If you loved
Books like Poems
A fever dream of moonlit olive groves, sudden passions, and the haunting presence of mortality. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Poems.
- dreamlike
- earthy
- shadow-drenched
- haunting
- 01
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
A studious and deeply analytical journey into the passionate heart of ancient Roman love poetry.
- 02
A thousand mornings
Mary Oliver
A quiet, sunlit invitation to slow down and witness the sacredness of the ordinary world.
- 03
Poems 1962-2012
Louise Glück
A stark, deceptively simple journey through myth, nature, and the paradox of a mortal body producing enduring art.
- 04
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
Emily Dickinson
A quiet, startlingly intimate journey into the depths of the human soul, delivered in fragments of brilliant, unconventional verse.
- 05
Poems and Fragments
Sappho
A sun-drenched, fragmented transmission of ancient desire that feels startlingly intimate and modern.
- 06
A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein · 1981
A delightfully weird and bouncy journey through the boundless, slightly subversive imagination of childhood.
- 07
Birthday letters
Ted Hughes
A haunted, visceral excavation of a doomed literary marriage and the inescapable gravity of memory.
- 08
Carmina
Horace
A sun-warmed, bittersweet invitation to pour a glass of wine and savor the fleeting beauty of the present moment.
- 09
The essential Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī · 1995
An intoxicating, timeless plunge into the depths of divine love, spiritual longing, and ecstatic joy.
- 10
Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath · 1981
A blistering, visceral descent into the depths of the human psyche, where personal anguish is forged into razor-sharp, mythic art.
- 11
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
A dizzying descent into a library of infinite mirrors, where reality, time, and identity constantly shift and dissolve.
- 12
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise
Maḥmūd Darwīsh
A sweeping, career-spanning collection that captures the soulful and evolving voice of a literary legend.
