Call Us What We Carry

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

Malala Yousafzai

Powerful... poignant... tender... Amanda Gorman's debut proves that she is poetry's brightest young thing

Eliz Akdeniz, 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

Tracy K. Smith

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

Guardian, *50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021*

A thoughtful gift for Christmas, but make sure to get one for yourself too

Waitrose Weekend

In "penning a letter to the world as a daughter of it," Gorman doesn't merely transcribe a diary of a plague year; her bold, oracular pronouncements bear witness to collective experience, with an uncanny confidence and a prescient tone that are all the poet's own

Kevin Young, The New Yorker

Empathic... Gorman has a talent for speaking directly and precisely, but knows, too, the power of embellishment

Ellen Peirson-Hagger, i

A poet of real promise

Daily Telegraph