Crake trilogy)
  • Scribbler Moon (written in 2014 as part of the Future Library project; will remain unpublished until 2114)[67]
  • The Heart Goes Last (2015) (Winner of the 2015 Red Tentacle award)
  • Hag-Seed (2016) (Longlisted for the 2017 Women Prize for Fiction)
  • The Testaments (2019, joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize)[207]
Short fiction collections
  • Dancing Girls (1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction)
  • Murder in the Dark (1983)
  • Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
  • Wilderness Tips (1991, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
  • Good Bones (1992)
  • Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
  • The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
  • The Tent (2006)
  • Moral Disorder (2006)
  • Stone Mattress (2014)
  • Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
Poetry collections
  • Double Persephone (1961)
  • The Circle Game (1964, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award)
  • Expeditions (1965)
  • Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
  • The Animals in That Country (1968)
  • The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
  • Procedures for Underground (1970)
  • Power Politics (1971)
  • You Are Happy (1974) Includes the poem Song of the Worms
  • Selected Poems (1976)
  • Two-Headed Poems (1978)
  • True Stories (1981)
  • Love Songs of a Terminator (1983)
  • Snake Poems (1983)[208]
  • Interlunar (1984)
  • Selected Poems 1966–1984 (Canada)
  • Selected Poems II: 1976–1986 (US)
  • Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart (1995)
  • Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965–1995 (UK,1998)
    • "You Begin." (1978) – as recited by Margaret Atwood; included in all three most recent editions of her "Selected Poems" as listed above (US, CA, UK)
  • The Door (2007)
  • Dearly (2020)[209]
E-books
  • I'm Starved For You: Positron, Episode One (2012)
  • Choke Collar: Positron, Episode Two (2012)
  • Erase Me: Positron, Episode Three (2013)
  • The Heart Goes Last: Positron, Episode Four (2013)
  • The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home (2013) (with Naomi Alderman)[210]
  • My Evil Mother (2022)
Anthologies edited
  • The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
  • The Canlit Foodbook (1987)
  • The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1988)
  • The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989) (with Shannon Ravenel)
  • The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1995)
Children's books
  • Up in the Tree (1978)
  • Anna's Pet (1980) (with Joyce C. Barkhouse)
  • For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
  • Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
  • Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
  • Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
  • Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011);[211] inspired a cartoon series called Wandering Wenda in 2016.
Non-fiction
  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
  • Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 (1977)
  • Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
  • Through the One-Way Mirror (1986)
  • Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)
  • Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
  • Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004 (2004)
  • Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005 (2005)
  • Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
  • In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)
  • On Writers and Writing (2015)
  • Burning Questions: Essays & Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 (2022)
Drawings
  • Kanadian Kultchur Komix featuring "Survivalwoman" in This Magazine under the pseudonym, Bart Gerrard 1975–1980
  • Others appear on her website.
Comics
  • Angel Catbird (#1–3), with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain (2016)
  • War Bears (#1–3), with Ken Steacy (2018)
Television scripts
  • The Servant Girl (1974)
  • Snowbird (1981)
  • Heaven on Earth (1987)
Libretti
  • The Trumpets of Summer (1964) (with composer John Beckwith)
  • Frankenstein Monster Song (2004, with rock band One Ring Zero)[212]
  • "Pauline", a chamber opera in two acts, with composer Tobin Stokes for City Opera Vancouver (2014)
Audio recordings
  • The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood (1977)
  • Margaret Atwood Reads "Unearthing Suite" (1985)
  • Margaret Atwood Reading From Her Poems (2005)
  • Margaret Atwood as herself in Zombies, Run, as a surviving radio operator in themes.
Filmography
  • She is credited as playing herself in all 26 episodes of The Wide World of Wandering Wenda in which she wears funny hats to match the various themes (2017)

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