MixedThe Telegraph (UK)Dearly includes some rather good poems (“Blizzard”, about her late mother, is very touching), plenty of polished and competent poems, and a handful of the worst I’ve read this year ... It’s hard to believe this empty dirge came from the same pen as the most inventively savage portrait of man-warped nature I’ve read: Oryx and Crake. In Atwood’s classic sci-fi novel, of course, children grow up in a world not without birds, but where birds have been replaced by mutant \'ChickieNobs\' ready for the nugget factory.
