Events
Works published in English
- Les Murray:
- Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize[1]
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru
- Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian
- George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, ISBN 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) Canada
- Don McKay, Another Gravity (Canada)[2]
- John Pass, Water Stair (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) Canada
- Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize) ISBN 0-7710-8077-8, Canada
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books[3]
- Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of
- Jenny Bornholdt, These Days
- Glenn Colquhoun, An Explanation of Poetry to My Father
- Paula Green, Chrome
- Murray Edmond, Laminations
- Andrew Johnston, Birds of Europe
- Cilla McQueen, Markings, poetry and drawings, Otago University Press[4]
Anthologies in New Zealand
- Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand ISBN-10: 0908877811, ISBN-13: 978-0908877812
- Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, editors, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975, Auckland: Auckland University Press
- Lauris Edmond, editor, New Zealand Love Poems: An Oxford Anthology, posthumous[5]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books[3]
- James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures[6]
- Elaine Feinstein, Gold, Carcanet
- Thom Gunn, Collected Poems
- Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
- Sulpicia, The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs
- John Ashbery:
- Your Name Here
- As Umbrellas Follow Rain
- Bei Dao, Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger & Iona Man-Cheong (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1447-8
- Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972-1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[7] Russian-American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Gwendolyn Brooks, In Montgomery
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
- Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems[8]
- Fanny Howe, Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
- Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
- Constance Merritt, A Protocol for Touch: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Eleanor Wilner
- W. S. Merwin (translator). Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
- Michael O'Brien, Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland
- Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem)
- Grace Paley, Begin Again: Collected Poems
- Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
- Carl Phillips, Pastoral[9]
- Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays)
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg:
- Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian)
- Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky (posthumous)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Anthologies in the United States
These 75 poets had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by David Lehman, with Rita Dove as guest editor:
Works published in other languages
French language
Awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti
- Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
- Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
- Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside, The Asylum Dance
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Rudy Delgado Jr., A Path Between Houses
- Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
- National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
- Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: T. V. F. Brogan
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Carl Dennis
- Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
- William Carlos Williams Award: Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian
- January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
- April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
- April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
- May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
- September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
- June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
- June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
- July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope, 92, poet
- November 29 – William Scammell
- December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, of cancer
- December 20 – Adrian Henry
- Date not known:
References
- ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ [2]Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize 2007" at the Griffen Poetry Prize Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ [4] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
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