Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 31 – A Chinese court sentences poet and political dissident Zhu Yufu to a seven-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power". During Yufu's trial hearing, prosecutors have cited a poem and messages he had sent on the internet. February 13 – In a ceremony at the White House, John Ashbery is awarded the National Humanities Medal and Rita Dove awarded the National Medal of Arts. The honors are bestowed to 15 artists in all by President Barack Obama.
April 4 – Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" is first published. Four days later, Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister for the Interior, declares Grass persona non grata. June 7 – Natasha Trethewey is chosen by the Library of Congress to be the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. November 29 – A Qatari poet, Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, age 36, is sentenced to life imprisonment for "comments said to be critical of the Qatari leadership," and "attempts to destabilise the country."Qatari poet jailed for life to appeal – Middle East – Al Jazeera English In February 2013, his sentence is reduced to 15 years in prison.Qatar sentences poet to 15 years in jail for verse about freedom | Twitchy Poetry of the Taliban, an anthology translated from Pashto, is published in English.
Works published in English
Australia Brook Emery - Collusion (John Leonard Press) Les Wicks - Barking Wings (PressPress)
Canada Barry McKinnon, Into the Blind World, above/ground press, rob mclennan, Sextet: six poems from Songs for little sleep, above/ground press, Lisa Robertson, Nilling: Prose, Toronto: BookThug Robert Bringhurst, Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press,
India, in English
Ireland
New Zealand Helen Heath, Graft, Victoria University Press
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Bernadette Hall for Best New Zealand Poems 2011, published online this year:
John Adams Tusiata Avia Hera Lindsay Bird Peter Bland Rachel Bush
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Joan Fleming Janis Freegard Rhian Gallagher Rob Hack
Dinah Hawken Anna Jackson Brent Kininmont Michele Leggott Helen Lehndorf
Kate McKinstry Bill Manhire Harvey Molloy James Norcliffe Rachel O'Neill
Marty Smith Rānui Taiapa Tim Upperton Louise Wallace Douglas Write
United Kingdom Sean Borodale, Bee Journal, Jonathan Cape Basil Bunting, Bunting's Persia: Translations by Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share, Flood Editions Ben Parker, The Escape Artists, Tall Lighthouse Andy Croft, Nineteen Forty-Eight, Five Leaves Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul, Scottish poet Ralph Pordzik, Night Passage Across the Sea. A Dramatic Duologue, International Poetry Editions Robert Sheppard, The Only Life, Knives Forks & Spoons, Le Willows Dennis B. Wilson, Elegy of a Common Soldier, and Other Poems, Kultura
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
United States
Paige Ackerson-Kiely – My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer, 128 pages, Ahsahta Press, John Allman, Algorithms, Clear Sound / Quale Press, Niantic, CT Kris Bigalk – Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, NYQ Books, Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel, University of Pittsburgh Press, Marilyn Buck – Inside/Out: Selected Poems, foreword by David Meltzer, City Lights Books Joseph Campana – Natural Selections, Iowa Jared Carter – A Dance in the Street, 112 pages, Wind Publications, . Heather Christle – What Is Amazing, Wesleyan, Laura Cronk – Having Been an Accomplice: Poems, Persea Books Michael Collier – An Individual History: Poems, W. W. Norton, Martha Collins – White Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press, CA Conrad – A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, 240 pages, Wave Press, Eduardo C. Corral – Slow Lightning, Yale University Press, Brent Cunningham – Journey to the Sun, 120 pages, Atelos, Jazzy Danziger – Darkroom, University of Wisconsin Press, Natalie Diaz – When My Brother Was an Aztec, Copper Canyon Press, Matthew and Michael Dickman – 50 American plays: poems, Copper Canyon Press Joseph Donahue – Dissolves (Terra Lucida IV-VIII), 160 pages, Talisman House Publishers, Thom Donovan – The Hole, 163 pages, Displaced Press, Norman Fischer – Conflict, 84 pages, Chax Press, Jack Gilbert – Collected Poems, Knopf, Nathalie Handal – Poet in Andalucía, University of Pittsburgh Press, Lyn Hejinian – The Book of a Thousand Eyes, 350 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, Sørina Higgins – Caduceus, 100 pages, Word Tech Communications / David Robert Books, Cathy Park Hong – Engine Empire, Norton Paul Hoover – Desolation: Souvenir, 96 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, Mitch Cullin – The House of Special Purpose, illustrated by Peter I. Chang Alice Jones – Plunge, Apogee Press Lenore Kandel – Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel, North Atlantic Books James Browning Kepple Thus Virginia Passes Pretend Genius Press Rebecca Lindenberg – Love, An Index, McSweeney's Liu Xiaobo – June Fourth Elegies; trans. from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang, Graywolf Press, Magus Magnus - The Re-echoes, 99 pages, Furniture Press Books Sean Labrador Y Manzano, The Gulag Arkipelago, Tinfish Press Filip Marinovich, And if You Don’t Go Crazy, I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow, Ugly Duckling Press, Campbell McGrath – In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems, Ecco Joyelle McSweeney – Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays, 96 pages, Fence Books, Rusty Morrison – After Urgency, 88 pages, Tupelo Press, David Mutschlecner – Enigma and Light, Ahsahta Press, Eileen Myles – Snowflake; Different Streets, Wave Press
Kelli Anne Noftle – I Was There for Your Somniloquy, 72 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, Travis Ortiz – variously, not then, Tuumba Press, G.M. Palmer – With Rough Gods, Jagged Door Press, Carlo Parcelli – The Canaanite Gospel: A Meditation on Empire: 88 Monologues, Country Valley Press / Flashpøint, Lucia Perillo – On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, Copper Canyon Press Stanley Plumly – Orphan Hours: Poems, W. W. Norton, D. A. Powell – Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys, Graywolf Press, Bin Ramke – Aerial, 136 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, Paisley Rekdal – Animal Eye, University of Pittsburgh Press, Michael Ryan – This Morning, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, David St. John – The Auroras: New Poems, Harper, Tomaz Salamun – On the Tracks of Wild Game, 108 pages, Ugly Duckling Presse, Mark Scroggins – Red Arcadia, 80 pages, Shearsman Books, W.G. Sebald – Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964–2001, Random House, Jane Shore – That Said: New and Selected Poems, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jared Smith – The Collected Poems of Jared Smith: 1971–2011, 600 pages, NYQ Books, A.E. Stallings – Olives, TriQuarterly Jordan Stempleman – No, Not Today, 72 pages, Magic Helicopter Press, Dejan Stojanović - Circling: 1978-1987; translated from the Serbian by Dejan Stojanović, ebook, New Avenue Books Dejan Stojanović - The Creator; translated from the Serbian by Dejan Stojanović, ebook, New Avenue Books Dejan Stojanović - The Shape; translated from the Serbian by Dejan Stojanović, ebook, New Avenue Books Dejan Stojanović - The Sign and Its Children; translated from the Serbian by Dejan Stojanović, ebook, New Avenue Books Cole Swensen – Gravesend, University of California Press, Stacy Szymaszek- Austerity Measures, Fewer & Further Press, Wendell, MA James Tate – The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990–2010, Ecco, Rodrigo Toscano – Deck of Deeds, 128 pages, Counterpath Press, Ko Un – This Side of Time: Poems by Ko Un (translated from the Korean by Clare You and Richard Silberg), 128 pages, White Pine Press, Chris Vitiello, Obedience, 98 pages, Ahsahta Press, David Wagoner – After the Point of No Return, Copper Canyon Press, Lew Welch – Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, City Lights Books, Marjorie Welish – In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy, 112 pages, Coffee House Press, William L. Wright – Guardian of the Inkwell, 365 pages, Gary Young – Even So: New and Selected Poems, 229 pages, White Pine Press,
