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Events June 4 – English publication of For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu, recounting Yiwu's time following the Tiananmen Square protests of June 4, 1989, and the four brutal years he spent in jail for writing the poem "Massacre"."Almost 50: Prison Of The Mind – A Chinese poet's memoir of incarceration"."A Poet Survives China's Prison: Liao Yiwu's 'For a Song and a Hundred Songs'". ZYZZYVA. August 5 – PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) issues a call to action, demanding that the jailed 60-year-old Kazakh poet Aron Atabek be released from solitary confinement, where he has been since December 2012 and where he will continue to stay until the end of 2014. This is his punishment for writing The Heart of Eurasia, a blunt critique of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his government."Call to Action – Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek: A Prison Within a Prison". PEN International. Atabek is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for other alleged crimes against the state.Sheerin, Cathal. "A Prison within a Prison: the Solitary Confinement of Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek" September 13 – Australians Graham Nunn and Andrew Slattery are accused of plagiarism over separate works which they have published.Fitch, Toby. (2013-09-23). "Plagiarism scandal has revealed an ugly side of Australian poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-03-30. September 21 – Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor is among those who are killed in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi, Kenya. September 22 – In the United Kingdom, poet C. J. Allen withdraws from the Forward Prize shortlist after admitting to plagiarism in some of his earlier work. He has been nominated in the category for "best single poem." Fellow poet Matthew Welton says he noticed last year that Allen had plagiarised some of his work."Poem pulled from Forward prize shortlist after plagiarism row" (Books). The Guardian.
Works published in English
Australia Richard James Allen, Fixing the Broken Nightingale, Macau: ASM and Markwell: Cerberus Press – Flying Islands Books Peter Boyle, Towns in the Great Desert, Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann Maree Dawes, brb, Sydney: Spineless Wonders Diane Fahey, The Stone Garden: Poems from Clare, Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Luke Fischer, Paths of Flight, North Fitzroy: Black Pepper Alan Gould, Capital, Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann, 2013 Les Wicks, Sea of Heartbeak (Unexpected Resilience), Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann
Canada Gwen Benaway, Ceremonies for the Dead Jason Christie, Unknown Actor, Insomniac Press, London, ON Barry Dempster, Invisible Dogs, Brick Books, London, ON Adam Dickinson, The Polymers, Anansi, Toronto Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper, Brick Books, London, ON Catherine Greenwood, The Lost Letters, Brick Books, London, ON Phil Hall, The Small Nouns Crying Faith, BookThug, Toronto Danny Jacobs, Songs That Remind Us of Factories, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC Niki Koulouris. The Sea with No One in it. Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill Erín Moure, Pillage Laud: Cauterizations • Vocabularies • Cantigas • Topiary • Prose,reprint of Pillage Laud which was first published in 1999 in an edition of 300 perfectbound copies and 26 spiralbound copies lettered A-Z and signed BookThug, Toronto Sara Peters, 1996, Anansi, Toronto Shane Rhodes, X: Poems & Anti-Poems, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC Jacob Scheier, Letter from Brooklyn, ECW Press, Toronto
New Zealand Paula Green, The Baker's Thumbprint, Seraph Press Kate Camp, Snow White’s Coffin, Victoria University Press
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Ian Wedde for Best New Zealand Poems 2012, published online this year:
Sarah Jane Barnett Tony Beyer James Brown Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Kate Camp
Geoff Cochrane Murray Edmond John Gallas Siobhan Harvey Helen Heath
David Howard Andrew Johnston Anne Kennedy Aleksandra Lane Michele Leggott
Frankie McMillan Gregory O'Brien Peter Olds Harry Ricketts Sam Sampson
Kerrin P Sharpe C K Stead Richard von Sturmer Albert Wendt Ashleigh Young
United Kingdom Dannie Abse, Speak, Old Parrot, Hutchinson. John Agard, Travel Light Travel Dark, Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, England. Megan Beech, When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard, Burning Eye Books. Emily Berry, Dear Boy, Faber. Julia Bird, Twenty-Four Seven Blossom, Salt. Rhian Edwards, Clueless Dogs, Welsh. Amy Key, Luxe, Salt Publishing, Cromer, England. Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax, Carcanet Press. Helen Mort, Division Street, Chatto & Windus, London, England. Heather Phillipson, Instant-Flex 718, Bloodaxe. David Nickle Read, Vespertine's Wander. Christopher Reid, Six Bad Poets, Faber. Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter, Jonathan Cape. Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors, Picador. Susanna Roxman, Crossing the North Sea, Dionysia Press, Edinburgh. This poetry collection is supported by Creative Scotland, formerly the Scottish Arts Council. Miles Salter, Animals, Valley Press, Scarborough, England. Claire Trévien, The Shipwrecked House, Penned in the Margins, London, England.
