Can’t-Miss Poetry Collections From 2020

From Omar Sakr’s Lost Arabs to Rupi Kaur’s home body, 2020 was filled with both highly anticipated and unexpected poetry collections. Whether you’re looking to gift a book for the holidays, snag one for yourself, or add to your TBR list, here are 31 must-read books from 2020.

• Lost Arabs—by Omar Sakr
• Tomorrow’s Woman—by Greta Bellamacina
• letters to the person i was—by Sana Abuleil
• I Hope You Stay—by Courtney Peppernell
• a fire like you—by Upile Chisala
• break your glass slippers—by Amanda Lovelace
• SMEAR: Poems for Girls—by Greta Bellamacina
• Prince Neptune—by Cody Simpson
• Black Book of Poems—by Vincent Hunanyan
• becoming.—by Renaada Williams
• Be Straight with Me—by Emily Dalton
• The She Book v.2—by Tanya Markul
• Our Naked Souls—by Justin Wetch
• Pillow Thoughts IV—by Courtney Peppernell
• Dear Girl—by Aija Mayrock
• In Real Life—by Leticia Sala
• Black Book of Poems II—by Vincent Hunanyan
• Eighteen Inches—by Mirtha Michelle Castro Marmol
• Here at Dawn—Beau Taplin
• Be(loved)—by Dakota Adan
• There Was Once a Girl Who Created a World—by Louis Cannizzaro
• home body—by Rupi Kaur
• The Space Between Us—by Courtney Peppernell and Zack Grey
• Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back—by Alicia Cook
• Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times: From Ask Baba Yaga—by Taisia Kitaiskaia
• Flowers on the Moon—by Billy Chapata
• While the Earth Sleeps We Travel—by Ahmed M. Badr
• Talk to Me Always—by HSH Prince Alexi Lubomirski
• DKMH—by Dacre Montgomery
• Film for Her—by Orion Carloto
• September Love—by Lang Leav