Reading a book is always an enriching activity that fills us with knowledge, thoughts, ideas and culture. In this sense, poetry books go a little further.
Before it was common to hear that poetry ” is not for everyone .” Perhaps before it had some truth, but currently thanks to great authors, poetic language has been able to reach a large number of people.
Thus, marvelous poetry writers such as Defreds, Diego Ojeda, Marwan or Carlos Sadness, to name a few, tell us in a different way the daily things that happen to all of us, that we all feel and think.
Love, sadness, bravery, insecurity and loyalty. Topics that are told only as poetry knows how to do.
If you like poetry or are looking for that ideal gift for your partner or a friend, let us help you choose the ideal book with our selection of 10 modern poetry books that you cannot miss .
My revolutionary girl
- Author: Diego Ojeda
- Number of pages: 116
- Edition year: 2014
It is a collection of poems dedicated to the author’s love for his revolutionary girl, but also about her day to day, what it is like to go out with her, to be with her. Nor is it the typical collection of poems that abstracts too much from reality, on the contrary, it exploits it and tells us about it.
Thus, he tells us about the current situation of society, to which he makes a profound criticism of its own foundations. Of this type are some loose poems that are in the book, and that you like because they give a different vision to those that you had been reading previously.
Most of the poems are dedicated to that ideal girl, but it never gets tiring or makes you feel like you’re reading more of the same. They are short pieces of the author’s soul and his particular vision.
It is the second collection of poems written by Diego Ojeda, an author who is also a singer in case you are interested in knowing a little more about him.
Love and disgust
- Author: Srtabebi
- Number of pages: 232
- Edition year: 2016
We continue with a particular author, different from what we can understand as something conventional. Bebi, or better known as Miss Bebi, is quite a celebrity on the social network Twitter, thanks to her recurring messages about love and society using a tone that is sometimes acid, ironic, sarcastic, but very real.
It is a tone that reaches the public because it does not seek to idealize feelings and make them unattainable or noble. Rather, it gives them a personal touch using colloquial language.
Through her poems, Bebi talks about love and heartbreak, how a person you trusted can completely destroy you. They are pieces that reach the depths of the reader, and remove those feelings and memories that were thought forgotten, especially if you have gone through similar situations.
They are short poems, some of a couple of lines and others of two pages. That aspect added to the tone used by the author makes them easy to read and not heavy. It can even come to like people who don’t like poetry or aren’t used to it.
Almost accidentally
- Author: Jose Angel Gomez Iglesias
- Number of pages: 172
- Edition year: 2015
A book full of poetic prose and short stories, in which the author, in most of them, talks about his experiences, his personal experiences, tastes and his city, Vigo.
He tells us about his feelings and regrets. She talks about love and heartbreak, the passing of days, routine, society and her city, sex and music. Talk about everything in a way that you can relate to.
It is a book that manages to transmit a lot, and like most of this list, it is advisable to read it little by little , two to three poems at a time, since that way you can enjoy it much more.
In addition, it is also a work that you will surely begin to take with you everywhere to read it whenever you feel like it, and review those poems and stories that you liked the most.
Almost accidentally , this is the first book by the young Spaniard Jose Angel Gomez Iglesias , better known as Defreds , a pun he created with his brother.
Recognized from the social network twitter, Defreds is one of the new wave of literary authors that emerged from great popularity in digital media. Fame in this case well deserved. The pen of this author is one that makes you feel like few do today.
Intimate Anatomy
- Author: Carlos Sadness
- Number of pages: 168
- Edition year: 2016
A collection of poems full of stories and poetic prose, with a particularity that sets it apart from other books of the genre. It is full of illustrations created by the author himself, specifically one for each of the poems.
They are abstract illustrations that work as a support for the poem, a visual aid that helps to make the emotions and feelings that the author wants to convey to his readers feel.
Like most books about poems, these are about the love that a boy feels for a girl, which, seeing the character in the illustrations, could well be the author himself.
And speaking of Carlos Sadness, you might recognize him from his work as a singer-songwriter. He is a young artist who, as we can see, is also a writer and illustrator.
Recognized by the newspaper El pais in 2009 as ” one of the faces for 2009″. He has released four albums to date and Intimate Anatomies is his first book.
Brandon’s Souls
- Author: Cesar Brandon Ndjocu
- Number of pages: 256
- Edition year: 2018
We met Cesar Brandon thanks to the popular show Got Talent Spain , which he won by reciting his own texts. A short time later this book full of his poetry was published.
