The best poems take complex subjects and provide readers with a new way of approaching them. These are seven of our favourite poetry collections to read for National Poetry Day. In the world of ...

‘Modern Poetry: Poems’ by Diane Seuss. (Graywolf Press) “The danger/ of memory is going/ to it for respite,” writes Diana Seuss in “Weeds,” the best poem in her first collection following the Pulitzer ...

Buy at Amazon Modern American poetry arguably began with Walt Whitman ... and so much more. But it’s not the best poem in this collection. That’s arguably “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which ...

“One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her capacious debut collection. That ...

At once haunted, sensual, explosive and intensely deliberate, this epic of intersectional identity is indispensable to contemporary poetry. The collection’s power is sourced both from the deep roots ...