Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate April 17 - New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman appoints poet Gerald Stern to be the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perform Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem Spike Milligan made an honorary knight In the film Pandaemonium, released this year, the lives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads," are discussed.
Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Australia Brook Emery, and dug my fingers in the sand, Five Islands Press. 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 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru Les Wicks, The Ways of Waves, Sidewalk
Canada Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian Clint Burnham, Buddyland (Coach House Books) Margaret Christakos: Wipe Under A Love (Toronto: The Mansfield Press) Charisma (Toronto: Pedlar Press) George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, (revised edition number) Canada Louis Dudek, The Surface of Time. Montreal: Empyreal."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Claire Harris, She, Trinidadian-born, Canadian"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Don McKay, Another Gravity (Canada) Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize 2007" at the Griffen Poetry Prize Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 John Pass, Water Stair () Canada Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize) , Canada Raymond Souster, Of Time & Toronto. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
Anthologies in Canada Ayanna Black, editor, Fiery Spirits & Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent, Toronto: HarperPerennialCanada Wanda Campbell, editor, Susan Atkinson and Tanya Butler, assistant editors, Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, London, Ontario: Canadian Poetry Press Sophia Kaszuba, Sian Meikle, and Ian Lancashire, editors, Canadian Poets University of Toronto English Library, including these poets: Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Earle Birney, bill bissett, Marianne Bluger, Stephanie Bolster, Roo Borson, George Bowering, Dionne Brand, Ron Charach, Lesley Choyce, Peter Christensen, Afua Cooper, Don Coles, John Robert Colombo, Lynn Crosbie, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Jeffery Donaldson, Jennifer Footman, Sky Gilbert, Susan Glickman, Maureen Harris, Elisabeth Harvor, Jan Horner, Susan Ioannou, Ellen Jaffe, Adeena Karasick, Penn Kemp, A. M. Klein, Irving Layton, Noah Leznoff, Dennis Lee, Pat Lowther, Laura Lush, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Kim Maltman, Dave Margoshes, David W. McFadden, Susan McMaster, Bruce Meyer, Anne Michaels, Kim Morrissey, Erín Moure, Susan Musgrave, John Newlove, P. K. Page, E. J. Pratt, Robert Priest, Janis Rapoport, Wayne Scott Ray, Michael Redhill, John Reibetanz, D. C. Reid, Harold Rhenisch, Stan Rogal, Linda Rogers, Joe Rosenblatt, Jay Ruzesky, Richard Sanger, F. R. Scott, Peter Dale Scott, Kathy Shaidle, Kenneth Sherman, Carolyn Smart, Sandy Shreve, John Steffler, Nathalie Stephens, Rosemary Sullivan, Robert Sward, Rhea Tregebov, Jane Urquhart, R. M. Vaughan, Fred Wah, Tom Wayman, Natalie Wilson, Eddy Yanofsky
India, in English Sujata Bhatt, Augatora ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet PressWeb page titled "Sujata Bhatt" , Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Keki Daruwalla, Night River ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa & Co.Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Ranjit Hoskote, The Cartographer's Apprentice ( Poetry in English ), (with drawings by Laxman Shreshtha), Mumbai: The Pundole Art GalleryWeb page titled "Ranjit Hoskote" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 26, 2010 Tabish Khair, Where Parallel Lines Meet ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin-Viking, ; New York City: Allen Lane, Web page titled "Tabish Khair" at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Sudeep Sen: Almanac, Columbia: University of South CarolinaWeb page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Lines of Desire, Columbia: University of South Carolina A Blank Letter, Dhaka: The High Commission of India K. Satchidanandan, Imperfect and Other New Poems, Kozhikode, Kerala: Olive PublicationsWeb page titled "K. Satchidanandan" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Dilip Chitre, No Moon Monday on the River Karha, Pune: Vijaya ChitreWeb page titled "Dilip Chitre" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe BooksWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 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 PressCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Stephanie de Montalk, Animals Indoors, Victoria University Press
Anthologies in New Zealand Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand , 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, posthumousRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books Gerry Cambridge, The Praise of Swans (pamphlet, 28 pp), Shoestring Press, "Publications" page , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008 Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah, editors, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press (anthology) Carol Ann Duffy, The Oldest Girl in the World, Faber and Faber (children's poetry)Micelis, Angelica and Anthony Rowland, The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Choosing Tough Roads, retrieved via Google Books on May 4, 2009 U. A. Fanthorpe, Consequences James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 James Fenton (Ulster Scots poet), Thonner an Thon: an Ulster-Scots collection, Ulster Scots dialect poet living and published in Northern Ireland Elaine Feinstein, Gold, Carcanet Thom Gunn: Boss Cupid 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 Craig Raine, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Peter Reading, Marfan Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living and published in the United Kingdom: Floods, Faber and Faber Editor, with Jon Turney (a science journalist), A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science, anthology, Faber and Faber Jo Shapcott, Her Book Sulpicia, The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs
United States John Ashbery: Your Name Here As Umbrellas Follow Rain Bei Dao, Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger & Iona Man-Cheong (New Directions) Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadian poet living in the United States Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972–1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 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) Anita Endreszze, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon,Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009 combination of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected PoemsWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 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, translation, Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf;Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927– )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 (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, PastoralMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 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: The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992, Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian)