Each year, the judges for the Forward Prize select a shortlist of the best new poetry books. In 2020, they chose five collections ranging in tone from epic love songs to domestic surrealism.Alexandra Harris, chair of the judges, tells us what they admired about each book. ...
Also ranks #17 on The Greatest Poets of All Time Buy atView on AMAZON 4 William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud, The world is too much with us, Daffodils 1,610 votes William Wordsworth, a key figure in the Romantic movement, revolutionized poetry by focusing on nature and the or...
Best Poetry Collections of 2015 (Posted 2015-11-18 16:01:00) ; Works by Tony Hoagland, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Amy Gerstler and Juan Felipe HerreraLund, Elizabeth
Also ranks #17 on The Greatest Poets of All Time Buy atView on AMAZON 4 William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud, The world is too much with us, Daffodils 1,609 votes William Wordsworth, a key figure in the Romantic movement, revolutionized poetry by focusing on nature and the or...
Aaron Smith is the author of five collections of poetry published by the Pitt Poetry Series, most recently Stop Lying (2023). With Maureen Seaton, he co-wrote the forthcoming book Beautiful People (SMU Project Poëtica/Bridwell, 2025). He is associate professor of creative writing at Lesley ...
If you’re feeling the urge to jump into the world of poetry books, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled a list of collections that should satisfy the breadth and width of most poetic imaginations, from the traditional to the avant-garde. It includes what some consider thebe...
of course, by means of a variety of lists. We began with thebest debut novels, thebest short story collections, thebest poetry collections, and thebest memoirs of the decade, and we have now reached the fifth list in our series: the best essay collections published in English between 2010...
New collections of poetry are increasingly pushing the bounds of language and performance in intelligent, creative, perceptive ways, saysSimone White, a poet and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Here, she recommends some of her favorite poetry books published (or repu...
She is the author of five previous poetry collections: Kneeling Between Parked Cars, The Museum of the Revolution: 58 Exhibits, Possession, Quartet, and Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds. Angela curates the "New York School Diaspora" for this blog. Find her selections here. James ...
The Canadian novelist began her writing career as a poet and returned to the form in recent years withDearly, one of the collections reproduced in this six-decade-spanning tome. By turns deeply introspective and outward looking, Atwood’s poetry is as clear-eyed, uncompromising and masterly as ...