Poetry Books

Journals of a Visitor shares the intimate coming-of-age story of a young, queer woman trying to find her place in medicine. Inspired by true events at Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals, Fae Kayarian's autobiographical collection of...

Etymologically-related words, most surprisingly so (strange bedfellows), are used to construct amusing and/or amazing pairs, phrases and whole sentences, mostly accompanied by silly or satirical comments, tall tales with recurring characters, poems, fake...

House of the Silverfish explores the reckoning of inevitable loss on both a personal and global scale, from learning to loosen our hold on children as they grow older to coming to terms with our annihilation of vast swathes of species. The story of an...

Experience Politics, part of the Rebirth of Free Verse series, where literary boundaries are transcended by the melding of poetry and journalism, emotion and investigation, chaos and structure. This collection of poems captures the culture of...

“When you’re broken, many times it seems that the pain will never end. It may look like there is no hope, no light at the end of the tunnel. But God gives us hope in His Word so that we can rest on His promises. He has promised that He will...

This volume showcases the life work of someone X.J. Kennedy has called "a major poet, commanding in his mastery." Excelling in both lyric and narrative modes, Jonathan Aldrich's poems from the 1960s and '70s seem fresh today. At the start, his voice...

This poetry collection is a text collage about intergenerational war trauma: how my Japanese family lived through it and how we coped. This story was built from my two grandmothers' war experiences; though, the main characters are a woman narrator and...

"Love the creativity. The 1984 poem was my personal favorite. Keep up the great work." - Charlie Kirk, Founder of Turning Point USA"Uncensored America is a brilliantly-written catalyst to help jumpstart the engine of thinking for ourselves, a lost art in...

Like looking down, past one’s toes, over the precipice and into the abyss, Zvi Sesling’s new book, War Zones, rivets its readers’ attention with Spartan purpose and imagistic clarity. His notions of war and its insidious causes and...

Winner of the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Series Poetry PrizeDana Roeser’s voice—hilarious, tragic, musical, transcendent—announces itself in the title of this collection, and in every line to follow. This is work that is deceptively...

This collection of Jessica Mehta's powerful, beautiful, vulnerable work spans "from dates so long ago I can't even recall" to her most current poetry in the midst of a pandemic. Her poems call our attention to the unsung disappearance of Indigenous...

Losses of Life is comprised of two long poems:The first, Child of Man, derived from Emerson’s journals, letters, and essays, is an elegy for the death of Emerson’s son Waldo.The second, Stations, is a sequence of poems exploring losses of a...

"When God gives you a gift, it's not a tale or myth. You really need to use it and definitely not abuse it."This "down to earth" collection of poems will stir your heart, soul, and mind with poetic verses. They touch on family, faith, life, and...

Honor the Gods with the ancient poetic forms!Now, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, here is a vast new collection of liturgical poetry for honoring the Aesir and Vanir in the alliterative meters that the Gods and their worshippers used in...

William “Will” Finnin and I have been colleagues for almost twenty years. Before that, we came of age in the 1960s, those extraordinary years of civil rights struggles, new visions of social justice, greater inclusivity in government and...

“To read Climbing Clouds Catching Comets is to clamber inside the mind of a writer whose talent fizzes on the page: with love, pain, empathy and a wisdom far beyond his young years. Alexander wrote of the world he knew- a world of...

"Μεγάλη είναι η μοναξιάμε θόλωσε η ξενιτιά..."Ξενιτιά, μια τρισύλλαβη λέξη που κρύβει τόσα πολλά συναισθήματα. Απόγνωση, πόνο, μοναξιά, θλίψη, νοσταλγία, τρέλα, στέρηση, απομάκρυνση, απελπισία.Και κάπου στο βάθος αχνοφαίνεται ακόμα μία...

Have you ever been completely lost in a valley, praying for a mountaintop?Have you been stuck on a mountaintop, praying for a valley?Has life been like a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride between the two…Full of exhilarating highs and crushing...

Second poetry collection by award-winning writer Molly Naylor.

These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a bo- tanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scienti c treatment defamiliarises. Far from...

Paddy Bushe's latest collection of poems opens with a stirring suite on music and art, seeing them not as rarefied experiences but as fundamental and nourishing encounters for both their makers and their audience. The distinction between here and...

