books books books!

If you didn’t attend AWP and bring home a huge stack of books (or even if you did!), here’s a new assortment of poetry-book recommendations:

• Book Riot – The Best Poetry Books of 2023
• CBC – 46 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in spring 2023
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup
• The New York Times – From Newcomers and Veterans, Four New Poetry Books Worth Your Time
• The New York Times – The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know
• read poetry – 10 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections in 2023

read some poetry

More recommendations for your poetry reading list:

• Book Riot – New Black Poetry Books for 2023
• Book Riot – 8 More Affrilachian Poetry Collections for Your TBR
• Ereads – 10 Best Poetry Books for Young Adults (2023)
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup
• Publishers Weekly – Picture This: New Poetry Books

plenty to read

Further recommendations for your overburdened bookshelf:

• Book Authority – 20 Best New Poetry Books To Read In 2023
• little infinite – 5 Poetry Collections To Look Forward To in 2023
• read poetry – 7 January 2023 Poetry Collections to Start Off the Year
• read poetry – 6 Spectacular February 2023 Poetry Releases
• Shade Literary Arts – 2023 Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer People of Color
• Vulture – 31 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2023

If you’ve been moved by a book of poetry, recent or otherwise, leave a comment with the author and title!

more books

We may be well into best-of season, but the general recommendations keep on coming. Here are a few more recent titles for your list:

• Book Riot – 9 Unforgettable Prose Books Written by Poets
• The New York Times – Newly Published Poetry, From Iman Mersal to Robert Pinsky
• NPR – Two poetry collections find beauty in unexpected places
• Orion – 14 Recommended Poetry Collections for Winter 2022
• Poetry Super Highway – Holiday Recommendations
• read poetry – 5 Dazzling December 2022 Poetry Releases

books, books, books!

Pretty soon we will start seeing the annual best-of lists, but for the moment we still have plenty of book recommendations jumping off the shelf. Here’s another batch:

• BookPage – 2022 gift ideas: Poetry is the best present
• Book Riot – Poetry to Get You Through the Winter
• The Bucknellian – Best poetry reads for November 2022
• Ereads – 12 Best Modern Poetry Books (2022)
• Goodreads – Best Poetry: Opening Round Nominees
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup
• The New Yorker – The Best Books of 2022 So Far
• The Washington Post – The 5 best poetry collections of 2022
• Year-End Lists – National Book Award: Poetry 2022

books for fall…

The poetry books, and lists of recommended titles, just keep coming!

• Academy of American Poets – 2022 Featured Fall Books List
• CLMP – Books Launching in October 2022
• Epic Reads – 31 Poetry Books & Novels in Verse Guaranteed to Take Your Breath Away
• Washington Independent Review of Books – On Poetry: October 2022

Cozy up with a poetry book (or two)… and happy reading!

books!

It’s a little terrifying to know how many poetry books there are to read. But we wouldn’t want you to miss out, so we’ll keep supplying these lists of recommended titles. (And by the way, we’ll hear soon from a poet who did the big gulp: 31 poetry books in a month as part of the Sealey Challenge.)

• Action Books – Micro-Reviews of Poetry in Translation (Part II)
• Book Riot – The Best Black Poets to Read (and Listen To!) Right Now
• 49th Shelf – Most Anticipated: Our 2022 Fall Poetry Preview
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – review roundup
• Joel’s Books – 9 Wonderful Short Poetry Books (2022) To Lift Your Spirit
• little infinite – Poetry Books Perfect for Fall Nights
• Read Poetry – Poetry Releases to Start the Fall Season
• Write or Die Tribe – 14 New Poetry Collections Releasing This Fall

more to read

Looking for something to read? Here are some more suggestions:

• Action Books – Action Books’ Micro-Reviews of Poetry in Translation (Part I)
• CBC – 48 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in fall 2022
• Columbia News – Here Are the Latinx Poets to Read Now
• Reader’s Digest – 9 Poets who will make you see poetry differently
• Washington Independent Review of Books – On Poetry: September 2022

Feel free to add your must-read poetry titles in the Comments.

reading September

If you scraped your bookshelves clean during the Sealey Challenge, here are a few more poetry book recommendations:

• The Berkshire Edge – Four by Four . . . the First Poetry Quartet presents four poets who should be better known
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – August review roundup
• The Guardian – The best recent poetry – September review roundup
• Orion – 12 Recommended Poetry Collections
• The Portobello Bookshop – Bookseller Picks: New Poetry July-September 2022

Have poetry favorites to share? Leave a comment!

books and a bonus

Here’s another batch of poetry book recommendations for your summer enjoyment:

• Book Riot – 15 Poetry Books for the Upcoming Sealey Challenge
• Brit & Co – The Best Poetry Books To Read If You’re New To The Genre
• The New York Times – Chance, Design and Inevitability in Three New Poetry Books
• The Times – Notable new poetry books of 2022: Ocean Vuong, Caroline Bird and more
• Washington Independent Review of Books – On Poetry: July 2022
• Words Without Borders – 8 Poetry Collections in Translation to Read in 2022

And a bonus:

• Podcast Review – The 9 Best Podcasts for Poetry Lovers