When we consider the many and ongoing erasures of queer history, the baffling silences of the archives, it is deeply moving to see a world, far off from our own, with queerness flowing through its very fabric

The Home Child by Berry; The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday by Emma Must; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Last Poems by Kinsella

Reviews: Separated from the Sun; The Book of Desire; Arctic Elegies; The Thankless Paths to Freedom

There is wit, daring and a sense of otherworldliness in many of this year’s finest collections

Reviews: Four collections of exceptional quality, including the US poet laureate, two Irish giants and an arresting, elegiac debut

Seán Hewitt on Quiet; Beast; Scale; and Cnámh agus Smior/Bone and Marrow

Poetry reviews

Róisín Tierney, Nithy Kasa, Jim McElroy, Paul Tran and Denise Riley reviewed

‘I am only interested in things I cannot do, that is the thrill of poetry,’ says prize-winning poet whose home is in Dublin

Collections from Kaveh Akbar, Louise C Callaghan, Shaun Hill and Naush Sabah

TS Eliot Prize winner on absence, community and the importance of the ‘live poet’

Annemarie Ní Churreáin has published a second collection called The Poison Glen, plus work from Lila Matsumoto, Paul Muldoon and Tua Forsström

Autumn Skies is an excellent introduction, surveying both classic poems and lesser-known works

Collections from John Fitzgerald, Amanda Bell, Hannah Lowe and Togara Muzanenhamo

Book review: Daisy Lafarge plays with Gothic tropes creating an immersive, maddening read, writes Seán Hewitt