Poetry Books

Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality of our...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Her numerous international awards include the Lgion d'Honneur in 2009 and the Griffin Trust Lifetime Recognition Award in 2018 (she traveled to Canada to...

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. She has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, and her work has been translated into many languages. She received the 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize...

Jen Campbell's first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty. Weaving between whispered science and circus, she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to...

These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between `animal' and `human'. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training their focus on the language we use to describe youth,...

This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and celebrates living, fired by his belief that there is no...

This volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material...

An off-beat examination of the denials that underpin extractive capitalism.From the cratered lake of Chennai, India to the environmental racism of Neon Genesis Evangelion's Tokyo-3, Sunny Ways oscillates between images of environmental collapse and...

The collected longer poems of brilliant Canadian poet Sharon ThesenRefabulations collects and reanimates the longer and serial poems from Sharon Thesen's uvre, from her first book in 1980 to today. It is a record of a life in language, created by a...

In Witness Back at Me, Weyman Chan continues to explore themes of dislocation and belonging by drawing on biography, myth, science, and the everyday. Chan's poetry is suffused with a collage-like immersion of stream-of-conscious voices, approximating the...

The poems in Tracery enact a lyric condensation. Many of them were written in transit: on the bus, on a bicycle, on foot, in the endless to and fro of work life. Their lyric brevity allowed composition directly in the brain, or quick jottings in a pocket...

First collection of visual work by renowed Canadian poet Phyllis Webb *A Dream in the Eye presents colour reproductions of the paintings and photocollages of renowned poet Phyllis Webb. A Governor General's Awardwinning poet and a member of the Order of...

Set mainly in the rural, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet's childhood growing up on a farm, as well as from more recent pandemic experiences...

Vancouver-based La Melia was the winner of the 2014 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, but painting is just one of the mediums she employs. First and foremost, she is a poet. The poetic path followed by La Melia travels through territories as varied as...

This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a...

Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks' extreme explorations of mind and body...

Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. Hargreaves' latest collection explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to...

Lorna Crozier is one of Canada's most celebrated living poets. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and her books have received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for PoetryThe book celebrates the landscape of the...

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...

No props. No music. No costumes. Just you, your words and a mic-you've got two minutes to make the crowd scream your name.Miles Merrill, spoken word artistand founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award-winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take...

Car Ma is artist and musician Alison Mosshart's first printed collection of paintings, photographs, short stories, and poetry. It is a book about cars, rock n' roll, and love. It's a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It's a book...

Chris Holmes: Hidden in Chaos pairs Chris's cinematic images with the words of 18 poets of various backgrounds, adding more layers of texture and meaning to the complex but devoted relationship that London's residents and visitors have with the city's...

Federico Garca Lorca is one of Spain's foremost cultural and literary figures. In 1927, he published his masterpiece Canciones, a volume of lyrical poetry. Tobias Tak transformed twenty of these poems into a series of richly detailed and inventive comics...

Perhaps it could be said, so spirited and inspired that there comes a time and space for all the yet unwritten, fickle fragments of primrose prose. Here and now, they collide into a chaotic kaleidoscope of fanciful fantasies. Reflecting upon a personal...

This book is a personal love novel to myself. It depicts the highs and lows of discovering myself again as I get reacquainted with pieces of me forgotten or discarded as I navigated life. Learning how my inner world directly affected my outer world and...

Long-Distance Romance is the culmination of my career a a poet. There are poems from my childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. My collected works, if you will. The title group of poems tells the story of a love affair that lasted for many years between a...

We're still emerging from the darkness of quarantine and isolation. Hopefully, we can move into the light without forgetting the parts of the experience of darkness that make it now so much brighter. We also seek the light and are sometimes blinded by it...

"Ripples on an Infinite Sea" is an eclectic collection of poems written on a wide variety of subjects. From "Evolution Revolution" to "Intention Processor" to "Mathemagical" to "The Pit and the Pendulum" to "Subconscious Superconscious" to "Soul Colors"...

Joetry is a collection of hilarious poems inspired by President Joe Biden's many blunders, missteps, gaffes, and questionable decisions. His weekly escapes to Delaware, his unbelievable childhood memories, and his inability to stay upright on a bicycle...

This book is a series of sixteen poems and in between them, I have added four lines of phrases where I talk to my reader to motivate them and let them know that our journeys all begin within one self. Just the way I motivated myself and led myself to...

For the people, I've compiled a collection of poetry inspired by the muse in the moment across my life. Lyrics of love, light and life across My Family Cries and ties, spanning from childhood to adulthood. To college years when I was untamed and...

"Footprint Memories" was written by Jennifer Keener as an inspiration to overcome life's obstacles through poetry. This book is filled with Jennifer's relatable life events and unforgettable adventures. This book is filled with unforgettable family and...

The Masquerade of a Thousand Words is a poetry and prose compilation. It journeys through real life situations: love, politics, relationships, and loss. This book is personal, it is relatable, and it reveals the truths we often don't want to face.

His imagery ranges from the striking yet familiar to the nuanced and unexpected. The boldness of his poetry belies his public reticence. Paul was clearly steeped in the literature and folklore of England and Western Europe. Paul's poetry is clearly...

Patricia Janecek and Liliya Lifanova are located in greater Syracuse, NY area. This is their first collaboration, a book of haiku and watercolors. Inspired by local American lore, the haiku narrates a year s worth of delicate, spiritual observations on...

Hesitations is a book of poetry and reflections that captures the journey of the author, Sheena Graham, as she breaks the cycle of hesitating. Her father spent his life wondering if his hesitation had cost his mom her life. The words he spoke as he lay...

"Worthless: Poems of Sadness and Reflection" covers the toughest emotions humans deal with - grief, anger, sadness, and anxiety. This volume of poetry is meant to remind the reader that they are not alone during difficult times. This book is geared...

Share My Journey has four focal points in my eyes, but it was not intended for me to dictate the readers' experience, only a narrative. It was created for the reader to explore and discover whatever situation or relationship that those particular...

While the poetry is Christian-based and this book is primarily intended for a Christian readership, people of other spiritual faiths, or no religious faith at all, will find new ways to look at what is meant by God, Jesus Christ, faith and the sacred in...

Old Beginnings New Goodbyes is a timeline of poetry spanning over a decade, filled with heartbreak, self-discovery, and life lessons. It uncovers the trials and tribulations while navigating from teenage life to adulthood, ultimately finding comfort in...

It All started with a song, and a dance, and my pants in my sock.Welcome to a world of silliness where we learn that animals wear clothes, goldfish wish to walk, Dwarves love applesauce, and that being perfectly imperfect is the only way to be.Gather...

Chris Corner as IAMX is a multi-dimensional singer songwriter, electronic producer and visual artist, with an existential drive and fascination with all things psychological.In 2013, in the midst of a world tour, Corner fell into a deep depression that...

Estos son Poemas Romanticos inspirados en ese TI que todas y todos tenemos y por eso son POR TI Y PARA TI.

Taut and contemplative, these poems ruminate on family, exile, love, and the vagaries of human perception.Love Training encapsulates Andrs Neuman's work as a poet, spanning two decades in a single unified collection. The book is divided into three...

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification,...

Herostories reveals tales untold by most history books: the harrowing journeys and vital triumphs of nineteenth - and twentieth century midwifery in the vast landscape of Iceland.Composed from the memoirs and biographies of 100 Icelandic midwives,...

A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone...

Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony.In this bilingual collection of linked...