Year-End Lists

Rishi Dastidar: Best Poetry Books of 2023, as published by The Guardian

[see also 2025 • 2024]

• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• indiom
  Daljit Nagra
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• Self-Portrait as Othello
  Jason Allen-Paisant
• Bad Diaspora Poems
  Momtaza Mehri
• Octopus Mind
  Rachel Carney
• Crisis Actor
  Declan Ryan
• Isdal
  Susannah Dickey
• We Play Here
  Dawn Watson
• Bright Fear
  Mary Jean Chan
• The Home Child
  Liz Berry
• Anne-thology

  Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare
  Anne Hathaway (various editors)
• Contraflow

  Lines of Englishness 1922-2022
  John Greening & Kevin Gardner (editors)
• Mapping the Future

  The Complete Works
  Karen McCarthy Woolf & Nathalie Teitler
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• Pitch & Glint
  Lutz Seiler