Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events June 18 – Release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, concerning Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys (as Thomas)."Poetry in the News 2008" web page at the Poetry Society website, retrieved November 30, 2008 September – A United Kingdom examination board, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, asks schools to withdraw copies of its anthology which contain the poem, Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy after some teachers complained about the poem's reference to knives. Other teachers oppose the move, and Duffy responds with a new poem, Mrs Schofield's GCSE. December 15 – The American Academy of Arts and Sciences begins awarding the May Sarton prize. Five "emerging poets" each year will receive a $2,000 honorarium and an opportunity to have their work published in the Academy's journal, Daedalus (for winners, see "Awards and honors" section, below).News release and web page, "Young Poets Recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Five Receive Academy Prize in Honor of May Sarton" , December 15, 2008, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences website, retrieved December 17, 2008 Dennis Brutus is awarded the Lifetime Honorary Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture for his lifelong dedication to African and world poetry and literary arts.Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader Publisher's page includes video of Brutus and a remembrance by Amy Goodman Brutus was also an activist who was imprisoned and incarcerated in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965. Complaints about Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" cause it to be withdrawn from the AQA Anthology studied in English schools. Dmitry Vodennikov wins a Russian poetry competition television show, "King of the Poets". POETomu (a play on the English word "poet" and the Russian word poetomu ("because")), a glossy magazine about poetry, is founded in Russia.
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, The Golden Bird, winner of the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry in the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, shortlisted for the 2009 Age Book of the Year Awards Michael Brennan, Unanimous Night David Brooks, The Balcony, finalist for the 2008 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry; University of Queensland Press, Brook Emery, At a Slight Angle: and Other Poems Elizabeth Hodgson, Skin Painting, winner of the 2007 David Unaipon Award; University of Queensland Press, Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria, University of Queensland Press, winner of the Judith Wright Prize and the Anne Elder Award Yvette Holt, Anonymous Premonition, winner of the 2005 David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript, Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing (2008), and the Poets Union's Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry (2008)Web page titled "Anonymous Premonition" at the University of Queensland Press website, retrieved July 5, 2010 Clive James, Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958–2008, W.W. Norton Carol Jenkins, Fishing in the Devonian, Puncher & Wattmann John Kinsella, Divine Comedy, University of Queensland Press, Anthony Lawrence, Bark, University of Queensland Press, Bronwyn Lea, The Other Way Out, Giramondo Publishing David Malouf, Revolving Days, University of Queensland Press, Peter Rose, The Best Australian Poems 2008, including work from: Dorothy Porter, Robert Adamson, Judith Beveridge, Rosemary Dobson, Laurie Duggan, Stephen Edgar, Clive James, John Kinsella, Les Murray, Lisa Gorton, Geoffrey Lehmann, Tracy Ryan and Brenda Walker, Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Fay Zwicky; Black Inc.,
Canada Kyle Buckley, The Laundromat Essay, a long poem (Coach House Books) Margaret Christakos, What Stirs, (Coach House Books) Jen Currin, Hagiography (Coach House Books) Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds (Coach House Books) "Some Favorite Books of 2008: Poetry Foundation Staff Picks" entry, December 19, 2008, "Harriet" blog, Poetry Foundation website, retrieved December 31, 2008
Nancy Holmes, Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems, Wilfrid Laurier University Press Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books) George McWhirter, The Anachronicles (Ronsdale Press) Joe Rosenblatt & Catherine Owen, Dog; photos by Karen Moe. Toronto: Mansfield Press."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Jordan Scott, Blert (Coach House Books) David Silverberg, editor, Mic Check: An Anthology Of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry, Quattro Books, Todd Swift, Seaway: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) R. M. Vaughan, Troubled, (Coach House Books) Zachariah Wells, editor, Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, (Biblioasis)
India, Indian poetry in English Antony Theodore, Divine Moments : Journey through the Year, Arundhathi Subramaniam, translator, The Absent Traveller: Prākrit love poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla, New Delhi: Penguin India, Web page titled "Arundhathi Subramaniam" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Bibhu Padhi, poet, Going to the Temple, Eunice de Souza, editor, Both Sides of the Sky, Post-Independence Poetry in English, New Delhi: National Book Trust, Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Meena Alexander, Quickly Changing River (Poetry in English), Triquarterly Books, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Jeet Thayil: These Errors Are Correct, Delhi: Tranquebar Books (EastWest and Westland)Web page titled "Jeet Thayil" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Editor, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, Bloodaxe, anthology of Indian poetry in English, published in the United KingdomScharf, Michael, "The Other Mother Tongue", book review, Boston Review, May/June 2010 issue, retrieved July 19, 2010 Sujata Bhatt (2008). "Pure Lizard" (Poetry in English), Carcanet Press. Retrieved 2008-09-13.
