Canadian author Margaret Atwood is to publish her first collection of poems in over a decade, writes The Guardian.

The book is called Dearly and explores topics such as "absence and completion, aging and retrospection" and is to be populated by werewolves, aliens and sirens, among other things, according to the publisher.

Dearly is released in November and becomes the first 80-year-old author's collection of poems since The Door from 2007.

Margaret Atwood was a poet before she began writing prose, and she debuted in the early 1960s. Her latest book is last year's novel Gilead's Daughters - the sequel to The Handmaid's Story, which forms the basis of the TV series Handmaid's tale.