“What are the best Poetry books released in 2024?” We looked at 77 of the top Poetry books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 11 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Poetry” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 60+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

All of the books have Amazon affiliate links attached to them, but I will be building out Bookshop versions of these lists HERE in the next week for those who would rather support a local book store. Honestly, just use the bookshop link for books (Or even better go in person somewhere). If you are going to buy something else expensive from Amazon, feel free to click on the link before buying so I get an affiliate percentage, but these are the only articles I post on here each year, so I don’t expect to make any real money from this site anymore. I’ve just made these articels for enough years in a row that I can’t stop now. Plus I like using to see what books I missed or need to get myself.

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Top 11 Best Poetry Books From 2024

11.) A Year of Last Things written by Michael Ondaatje

Lists It Appears On:

• Library Journal
• Publishers Weekly

10.) Scattered Snows, to the North written by Carl Phillips

Lists It Appears On:

• Library Journal
• New York Times: Elisa Gabbert

9.) Sidetracks written by Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• The New Yorker

8.) Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems written by Catherine Barnett

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• Publishers Weekly

7.) […] written by Fady Joudah

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• NPR
• The Guardian

6.) The Invention of the Darling written by Li-Young Lee

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker

5.) With My Back to the World: Poems written by Victoria Chang

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• NPR
• The Guardian

4.) Modern Poetry written by Diane Seuss

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Library Journal
• New York Times
• The New Yorker

3.) Forest of Noise written by Mosab Abu Toha

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Library Journal
• New York Times
• NYPL
• The New Yorker

2.) Wrong Norma written by Anne Carson

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Library Journal
• New York Times: Elisa Gabbert
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker

1.) Bluff written by Danez Smith

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Library Journal
• New York Times
• NYPL
• Publishers Weekly
• The Guardian

The 60+ Additional Best Poetry Books Released In 2024

12) 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem – Nam Le List: (NPR)

13) A Film in Which I Play Everyone Poems – Mary Jo Bang List: (New York Times)

14) Adam – List: (The Guardian)

15) After – Geoffrey Brock List: (Electric Lit)

16) After You Were, I Am – Camille Ralphs List: (The Guardian)

17) American Spirits – Russell Banks List: (NPR)

18) Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances – Lucas Mann List: (NPR)

19) Bad Mexican, Bad American – José Hernández Díaz List: (Electric Lit)

20) Between the Night and Its Music – A.B. Spellman List: (Library Journal)

21) Black Girl You Are Atlas – Renée Watson, illustrated by Ekua Holmes List: (NPR)

22) Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days – Jordan Bolton List: (NPR)

23) Book of Kin – Darius Atefat-Peckham List: (NYPL)

24) Collected Poems – List: (The Guardian)

25) Consider the Rooster – Oliver Baez Bendorf List: (Electric Lit)

26) Deer Run Home – Ann Clare LeZotte List: (NPR)

27) Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity – Sable Yong List: (NPR)

28) Exit Opera – Kim Addonizio List: (Library Journal)

29) First Love: Essays on Friendship – Lilly Dancyger List: (NPR)

30) Girl Work – Zefyr Lisowski List: (Electric Lit)

31) God Complex – Darcy Dahlia List: (The Guardian)

32) Goodlord – List: (The Guardian)

33) Green Frog – Gina Chung List: (NPR)

34) How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir – Shayla Lawson List: (NPR)

35) I Could Die Today and Live Again – Summer Farah List: (Electric Lit)

36) I Was Working – Ariel Yelen List: (NYPL)

37) Instructions for the Lovers – Dawn Lundy Martin List: (Electric Lit)

38) Interrogation Records – Jeddie Sophronius List: (Electric Lit)

39) Joe Hill Makes His Way Into – List: (The Guardian)

40) Joy in Service on Rue Tagore Poems – Paul Muldoon List: (New York Times)

41) Life on Earth – Dorianne Laux List: (The New Yorker)

42) Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders – Vanessa Angélica Villarreal List: (NPR)

43) Mean Boys: A Personal History – Geoffrey Mak List: (NPR)

44) Mongrel – Hanako Footman List: (The Guardian)

45) New and Selected Poems – Marie Howe List: (NPR)

46) New Testaments: Stories – Dagoberto Gilb List: (NPR)

47) Not a Speck of Light – Laird Barron List: (NPR)

48) Plat – Lindsey Webb List: (New York Times: Elisa Gabbert)

49) Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology – Fiona L. Bennett Michael Shaeffer (With) List: (The Guardian)

50) Reservoir Bitches: Stories – Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches List: (NPR)

51) Root FracturesPoems – Diana Khoi Nguyen List: (Electric Lit)

52) Ruin, Blossom – List: (The Guardian)

53) Self-Mythology: Poems – Saba Keramati List: (BookRiot)

54) Silver: Poems – Rowan Ricardo Phillips List: (NPR)

55) Something About Living – Lena Khalaf Tuffaha List: (NPR)

56) Song of My Softening – Omotara James List: (Electric Lit)

57) Sons of Salt – Yaccaira Salvatierra List: (NYPL)

58) Soon and Wholly – Idra Novey List: (Electric Lit)

59) Spectral Evidence – Gregory Pardlo List: (Library Journal)

60) Table for Two: Fictions – Amor Towles List: (NPR)

61) The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters – Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, translated by Lizzie Davis List: (NPR)

62) The Butterfly House – List: ()

63) The History of Sound: Stories – Ben Shattuck List: (NPR)

64) The Letters of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell List: (NPR)

65) The Moon That Turns You BackPoems – Hala Alyan List: (Electric Lit)

66) The Nightmare Box and Other Stories – Cynthia Gómez List: (NPR)

67) The Opening Ritual – G.C. Waldrep List: (New York Times: Elisa Gabbert)

68) The Selected ShepherdPoems – Reginald Shepherd List: (New York Times: Elisa Gabbert)

69) The Wickedest – List: (The Guardian)

70) Theophanies – Sarah Ghazal Ali List: (Electric Lit)

71) Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction – Sonia Sulaiman List: (NPR)

72) To the Letter: Poems – Tomasz Rozycki List: (The New Yorker)

73) Top Doll – List: (The Guardian)

74) unalone – Jessica Jacobs List: (Library Journal)

75) Ward Toward – Cindy Juyoung Ok List: (Electric Lit)

76) We’re Alone: Essays – Edwidge Danticat List: (NPR)

77) You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World – Ada Limón List: (NPR)

10 Best Poetry Book Sources/Lists