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, such as *Power Politics* , *Bodily Harm* , and *Alias Grace*. Atwood writes compassionately about the risks of love in a technological age, and 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.