Critics are discarded like calendars (Randall Jarrell)
Happy New Year to all Some Flowers Soon readers, and thanks to everyone who responded to my call before Christmas for alternative Poetry Books of the Year. It’s a list I’m very glad to have, not least because I’ve read so little of it myself. Links below!
Stephanie Burt, We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press)
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/we-are-mermaids
Joshua Edwards, The Double Lamp of Solitude (Rising Tide Projects)
https://risingtideprojects.org/The-Double-Lamp-of-Solitude
Peter Finch, Collected Poems (Seren)
https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set
Jackqueline Frost, Young Americans (Pamenar Press)
https://www.pamenarpress.com/product-page/young-americans
Johannes Göransson, Summer (Tarpaulin Sky Press)
https://tarpaulinsky.com/johannes-goransson/summer/
Robert Kiely, ROB (Broken Sleep Books)
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/robert-kiely-rob
Robin Coste Lewis, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (Knopf)
Fran Lock, Hyena! Jackal! Dog! (Parmenar Press)
https://www.pamenarpress.com/product-page/hyena-jackal-dog
Wong May, In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century (Carcanet)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2403
Lisa Robertson, Boat (Coach House Books)
https://chbooks.com/Books/B/Boat
Zoe Skoulding, A Marginal Sea (Carcanet)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800172517