Poetry Collections To Read This Summer

By Grace Haya | July 16 2026 | AdultGeneral

Provocative and insightful poetry collections to read on a hot summer day.

Vinegar Hill
Vinegar Hill
Colm Tóibín
9780807008164
From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens.
$16.95 US
Apr 11, 2023
Paperback
144 Pages
Beacon Press
US, Canada, Open Mkt
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Strange Beach
Strange Beach
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
9781593767761
A debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform—across oceans and within relationships—told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens
$15.95 US
Jan 21, 2025
Paperback
96 Pages
Soft Skull
US, Canada, Open Mkt
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Continent
Continent
Aaron Boothby
9780771004476
“These poems buckle and drift in ways that reveal their continental scope. The I of these poems offers its critical lament, but it never overlooks beauty.” --Kaie Kellough
$18.95 US
Mar 21, 2023
Paperback
88 Pages
McClelland & Stewart
World
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Enemy of the Sun
Enemy of the Sun
9781644214558
A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world.This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese-American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas.
$18.95 US
Sep 16, 2025
Paperback
272 Pages
Seven Stories Press
World except UK/Ireland
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Firebird
Firebird
Zuzanna Ginczanka
9781681377308
Energetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer who used her art as a form of resistance.
$14.95 US
Aug 22, 2023
Paperback
80 Pages
NYRB Poets
World
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Some of the Light
Some of the Light
Tim Z. Hernandez
9780807006696
25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry
$17.00 US
Mar 28, 2023
Paperback
184 Pages
Beacon Press
World
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From the Lost and Found Department
From the Lost and Found Department
Joy Kogawa
9780771005138
A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.
$18.00 US
Nov 07, 2023
Paperback
368 Pages
McClelland & Stewart
World
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Call Me By My True Names
Call Me By My True Names
Thich Nhat Hanh
9781952692260
"Thich Nhat Hanh's work has proven to be the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows." —Ocean Vuong The definitive poetry collection by the world renowned Zen master, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness
$17.95 US
Nov 08, 2022
Paperback
240 Pages
Parallax Press
World
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