Poetry

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a...

The Poet Laureate pays luminous tribute to the arrival of spring blossom in a collection of poems that run the gamut from haikus to ballads and from flourishing saplings to urban sprawl. Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and...

One of poetry’s most outstanding and enduring stars, Emily Dickinson’s verse abounds with quiet power and penetrating psychological insight, and this landmark edition brings together all her poems in one volume for the first time. The...

Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation. “Ok’s métier in this lovely debut is an elegantly discursive, analytical style studded with ironies.”—David Woo, Literary Hub...

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and...

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of...

With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood. ‘It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood’On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a lord twice-over and Macbeth will be...

With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades. ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the...

With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless. ‘For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo’ A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees...

With a foreword by Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet? ‘I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest’ Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina. Sweet, innocent Hero and the famed soldier...

be nice to yourself, you're trying. if its taking longer than you thought it would to achieve something or to move on from someone it's okay. try not to compare yourself to others, you're alive and smiling, and that's what matters. keep trying. find...

The instant New York Times bestseller from the mysterious and romantic poet Atticus, Instagram sensation and author of Love Her Wild and the Dark Between Stars.In his third collection of poems, Atticus takes us on adventure to discover the truth about...

The poems of Nocturnal—newly revised and expanded—are constellations to guide those on a journey of healing and self-discovery, no matter how dark the night.From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expanded revised edition of Nocturnal, a...

Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical approach to self-care in her newest poetry collection, Persephone Made Me Do It.Following her previous work in this series, Mateer weaves together...

“if you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.” Pangaea is a collection of poetry about working through the trauma inflicted on a body, whether the trauma comes from a person, a country, or from...

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and little-known facts about natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee...

letting you go was the beginning of me learning to love myself

A collection of poems about love, loss, loneliness, lament, learning, and life. You can read this book from start to finish as a story about the way one grieves and grows, hurts and heals. Or you can read it using the table of contents, finding poems...

Dear Stranger, Everything we do in life is for love. Why? I don't know. Maybe love is what keeps us going. Maybe love is the means and ends to this life. Maybe the Universe runs on love. Whatever may be the reason, love is what we all demand, and love is...

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat.In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every...