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Other Names: Poetry Book Society Choice, Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice
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Set up by T S Eliot and friends in 1953 ‘to propagate the art of poetry’, the Poetry Book Society provides information, reviews and discounts on the best contemporary poetry published in show more Britain for an international community of readers.

The PBS Selectors choose the best new poetry collection of the quarter – one PBS Choice (sent free to members) and four PBS Recommendations. The PBS Bulletin, the quarterly review of new poetry, contains the Poet Selectors' reviews of the Choice and Recommendations and the selected poets' comments on their own work.
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Categories:
All, Choice (45), Pamphlet Choice (1), Recommendation (162), Translation Choice (1), Wild Card Choice (1)
Years:
All, 2023.1 (4), 2017.4 (1), 2013.3 (4), 2013.2 (4), 2013.1 (2), 2012.4 (4), 2012.3 (4), 2012.2 (4), 2012.1 (4), 2011.4 (4), 2011.3 (4), 2011.2 (3), 2011.1 (4), 2010.4 (3), 2010.3 (4), 2010.2 (4), 2010.1 (4), 2009.4 (3), 2009.3 (4), 2009.2 (4), 2009.1 (4), 2008.4 (4), 2008.3 (4), 2008.2 (4), 2008.1 (4), 2007.4 (4), 2007.3 (4), 2007.2 (4), 2007.1 (4), 2006.4 (4), 2006.3 (4), 2006.2 (4), 2006.1 (4), 2005.4 (2), 2005.3 (4), 2005.2 (3), 2005.1 (4), 2004.4 (4), 2004.3 (4), 2004.2 (4), 2004.1 (4), 2003.4 (3), 2003.3 (4), 1997.1 (1)
WorkYear
The Home Child by Liz Berry
2023.1
After All We Have Travelled by Sarala Estruch
2023.1
Brother Poem by Will Harris
2023.1
The Hopeful Hat by Carole Satyamurti
2023.1
The tragic death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin
2017.4
The Gypsy and the Poet by David Morley
2013.3
Division Street by Helen Mort
2013.3
The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan
2013.3
Sleeping Keys by Jean Sprackland
2013.3
Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock
2013.2
The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu
2013.2
Pretty by Ahren Warner
2013.2
Writers Writing Dying: Poems by C. K. Williams
2013.2
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson
2013.1
Coleshill by Fiona Sampson
2013.1
Out There by Jamie McKendrick
2012.4
The Havocs by Jacob Polley
2012.4
Astonishment by Anne Stevenson
2012.4
The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward
2012.4
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
2012.3
The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
2012.3
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
2012.3
Burying the Wren by Deryn Rees-Jones
2012.3
White Sheets by Beverley Bie Brahic
2012.2
The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore
2012.2
Angels and Harvesters by James Harpur
2012.2
School of Forgery (Salt Modern Poets) by Jon Stone
2012.2
Conquest by Zoë Brigley
2012.1
Misadventure by Richard Meier
2012.1
The Returning Sky by Peter Robinson
2012.1
Voluntary by Adam Thorpe
2012.1
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
2011.4
Deep Field by Philip Gross
2011.4
Grace by Esther Morgan
2011.4
Memorial by Alice Oswald
2011.4
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
2011.3
The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw
2011.3
Of All Places by John McAuliffe
2011.3
Confer by Ahren Warner
2011.3
Family Values by Wendy Cope
2011.2
Tokaido Road by Nancy Gaffield
2011.2
Changeling by Clare Pollard
2011.2
Fiere by Jackie Kay
2011.1
A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley
2011.1
Planet-Struck by Julian Turner
2011.1
Electric Shadow by Heidi Williamson
2011.1
Pandorama by Ian Duhig
2010.4
Maggot by Paul Muldoon
2010.4
Sandgrain and Hourglass by Penelope Shuttle
2010.4
Ludbrooke & Others by Alan Brownjohn
2010.3
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
2010.3
Dammtor by James Sheard
2010.3
The floating man by Katharine Towers
2010.3
Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems by Dan Chiasson
2010.2
Pebble & I by John Fuller
2010.2
A Village Life by Louise Glück
2010.2
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland
2010.2
The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems by Edward Hirsch
2010.1
Small Hours by Lachlan Mackinnon
2010.1
Jilted city by Patrick McGuinness
2010.1
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
2010.1
Grain by John Glenday
2009.4
The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin
2009.4
The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
2009.4
Spindrift by Vona Groarke
2009.3
Rain by Don Paterson
2009.3
The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes
2009.3
'We needed coffee but . . .' by Matthew Welton
2009.3
The Missing by Sian Hughes
2009.2
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
2009.2
Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick Seidel
2009.2
What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems by Ruth Stone
2009.2
Time Being by Ruth Bidgood
2009.1
Natural mechanical: being a rendering of the true life stories of Iain Seoras Rockcliffe by Jo Morgan
