Books

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Colorfast (Penguin, 2024)

A haunting, intimate, and beautifully-crafted collection of poems rooted in southern Appalachia that reflects on loss and remembrance—and reaches beyond the constraints of time and place.

Forage (Penguin, 2019)

A poet acclaimed for “uncompromising, honest poems that sound like no one else” (The Rumpus) now offers considerations of the natural world and humans’ place within it in ecopoetry of both ambitious reach and elegant refinement.

A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia

(UGA Press, 2019)

Stunning images and conversationally written natural history information complement works by contemporary poets, illuminating the wonders of the mountain South.

Its Day Being Gone (Penguin, 2014)


Rose McLarney’s image-rich poems explore her native southern Appalachia and those who love and live and lose on it. Her second collection broadens these investigations in poems that examine the shape-shifting quality of memory, as seen in folktales that have traveled across oceans and through centuries, and in how we form recollections of our own lives.

The Always Broken Plates of Mountains (Four Way, 2012)

Rose McLarney's debut collection, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, gives voice to a chorus of speakers, who are at once plainspoken, reverent, and musical.