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A haunting poetry collection about community, nationhood and resilience - from the T.S. Eliot Prize finalist A new poetry collection about loss, legacy and African American history, from the poetry...

Collected Poems A poetry collection of epic scale and transformative vision from one of the most innovative American poets For over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated...

Selected Poems A dazzling selection from one of the most beloved American poets, whose distinctive verse resonates around the globehear your voicea wild sea pausing in the windFew poets in...

my heart was askingat every turn, andas sure as i breathed: would i want this for my daughter, and if not,  why on earth         should it be good enough...

From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball, comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into a renewed sense of self.After...

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, an award-winning searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency after a sexual assault within the church community A YALSA...

Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within. In this vulnerable meditation, aja...

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater & on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered...

The Unpublished Works I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over...

An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I am Black because I come from the earth's insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.'Impassioned and profound, the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'we are the ones we have been waiting for'These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break...

The second installment in the Healing Verses series from poet r.h. Sin introduces Serenity’s Song, a profound collection of restorative poetry woven together to address the intricate journey of healing from trauma.Across the...

The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker) For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism...

New and Selected Poems 2002-2022 “The whole world is in these poems.” ―David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review An exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately...

Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this...

Big decisions and messy relationships. It's all part of life for Kai. A must-read queer coming of age story for fans of Sarah Crossan and Sex Education, written in verse by Stonewall-Award-winning, Carnegie-shortlisted...

The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and...

99 more poems for young people The unbearable itch of chicken pox. The annoyance of sharing a Spotify account with your parents. The delight of smearing tomato sauce over everything...

Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City,...

History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology "A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from...

An American Lyric The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the mediaIn this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems,...

**Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize****Longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award****Soon to be adapted for screen by Lena Waithe and Warner Bros.**An award-winning collection and novella...

The debut collection from an electrifying new talent - a poet of philosophical depth, searching intellect, and lyric grace'A daring, ambitious pleasure to read' ROGER ROBINSONIntimate and epic, dark and...

Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph. With an introduction by Lauri Scheyer For over...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry...

and some others Author of the instant national bestsellers James and Erasure, the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, Sonnets for a Missing...

The debut collection of poetry by Gboyega Odubanjo. 'On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London,...

A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world's gaze turned to Minneapolis - Smith's own home.Written after two years of artistic silence,...

In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black...

In The Back of My Throat is an anthology about queer Indonesian experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Edited by Tatevik Sargsyan and Norman Erikson Pasaribu....

The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough is an anthology about queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Edited by Tatevik Sargsyan, with a foreword by Mary Jean...

Quiet Fires, the debut poetry collection from andriniki mattis, queries the everpresent questions of Black lives. Be it in a bakery in Brixton, London, at a corner on Malcolm X...

“For a long time I wondered what English meant, if it was worth its weight in enlightenment.” - from Bolaño Blued Taylor Johnson’s debut poetry collection, Inheritance, explores the complexities and limitations...

Best Books of 2023: TIME, Electric Literature From Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America. Boldly lyrical...

'The undisputed masterpiece of negritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement...

A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.Silver is a collection that shines with a guiding principle, that poetry: 'part physics, part...

A soaring debut YA verse-novel by novelist, poet, and former secondary school teacher Ashley Hickson-Lovence. A perfect next read for fans of Dean Atta and Manjeet Mann.When fourteen-year-old Ronny's life...

A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from one of the powerhouses of British poetry and award-winning novelist Salena Godden With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems,...

Illustrated by Adriana Bellet Press both feet to the ground.Place your hand on your heart.You are brave and capable.It will always be your time.An empowering and uplifting collection of poems...

'Incredibly moving ... Every single poem is stellar' Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame,...

Caravaggio and code-switching- the T. S. Eliot and Folio Prize-shortlisted poetry debut exploring Nigerian-British diaspora experienceIn poems exploring family, survival, generational trauma and the complexities of belonging, Manorism is an examination of the...

The sweetest song is one that speaks to the heart of universal human experience. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER & BCALA 2022 HONOR POETRY AWARD WINNER I AM...

A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' Guardian Shane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary...

DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE...

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a 'rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the US' (New Yorker)Owed is a book with celebration...

‘Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I’m not sure what gave me the courage to open up...

What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire’s ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where...

A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from...

Far District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet-speaker caught between two cultures.As childhood memory is...