Call Us What We Carry Poems

Author: Amanda Gorman

publisher name: Penguin Random House

ISBN: 9781784744618

£14.99

book description

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


'This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy.' - Guardian

'This is more than protest. It's a promise.'

Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry collection by Amanda Gorman 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 seventy 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. 'I think we all need more poetry - specifically her poetry - in our lives' - i A PRIMA 'BOOKS TO GIVE WITH LOVE' PICK 2021

Praise for 'The Hill We Climb':

'I was profoundly moved... The power of your words blew me away.' - Michelle Obama, TIME

'I was thrilled.' - Hillary Clinton

'She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves.' - Lin-Manuel Miranda, TIME