Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of several poetry collections, of which Host is the most recent. As noted by the book blurb, it “explores parasitic relationships—between men and women, sons and mothers, and humans and the earth—and considers their consequences.”

Mahmoud Darwish was a renowned Palestinian poet who died in 2008.

Fox Woman Get Out! is India Lena González’s debut poetry collection from BOA Editions, but it feels like this work has been in the making her whole life. 

In the 2022 poetry collection from Copper Canyon Press, The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang enters the “big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff,” to quote Doctor Who. As much as this collection is an exploration of waka Japanese form, it is also an exploration of time.

Be Recorder, Carmen Giménez Smith’s sixth collection of poetry, is out to challenge us.