Books Read in 2021

 

1) The Actual - Inua Ellams (poetry)2) The Air Year - Caroline Bird (poetry, re read)3) Antiemetic for Homesickness - Romalyn Ante (poetry, re read)4) How to Wash a Heart - Bhanu Kapil (poetry, Re read)5) The Coming-Down Time - Robert Selby (poetry)6) Love and Other Thought Experiments - Sophie Ward (fiction)7) Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng (fiction)8) Floating, Brilliant, Gone - Franny Choi (poetry)9) The Book of Jobs: Poems - Kathryn Maris (poetry)10) I Want! I Want! - Vicki Feaver (poetry)11) My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh (fiction)12) How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps - John Bird (non fiction)13) A Song For Dark Times - Ian Rankin (fiction)14) Pepper Seed - Malika Booker (poetry)15) Widowish - Melissa Gould (non fiction)16) Pocket Bowie Wisdom (non fiction)17) Lifted - Bill Manhire (poetry)18) Another Planet - Tracey Thorn (non fiction)19) Self Portrait in Green - Marie NDiaye (non fiction/fiction)20) Juul Kraijer - Ina Fuchs (non Fiction, art)21) The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (fiction)22) The School on Heart's Content Road - Carolyn Chute (fiction)23) Lumen - Tiffany Atkinson (poetry)24) Lifted - Bill Manhire (poetry, re read)25) The Windows of Graceland - Martina Evans (poetry)26) Cut the Black Rabbit - Benjamin Cusden (poetry)27) We Swim to the Shark - Georgie Codd (non fiction)28) Eat or We Both Starve - Victoria Kennefick (poetry)29) Beautiful Nowhere - Louisa Campbell (poetry)30) When I Think of My Body as a Horse - Wendy Pratt (poetry)31) Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler (fiction)32) The Atlas of Lost Beliefs - Ranjit Hoskote (poetry)33) Inmates - Sean Borodale (poetry)34) Wasted Rainbow - Caleb Parkin (poetry)35) The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin (fiction)36) The Secrets of Us - Lucinda Berry (fiction)37) These Queer Merboys - Serge Neptune (poetry)38) The Attitudes - Katie Griffiths (poetry)39) Pandemonium - Andrew McMillan (poetry)40) The Neighbourhood - Hannah Lowe (poetry)41) Say Cucumber - Lucia Dove (poetry)42) Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger (non fiction)43) Yield - Claire Dyer (poetry)44) The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch (non fiction)45) Beautiful Nowhere - Louisa Campbell (poetry, re read)46) Her Lost Language - Jenny Mitchell (poetry)47) A Bright Ray of Darkness - Ethan Hawke (fiction)48) Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher (non fiction)49) Poor - Caleb Femi (poetry)50) Boy in Various Poses - Lewis Buxton (poetry)51) My Mother Was an Upright Piano - Tania Hershman (fiction)52) Museum of Ice Cream - Jenna Clake (poetry)53) Honorifics - Cynthia Miller (poetry)54) How to Carry a Fire - Christina Thatcher (poetry)55) A - Sophie Robinson (poetry)56) The Wolf Road - Richard Lambert (YA fiction)57) Comic Timing - Holly Pester (poetry)58) The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout (fiction)59) There's a Hole in My Bucket - Royd Tolkien (non fiction)60) Tennis Lessons - Susannah Dickey (fiction)61) Ponti - Sharlene Teo (fiction)62) Play Lists - Jessica Mookherjee (poetry)63) Max Porter - The Death of Francis Bacon64) Fathom - Rebecca Gethin (poetry)65) Hydra - Molly Ellen Pearson (poetry)66) Štupartská’s Daughter - Elizabeth Jane Timms (poetry)67) The Beauty of Living Twice - Sharon Stone (non fiction)68) Soft Science - Franny Choi (poetry)69) NR30 - Doug Jones (poetry)70) Knowing This Has Changed My Ending - Alex MacDonald (poetry)71) Where I'd Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow - Hannah Hodgson (poetry)72) One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets - Jacqueline Saphra (poetry)73) Terminarchy - Angela France (poetry074) Volcano - Elosham Vog (poetry)75) Rotten days in Late Summer - Ralf Webb (poetry)76) A God at the Door - Tishani Doshi (poetry)77) Materials for Building a City - Elliot C. Mason (poetry)78) Anchorage - Lorraine Marriner (poetry)79) Gaps - Jenny Danes (poetry)80) Spacecraft - John McCullough (poetry)81) Meanwhile, Trees - Mark Waldron (poetry)82) On Narrowness - Claire Crowther (poetry)83) The Frost Fairs - John McCullough (poetry)84) Ephybos - Kostya Tsloakis (poetry)85) Lung Iron - Daniel Fraser (poetry)86) and they are covered in gold light - Amy Acre (poetry)87) C+nto and Othered Poems - Joelle Taylor (poetry)88) Songs My Enemy Taught Me - Joelle Taylor (poetry)89) Ripe - Isabelle Baafi (poetry)90) Feverfew - Anna Saunders (poetry)91) Fleet - Jane Burn (poetry)92) The Story of No - Emma Hammond (poetry)93) A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering - Dawn Lundy Martin (poetry)94) The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell (fiction)95) My Tin Watermelon - Peter Daniels (poetry)96) physis - Nicolas Pesques (poetry)97) A Year in the New Life - Jack Underwood (poetry)98) The Book of Orgasms - Nin Andrews (poetry)99) Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout (poetry)100) Distance Writing - Margaret Seymour (poetry)101) I Think I Might be Autistic - Cynthia Kim (non fiction)102) All the Names Given - Raymond Antrobus (poetry)103) Strangers - Rebecca Tamas (non fiction)104) The Continued Clsure of the Blue Door - Vik Shirley (poetry)105) Glass - Emily Cooper (poetry)106) The Oscillations - Kate Fox (poetry)107) Single Window - Daniel Sluman (poetry)108) The Gold Rush - Craig Martin Getz (poetry)109) Wow - Bill Manhire (poetry)110) Cosmonaut - A.E. De Vaul (poetry)111) The Sun is Open - Gail McConnell (poetry)112) All the Men I Never Married - Kim Moore (poetry)113) The Kids - Hannah Lowe (poetry)114) Atlantis - Mark Doty (poetry)115) How to Think Like David Bowie - Jonathan Tindale (non fiction)116) Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird (poetry)http://visualpoetics.com