He is currently working on his next book of poetry titled Musical Tables (Penguin Random House, November 15, 2022). In addition, he has edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2006, and edited Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds, illustrated by David Allen Sibley. He has also published two chapbooks, Video Poems and Pokerface.
A collection of his haiku, She Was Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in fall 2006. "Billy Collins writes lovely poems… Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." – John UpdikeĪimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003 – 2013, The Rain in Portugal, and Whale Day And Other Poems were New York Times bestsellers. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as "a form of travel writing" and considers humor "a door into the serious." It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight.īilly Collins has published twelve collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, Ballistics, Horoscopes for the Dead, and Picnic, Lightning. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience – enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including T he New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library "Literary Lion." His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal.
Poet Laureate (2001 – 2003)īilly Collins is an American phenomenon.
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