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy, 1914: Poetry Remembers (Faber & Faber) Nathan Hamilton, editor. Dear World & Everyone In It (Bloodaxe Books) .The best poetry of 2013 | Books | The Guardian
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
United States
Carrie Olivia Adams, Forty-One Jane Doe's, Ahsahta Press, Boise (includes DVD w/three short films by Adams) Rae Armantrout, Just Saying, Wesleyan University Press Jennifer Atkinson, Canticle of the Night Path, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina Elizabeth Bachinsky, The Hottest Summer in Recorded History, Nightwood Editions. Joshua Beckman, The Inside of an Apple, Wave Books, New York & Seattle Dodie Bellamy, Cunt Norton, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles Edmund Berrigan, Can It!, Letter Machine Editions David Biespiel, Charming Gardeners, University of Washington Press Robert Bly, Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950 – 2013, Norton, New York / London Charlie Bondhus, All the Heat We Could Carry, Main Street Rag Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall, Birds, LLC. Joseph Ceravolo, Collected Poems, Wesleyan UP (Rosemary Ceravolo & Parker Smathers, editors) Joel Chace, Kansoz, Knives Forks & Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK Dan Chelotti, X, McSweeney's, San Francisco Clark Coolidge, Book Beginning What and Ending Away, Fence Books Brad Cran, Ink on Paper, Nightwood Editions. Michael Davidson, Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems, Coffee House Books Tishani Doshi, Everything Begins Elsewhere, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend Marc DuCharme, The Unfinished: Books I-VI, BlazeVOX, Buffalo Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Surge: Drafts 96 -114, Salt Publishing Craig Dworkin Remotes, Little Red Leaves, Houston Joshua Edwards, Imperial N, Canarium Books. Robert Fernandez, Pink Reef, Canarium Books. Adam Fitzgerald, The Late Parade, WW Norton/Liveright Nada Gordon, Vile Lilt, Roof, NYC Noah Eli Gordon, The Year of the Rooster, Ahsahta Press Michael Gottlieb, Dear All, Roof, NYC Brian Henry, Brother No One, Salt Publishing H. R. Hegnauer, Sir, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn Bob Hicok, Elegy Owed, Copper Canyon Press Ernest Hilbert, All of You on the Good Earth Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA Nathan Hoks, The Narrow Circle, Penguin, NYC / London Paul Killebrew, Ethical Consciousness, Canarium Books Paul Klinger, Rubble Paper, Paper Rubble, Further Other BookWorks, Austin, Texas Christopher Kondrich, Contrapuntal, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina Aaron Kunin, Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998–2007, Letter Machine Editions Doug Lang, Dérangé, Primary Writing, Washington, D.C. J. Vera Lee, Diary of Use, TinFish, Kane’ohe, HI Paul Legault, The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems, McSweeney's Philip Levine, Sweet Will, Prairie Lights Books Kimberly Lyons, The Practice of Residue, Subpress
Adrian Matejka -The Big Smoke, Penguin Books USA Mary Meriam, Word Hot, Headmistress Press W. S. Merwin, Selected Translations, Copper Canyon Press Jay MillAr, Timely Irreverence, Nightwood Editions Jane Miller, Thunderbird, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA Geoffrey G. O'Brien, People on Sunday, Wave Books, Seattle & New York Lisa Olstein, Little Stranger, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend Rochelle Owens, Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems, 1961 – 2012, Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK George Quasha, Scorned Beauty Comes Up from Behind (preverbs), Between Editions, Barrytown, New York Shin Yu Pai, Aux Arx, La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico Holly Pester, Bark Leather, Veer Books, London Ethel Rackin, The Forever Notes, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina Ray Ragota, A Motive for Disappearance, Burning Deck, Providence Sandra Ridley, The Counting House, BookThug, Toronto Jaime Robles, Hoard, Shearsman, Bristol, UK Jerome Rothenberg, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, edited with Heriberto Yépez, Black Widow Press, Boston Claude Royet-Journoud, Four Elemental Bodies, translated from the French by Keith Waldrop, Burning Deck Press Aidan Semmens, The Book of Isaac, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina Steve Shrader, The Arc of the Day / The Imperfectionist, TinFish, Kane’ohe, HI Ron Silliman, Revelator, BookThug, Toronto, Canada Ed Skoog, Rough Day, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend Sampson Starkweather, The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather, Birds, LLC Ed Steck, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, Sarah Pemberton Strong, Tour of the Breath Gallery, introduction by Robert A Fink, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas Mark Tardi, Airport Music, Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island Habib Tengour, Crossings, Post-Apollo Press, translated by Marilyn Hacker, Sausalito, California Nayyirah Waheed, salt, self-published Alli Warren, Here Come The Warm Jets, City Lights, San Francisco Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Swamp Isthmus, Black Ocean Kirby Wright, The Widow from Lake Bled, Moon Pie Press, Westbrook, Maine Lynn Xu, Debts & Lessons, Omnidawn Publishing David Yezzi, Birds of the Air, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Andrew Zawacki, Videotape, Counterpath, Denver
Anthologies in the United States Lyn Hejinian & Barrett Watten, editors. A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982 – 1998. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut). Includes: Steve Benson, Charles Bernstein, Beverly Dahlen, Alan Davies, Robert Glück, Susan Howe, George Lakoff, Jackson Mac Low, Viktor Shklovsky, Ron Silliman, Kathy Acker, Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Michael Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Carla Harryman, George Hartley, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Nick Robinson, Leslie Scalapino, Peter Seaton, Warren Sonbert, Pierre Alferi, Dodie Bellamy, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Jerry Estrin, Harryette Mullen, Ted Pearson, Andrew Ross, Lorenzo Thomas, Reva Wolf, John Zorn Pierre Joris (Editor), Habib Tengour, editor. Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Glenn O'Brien, editor. The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground, Library of America. Includes: Mezz Mezzerow, Miles Davis, Henry Miller, Babs Gonzales, Art Pepper, Neal Cassady, Delmore Schwartz, Terry Southern, Annie Ross, Lord Buckley, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, LeRoi Jones, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, William S Burroughs, Ishmael Reed, Andy Warhol, Nick Tosches, Hunter S Thompson, Iris Owens, Lester Bangs, Gary Indiana, Richard Prince, Emily XYZ, Eric Bogosian, George Carlin George Quasha & Jerome Rothenberg, (eds.) America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (Station Hill Archive Editions)