Click here to access the poetry recordings of Margaret Atwood as well as a brief biography of this author.

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) is familiar to readers all over the world as the author of some of the finest and most influential fiction of the last few decades. Titles like The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, and The Robber Bride have won many awards, sold in the millions and have been made into films. But her poetry is the equal of her prose and across her many collections she has assembled a powerful and invigorating body of work. From this page, you can hear the voice of Margaret Atwood reading four of her poems, "The Immigrants," "Siren Song," "King Lear in Respite Care," and "The Moment."

Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of a meeting, in a recording studio, between Andrew Motion, soon after he became U.K. Poet Laureate in 1999, and the recording producer, Richard Carrington. They agreed about how enjoyable and illuminating it is to hear poets reading their work and about how regrettable it was that, even in the recent past, many important poets had not been properly recorded.

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