A Year of Last Things

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Included on The Guardian’s Best Recent Poetry • Longlisted for the 2024 UK Poet Laureate's Laurel Prize • One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Winnipeg Free Press

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is.

Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived here since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a “mongrel,” someone born out… Keep Reading