Stay in the loop and register for email updates about events, competitions and all things poetry.
Stay in the loop and register for email updates about events, competitions and all things poetry.
It's been a busy year in the library with over 16,000 books loaned and renewed and almost 3,000 new items added to our shelves since December 2018. But can you guess which books are the most borrowed of 2019?
The winner and most borrowed book from the National Poetry Library in 2019 (at the time of writing) is American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes which has been loaned 15 times. In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form.
Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country’s past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered – the wonders of this collection are irreducible. The book was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for 2018.