As its name indicates, Las almas de Brandon is a collection of 101 poems , of 101 souls, some shorter than others that talk about themes such as love, sex, loneliness, complexes and prejudices of society.
These little pieces, Brandon’s souls, are told from different points of view. There are those narrated in the first person by the author himself, then there are those that are told by different people: a grandmother, a friend, an ex…
An excellent book to delve into poetry if you are starting out in this wonderful genre. Filled with a great feeling that shows the sincerity and passion that the author put into writing his lines.
1775 streets
- Author: Jose Angel Gomez Iglesias
- Number of pages: 184
- Edition year: 2017
Another from one of the authors of the moment. We return with a repertoire of Defreds’ collection of poems , this time with 1775 streets .
In the streets we can get anything and anyone, everything can happen or nothing can happen. The streets count the names that have passed through them, the moments and the thoughts of the people who walk them.
Everyone has a favorite street . What is yours?
As we have said before, this is a book that, although short, reads slowly, or rather, should be read slowly.
Unlike a novel in which you can spend hours glued to its pages and enjoy the same way as if you only spent a few minutes a day. With poetry books you enjoy more in sips, little by little.
With Defreds you will feel like when you listen to those songs that express veiled truths that hide the feelings of those who sing them. They are small hints of what the author feels, emotions with which today’s youth can reflect.
A reflection of how we love, feel, want and sometimes forget.
The unstoppable loves
- Author: Marwan
- Number of pages: 256
- Edition year: 2018
In this new collection of poems by the singer, he touches our hearts with a new collection of poems that reach the depths of being.
Divided into seven parts each dedicated to different topics. Love, thoughts, society, heartbreak… All written in such a way that each word and each written letter leave a mark on you.
It is one of his best-selling books and with good reason. He tells us about his experiences in love, his thoughts about them and bits and pieces of his story. With each poem it will make you feel something different, it will awaken a memory, an emotion long asleep in the depths.
A work that when reading it forces you to look inside yourself, to identify those emotions that react and are reflected in the author’s words.
First of poet
- Author: Patricia Benito
- Number of pages: 144
- Edition year: 2017
After Marwan and Defreds, Patricia Benito is one of the most popular modern poets today . Primero de poeta is one of the best valued and most read books by fans – and not so fans – of poetry.
His poems are about life, about love but far beyond it. He criticizes society for the superficiality of pretending and pretending.
Talk about overcoming fears, complexes, changing the things you don’t like, taking a deep breath and seeing the beauty in life, the positive, that even if we don’t have everything we want, if we look closely, we might discover that we have enough. .
If you are happy, live in the moment, and if you have to love someone unconditionally, let it be yourself.
Said by the author herself. ” First as a poet are all the steps that I did not take, the lives that I lost… the dreams that I broke, the fears that I learned… they are all my mistakes and my cure”
Hug me monsters
- Author: David Galan Redry
- Number of pages: 144
- Edition year: 2017
The young David Redry was already beginning to show off his poetry on Twitter, and where from time to time he made it clear what his dream was, to publish a book with his poems.
That dream was fulfilled with Monsters Hug Me , a captivating and sincere work in which Redry has the ability to make the reader feel as if he were the author, and at the same time, the recipient of his poems.
If you read it well, letting yourself be submerged between its lines and freeing your imagination, you will feel that the people told you already know them, and you will feel that the experiences told have already been lived.
A collection of beautiful poems that go deep and, as we have recommended several times, it is best to read them little by little to enjoy each one as it deserves.
Indomitable. diary of a girl on fire
- Author: Srtabebi
- Number of pages: 128
- Edition year: 2017
And what better way to end our list than with the cool and irreverent Ms. Bebi. Indomitable is a book with strong, intense and at times even aggressive messages.
It is the author’s way of fighting for women’s right to dignity, using a large number of examples in which everyone can feel reflected. Shameful, denigrating and even abusive situations, from a society full of many macho aspects.
It is a current book, full of emotional messages and with which it is easy to identify yourself. Pain, sorrow, anguish, unanswered questions and the feeling of lack of joy. But also strength and courage, it invites you to move forward, to fight for what you want and love, to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
Undoubtedly, Ms. Bebi, with her acid and ironic style, has managed to win a large number of admirers, both on Twitter where she became known, and in poetic literature circles.
