Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur’s debut moves through four sections, the hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing, in short unpunctuated poems accompanied by her own line drawings. Written plainly and about violence, heartbreak, family and self-repair, it sold millions and pulled a generation of readers toward poetry. Emma Watson chose it for Our Shared Shelf in July 2018, noting it was the club’s first poet.