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Poetry Books and Prize Winners
184 books from 11 lists, 1667 to 2026
Pulitzer Poetry and T.S. Eliot Prize winners share this shelf with poetry by Nobel laureates, classics and books about poets. Alongside collections by Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney and Louise Glück are biographies, verse novels and fiction about poetry. The Nobel honors a writer’s body of work; the books here represent those writers. Entries from our Classic Books and Never Won a Pulitzer or Booker collections broaden the selection beyond the book prizes we catalog.
Books by prize
One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.
- 2026 Ars Poeticas
- 2025 New and Selected Poems
- 2024 Tripas: Poems
- 2023 Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020
- 2022 frank: sonnets
- 2021 Postcolonial Love Poem
- 2020 The Tradition
- 2020 The Wild Iris
- 2019 Be With
- 2018 Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016
- 2017 Olio
- 2016 Ozone Journal
- 2015 Digest
- 2014 3 Sections
- 2013 Stag's Leap
- 2012 Life on Mars
- 2011 The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
- 2010 Versed
- 2009 The Shadow of Sirius
- 2008 Failure
- 2008 Time and Materials
- 2007 Native Guard
- 2006 Late Wife
- 2005 Delights & Shadows
- 2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard
- 2003 Moy Sand and Gravel
- 2002 Practical Gods
- 2001 Different Hours
- 2000 Repair
- 1999 Blizzard of One
- 1998 Black Zodiac
- 1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
- 1996 The Dream of the Unified Field
- 1995 The Simple Truth
- 1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
- 1992 Selected Poems
- 1991 Near Changes
- 1990 The World Doesn't End
- 1989 New and Collected Poems
- 1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
- 1987 Thomas and Beulah
- 1986 The Flying Change
- 1985 Yin
- 1984 American Primitive
- 1983 Selected Poems
- 1982 The Collected Poems
- 1981 The Morning of the Poem
- 1980 Selected Poems
- 1979 Now and Then
- 1978 Collected Poems
- 1977 Divine Comedies
- 1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- 1975 Turtle Island
- 1974 The Dolphin
- 1973 Up Country
- 1972 Collected Poems
- 1971 The Carrier of Ladders
- 1970 Untitled Subjects
- 1969 Of Being Numerous
- 1968 The Hard Hours
- 1967 Live or Die
- 1966 Selected Poems
- 1965 77 Dream Songs
- 1964 At the End of the Open Road
- 1963 Pictures from Brueghel
- 1962 Poems
- 1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades
- 1960 Heart's Needle
- 1959 Selected Poems 1928–1958
- 1958 Promises: Poems 1954–1956
- 1957 Things of This World
- 1956 Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring
- 1955 Collected Poems
- 1954 The Waking
- 1953 Collected Poems 1917–1952
- 1952 Collected Poems
- 1951 Complete Poems
- 1950 Annie Allen
- 1949 Terror and Decorum
- 1948 The Age of Anxiety
- 1947 Lord Weary's Castle
- 1945 V-Letter and Other Poems
- 1944 Western Star
- 1943 A Witness Tree
- 1942 The Dust Which Is God
- 1941 Sunderland Capture
- 1940 Collected Poems
- 1939 Selected Poems
- 1938 Cold Morning Sky
- 1937 A Further Range
- 1936 Strange Holiness
- 1935 Bright Ambush
- 1934 Collected Verse
- 1933 Conquistador
- 1932 The Flowering Stone
- 1931 Collected Poems
- 1930 Selected Poems
- 1929 John Brown's Body
- 1928 Tristram
- 1927 Fiddler's Farewell
- 1926 What's O'Clock
- 1925 The Man Who Died Twice
- 1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
- 1923 The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
- 1922 Collected Poems
- 1919 Cornhuskers
- 1919 The Old Road to Paradise
- 1918 Love Songs
- 2025 Wellwater
- 2024 Fierce Elegy
- 2023 Self-Portrait as Othello
- 2022 Sonnets for Albert
- 2021 C+nto & Othered Poems
- 2020 How to Wash a Heart
- 2019 A Portable Paradise
- 2018 Three Poems
- 2017 Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- 2016 Jackself
- 2015 Loop of Jade
- 2014 Fire Songs
- 2013 Parallax
- 2011 Black Cat Bone
- 2010 White Egrets
- 2009 The Water Table
- 2008 Nigh-No-Place
- 2007 The Drowned Book
- 2006 District and Circle
- 2005 Rapture
- 2004 Reel
- 2003 Landing Light
- 2002 Dart
- 2001 The Beauty of the Husband
- 2000 The Weather in Japan
- 1999 Billy's Rain
- 1998 Birthday Letters
- 1997 God's Gift to Women
- 1996 Subhuman Redneck Poems
- 1995 My Alexandria
- 1994 The Annals of Chile
- 1993 First Language
- 2022 Super-Infinite
- 2016 The Lyrics
- 2011 The Great Enigma
- 1996 View with a Grain of Sand
- 1995 Death of a Naturalist
- 1992 Omeros
- 1984 The Plague Column
- 1979 The Axion Esti
- 1977 Destruction or Love
- 1975 Cuttlefish Bones
- 1974 Aniara
- 1971 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
- 1966 O the Chimneys
- 1963 Mythistorema
- 1960 Anabasis
- 1959 And Suddenly It's Evening
- 1956 Platero and I
- 1948 Four Quartets
- 1945 Desolation
- 1931 Fridolin's Songs
- 1923 The Tower
- 1919 Olympian Spring
- 1913 Gitanjali
- 1906 Barbarian Odes
- 1904 Mirèio
- 1901 Stanzas and Poems
- 1990 Possession
- 1986 Louise Bogan: A Portrait
- 1971 Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938
- 1964 John Keats
- 1927 Whitman
- 1956 Howl and Other Poems
- 1923 The Prophet
- 1946 The Rooster Crows
- 1945 Prayer for a Child
- 1855 Leaves of Grass
- 1833 Eugene Onegin
- 1667 Paradise Lost
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