Ireland Guzstáv Báger, Object Found, translated by Thomas Kabdebo; Hungarian poet published in Ireland (Salmon Press) Ciaran Berry, The Sphere of Birds, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Dermot Bolger, External Affairs, 80 pages, New Island Press, Andrew Carpenter, editor, Thornfield: Poems by the Thornfield Poets (Salmon Press) (anthology) Ciarán Carson: Collected Poems, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, For All We Know, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Eileen Casey, Drinking the Colour Blue Gerald Dawe, Points West, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Frank Golden, In Daily Accord (Salmon Press) Maurice Harmon, The Mischievous Boy and other poems (Salmon Press) Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, To Keep the Light Burning: Reflections in Times of Loss, poetry and prose (Salmon Poetry) Kevin Higgins, Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon Press) Peter van de Kamp, In Train, Dutch native living in Ireland (Salmon Press) Caroline Lynch, Lost in the Gaeltacht (Salmon Press) Alan Jude Moore, Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry) Patrick Moran, Green (Salmon Press) Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Selected Poems Gallery Press, London: Oldcastle and Faber, Irish work published in the United KingdomWeb page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008 Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Fifty Minute Mermaid, translated from Irish by Paul Muldoon, Gallery Press, Ulick O'Connor, The Kiss: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Salmon Press) Lorna Shaughnessy, Torching the Brown River (Salmon Press) Eamon Wall, A Tour of Your Country Irish native living in the United States, published in Ireland (Salmon Press)
New Zealand Jenny Bornholdt, The Rocky Shore, winner of the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (announced September 2009)Web page titled "Literature/Year in Review 2009/English: Other Literature in English" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 22, 2010 Kevin Ireland, How To Survive The Morning, Cape Catley Ltd, C. K. Stead, Collected Poems 1951–2006, winner of the"reference and anthology" category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (announced September 2009) Vladimir Nabokov (posthumous), edited by Brian Boyd (New Zealand academic) and Stanislav Shvabrin, ' 'Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry Selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov' ', English translations of Russian poetry, presented next to the Russian originals, Harcourt (published in the United States) Sam Sampson, Everything Talks, Auckland University Press and Shearsman Books; winner of the 2009 New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
Best New Zealand Poetry 2007 The year's guest editor, who chose 25 poems for inclusion, was Paula Green. The list appeared at the series website in February 2008.Web page titled "Best New Zealand Poetry 2007 / Introduction" at the Best New Zealand Poetry website, accessed April 25, 2008
Johanna Aitchison Angela Andrews Serie (Cherie) Barford Sarah Jane Barnett Jenny Bornholdt
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Janet Charman Geoff Cochrane Fiona Farrell Cliff Fell
Bernadette Hall Anna Jackson Andrew Johnston Anne Kennedy Jessica Le Bas
Dora Malech Alice Miller Emma Neale Vincent O’Sullivan Vivienne Plumb
Richard Reeve Elizabeth Smither C. K. Stead Robert Sullivan Alison Wong
United Kingdom Paul Thomas Abbott, FLOOD (Clutag Press) Moniza Alvi: Europa, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Bloodaxe BooksSearch results page: Bloodaxe Books + 2008 , Poets House website, retrieved July 9, 2010 Split World: Poems 1990–2005, Bloodaxe Books Annemarie Austin, Very: New and Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books, Bloodaxe Books Mourid Barghouti, Midnight and Other Poems, translated by Radwa Ashour, Palestinian poet published in the United Kingdom (Arc Publications), Paul Batchelor, The Sinking Road Marck L. Beggs, Catastrophic Chords (Salmon Poetry) Robyn Bolam, New Wings Zoë Brigley, The Secret Constantine Cavafy, The Selected Poems of Cavafy, translated from the original Greek by Avi Sharon, Penguin Classic, Felix Dennis, Homeless in my Heart, Ebury Press (Random House), Menna Elfyn, Perfect Blemish, translated by Elin Ap Hywel from the original Welsh; Bloodaxe Books Janet Frame, Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books; posthumously published Anne Gorrick, Kyotologic, Shearsman Books, (American, published in the United Kingdom) Chris Greenhalgh, The Invention of Zero, Bloodaxe Books Jane Griffiths, Another Country: New and Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books Liam Guilar, Lady Godiva and Me (Nine Arches Press) Jen Hadfield, Nigh-no-place, Bloodaxe Books David Harsent, Selected Poems 1969–2005, Selima Hill: Gloria: Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books The Hat, Bloodaxe Books Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader, Faber and Faber, Clive James, Angels Over Elsinore: Collected Verse 2003–2008 (Picador) Esther Jansma, What It Is, edited and translated by Francis R. Jones from the original Dutch, Bloodaxe Books Daniel Kane, Ostentation of Peacocks, (Egg Box Publishing) Jackie Kay: Darling: New and Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books The Lamplighter, Bloodaxe Books Agnes Lehoczky, Budapest to Babel, (Egg Box Publishing) Ira Lightman, Duetcetera (Shearsman Books) Jack Mapanje, Beasts of Nalunga, Bloodaxe Books Robert Minhinnick, King Driftwood, Carcanet Welsh poet, writing in English Kenji Miyazawa, Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems, translated from the original Japanese by Roger Pulvers, Bloodaxe Books