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The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman

‘Poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it’ Malala Yousafzai

The luminous poetry collection captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, these poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.

‘A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world’ Guardian

‘Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to’ Tracy K. Smith

‘The liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our resilience and survival showcases a powerful griot for our times’ Oprah Daily

Publisher Review

Haunting... A soaring sense of history and solidarity pervades Gorman's debut collection... Call Us What We Carry is wide awake to the complex strata of human history and restlessly original in its poetic form... This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy * Guardian * A book of poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it, to read it all at once, and then immediately read it again Powerful... poignant... tender... Amanda Gorman's debut proves that she is poetry's brightest young thing * Tatler * Between breath, light, water and soil, text messages and letters, and visual formations of ships, whales and flags, Gorman's Call Us What We Carry is an inventive literary resurrection * Daily Mail * Amanda Gorman is a seer, a seeker, a speaker of our most difficult and astonishing truths. Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to