Dearly - Poems Paula Harrison Syms Covington has landed the

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle - but when he is separated from the crew during a storm

secrets revealed – and then a terrible crime threatens to tear their whole community apart

some factions now believe it would be best to return to the surface

But when he hatches a dastardly plot to steal Christmas

Dearly - Poems Paula Harrison Syms Covington has landed theBefore she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are