Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Salvage - Hedgie Choi

Elisa Gabbert: New York Times The Best Poetry of 2025

Chaotic Good - Isabelle Baafi

The Week The Best Poetry Books of 2025

Groceries - Nora Claire Miller

New York Public Library Best Poetry Books of 2025

Stay Dead - Natalie Shapero

Time The Must-Read Poetry Books of 2025

Helen of Troy, 1993 - Maria Zoccola

Electric Lit Best Poetry Collections of 2025

The Poems of Seamus Heaney - Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue

Maria Crawford: Financial Times Best Poetry of 2025

The Intentions of Thunder - Patricia Smith

National Book Award Poetry 2025

The New Economy - Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books of 2025

Good Dress - Brittany Rogers

Autostraddle The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2024

Wrong Norma - Anne Carson

Elisa Gabbert: New York Times The Best Poetry Books of 2024

Forest of Noise - Mosab Abu Toha

New York Public Library Best Poetry of 2024

Forest of Noise - Mosab Abu Toha

Electric Lit Best Poetry Collections of 2024

Bluff - Danez Smith

Rishi Dastidar: Guardian The Best Poetry Books of 2024

Forest of Noise - Mosab Abu Toha

Library Journal Best Poetry of 2024

Fierce Elegy - Peter Gizzi

Maria Crawford: Financial Times Best Poetry of 2024

Something about Living - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

National Book Award Poetry 2024

Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space - Catherine Barnett

Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Books of 2024

I Do Everything I'm Told - Megan Fernandes

Connie Pan: Book Riot 12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023

To 2040 - Jorie Graham

Rishi Dastidar: Guardian Best Poetry Books of 2023

suddenly we - Evie Shockley

Dasia Moore: Boston Globe 6 Favorite Poetry Collections of 2023

Auction - Quan Barry

Elisa Gabbert: New York Times The Best Poetry of 2023

Quiet - Victoria Adukwei Bulley

New York Public Library Best Poetry of 2023

From From - Monica Youn

Library Journal Best Poetry of 2023

The Lights - Ben Lerner

Maria Crawford: Financial Times Best Poetry of 2023