Year-End Lists

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2016]

• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Calligraphies
  Marilyn Hacker
• So to Speak
  Terrance Hayes
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Many Hundreds of the Scent
  Shane McCrae
• What You Want
  Maureen N. McLane
• West

  A Translation
  Paisley Rekdal
• Tanya
  Brenda Shaughnessy
• suddenly we
  Evie Shockley
• From From
  Monica Youn
• How Fire Descends

  New and Selected Poems
  Serhiy Zhadan

Maria Crawford: Best Postry Books of 2023, as published by Financial Times

[see also 2022]

• Mothersong
  Amy Acre
• Taking Liberties
  Leontia Flynn
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner

Kate Kellaway: Best Poetry Books of 2023, as published by The Guardian

• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• Was It for This
  Hannah Sullivan
• Enter the Water
  Jack Wiltshire
• From Our Own Fire
  William Letford

Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021]

The Top 4 Poetry Collections of The Year

• Judas Goat
  Gabrielle Bates
• Pig
  Sam Sax
• The Kingdom of Surfaces
  Sally Wen Mao
• Fixer
  Edgar Kunz

The Best Poetry Collections of the Year

• I Do Everything I'm Told
  Megan Fernandes
• I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
  Taylor Byas
• Above Ground
  Clint Smith
• Promises of Gold
  José Olivarez
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• The Diaspora Sonnets
  Oliver de la Paz
• Chrome Valley
  Mahogany L. Browne
• a "Working Life"
  Eileen Myles
• Couplets

  A Love Story
  Maggie Millner
• All Souls
  Saskia Hamilton
• So to Speak
  Terrance Hayes
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham
• Ursula K. Le Guin

  Collected Poems
  Ursula K. Le Guin
• From From
  Monica Youn

Srikanth Reddy: 11 Great Poetry Collections from 2023, as published by The Washington Post

• April
  Sara Nicholson
• The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos
  Fernando Pessoa
• Hydra Medusa
  Brandon Shimoda
• Information Desk

  An Epic
  Robyn Schiff
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner
• mahogany
  erica lewis
• Phantom Pain Wings
  Kim Hyesoon
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Thomas Salto
  Timmy Straw
• What You Want
  Maureen N. McLane
• Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise
  Anthony Madrid

National Book Award: Poetry 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• from unincorporated territory [åmot]
  Craig Santos Perez

Finalists

• How to Communicate
  John Lee Clark
• suddenly we
  Evie Shockley
• Tripas
  Brandon Som
• From From
  Monica Youn

Longlist

• Vexations
  Annelyse Gelman
• Promises of Gold
  José Olivarez
• West

  A Translation
  Paisley Rekdal
• Trace Evidence
  Charif Shanahan
• The Diaspora Sonnets
  Oliver de la Paz

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• All Souls
  Saskia Hamilton
• From From
  Monica Youn
• The Shared World
  Vievee Francis
• suddenly we
  Evie Shockley
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham