POETRY BOOKS

POETRY nowadays is more frequently written than read. However, for those who enjoy poetry, the way words intermingle with one another in infinite permutations and in the process create the happy and sad colours of life, the following are excellent contemporary collections published between 2000 and 2006):

American Sublime (2005) / Elizabeth Alexander
Where Shall I Wander: New Poems (2005) / John Ashbery
Star Dust (2005) / Frank Bidart
Selected Poems (2006) / John Burnside
The Good Neighbour (2005) / John Burnside
Natural History (2005) / Dan Chiasson
Newborn (2004) / Kate Clanchy
Middle Earth (2003) / Henri Cole
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (2001) / Billy Collins
Safest (2005) / Michael Donaghy

Rapture (2005) / Carol Ann Duffy
Intimates (2005)/ Helen Farish
Tramp in Flames (2006) / Paul Farley
These Days (2004) / Leontia Flynn
Dear Ghosts, (2006) / Tess Gallagher
Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 (2005) / Brendan Galvin
Refusing Heaven (2005) / Jack Gilbert
Averno (2006) / Louise Glück
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006 (2006) / Donald Hall
Legion (2005) / David Harsent

District and Circle (2006) / Seamus Heaney
Without Title (2006) / Geoffrey Hill
Scenes from Comus (2005) / Geoffrey Hill
The Orchards of Syon (2002) / Geoffrey Hill
After (2006) / Jane Hirschfield
Ground Water (2004) / Michael Hollis
Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 (2004) / Richard Howard
Collected Poems (2003) / Ted Hughes (ed. Paul Keegan)
The Tree House (2004) / Kathleen Jamie
A Shorter Life (2005) / Alan Jenkins

Collected Poems (2004) / Donald Justice
Collected Poems (2005) / Jane Kenyon
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (2003) / August Kleinzahler
Delights & Shadows (2004) / Ted Kooser
The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000) / Stanley Kunitz
To a Fault (2005) / Nick Laird
Curves and Angles (2006) / Brad Leithauser
Snow Water (2004) / Michael Longley
Collected Poems (2003) / Robert Lowell (eds. Frank Bidart & David Gewanter)
The Sugar Mile (2005) / Glyn Maxwell

The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown (2005) / George Mackay Brown (eds. Archie Bevan and Brian Murray)
Gethsemane (2006) / Dorothy Molloy
Hare Soup (2004) / Dorothy Molloy
Waiting for the Night-Rowers (2006) / Roger Moulson
Horse Lattitudes (2006) / Paul Muldoon
Moy Sand and Gravel (2002) / Paul Muldoon
New and Selected Poems: Volume 2 (2005) / Mary Oliver
Dart / Alice Oswald
The Rest of Love (2004) / Carl Phillips
The Brink (2003) / Jacob Polley

Corpus (2004) / Michael Symmons Roberts
Swithering (2006) / Robin Robertson
Skirrid Hill (2005) / Owen Sheers
My Noiseless Entourage (2006) / Charles Simic
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems (2003) / Charles Simic
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (2006) / W.D. Snodgrass
Man and Camel (2006) / Mark Strand
Cracks in the Universe (2006) / Charles Tomlinson
The Prodigal (2004) / Derek Walcott
Collected Poems 1943-2004 (2004) / Richard Wilbur

God’s Silence (2006) / Franz Wright
Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (2003) / Franz Wright