List of Palestinian Poetry Collections*
Palestinian poetry (including diaspora poets) written and/or translated into the English language.
"Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow" by Noor Hindi
“Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear: Poems from Gaza” and “Forest of Noise” by Mosab Abu Toha
“You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
“Rifqa” by Mohammed El-Kurd
“Birthright: poems” and “The Specimen’s Apology” and “Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry” and by George Abraham
“Earth in the Attic” and “[. . .]” and “Tethered to the Stars” by Fady Joudah
“The Twenty-Ninth Year” and “The Moon That Turns You Back” by Hala Alyan
“To All the Yellow Flowers” by Raya Tuffaha
“Blood Orange” and “Sage” by Yaffa
“Shell Houses” by Rasha Abdulhadi
“Affiliation” by Mira Mattar
“Border Wisdom” by Ahmad Almallah
“Adrenalin” by Ghayath Almadhoun
“Nothing More to Lose” and “Exhausted on the Cross” by Najwan Darwish
“The Tent Generations” by Mohammed Sawaie
“My Voice Sought the Wind” by Susan Abulhawa
“Born Palestinian, Born Black” by Suheir Hammad
“If I Must Die: poetry and prose” by Refaat Alareer
“The Tiny Journalist” and “Fuel” and “Honeybee” and “Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems” and “Cast Away: poems of our time” and “Grace Notes: poems about families” and “Transfer” and “Red Suitcase” and “Voices in the Air: poems for listeners” and many more… by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Something About Living” and “Water and Salt” and “Kaan and Her Sisters” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
“Stranger” by Nyla Matuk
“I Was Born There, I Was Born Here” by Mourid Barghouti
“Life in a Country Album” by Nathalie Handal
“Where the Bird Disappeard” by Ghassan Zaqtan (Author), Samuel Wilder (Translator)
“Before the Next Bomb Drops” by Remi Kanazi
“In Jersusalem and Other Poems” by Tamim Al-Barghouti
“So What” by Taha Muhammad Ali (Author), Peter Cole Chfc Lcsw and Gabriel Levin
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*I’ve had some difficultly finding existing lists of Palestinian poetry collections online, so I put together this running list for others who are looking. All links direct to Bookshop to support poets and local bookshops (not sponsored). If you have suggestions to add or revisions to this running list, please get in contact here.
[Bolded titles are collections I have personally read and recommend (last updated 7/28/25)]
Consider requesting these titles be added to circulation at your local library to further support Palestinian poets, access, and history. Most US libraries have an online or in-branch form where patrons can request titles.