Beforelight explores queer childhood as a site of rupture and queer coming-of-age as a process of both becoming and unbe......more

furnish, entrap is a collection of poems built from the inside-out, in a way that can only come from a deep engagement w......more

A new book-length lyric from one of our most prolific contemporary poets and thinkers. In a headlong rush, Lyn Hejinian’......more

Chalking the Pavement, written during the first part of the Covid pandemic, includes a number of poems, as well as a lon......more

The ringing of the stream of things. High among the stars... A duel on an empty island sets the course for one of the gr......more

Last Hours is a fast-paced collection of poems about motherhood, Newfoundland, poverty, mortality and the absolute mirth......more

At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be C......more

At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be C......more

In Two Signatures, Sara Ellen Fowler initiates her readers into a synesthetic contract of close attention and deep feeli......more

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The Chrome Chair is Newfoundland, feminist environmentalist poetry at its finest. Devereaux’s sharp, humorous writing cu......more

Something Man-Made Is Here and It Is Dangerous is a pamphlet of poetry that finds humour, beauty, and fascination in the......more

Feeling All the Kills is a dazzling new collection that breaks the poet’s silence on what it means to experience and liv......more

Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024 Migrating across voices and blurring the divide between bird and human, s......more

Janette Ayachi’s second collection moves away from the personal and delves into the universal with poems often taking fl......more

Thaddeus Dugan’s debut poetry collection, A Record of Change, is a tapestry woven with the threads of age, love, and the......more

An examination of obsession, gender, love, and loss in contemporary rural America. In Country Songs for Alice, a nonbina......more

Safia Hussein Guerras’ book, O.N.E - Opportunities Never End, is a profound exploration of the human experience, woven t......more

Poetry is far more than it seems. Writing verse can provide a creative shorthand for working through dark thoughts, maki......more

The poems in Northern Swim grieve a beloved sister’s death during other losses of the pandemic, framed against havoc in ......more

The reader is invited to embark on a poetic odyssey through life’s complexities in Words Left Unspoken-an exploration of......more

Andrea Wilkin, a distinguished retired couturier, ventures into the world of literature with a heartfelt collection of p......more

From reluctantly residing in a squat to the rules of Cricket, embark on a free-ranging potpourri of poetry that will ren......more

Cromulent Cameo is a quintessential collection of poems reflecting the contemporary struggle to bridge the gap between s......more

Embarking on a quest for identity and belonging, this narrative traverses the globe, from the shadowy echoes of the Beat......more

As a follow up to the debut collection entitled Assorted Musings, A Bardic Melange tackles various themes incorporating ......more

Australia: A Miracle of Life beckons you on a breathtaking expedition alongside Julie as she delves deep into the heart ......more

Once Upon a Truth.... Cygnus catches dreamers with her daughters. A lost Mermelf from the stars arrives in Storyhenge. A......more

This book offers a diverse collection of poems, lyrics, and thoughtful jottings suitable for readers of all ages. It exp......more

Croeso i gyfrol sy’n gynnwys darnau o waith barddonol yr awdur sy’n dechrau yn nawdegau’r ganrif ddiwethaf ac yn arwain ......more

The poems in TO LEAVE FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY offer a new approach to place-based writing and thought in an often uprooted a......more

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Industrial culture casts humans as parasites: devouring our living home. Yet endless metaphors exist. Other cultures and......more

In Are You There, Indiana poet Samantha Fain refracts contemporary melancholia into iridescent lyricism. Fain delights i......more

Diary of Rhymes is a collection at the intersection of life’s ups and downs. Moseley makes the reader her diary as she c......more

When I fall, you are a soft landing, like raindrops on branches, like autumn leaves to the forest floor. But it is so ea......more

An imaginative reworking of the elegy that focuses on the difficult work of being with the dying. At the heart of The Cl......more

The Bearable Slant of Light asks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family, to our world. What can we bear ......more

A CBC Books’ Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a ......more

Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practice......more

At once raw and skillful, painful and funny, personal and pervasive, the poems in Jump Scare dig deep into mental health......more

Moments of ecstatic violation live on, unacknowledged, but making their claim in crippled emotion and an incessant searc......more

I can’t write anymore about rain Because nobody wants to see it Nobody wants to hear the pitter patter The drumming, the......more

I can’t write anymore about rain Because nobody wants to see it Nobody wants to hear the pitter patter The drumming, the......more

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And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galvanisation of love, time......more

Bledsoe is an extended narrative poem that centers on a mute Appalachian man named Durant Bledsoe. Specifically, the poe......more

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lettuce lettuce please go bad is an incantation and a plea for transformation. Using the idea of compost as composition ......more

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Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poet’s mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite o......more

"Aftermath: Reflections on Near-life experiences," by Dr. Michael Roberts, is a collection of poetry that examines the d......more

West of West Indian constructs the Queer Caribbean experience as a simultaneously individual and collective one, embraci......more

Windswept Leaves compiles Luke Levi’s best haiku poems, found in prominent haiku magazines, into one book. Influenced by......more

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers who......more

Frog Joy is a collection of free verse and micro poems that point to the beauty in everyday moments. Beth Gulley is maki......more

Frog Joy is a collection of free verse and micro poems that point to the beauty in everyday moments. Beth Gulley is maki......more

Does loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Sisk......more

"Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favorite new writers. Good Grief is a powerful testament that shows how hard the pas......more

Deer Black Out poetically constructs an impossible technology of presencing and presenting gay Southern gothic hauntings......more

Hopeful, passionate, and full of sharp discoveries about the dangers of the world, Fire on a Circle is an exploration of......more

In the Capital City of Autumn, the characters of The Great Gatsby come to life, and three a.m. brings wisdom. These are ......more

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS--ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST No Gods Live Here, the ......more

To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ag......more

A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham. Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion......more

A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke ......more

The Eaten that focuses on the grief and heartbreaking loss of children unborn, children not had, and the fear of not hav......more

Poetry for healing, transformation, and reconciliation work. Jehann is an alchemist, a "mystic" artist, "who exposes the......more

Robert Michael Pyle’s fifth full-length compilation, The Last Man in Willapa, contains more than seventy-five poems, mos......more

Embodying her visionary philosophy, Yoko Ono’s landmark artist’s book is a companion for life This new edition of the be......more

In Every Hard Sweetness, Carter-Jones chronicles Civil Rights’ era atrocities through the story of her family’s experien......more

These are poems for wayfarers, for spiritual seekers who look for the sacred in every moment, in every step. These poems......more

Brooke has it all: the job, the flat, the girlfriend... but what happens when things go tits up just before your 30th bi......more

"Against the demands of our neoliberal, extractivist hungers, Yingling insists on carving out a space for mutualism and ......more