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Poetry Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Poetry books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Poetry series? Start with "Plain Song" (1965) and follow publication order through all 17 books.
The complete Poetry reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Plain Song
1965
Locations
1968
Outlyer and Ghazals
1971
Letters to Yesenin
1973
Natural World
1982
Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981
1982
The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems
1990
After Ikkyu and Other Poems
1996
The Shape of the Journey
1998
Braided Creek
2003
Saving Daylight
2006
In Search of Small Gods
2009
Songs of Unreason
2011
Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (With: Tom Hennen)
2013
Dead Man's Float
2015
Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems
2019
Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals
2020
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