One month today until #NationalPoetryDay!!! Over at National Poetry Day they have curated a selection of nine books perfect for book group discussions and individual poetry-lovers!
Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird (Carcanet)
Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest (Picador Poetry)
Forward Book of Poetry 2025 edited by the Forward Prizes Judges (Faber Book Group)
ISDAL by Susannah Dickey (Picador Poetry)
Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf & Nathalie Teitler (Bloodaxe Books)
Material Properties by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
Poems as Friends – The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology edited by Fiona Bennett & Michael Shaeffer (Quercus Books)
Soul Feast: nourishing poems of hope & light edited by Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce (Bloodaxe Books)
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet)