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Events
January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem". On April 3, Bök said that he June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights. Ayat was arrested on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, during the Bahraini uprising in Pearl Square, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February 2011. August 9 – Announcement that Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate). October 6 – Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature November 9 – The former United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, was participating in an Occupy movement demonstration at UC Berkeley called Occupy Cal, when he was hit in the ribs by a police officer wielding a baton. The incident occurred after his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, was shoved to the ground by a police officer, and Hass had tried to help her. He wrote about their experience in a November 19, 2011, The New York Times opinion piece entitled "Poet-Bashing Police." Also, poet Geoffrey G. O'Brien suffered broken ribs at the same demonstration.Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student? November 11 – Politician, academic and poet Michael D. Higgins takes office as President of Ireland. November 11 – The End Poem by Julian Gough is released in the Beta 1.9 version of Minecraft. December 6 – A memorial to Ted Hughes is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Seamus Heaney. December 7 – Two British poets, Alice Oswald"Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot prize in protest at sponsor Aurum", Alison Flood, The Guardian, 6 December 2011 and John Kinsella,"TS Eliot prize: Second poet withdraws in sponsor protest" 7 December 2011 The Guardian have withdrawn from this year's T. S. Eliot Prize in protest over the prize's sponsorship by an investment company called Arum who focus on hedge funds.
Works published in English
Australia Tranter, John (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2011, Black Inc.
Canada Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic Phil Hall, Killdeer Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove
India, in English Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach, 80 pages, (SPD, dist.),
Ireland
New Zealand Airini Beautrais Western Line, Victoria University Press
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Chris Price for Best New Zealand Poems 2010, published online this year:
Fleur Adcock Hinemoana Baker Emma Barnes Sarah Jane Barnett Miro Bilbrough
Jenny Bornholdt James Brown Kate Camp Geoff Cochrane Jennifer Compton
David Eggleton Cliff Fell John Gallas Anna Jackson Lynn Jenner
Anne Kennedy Anna Livesey Cilla McQueen David Mitchell Bill Nelson
John Newton Gregory O'Brien Kerrin P Sharpe Elizabeth Smither Ian Wedde
South Africa
Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You, 202 pages, Central Avenue Publishing,
United Kingdom Hal Duncan, Songs for the Devil and Death, 172 pages, Papaverua Press, Salena Godden, Under The Pier, Nasty Little Press Ralph Pordzik, Pretending to See Elephants, 58 pages, Lulu Press, William Walker (age 97), The Poetry of Flt Lt William Walker AE, The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust Eoghan Walls, The Salt Harvest, 64 pages, Seren Books, Carol Watts, Occasionals, Reality Street, 88 pp.,
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Being Human, edited by Neil Astley New Poetries V, edited by Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth, 264 pages, Carcanet Press,
United States Seth Abramson, Northerners, 72 pages, New Issues Press, Ammiel Alcalay, “neither wit nor gold” (from them), 88 pp., Ugly Duckling Presse, Will Alexander, Compression & Purity, 100 pp., City Lights, Rae Armantrout, Money Shot, 80 pages, Wesleyan University Press, Morris Berman, Counting Blessings, 44 pages, Cervena Barva Press, Ernesto Cardenal, The Origin of the Species and Other Poems, translated & introduced by John Lyons, foreword by Anne Waldman, 168 pp., Texas Tech University Press, Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead, 128 pages, Random House, William Corbett, The Whalen Poem, 64 pages, Hanging Loose Press, Joshua Corey, Severance Songs, 84 pages, Tupelo Press, 978-1-932195-92-7 Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World, 96 pages, New Directions, Eloise Greenfield, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, 32 pages, Amistad, Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief, 108 pages, Knopf, Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball, 104 pages, Fence Books, Susan Howe, That This, 112 pages, New Directions, David Meltzer, When I Was A Poet, 150 pages, City Lights, Anna Moschovakis, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, 132 pages, Coffee House Press, Alice Notley, Culture of One, 160 pages, Penguin, Edward Nudelman, What Looks Like an Elephant, 116 pp., Lummox Press, Ovid, Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid, transl. by David R. Slavitt; introd. by Michael Dirda, 384 pp., Harvard University Press, Michael Palmer, Thread, 112 pages, New Directions, Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal, 62 pages, Greenhouse Review Press, Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver, 96 pages, Wave, Rabindranath Tagore, The Essential Tagore, ed. by Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty, 864 pp., Belknap-Harvard, Tyrone Williams, Pink Tie, Hooke Press, Elizabeth Willis, Address, 80 pages, Wesleyan, Dean Young, Fall Higher, Copper Canyon Press,
Anthologies in the United States Tyler Chadwick (ed.); – Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets, 546 pages. Peculiar Pages, . Kenneth Goldsmith (ed.); Craig Dworkin (ed.) – Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, 656 pages. Northwestern University Press, Sarah Palin; Michael Solomon (ed.) – I Hope Like Heck, 64 pages. Byliner,
