Book Releases: Poetry (January to June 2022)

It’s a new year and, since the number of book releases we know about per month is just tipping into unwieldy (June alone last year had 150 books to add to the post, not to mention the 50+ more we found later), we’ve decided to change up the way we’re doing releases posts. We started organising releases posts by genre around halfway through last year, so we’re sticking with that here. The major difference? Each genre gets its own post, which will eventually cover a period of 6 months. So, like with our various other releases posts (although those go up all at once, whereas here we’ll add each month), these are more easily edited and added to! Which means, even if we miss a book, we can better come back and add it to the post. A win for everyone!

In this post, you’ll find the collection of poetry books that we know about from January to June of 2022!

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JANUARY

🌈 Return Flight by Jennifer Huang
🌈 Revenge Body by Rachel Wiley
🌈 Desgraciado: (the collected letters) by Angel Dominguez (reprint)
🌈 Gephyromania by TC Tolbert (reprint)
🌈 Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons by Rhea Dhanbhoora

🌈 Already Knew You Were Coming by Sarah Nwafor
🌈 Muscle Memory by Kyle Carrero Lopez
🌈 How to Identify Yourself with a Wound by KB
🌈 Sea Nettles by Sue Ellen Thompson
🌈 At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica
🌈 Some Integrity by Padraig Regan

FEBRUARY

🌈 Then The War by Carl Phillips
🌈 Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
🌈 Broken Halves of a Milky Sun by Aaiún Nin
🌈 All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran
🌈 A Hundred Lovers by Richie Hofmann

🌈 Verdant by Jeffery Beam
🌈 Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking by C. T. Salazar
🌈 Limbic by Peter Scalpello
🌈 Dominant Genes by S. J. Sindu
🌈 From Your Hostess at the T&A Museum by Kathleen Balma

🌈 Ultramarine by Wayne Koestenbaum
🌈 My Body is a Junkyard by Aitch Alexandar
🌈 Long Live the New Flesh by Sam Moore
🌈 Pleasure by Angelo Nikolopoulos
🌈 Of Love and Other Maladies by Douglas Graham Wilson

MARCH

🌈 Clean by Scott-Patrick Mitchell
🌈 Gaze Back by Marylyn Tan (US publication)
🌈 Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry
🌈 Dream of the Divided Field by Yanyi
🌈 a Year & other poems by Jos Charles

🌈 Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes by Nicky Beer
🌈 The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham
🌈 Cane Fire by Shani Mootoo
🌈 let the dead in by Saida Agostini
🌈 Drowning in Light by Taylor Steele

🌈 Thresh & Hold by Marlanda Dekine
🌈 The Things by Jeff Oaks
🌈 All Earthly Bodies by Michael Mlekoday
🌈 Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
🌈 Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué

🌈 Year of the Unicorn Kidz by Jason B. Crawford
🌈 Greyhound Americans by Moncho Ollin Alvarado
🌈 Instructions Between Takeoff and Landing by Charles Jensen
🌈 Poems of Reckoning and Hope by Félix Garmendía
🌈 Askew by Robert Vaughan

🌈 Beast At Every Threshold by Natalie Wee
🌈 Swollening by Jason Purcell
🌈 teal nests for pink birds by Corvyn Appleby
🌈 Girl 2.0 by Nora Hikari
🌈 Mother Kingdom by Andrea Deeken

🌈 our gods are hungry for elegies by Honora Ankong
🌈 Vinegar Hill: Poems by Colm Tóibín
🌈 Panic Response by John McCullough

APRIL

🌈 Tanto Tanto by Marina Carreira
🌈 Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
🌈 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse by Karyna McGlynn
🌈 Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
🌈 Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi

🌈 My Grief, the Sun by Sanna Wani
🌈 The Affirmations by Luke Hathaway
🌈 Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik
🌈 Tender Bottoms by Ryan Tracy
🌈 gossypiin by Ra Malika Imhotep

🌈 Nothing Will Save Your Life by Nancy Jo Cullen
🌈 Anomalia by Cadence Chung
🌈 Thunderhead by Emily Rose Cole
🌈 Horrible Dance by Avery Lake
🌈 The Body in its Seasons by Maz Hedgehog

🌈 BODYELECTRONIC by Aerik Francis
🌈 How We Burn by Erica Charis-Molling
🌈 Longing and Other Heirlooms by sagaree jain and Arati Warrier
🌈 What the Water Gave Me by V. Ruiz
🌈 The Affirmations by Luke Hathaway

🌈 Drive by Elaine Sexton
🌈 Emanations by Prathna Lor
🌈 Girl’s Guide to Leaving by Laura Villareal
🌈 Lessons on Being Tenderheaded: Poems by Janae Johnson
🌈 The Necessity of Wildfire by Caitlin Scarano

🌈 peep by Danielle Blau
🌈 Sleeptalking by Antonio Addessi
🌈 Water Lessons by Lisa Dordal

MAY

🌈 Diaries of a Terrorist by Christopher Soto
🌈 Queer Nature ed. by Michael Walsh
🌈 As She Appears by Shelley Wong
🌈 So, Stranger by Topaz Winters
🌈 Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman

🌈 Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer by Bibi June
🌈 Burnt Spoon Burnt Honey by Anthony Aguero
🌈 The Sunflower Faces East at Dawn by Thokozani Mbwana
🌈 Hoax by Joey De Jesus
🌈 Rookie by Caroline Bird

🌈 Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi

JUNE

🌈 100 Queer Poems ed. by Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan (anthology)
🌈 Still Water: Poems by Jewelle Gomez
🌈 oh, you thought this was a date?!: Apocalypse Poems by C. Russell Price
🌈 All the Blood Involved in Love by Maya Marshall
🌈 for the joy of it by anaïs peterson

🌈 In Between Places by Lauren Wheeler
🌈 Sober by Remi Recchia

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