# The Best Poetry Books

> Answers the query: “best poetry books”

_Last updated: 2026-07-25_

## The list

1. **Inferno**, Dante Alighieri (ISBN 9781847493408)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/inferno-3408
2. **Purgatory**, Dante Alighieri (ISBN 9781847496119)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/purgatory-6119
3. **Leaves of Grass**, Walt Whitman (ISBN 9781847497550)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/leaves-of-grass
4. **Music for the Dead and Resurrected**, Valzhyna Mort (ISBN 9781526649904)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/music-for-the-dead-and-resurrected
5. **The odyssey**, Όμηρος (ISBN 9781472532480)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/the-odyssey
6. **Paradise**, Dante Alighieri (ISBN 9781847496478)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/paradise
7. **Paradise Lost**, John Milton (ISBN 9781847498038)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/paradise-lost
8. **Atmospheric embroidery**, Alexander, Meena (ISBN 9789351950172)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/atmospheric-embroidery
9. **Selected poems**, Pāratiyār (ISBN 9789350092538)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/selected-poems-2538
10. **Panchali's pledge**, Pāratiyār (ISBN 9789350095195)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/panchalis-pledge
11. **Love Her Wild**, Atticus (ISBN 9781472250933)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/love-her-wild
12. **Dark Between Stars**, Atticus (ISBN 9781472259356)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/dark-between-stars
13. **Wild Embers**, Nikita Gill (ISBN 9781409173922)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/wild-embers
14. **Hope Is the Thing**, Nikita Gill (ISBN 9781398702769)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/hope-is-the-thing
15. **Poems for Gardeners**, Germaine Greer (ISBN 9780349018720)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/poems-for-gardeners
16. **Harmony**, Whitney Hanson (ISBN 9781529432640)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/harmony
17. **Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho**, Gayl Jones (ISBN 9780349016832)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/song-for-almeyda-and-song-for-anninho
18. **Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam**, Omar Khayyam, Steven Schroeder, Edward FitzGerald (ISBN 9781399614122)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam
19. **Great Modern Poets**, Michael Schmidt (ISBN 9781529434156)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/great-modern-poets
20. **Tennyson**, Alfred Lord Tennyson (ISBN 9781474625937)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/tennyson
21. **Walt Whitman**, Walt Whitman (ISBN 9781399614139)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/walt-whitman
22. **W. B. Yeats**, William Butler Yeats (ISBN 9781474625654)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/w-b-yeats
23. **Sharks in the Rivers**, Ada Limón (ISBN 9781472159977)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/sharks-in-the-rivers
24. **Bright Dead Things**, Ada Limón (ISBN 9781472154569)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/bright-dead-things
25. **Carrying**, Ada Limón (ISBN 9781472154552)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/carrying
26. **Hurting Kind**, Ada Limón (ISBN 9781472157683)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/hurting-kind
27. **Flight or Fright**, Stephen King, Bev Vincent, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Matheson, Ambrose Bierce, E. C. Tubb, Tom Bissell, Dan Simmons, Cody Goodfellow, John Varley, Joe Hill, David J. Schow, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Peter Berresford Ellis, James L. Dickey, E. Michael Lewis, James Dickey, Thomas Carlisle Bissell (ISBN 9781473691582)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/flight-or-fright
28. **Rumble in the Jungle**, David Wojtowycz, Giles Andreae (ISBN 9781408352519)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/rumble-in-the-jungle
29. **Commotion in the Ocean (Orchard Picturebooks)**, Giles Andreae (ISBN 9781841211015)
   https://www.altbook.net/book/commotion-in-the-ocean-orchard-picturebooks
30. **I'll Have It Here**, Jeet Thayil
   https://www.altbook.net/book/ill-have-it-here

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Source: AltBook, https://www.altbook.net/collections/best-poetry-books