Anthologies in the United States Peter Cole and Aminadav Dykman, editors. Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition, Yale University Press, Ryan G. Van Cleave, editor. City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Iowa, . Includes: Rane Arroyo, Marvin Bell, Allen Braden, John Bradley, Curtis L. Crisler, Mary Cross, James D’Agostino, Stuart Dybek, Susan Elbe, Dina Elenbogen, Martín Espada, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bob Hicok, Edward Hirsch, Philip Jenks & Simone Muench, Thomas L. Johnson, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Viola Lee, Francesco Levato, Campbell McGrath, Paul Martínez Pompa, Adrian Matejka, Erika Mikkalo, Julie Parson Nesbitt, Johanny Vázquez Paz, James Plath, Christina Pugh, Maya Quintero, Robyn Schiff, Patricia Smith, Tony Trigilio, Alpay Ulku, Judith Valente, Nicole Walker, Ellen Wehle, Brenda Yates Cary Nelson, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Oxford University Press, . Includes essays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Dale Parker, Melissa Girard, John Marsh, Linda A. Kinnahan, Peter Nicholls, Charles Altieri, Edward Brunner, Tim Newcomb, Susan Rosenbaum, Mike Chasar, Philip Metres, Karen Jackson Ford, Josephine Park, Walter Kalaidjian, Jahan Ramazani, Michael Thurston, Al Filreis, Lytle Shaw, Mark W. Van Wienen, Michael Davidson, Lynn Keller, Timothy Yu, James Smethurst, Adalaide Morris Charles Henry Rowell, editor. Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, W.W. Norton, .More than 70 poets are represented in this anthology of African-American poetry since the 1960s Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, editors – The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Ahsahta Press. – Contributors: Emily Abendroth, Will Alexander, Rae Armantrout, Eric Baus, Dan Beachy-Quick, John Beer, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sherwin Bitsui, Kamau Brathwaite, Susan Briante, Oni Buchanan, Heather Christle, Stephen Collis, Jack Collom, Phil Cordelli, T. Zachary Cotler, Brent Cunningham, Christopher Dewdney, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Dumanis, Camille Dungy, Marcella Durand, Lisa Fishman, Rob Fitterman, Forrest Gander, Merrill Gilfillan, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Jody Gladding, Johannes Göransson, Chris Green, Arielle Greenberg, Richard Greenfield, Sarah Gridley, e. tracy grinnell, Gabriel Gudding, Joshua Harmon, Nathan Hauke, Lyn Hejinian, Mary Hickman, Brenda Hillman, Kevin Holden, Paul Hoover, Erika Howsare & Kate Schapira, Brenda Iijima, Sally Keith, Karla Kelsey, Amy King, Melissa Kwasny, Brian Laidlaw, Maryrose Larkin, Ann Lauterbach, Karen An-hwei Lee, Paul Legault, Sylvia Legris, Dana Levin, Eric Linsker, Alessandra Lynch, J. Michael Martinez, Nicole Mauro, Aaron McCollough, Joyelle McSweeney, K. Silem Mohammad, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Erin Mouré, Jennifer Moxley, Laura Mullen, Melanie Noel, Kathryn Nuernberger, Peter O'Leary, Patrick Pritchett, Bin Ramke, Stephen Ratcliffe, Matt Reeck, Marthe Reed, Evelyn Reilly, Karen Rigby, Ed Roberson, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, Leslie Scalapino, Standard Schaefer, Brandon Shimoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Gustaf Sobin, Juliana Spahr, Jane Sprague, Fenn Stewart, Adam Strauss, Mathias Svalina, Arthur Sze, John Taggart, Michelle Taransky, Brian Teare, Tony Tost, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cathy Wagner, Elizabeth Willis, Jane Wong, and C. D. Wright
Nonfiction, criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Dan Beachy-Quick - Wonderful Investigations: Essays, Meditations, Tales, Milkweed Editions Rachel Blau DuPlessis – Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry, University of Iowa Press. Lisa Jarnot – Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography, University of California Press. Kenneth Rexroth – In the Sierra: Mountain Writings, New Directions Publishing.