An eclectic mix of poems and short stories some of which deal directly with the end of WWI, some with the ending of other wars, and some not about war at all, as such, which is as it should be.

This ground-breaking bilingual anthology brings together a wide range of contemporary Latin American women poets, all of whom have a wide readership in their own countries but whose work continues to be largely absent from UK bookshops and is thus little...

How would you feel if you found you were lost on a riverbank in Dwarf City?Would you expect to find yourself captured by a dark witch, in a charming tale of good against evil?And would you anticipate transportation into another world, where you are...

CROSS-CURRENTS is a multinational project in literary translation featuring poetry from the English-speaking world. This volume,CURENTE LA RASCRUCE, features English and Romanian face to face. It is a collaboration between a selected group of poets and...

A selection of contemporary European poetry in translation, edited by John F Deane. Also featuring a selection of contemporary Irish poets, among them Pat Boran, Peter Sirr, Enda Wyley and Gerard Smyth. Essays include Fiona Sampson on Poetry Review.

Who's who and what's what - or rather, wha's wha and Who's who and what's what - or rather, wha's wha and whit's whit - in this inimitable selection of stories from the Bible, told in Glaswegian rhyming verse.Gaun Yersel Moses! is a quick-witted and...

Peter Ebsworth is a poet in love with the stage. In Krapp's Last Tape, he treads the line between the audience and the performer, an act of voyeurism and ventriloquism that results in tense snippets of verse only relieved by a tongue in cheek humour that...

"Suckle", Roger Robinson's much-anticipated follow up to "Suitcase", proves once and for all that Roger's unique territory is memory and its capital is Trinidad - somewhere within its borders are the answers to everything, if you just look hard enough...

After living abroad in France, Dubai, Oman, Norway and the Netherlands, author and journalist, Jo Parfitt, has compiled here, an anthology of the poetry that has 'saved her life' during the 20 years she has been on the road. This is a memoir in poetry of...

Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher and in publishing. His Collected Poems and Translations (Carcanet Press) appeared in 2009.‘...quietly determined and original...for more than 30 years he has pursued the...

Learning How to Sing extends James Aitchison’s celebration of the natural world, and in his poems on islands and seaways the celebration is a form of pilgrimage. His compositions encompass other topics: for example James Aitchison on time ranges...

HEINRICH HEINE: THE NORTH SEA Translated by Emma Lazarus Edited and introduced by Carol Appleby <P> Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of the great German poets, and The North Sea is his collection of Romantic, lyrical poems (1825-27)...

PAUL VERLAINE: LANGUOROUS ECSTASY: SELECTED POEMS  <P> Translated by Gertrude Hall  <P> Edited by Andrew Jary  <P> With the French text and an English translation.  <P> Paul Verlaine is one...

In this celebration of life in death, Mona Lisa Saloy captures the solemn grief, ongoing struggle, and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. She knows the music of the neighborhood spoken and sung in...

These narrative poems tell the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the rare magic in the culture. Vibrant with local history and color, these poems have a Black sensibility that reaches beyond boundaries, with folk sayings turned into polished...

Poets from Mexico, Korea, Galicia (Spain), Palestine, Russia, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, India and France, translated by Anglophone poets from the USA, the UK, Canada and India.Kareem James Abu-Zeid, translating Najwan DarwishDon Mee Choi, translating Kim...

The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere is the final collection by Chilean poet Winétt de Rokha. A book of 48 poems written during a journey across Latin America, it is a canto americano, an epic poem that sings of a united América through its land and peoples...

The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2021 contains poetry by Tomi Adegbayibi, Ken Bolton and Peter Bakowski​, Daragh Breen, Belinda Cooke​, Stuart Cooke​, Gareth Culshaw​, Carrie Etter​, Gerrie Fellows, Maria Jastrzebska, Kenny Knight​,...

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2020 contains poetry by Martin Anderson, Sarah Barnsley, James Bell, Katherine Collins, Jennifer K. Dick, Mark Dickinson, Carrie Etter, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Ralph Hawkins, Chris Holdaway, Gad Hollander,...

The provocative position of Kent Johnson in American poetry over the past two decades—as both its foremost gadfly and its anti-institutional conscience—is unequalled. Admired and abhorred in like measures, he is the author, translator, or...

After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves on to this collection of poetry crystallising out of extended stays in Cambridge and Berlin.Of Peter’s previous work Kelvin Corcoran has written:...