The best recent poetry: October 28 It is / forbidden to love where we are not loved" says Sharon Olds - and she should know: "Material Ode" is just one of many dextrous exercises in textual therapy she conducts after her husband of 30 years leaves her for another woman. The result, Stag's Leap (Cape, £10), explores all the "courtesy and horror" of almost-amicable divorce, ranging from anger and despair to something like acceptance. It is brave, generous and very moving. Oli Hazzard's dazzling debut, Between Two Windows (Carcanet, £12.95), takes its title from a found poem inspired by the web, "The Inability to Recall the Precise Word for Something." However, his ability to do precisely that shines through whatever his ludic or lyric medium: palindromes, puns or pantoums (look it up - along with interfenestration). Astonishment (Bloodaxe, £8.95) is - astonishingly - Anne Stevenson's 16th collection, yet neither her muse nor talent to amuse has deserted her. She is a master of the sonnet: "Not a Hook, not a Shelf, maybe a Song?" asks "where is love?" and "After the Funeral" is a heartfelt tribute to the widow of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, killed in Afghanistan in 2009. John Hegley, the Peter Kay of poetry, is at it again in Peace, Love & Potatoes (Serpent's Tail, £9.99). Rhyme is king in these squibs even when the outcome is: "You can make me feel I'm zoomy / when I'm catacomby" ("Paris 1904"). The more personal he is the more poetic he becomes: "Being is Believing" is lovely. John Fuller's New Selected Poems 1983-2008 (Chatto, £15.99) proves an excellent introduction to one of England's greatest poets - an artist unafraid to combine intellect with sensuousness. After all, sometimes "poetry's the only heaven we have."