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Events May 1 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years July 1 — The new Scottish Parliament opens with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man for A' That", instead of "God Save the Queen" October 4 — In the United States, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman signs into law Assembly Bill No. 2714 (P.L. 1999, c. 228) sent to her from the state legislature and creates the New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit—effectively, Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Whitman subsequently selects poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925), then a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey, as the first appointed to the post in the following AprilNew Jersey State Legislature. "An Act establishing the New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit, supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes and making an appropriation" from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L. 1999, c. 228), Approved 4 October 1999. Retrieved 26 June 2013. The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is established at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Derek Attridge is the first winner Carl Rakosi's 99th birthday celebrated at the Kelly Writers House with a live audiocast A new grave slab is installed at the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh over the final resting place of William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1904), comically renowned as the worst poet in the English language; the slab is inscribed:
William McGonagall Poet and Tragedian
"I am your gracious Majesty ever faithful to Thee, William McGonagall, the Poor Poet, That lives in Dundee."
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 Robert Adamson, Black Water: Approaching Zukofsky Jennifer Maiden, Mines, Paper Bark, Les Murray: Fredy Neptune, verse novel, winner of the 2005 Premio Mondello (in Italy) Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 New Selected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove Conscious and Verbal, Carcanet, Duffy & Snellgrove
Canada Ken Babstock, Mean, his first book of poetry, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award (Canada) Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize/ Canadian Shortlist" at the Griffen Poetry Award Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Afua Cooper, editor, Utterances and Incantations: Women, Poetry and Dub, Toronto: Sister Vision Press (scholarship) Jeffery Donaldson, Waterglass,Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 McGill-Queen's University Press George Elliott Clarke, Gold Indigoes. Durham: Carolina Wren, Susan Holbrook, misled Tim Lilburn, To the River, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year A. F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu, editors, Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry, Vancouver, British Columbia: Arsenal Pulp Press
India, in English Rukmini Bhaya Nair, The Ayodhya Cantos ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: PenguinWeb page titled "Robin Ngangom" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 C. P. Surendran, Posthumous Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin (Viking); not posthumously publishedWeb page titled "C. P. Surendran" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Sudeep Sen: Bodytext: Dramatic Monologues in Motion, London Borough of Harrow: Harrow Arts and Leisure ServiceWeb page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Retracing American Contours, Columbia: University of South Carolina Eunice de Souza, editor, Talking Poems: Conversations with Poets, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 E.V. Ramakrishnan, editor, The Tree of Tongues: An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, Arundhathi Subramaniam called the volume "a landmark book of translations of modern Indian poetry"; Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study,
Ireland Ciaran Carson, The Ballad of HMS Belfast, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Vona Groarke, Other People's Houses, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Joan McBreen, editor, The White Page an bhileog bh'an: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Thomas McCarthy, Mr Dineen's Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems, Anvil Press, London, Irish poet published in the United KingdomWeb page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008 Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, translators, The Water Horse: Poems in Irish Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
New Zealand Alistair Campbell, Gallipoli & Other Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press Janet Charman, Rapunzel Rapunzel, Auckland: Auckland University PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article Leigh Davis, Te Tangi a te Matuhi, Auckland: Jack Books Michele Leggott, As far as I can see, Auckland: Auckland University Press Robin Hyde, The book of Nadath, introduction and notes by Michele Leggott; Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous Bill Manhire, What to Call Your Child Sarah Quigley, Raewyn Alexander and Anna Jackson, AUP New Poets 1: Sarah Quigley, Raewyn Alexander and Anna Jackson, Auckland: Auckland University PressWeb page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
