Poetry recommendations
Here are a few poetry collections I love and recommend - it’s worth noting that all links here are affiliate links so if you buy anything via them, it helps support me and my work.
anthologies
In no particular order… other than how they’re arranged on my bookshelf. Names in brackets are often the editors / curators of these collections.
Anthologies are a great place to start if you want to get into poetry or find new poets - some will be organised chronologically over a certain time period, or they might contains a selection of poetry written by poets from a certain background / culture, or they might all be centred around a theme.
She is Fierce (Ana Sampson)
She Will Soar (Ana Sampson)
The poetry Pharmacy (William Seighart)
The poetry Pharmacy Returns (William Seighart)
A Poem for every Day
The Zoo of the New
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
The Fire OF joy (Clive James)
Set Me On Fire: a poem for every feeling (Ella Risbridger)
Staying Alive: Real Poems For Unreal times (Neil Astley)
The Poetry of Sex
Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the forward books of poetry
Women of Resistance
100 Queer Poems (Andrew McMillan & Mary Jean Chan)
Poets
Please note: These aren’t the only poets I recommend but these are the collections from just one poet which I’ve enjoyed. There are plenty of other wonderful poets whose work I love and thoroughly recommend but I’ve only read their work in other anthologies so please check out the anthology section for an even wider range of poets.
An Intro To Poetry
This video also has lots of great poetry recommendations in!
Is There any Good Poetry Left?
And this is literally just an entire video of poetry recommendations. Yay!
