Contemporary Poetry seminars, Fall 2016 to Spring 2022

At the end of December 2022, I thought I'd update this post of the list of books for the seminars on Contemporary Poetry that I have taught at the English Department of the University of Basel from Fall Semester 2016 to Spring Semester 2022 to include the courses in Fall 2020 and Spring 2022:

Fall 2016

• Ian Duhig, The Blind Roadmaker, Picador 978-1509809813
• Sarah Howe, Loop Of Jade, Chatto & Windus 978-0701188696
• Major Jackson, Roll Deep, Norton 978-0393246896
• Melissa Lee-Houghton, Sunshine, Penned in the Margins 978-1908058386
• Tracy K. Smith, Life On Mars, Graywolf 978-1555975845
• C. Dale Young, The Halo, Four Way Books 978-1935536680

Fall 2017

• Jericho Brown, "The New Testament", Copper Canyon Press 978-1556594571
• Imtiaz Dharker, "Over the Moon", Bloodaxe 978-1780371207
• Rebecca Gayle Howell, "American Purgatory", Eyewear 978-1911335443
• Jee Leong Koh, "Steep Tea", Carcanet 978-1847772275
• Kei Miller, "The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion", Carcanet 978-1847772671
• Patricia Lockwood, "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals", Penguin 978-0141984865

Spring 2018

·      Patience Agbabi, Telling Tales, Canongate, 978-1782111573

·      Sinead Morrissey, On Balance, Carcanet, 978 1 784103 60 6

·      Pascale Petit, Mama Amazonica, Bloodaxe, 9781780372945

·      Denise Riley, Say Something Back, Picador, 9781447270379

·      Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead, Chatto & Windus, 978-1784742041

·      Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, When the Wanderers Come Home, University of Nebraska Press, 978-0-8032-8857-7

Fall 2019

·      Geoff Brock, "Voices Bright Flags", Waywiser Press 2013, 978-1904130-64-2

·      Tishani Doshi, "Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods", Bloodaxe 2018, 978-1780371979

·      Terrance Hayes, "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin", Penguin 2018, 978-0141989112

·      Joanne Limburg, "The Autistic Alice", Bloodaxe 2017, 978-1780373430

·      Patricia Smith, "Incendiary Art", Bloodaxe 2019, 978-1780374710

·      George Szirtes, "Mapping the Delta", Bloodaxe 2016, 978-1780373201

Fall 2020

·      A. E. Stallings, Like, Farrar Strauss & Giroux 2018, 9780374187323

·      Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart, Pavilion Poetry 2020, 9781789621686

·      John McCullough, Reckless Paper Birds, Penned in the Margins 2019, 9781908058638

·      Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon, Norton 2019, 9780393652147

·      Sandra Simonds, Atopia, Wesleyan Poetry 2019, 9780819579041

·      Vahni Capildeo, Skin Can Hold, Carcanet 2019, 9781784107314

 

Spring 2022

 

·      Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, Faber and Faber

·      Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Living Weapon, Faber and Faber

·      Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem, Faber and Faber

·      Mary Jean Chan, Flèche, Faber and Faber

·      Vidyan Ravinthiran, The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here, Bloodaxe

·      Sumita Chakraborty, Arrow, Carcanet