United Kingdom Mark Bryant, editor, Literary Hymns: An Anthology, London: Hodder & Stoughton Gerry Cambridge, Nothing But Heather!, Luath Press "Publications" page , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008 Julia Donaldson. The Gruffalo, children's story in verse Carol Ann Duffy: Meeting Midnight, Faber and Faber (children's poetry)O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page), titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. The World's Wife, Anvil Press Poetry Seamus Heaney: The Light of the Leaves, Bonnefant Press Translator: Beowulf, Faber & Faber Translator: Diary of One Who Vanished, a song cycle by Leoš Janáček of poems by Ozef Kalda, Faber & Faber John Heath-Stubbs, The Sound of Light Ted Hughes, translator: Aeschylus: The Oresteia Alcestis Kathleen Jamie, Jizzen Andrew Johnston, The Open Window, Arc Publications, New Zealand poet living in Paris, France Anne MacLeod, Just the Caravaggio, Scottish poet Derek Mahon, Collected Poems, Gallery Press Don Paterson, The Eyes Tom Paulin, The Wind Dog Peter Reading, Apophthegmatic Peter Redgrove, Selected Poems Mary Jo Salter, A Kiss in Space, Knopf Marina Tsvetayeva, The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein, fifth edition, with new poems and a new introduction, Oxford University Press/Carcanet Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain, Faber and Faber
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, editors, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970, an anthology of poetry outside The Movement (essentially the mainstream) of English and Irish poetry (Wesleyan University Press) Carol Ann Duffy, editor, Time's Tidings: Greeting the 21st Century, Anvil Press Poetry Elaine Feinstein, editor, After Pushkin, "versions by contemporary poets", published by the Folio Society and Carcanet Iona Opie, editor, Here Comes Mother Goose, a collection of nursery rhymes Michael Schmidt, The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Adam Schwartzman, editor, Ten South African poets, Manchester: Carcanet
United States John Ashbery, Girls on the Run, a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist Henry Darger Joseph Brodsky: Discovery, 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 Jared Carter, Les Barricades Mysterieuses, Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Robert Dassanowsky, Telegrams from the Metropole. Selected Poems 1980-1998 Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Beth Gylys, Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press); winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award Geoffrey Hill, The Triumph of Love (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" John Hollander, Figurehead and Other Poems Fanny Howe, Forged William Logan, Night Battle Glyn Maxwell, The Breakage, (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" W. S. Merwin, The River Sound: Poems, 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" Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems: 1920-1954 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; translated from Italian Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Michael Palmer, The Danish Notebook (Avec Books); memoir/poetic essay. George Quasha (with Chie Hasegawa), Ainu Dreams (Station Hill Press) Carl Rakosi, The Old Poet's Tale Kenneth Rexroth, Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poems of Protest and Rebellion (Glad Day; posthumous) Charles Simic, Jackstraws: Poems (Harcourt Brace); a New York Times "notable book of the year" A. E. Stallings, Archaic Smile Mark Strand, Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Eleanor Ross Taylor, Late LeisureNews release, "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize" , April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 9, 2010 Melvin B. Tolson, Harlem Gallery: And Other Poems (University Press of Virginia); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities (New Directions) Jesse Lee Kercheval, World as Dictionary
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms (first published in 1958), goes into its seventh edition, Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Charles Bernstein, A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) Molly Peacock, How to Read a Poem ... and Start a Poetry Circle, New York: Riverhead Books
Anthologies in the United States Riohard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, editors, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 Wesleyan University Press Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, editors (and Brotherston, translator), Sun Unwound: Original Texts from Occupied America, North Atlantic BooksWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 anthology Tanure Ojaide and Tijan M. Sallah, editors, The New African Poetry: An Anthology, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner Publishers A. L. Soens, editor, I, the Song : Classical Poetry of Native North America, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press
Poets in The Best American Poetry 1999 Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1999, edited by David Lehman, guest editor, Robert Bly:
Dick Allen John Balaban Coleman Barks George Bilgere Elizabeth Bishop Chana Bloch Philip Booth John Brehm Hayden Carruth Lucille Clifton Billy Collins Robert Creeley Lydia Davis Debra Kang Dean Chard deNiord
Russell Edson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dan Gerber Louise Glück Ray Gonzalez John Haines Donald Hall Jennifer Michael Hecht Bob Hicok Jane Hirshfield Tony Hoagland John Hollander Amy Holman David Ignatow Gray Jacobik