The Perseverance
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.31
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac…
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1. Fen
By: Daisy Johnson
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."-Daisy Johnson, Fen
"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"-Daisy Johnson, Fen
2. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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- literature
- poetry
3. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
By: Danez Smith
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
4. Collected Poems, 1909-1962
By: T.S. Eliot
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than … read more
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- literature
- poetry
5. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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6. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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7. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
- disability
- contemporary
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
8. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
9. Vertigo & Ghost
By: Fiona Benson
4.12
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
*WINNER OF THE 2019 FORWARD PRIZE* Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginni… read more
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- poetry
- contemporary
10. God Complex
By: Rachael Allen
3.94
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem … read more
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- poetry
11. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
12. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- contemporary
13. The Perseverance
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.31
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac… read more
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- family
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- 21st century
- disability
- audiobook
14. England's Green
By: Zaffar Kunial
4.08
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more
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- poetry
"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
15. 100 Poems
By: Seamus Heaney
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of … read more
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- literature
- poetry
16. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- race
- audiobook
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
17. A Fortune for Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: None pages, None
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- audiobook
18. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
19. Tongues of Fire
By: Seán Hewitt
4.23
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A remarkable first collection by an important new poet In this collection, Seán Hewitt gives us … read more
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- contemporary
"I did not / realize how far I had walked you / into my life, until your hand let go." - "Epithalamium"-Seán Hewitt, Tongues of Fire
20. A Portable Paradise
By: Roger Robinson
4.40
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racis… read more
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- poetry
- race
- literature
- nonfiction
- 21st century
"in the car park a young father whispers weed smoke about how his life feels, like that burnt-out car that never moves, the one with the shattered windows leaving diamond tears in the asphalt."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and noth…"-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives. This seems like the newest answer to an old question. Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire- that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing from S…"-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
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