Amber McBride Poetry Collections books in order

Thick with Trouble is Amber McBride's debut poetry collection, published in 2024, weaving personal history, ancestry, and Black American cultural memory into a book that blurs the line between lyric poetry and narrative.
Series · Poetry · African American Literature · Literary Poetry · Memoir in Verse

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# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Thick with Trouble 2024 Amber McBride Buy

Thick with Trouble arrived in 2024 as Amber McBride’s first collection presented explicitly as poetry rather than verse fiction. The book draws on her family’s history and on the larger history of Black Americans, layering personal memory with a sense of inherited experience that runs deeper than individual biography.

The collection was also published as part of the Penguin Poets series, situating McBride within a long tradition of American poetry publishing while signaling her importance as a poet in her own right, separate from her identity as a YA author. The two modes, verse novel and lyric collection, inform each other in her work, and Thick with Trouble repays attention from readers who have followed her fiction and from poetry readers encountering her for the first time.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Amber McBride Poetry Collections series?

There are one books in the Amber McBride Poetry Collections series, published in 2024.

What is the first book in the Amber McBride Poetry Collections series?

The first book in the Amber McBride Poetry Collections series is Thick with Trouble, published in 2024.

How does Thick with Trouble relate to Amber McBride's novels?

Thick with Trouble shares many of the same themes as her fiction, including grief, ancestry, and Black American identity, but it is a standalone poetry collection rather than a verse novel. Readers familiar with her YA work will find the same lyrical sensibility here applied to pure poetry rather than narrative.

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