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Charles Bernstein, Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions, 296 pages, University of Chicago Press, Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book, 696 pages, University of California Press, Oren Izenberg, Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life, 272 pages, Princeton University Press, Christopher Nealon, The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century, 202 pages, Harvard University Press,
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2011 These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2011. David Lehman, general editor, and Kevin Young, guest editor (who selected the poetry):
Elizabeth Alexander Sherman Alexie Rae Armantrout John Ashbery Julianna Baggot Erin Belieu Cara Benson Jaswinder Bolina Catherine Bowman Turner Cassidy Michael Cerelli Billy Collins Olena Kalytiak Davis
Matthew Dickman Michael Dickman Denise Duhamel Cornelius Eady Jill Alexander Essbaum Alan Feldman Farrah Field Carolyn Forche Beckian Fritz Goldberg Benjamin S. Grossberg Jennifer Grotz Robert Hass Terrance Hayes
K.A. Hays Bob Hicok Jane Hirshfield Paul Hoover Andrew Hudgins Major Jackson Allison Joseph L. S. Klatt Jennifer L. Knox Yusef Komunyakaa James Longenbach Bridget Lowe Maurice Manning
Morton Marcus Jill McDonough Erika Meitner Paul Muldoon Jude Nutter Jeni Olin Eric Pankey Alan Michael Parker Catherine Pierce Robert Pinsky Katha Pollitt D. A. Powell Gretchen Steele Pratt James Richardson
Anne Marie Rooney Mary Ruefle Mary Jo Salter James Schuyler Charles Simic Matthew Buckly Smith Patricia Smith David St. John Gerald Stern Bianca Stone Mark Strand Mary Jo Thompson Natasha Trethewey
Lee Upton David Wagoner Rosanna Warren Rachel Wetzsteon Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams David Wojahn Charles Wright Stephen Yenser
Works published in other languages
Denmark
France
Germany Nora Bossong, Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, 96 pages, Hanser, Tom Bresemann, Berliner Fenster: Gedichte, 96 pages, Bloomsbury, Crauss., LAKRITZVERGIFTUNG. juicy transversions: Gedichte, 180 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, Dietmar Dath, Gott ruft zurück: Gedichte, 60 pages, Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, Synke Köhler, waldoffen: Gedichte, 76 pages, Lyrikedition 2000, Alexander Gumz, ausrücken mit modellen: Gedichte, 88 pages, kookbooks, Daniela Seel, ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden: Gedichte, 64 pages, kookbooks, Lutz Steinbrück, Blickdicht: Gedichte, 76 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, Antony Theodore, Das Lieds meines Tanzes und der Tanz meiner Traume, 92 pages, Ventura Verlaghaus, Mathias Traxler, You’re welcome: Gedichte/ Aufzeichnungen, 127 pages, kookbooks, Mikael Vogel, Massenhaft Tiere: Gedichte, 100 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, Florian Voß, Datenschatten Datenströme Staub: Gedichte, 80 pages, Verlagshaus J. Frank, Matthew Zapruder, Glühend: Gedichte, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Ron Winkler, 145 pages, Luxbooks, Judith Zander, oder tau: Gedichte, 100 pages, dtv,
Ireland Seán Ó Ríordáin, Na Dánta (Poems)
Poland Leszek Engelking, Muzeum dzieciństwa (Museum of Childhood, WBPiCAK) Julia Hartwig, Gorzkie żale (Lenten Psalms, Wydawnictwo a5)
Other languages Bengali
Rahman Henry, Sorrow and some other happiness. (Dukkho O Aro Kichu Ananda); Bhashachitra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. , Bengali poetry Chandan Chowdhury, Sculpture of Crow. (kaker vascorjo); Ittadi grantho prakash, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bengali poetry
Ukrainian
Les Wicks, Shadows of the Read (Krok) "AU/UA: Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia" (Krok) Meuse Press
Urdu Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Meri Tasveer ("My Portrait") (GBD Books, New Delhi), Urdu poetry
Awards and honors by country Australia awards and honors
Canada awards and honors Archibald Lampman Award: Paul Tyler, A Short History of Forgetting Atlantic Poetry Prize: John Steffler, Lookout 2011 Governor General's Awards: Phil Hall, Killdeer (English); Louise Dupré, Plus haut que les flammes (French) Griffin Poetry Prize: Canadian: Dionne Brand, Ossuaries International, in the English Language: Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Heavenly Questions Lifetime Recognition Award: Yves Bonnefoy Gerald Lampert Award: Anna Swanson, The Nights Also Pat Lowther Award: Evelyn Lau, Living Under Plastic Prix Alain-Grandbois: Carole David, Manuel de poétique à l'intention des jeunes filles Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Stephen Collis, On the Material Prix Émile-Nelligan: Mahigan Lepage, Relief
New Zealand awards and honors New Zealand Post Book Awards: Award for poetry: Kate Camp The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls, Victoria University Press NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Lynn Jenner Dear Sweet Harry, Auckland University Press
United Kingdom awards and honors Cholmondeley Award: Imtiaz Dharker, Michael Haslam, Lachlan Mackinnon Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Shortlist: English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection: Shortlist: Best First Collection: Shortlist: Best Poem: Shortlist: Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: Shortlist: Manchester Poetry Prize: National Poet of Wales: National Poetry Competition 2010: T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Shortlist (announced in November 201): 2011 Short List The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors