Year-End Lists

Ellen Peirson-Hagger: The Best Poetry Books of 2022, as published by New Statesman

• Quiet
  Victoria Adukwei Bulley
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• Unexhausted Time
  Emily Berry
• Heritage Aesthetics
  Anthony Anaxagorou
• All the Flowers Kneeling
  Paul Tran

The Guardian: The Best Poetry Books of 2022, written up by Rishi Dastidar

[see also 2020]

• C+nto and Othered Poems
  Joelle Taylor
• Unexhausted Time
  Emily Berry
• The Illustrated Woman
  Helen Mort
• Manorism
  Yomi Sode
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
  Warsan Shire
• Quiet
  Victoria Adukwei Bulley
• The English Summer
  Holly Hopkins
• 100 Queer Poems
  Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan (editors)
• Home Is Not A Place
  Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson
• The Trees Witness Everything
  Victoria Chang
• Refractive Africa
  Will Alexander

Electric Lit: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022

[see also 2021]

The Top 3 Poetry Collections of The Year

• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
  Chen Chen
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong

Other Poetry Favorites

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• Content Warning

  Everything
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Customs
  Solmaz Sharif
• Girls That Never Die
  Safia Elhillo
• In the Hands of the River
  Lucien Darjeun Meadows
• Magnolia
  Nina Mingya Powles
• Normal Distance
  Elisa Gabbert
• Refusenik
  Lynn Melnick
• Smoking the Bible
  Chris Abani
• The Call-Out
  Cat Fitzpatrick
• The Rupture Tense
  Jenny Xie
• The Symmetry of Fish
  Su Cho
• The Trees Witness Everything
  Victoria Chang
• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
  Franny Choi
• Togetherness
  Wo Chan
• Woman Without Shame
  Sandra Cisneros

Connie Pan: 10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022, as published by Book Riot

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• All the Flowers Kneeling
  Paul Tran
• As She Appears
  Shelley Wong
• Ask the Brindled
  No‘u Revilla
• Girls That Never Die
  Safia Elhillo
• Golden Ax
  Rio Cortez
• Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
  C.T. Salazar
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• Magnolia
  Nina Mingya Powles
• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
  Chen Chen

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2016]

• Finalists
  Rae Armantrout
• The Study of Human Life
  Joshua Bennett
• In a Few Minutes Before Later
  Brenda Hillman
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• Cain Named the Animal
  Shane McCrae
• A Country of Strangers

  New and Selected Poems
  D. Nurkse
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• Duende

  Poems, 1966-Now
  Quincy Troupe
• The Rupture Tense
  Jenny Xie

Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2021 • 2020]

• Hyperphantasia
  Sara Deniz Akant
• Mothman Apologia
  Robert Wood Lynn
• Please make me pretty, I don't want to die
  Tawanda Mulalu
• Border Vista
  Anni Liu
• Path of Totality
  Niina Pollari
• Beyond Belief
  John Koethe
• In the Same Light

  200 Tang Poems for Our Century
  Wong May (translator)

Maria Crawford: Best Poetry Books of 2022, as published by Financial Times

• Heritage Aesthetics
  Anthony Anaxagorou
• The Illustrated Woman
  Helen Mort
• Manorism
  Yomi Sode
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
  various authors

Troy Jollimore: The 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2022, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2020]

• Names and Rivers
  Shuri Kido
• The Slain Birds
  Michael Longley
• Please make me pretty, I don't want to die
  Tawanda Mulalu
• Flight and Metamorphosis
  Nelly Sachs
• This Afterlife
  A.E. Stallings

National Book Award: Poetry 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• Punks

  New & Selected Poems
  John Keene

Finalists

• Look at This Blue
  Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• Best Barbarian
  Roger Reeves

Longlist

• Golden Ax
  Rio Cortez
• Still Life
  Jay Hopler
• Mummy Eaters
  Sherry Shenoda
• Duende

  Poems, 1966-Now
  Quincy Troupe
• As She Appears
  Shelley Wong
• The Rupture Tense
  Jenny Xie

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012]

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
  Warsan Shire
• Customs
  Solmaz Sharif
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• [To] The Last [Be] Human
  Jorie Graham