"Poetry Unbound is a trademark of On Being"--Title page verso.

"First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Canongate Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Introduction / Pádraig Ó Tuama -- Wonder woman / Ada Limón -- Book of genesis / Kei Miller -- Phase one / Dilruba Ahmed -- A portable paradise / Roger Robinson -- Worm / Gail McConnell -- Wishing well / Gregory Pardlo -- All my friends are finding new beliefs / Christian Wiman -- Don't miss out! Book right now for the journey of a lifetime! / Imtiaz Dharker -- A blessing / James Wright -- The word / Zaffar Kunial -- Bullshit / Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo -- Some things I like / Lemn Sissay -- Say my name / Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi -- Miscegenation / Natasha Trethewey -- Reporting back to Queen Isabella / Lorna Goodison -- When you say 'protestors' instead of protectors / No'u Revilla -- We lived happily during the war / Ilya Kaminsky -- Writing the camp / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh -- Battlegrounds / Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo -- [Whereas my eyes land on the shoreline] / Layli Long Soldier -- Miami airport / Raymond Antrobus -- Kulila / Ali Cobby Eckermann -- reconciliation / Jónína Kirton -- All bread / Margaret Atwood -- Prayer / Faisal Mohyuddin -- from The book of hours / Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. Mark S. Burrows) -- How prayer works / Kaveh Akbar -- Of course she looked back / Natalie Diaz -- After the goose that rose like the god of geese / Martín Espada -- My mother's body / Marie Howe -- Father / Carlos Andrés Gómez -- Man and boy / Patience Agbabi -- On receiving father at JFK after his long flight from Kashmir / Rafiq Kathwari -- Essay on reentry / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Married love / Kathleen Flenniken -- Exorcism / Freeport / Richard Georges -- 22: La Bota / Esteban Rodríguez -- In Leticia's kitchen drawer / Peggy Robles-Alvarado -- When we were 13, Jeff's father left the needle down on a Journey record before leaving the house one morning and never coming back / Hanif Abdurraqib -- Leaving early / Leanne O'Sullivan -- Seventh circle of Earth / Ocean Vuong -- Song / Tracy K. Smith -- Coconut oil / Roshni Goyate -- The place where we are right / Yehuda Amichai (trans. Stephen Mitchell) -- What you missed that day you were absent from fourth grade / Brad Aaron Modlin -- Life drawing / R.A. Villanueva -- Consider the hands that write this letter / Aracelis Girmay -- Living in the past / Joy Ladin -- On listening to your teacher take attendance / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Bioluminescence / Paul Tran.

"In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother's body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn't know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive."--Book jacket.