13 Top poetry books like Nobody by Alice Oswald

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Nobody

By: Alice Oswald

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A partnership between two art forms, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibit…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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  • poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
  • mythology
  • fiction
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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3. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry
  • retellings
  • mythology
  • fiction

5. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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6. Selected Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before F… read more

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7. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more

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8. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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9. The Waste Land and Other Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more

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10. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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11. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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  • fiction
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12. 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
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13. The Baudelaire Fractal

By: Lisa Robertson

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the c… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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14. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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15. Nobody

By: Alice Oswald

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A partnership between two art forms, Nobody is a unique crossover work - both a book and an exhibit… read more

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  • poetry
  • retellings
  • art
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mythology
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16. Another Way to Split Water

By: Alycia Pirmohamed

4.37

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

LONGLISTED 2023 JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED 2023 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLISTED 2023 RAYMON… read more

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  • poetry
"I stoop into my longings, plot a seed in every corner. Last week I titled another page within my body and surrendered every bending, spitting line of myself to the making."

-Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water

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17. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Sho

By: Douglas Kearney

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with … read more

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  • poetry
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19. No Art: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

This book brings together for the first time Ben Lerner's three acclaimed volumes of poetry, along … read more

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  • poetry
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20. The Arctic

By: Don Paterson

3.96

Format: 64 pages, None

In this new collection from Don Paterson, 'The Arctic' is the bar frequented in the backstreet of a… read more

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  • poetry
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21. New Selected Stories

By: Thomas Mann

4.19

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann’s best stories―including his m… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

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4.29

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