Poetry

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...

Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and...

A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell...

'Bathypelagia is a wonder of animacy and transformation. Cannily constructed in three zones, this book criss-crosses between the still-barely known zones of our oceans, resemblances of domestic life particularly of motherhood...

Grace Yee's follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish. In the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo the remains of more than a thousand 'chinamen' lie interred, many in unmarked...

Not Telling is a lyrical analysis of the possibilities and limitations of language. In three distinct sections it entwines notions of speech and silence with intolerable psychic matter such as...

(poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness) NATIONAL BESTSELLER Writer, director, and actor Avan Jogia delivers a bright and acidic poetry collection on fame, rage, love, and sadness. A biting...

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...

Rumi's 100 Most Passionate Poems Translated by Muhammad Ali Mojaradi A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of...

Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize ‘Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.’ New Yorker An extraordinary...

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...

WINNER, THE JUAN FELIPE HERRERA BEST POETRY BOOK AWARD OF THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS Hermosa is the path to becoming one's own home. A thread pulled when Salgado thinks...

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...

On Finding Ourselves, Each Other, and the Things That Make Us Come Alive A compelling blend of personal narrative, universal themes and spiritual exploration to help readers to reflect, connect...

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...

A Chapbook Box Set This ten-piece, limited-edition box set―an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project―features the work of nine new African poets THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started...

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,...

Evocative. Unsettling. Unafraid. Ritual is a ground-breaking new publication which centres and celebrates the diversity of contemporary Muslim-Australian identities and experiences through the timeless power of the written word. As...

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,...

Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn’t enough. Salgado...

Translated by Aaron Coleman A fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition. Born in Cuba to parents of African and European...

Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press, Okwudili Nebeolisa’s debut poetry collection explores a son’s relationship...

On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically An innovative and accessible guide to writing and reading poetry by an acclaimed poet and beloved professor of poetry. What makes reading a poem...

“Borrowing from [such writers as] Elizabeth Bishop and Chimako Tada, featuring ghosts and geoglyphs, writing in form and free verse, Kimiko Hahn’s broad and eclectic approach reveals a mind as...

Amongst The Grapevines is a mixed form memoir of poetry, prose and digital illustrations. This multifaceted collection explores a deep and personal connection to the Syrian conflict, those afflicted by...

A collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez.  The seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, Call This Mutiny brings together...

Translated by Anton Hur How do you write a poem? These startling and beautiful meditations on poetry offer a provocative new answerKick against words like you would kick back on...

**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...

Translated by Saskia Vogel A Guardian Top 5 Best Translated Fiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureThe award-winning, deeply moving novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence...

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...

'What a joy to see a new sun rising in the poetic sky!' Nikki Giovanni Exploring naming and its power, the remarkable second collection from the award-winning poet and former...

Following on from Turbulence and Decadence, Essence continues Thuy On's exploration into language and broadens its reach into the arts. It strips poetry down to its core to distil moments of beauty and chaos into...

A profound and visionary collection of poetry and original artwork that explores personal narratives, First Nations wisdom and the many shapes of love, from one of Australia's most prolific young...

From award-winning poet Eileen Chong comes a dazzling book-length poem, comprising 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, inviting the reader to construct multiple interpretations.We Speak of...

An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo - poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed - that bears witness to the genocide in GazaThe Nightmare Sequence is a searing response...

Rising talent Omar Sakr's vibrant new poetry collection pulses with raw power as it interrogates the topical issues of family, identity and nationVisceral and energetic, Omar Sakr's poetry confronts notions...

‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ OCEAN VUONG ‘A book you won’t soon forget’ ILYA KAMINSKY ‘Astonishing’ TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR...

A powerful and honest force on TikTok, Harman Kaur's words are now in print. This is an exploration of the diverse manifestations of “home”, extending beyond its mere physicality to...

**Winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award** Time. Memory. Mirror. Past & Parallel Lives is a rippling reflection on being alien, queer, and other. These poems yearn for home 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...

A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body. With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the...

A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma.   In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, highlighting the natural...

'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 speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The...

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,...

The poems within Oaths contain a promise made to oneself for a better future. Read with all the hope you can muster. A stunning and emotional follow-up to 2022’s Serenity,...

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...