2009.1
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
2009.1
First Things When by Robert M. Rehder
2009.1
Material by Ros Barber
2008.4
Keeping Time (Salt Modern Poets) by Tim Dooley
2008.4
Supreme Being by Martha Kapos
2008.4
Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell
2008.4
Life Under Water by Maura Dooley
2008.3
The Night Pavilion by Naomi Foyle
2008.3
Song & Dance by John Fuller
2008.3
Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
2008.3
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006 by Wendy Cope
2008.2
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
2008.2
Third Day: New and Selected Poems by Grey Gowrie
2008.2
The Hat by Selima Hill
2008.2
Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield
2008.1
Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems by Julie O'Callaghan
2008.1
Yellow Studio (Oxford Poets) by Stephen Romer
2008.1
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
2008.1
New Wings: Poems 1977-2007 by Robyn Bolam
2007.4
Heart Work by Desmond Graham
2007.4
Darling: New and Selected Poems by Jackie Kay
2007.4
Crocodiles & Obelisks by Jamie McKendrick
2007.4
The Secret by Zoë Brigley
2007.3
The Meanest Flower (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) by Mimi Khalvati
2007.3
The Invisible Kings by David Morley
2007.3
Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney
2007.3
The Best Man That Ever Was by Annie Freud
2007.2
Hawks and Doves by Alan A. Gillis
2007.2
Selected Poems, 1969-2005 by David Harsent
2007.2
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell
2007.2
Domestic Violence: Poems by Eavan Boland
2007.1
Paraphernalia by Joanne Limburg
2007.1
A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan
2007.1
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
2007.1
Kink and Particle by Tiffany Atkinson
2006.4
Jack's Letters Home by Cynthia Fuller
2006.4
The Space of Joy by John Fuller
2006.4
Little Gods by Jacob Polley
2006.4
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
2006.3
Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley
2006.3
The Biplane Houses: Poems by Les Murray
2006.3
Teach Yourself Mapmaking by Jane Routh
2006.3
Natural History by Dan Chiasson
2006.2
The Blood Choir by Tim Liardet
2006.2
Waiting for the Night-Rowers by Roger Moulson
2006.2
Dog Language by Chase Twichell
2006.2
Bad Shaman Blues by W. N. Herbert
2006.1
Without Title by Geoffrey Hill
2006.1
The Sea Cabinet by Caitriona O'Reilly
2006.1
Musica Transalpina by Michelene Wandor
2006.1
Coastal by Jane Duran
2005.4
Bluegrass Wasteland: Selected Poems 1978-2003 by T. R. Hummer
2005.4
Goblin Lawn: New and Selected Poems by Peter Bennet
2005.3
Legion by David Harsent
2005.3
Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon
2005.3
We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward
2005.3
Intimates by Helen Farish
2005.2
Life Mask by Jackie Kay
2005.2
Fiction by Conor O'Callaghan
2005.2
A Shorter Life by Alan Jenkins
2005.1
To a Fault by Nick Laird
2005.1
Cold Calls: War Music Continued by Christopher Logue
2005.1
The Movement of Bodies by Sheenagh Pugh
2005.1
The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce
2004.4
Collected Poems by David Constantine
2004.4
Something About by P. J. Kavanagh
2004.4
Blues by John Hartley Williams
2004.4
Lou-Lou by Selima Hill
2004.3
Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
2004.3
Selected Poems by Charles Simic
2004.3
Sanctuary by Matthew Sweeney
2004.3
The Night Tree (Oxford Poets) by Jane Draycott
2004.2
These Days by Leontia Flynn
2004.2
Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems by Roddy Lumsden
2004.2
Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems by Eva Salzman
2004.2
Newborn: Poems on Motherhood by Kate Clanchy
2004.1
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
2004.1
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler
2004.1
Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000 by R. S. Thomas
2004.1
CAPITAL OF NOWHERE by Peter Armstrong
2003.4
Night Toad: New and Selected Poems by Susan Wicks
2003.4
The Singing: Poems by C. K. Williams
2003.4
Sudden Collapses in Public Places by Julia Darling
2003.3
Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw
2003.3
Hard Water by Jean Sprackland
2003.3
The Lady & the Hare: New & Selected Poems by Pauline Stainer
2003.3
A Painted Field by Robin Robertson
1997.1
Madder by David Constantine

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Set up by T S Eliot and friends in 1953 ‘to propagate the art of poetry’, the Poetry Book Society provides information, reviews and discounts on the best contemporary poetry published in Britain for an international community of readers.

The PBS Selectors choose the best new poetry collection of the quarter – one PBS Choice (sent free to members) and four PBS Recommendations. The PBS Bulletin, the quarterly review of new poetry, contains the Poet Selectors' reviews of the Choice and Recommendations and the selected poets' comments on their own work.

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