Poetry

The Known World

by Don Bogen

Stunning poetry that explores the complex relationship between past and present.

Silence in the Snowy Fields: Poems

by Robert Bly

Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth

The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992

by James Dickey

Documentation of the development of a major literary figure.

Things Come On: An Amneoir

by Joseph Harrington

National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir

To See the Earth Before the End of the World

by Ed Roberson

Generous, visionary new work by this major American poet

Elegguas Elegguas Elegguas Elegguas Elegguas

by Kamau Brathwaite

Deeply felt requiems from an internationally celebrated poet

Buckdancer's Choice: Poems

National Book Award for Poetry 1966

by James Dickey

Poetry that is a blend of superb gift and subtle imagination by a mature and original poet at his finest.

Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities

by Kazim Ali

Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story

The Branch Will Not Break: Poems

by James Wright

A new book of poetry from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master poet

Continued

by Piotr Sommer & August Kleinzahler

Spontaneous, colloquial, and anti-conventional verse from a celebrated Polish writer .

The Millennium Hotel: The Rider Quintet, vol. 2

by Mark Rudman

A captivating sequel to Rider.

Songs of Kabir

by Kabir & Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

A New York Review Books Original

Transcending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion and paradox,...

The Master Letters

by Lucie Brock-Broido

The title of this richly textured book derives from two of the three mysterious letters left by Emily Dickinson--the ones addressed to "Dear Master." Lucie Brock-Boido has imagined a series of letters echoing...

The Colour of Black and White

by Liz Lochhead

The Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochhead’s first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in...

Farmers Cross

by Bernard O'Donoghue

The book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the way. In a series of poems that frequently recall the south-west...

The Secret Life of Poems

by Tom Paulin

The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or...

Small Hours

by Lachlan Mackinnon

Lachlan MacKinnon’s fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives...

Wintering Out

by Seamus Heaney

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he...

Callings

by Carl Dennis

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize

This new collection by acclaimed poet Carl Dennis is about vocation in the largest sense, the work that we believe gives our lives meaning, and...

The Beforelife

by Franz Wright

In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing...