tis the season

All year long, journalists have offered their recommendations for the best new poetry books and we’ve posted a regular stream of what to read now lists. Now it gets serious. Critics, reviewers, pundits of all stripes, get to weigh in on which books they think are the best of the year. So here is the first batch of 2023 best-of titles:

• Derek Beaulieu – most engaging books of 2023
• Electric Lit – Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023
• Financial Times – Best books of 2023 — Poetry
• The Guardian – Kate Kellaway’s best poetry books of 2023
• The Guardian – Best poetry books of 2023
• Irish Independent – Books of the Year: Poetry – the best in verse, from cosmic hides to PVC trousers
• The New York Times – The Best Poetry of 2023
• Santa Barbara Independent – From Acre to Zagjewski: 31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2023
• The Telegraph – The best poetry books of 2023: from Homer to the apocalypse
• The Washington Post – 11 great poetry collections from 2023
• yahoo! news – The 11 best poetry books of 2023 so far

We’ll post more over the next few weeks as well as an update with a few additions to our impressive list of books by local poets.