Year-End Lists

Rishi Dastidar: The Best Poetry Books of 2025, as published by The Guardian

• 2016
  Sarah Hesketh
• The Book of Jonah
  Luke Kennard
• The New Carthaginians
  Nick Makoha
• Southernmost

  Sonnets
  Leo Boix
• Wellwater
  Karen Solie
• Avidyā
  Vidyan Ravinthiran
• Chaotic Good
  Isabelle Baafi
• Minx
  Karen Downs-Barton
• Nature Matters
  Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf (editors)
• The Poems of Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
• New Cemetery
  Simon Armitage
• Dwell
  Simon Armitage
• Lode
  Gillian Allnutt
• Foretokens
  Sarah Howe
• That Broke Into Shining Crystals
  Richard Scott