Poetry Books

"Bitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry." -Library JournalDrawing upon Navajo history and enduring...

"An untrammeled renegade genius... Here is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."-Publishers WeeklyStarred Review in Booklist: "[C]hoices of poems from each of Harrison's...

"Nezhukumatathil's poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem, each page with a true sense of wonder." -Roxane Gay"Cultural strands are woven into the DNA of her...

"Throughout [BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like magic. . . . Stunning, unflinching, fearless."Booklist...

"Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry."-Los Angeles Review of Books"Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling."-Brenda Shaughnessy "Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the sincerities that other sorts of poets reject or...

"A travel writer with a cult following."-The New York Times "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off. Finding Them Gone uniquely draws upon his parallel careers as a translator and a...

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRYFinalist for the 2019 National Book Award"100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book ReviewOne Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021"By some literary magic-no, it's...

"This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you."-NPR.orgIn reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the New York Times wrote that "his territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse." In this...

"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or...

The complete works of an extraordinary poet who consistently refines the notion of what constitutes an American sound.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet's Chinese-Mauritian family tiesFire Cider Rainis about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories...

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poemsThough they started from Sheryda Warrener's impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up becoming more...

The Tower is a "translation" of W. B. Yeats's The Tower-an homage and reinvention of the poet's greatest work. Whereas Yeats's book contended with his mortality as an aging spiritualist Irish Senator, this version contends with a new mortality: ours.The...

"This is a wonderful new edition of the Poetic Edda. It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original."-Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLAGods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of the...

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular...

From Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai: a long poem full of rage, love, and despair seeking justice, seeking roots, seeking a 'po-ethics' by which to live. Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for...

In this incendiary debutcollection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces ingeography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy ofcolonization and its impact on Black bodies. They use poetry to...

Inher novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femmesexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawnfrom her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoirHow Poetry...

This extraordinary poetry collection is a vivid, beautifully wrought journey to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam-and where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative...

A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies-the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a...

The Voice of My Mind, by author T. A. Fish, is an avant-garde poetry collection that took over 5 years to complete. Each poem is beautifully crafted with great virtuosity, that haunts with extreme depth and wonder. The collection deals with themes of...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents...

A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life. In...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and...

The universe makes a sound-is a sound. In the core of this sound there's a silence, a silence that creates a sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul. And this silence can also be heard. -Etal AdnanThe Griffin Poetry Prize is among the...

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.Each year, the best books of poetry published in Canada and internationally in English are honoured with...

The new collection from RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner Mikko Harvey.Mikko Harvey's new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In poems at once surreal, satiric, and tender, we encounter a cast of surprising...

In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt's Griffin Poetry Prizewinning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday...

A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics...

First published in January 1845, The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The poem is often noted for its musicality, stylised language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer's lease hath all too short a dateWilliam Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world...

This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. It includes some of the...

'Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place search another,I stop some where waiting for you.'- Song ofMyselfFirst published by Walt Whitman in 1855, Leaves of Grass introduced the world toa new and uniquely American form...

Only a handful of Emily Dickinson's nearly 2000 poems were published in her lifetime, but today she is recognised as one of the most important American poets of the 19th century.This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror.The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse...

F. Daniel Brackett is a new kind of story-telling poet. His voice is loud and clear throughout this book. The author takes his readers into the life of a young man growing up in a tiny village on the edge of the rainforest in Western Belize. You will...

This volume opens with Keeps, a full-length book of new poems by LK Holt. Bound-in with it are her two prior books, Patience, Mutiny and Man Wolf Man.A hallmark of Holt's poetry has always been its continual refreshing of angles of vision. She has a dark...

Described by some as "erotica for feminists," and "enemy to family values," DeColo's poems convulse with desire and a longing for connection. Her work speaks to the particular loneliness of watching Fox News after you've masturbated too many times,...

Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, selected byPulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown.Bright Shadeis an appreciation of the wild woods, the rolling hills, the Appalachian air, and the little rivers that were the setting of Chelsea Harlan's...

Although we think of the world as spherical, our main directions within it remain 'Down', Across' and 'Up'. These primary directions mark the divisions of this restless book of poems, Recurrence, by Graeme Miles. 'Up' and 'Down' in their different ways...

Brook Emery's mode is enquiry, with a gentle insistence that enquiry matters. Fluent, occasionally epigrammatic, and showing a quiet humour, this is generous, open-minded poetry. As in previous collections Emery's interest is in the intersections of the...

The poets here are Elizabeth Campbell, Bonny Cassidy, Sarah Holland-Batt, L K Holt, Graeme Miles, Simon West and Petra White. And the book is a celebration: large samples of poems from each. Now in their late twenties to mid-thirties, each has a...

Dan Disney's first full-length collection of poetry has at its heart a pleasure at surprise. Like Max Ernst's 'fortuitous meeting of distant realities', Disney's sometimes absurd, rhetorically-deft poems are the result of a questing imagination driving...

In Error, the idea of the mistake and fear of the mistake infiltrate large territories of emotion and thinking. Each of the five sections that make up this second book of poems by Elizabeth Campbell is a foray into doubt. Three are set in the voluble...

David Musgrave's poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual - with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal...

Like Petra White's applauded first collection, her second begins and ends with a fable of the uncanny ordinary. Between is a cornucopia of odes: epistolary, philosophical, elegiac. These poems think through and honour the normal mysteries of fate. Her...

All but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen-liners: free-verse sonnets if you like-certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour and extraordinarily disciplined thought. The darting variety...

Over his long career Mark O'Connor has made his poetic homes in a succession of Australian regions. Indeed from the time of Homer much of the best literature has been regional. It knows its own place so well that it has no need to be consciously...