Poetry Month

Find a new poem or poet to enjoy during National Poetry Month, or learn about the history of the craft 🖊️

Updated February 9, 2026
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Poetry Unbound : 50 Poems to Open Your World
Tuama, Padraig O.
Paper Book
An immersive collection of poetry to open your world, curated by the host of Poetry UnboundThis inspiring collection, edited by Pádraig Ó Tuama, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with Pádraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal...
The making of poetry : Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their year of marvels
Nicolson, Adam
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in...
Ledger Poems
Hirshfield, Jane.
Ebook
A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate, from the internationally renowned poet. Ledger's pages hold the most important and masterly work yet by Jane Hirshfield...
Beowulf : a new translation
Headley, Maria Dahvana 1977-
Paper Book
Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for...
Goldenrod : Poems
Smith, Maggie
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR "To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." --Time "A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." --People
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Harjo, Joy.
Paper Book
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and...
A Year of Last Things : Poems
Ondaatje, Michael
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Included on The Guardian's Best Recent Poetry * Longlisted for the 2024 UK Poet Laureate's Laurel Prize * One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 * Named a Best Book of 2024 by Winnipeg Free Press With A...

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