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Events January – Five fragments of nine poems, some previously unknown, by Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus, including the Brothers Poem. This news is being reported by multiple news sources by the end of the month. January 7 – Michel Pleau is named Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (or Canada's new poet laureate), beginning a two-year mandate to "draw Canadians’ attention to the reading and writing of poetry." January 29 – Hashem Shabani, an Arab–Iranian poet, was executed by hanging in an unidentified Iranian prison after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani approved the sentences. March 7 – For the first time ever, all five poets laureate of the British Isles are women and for the first time all five perform together at the Women of the World festival in London on the eve of International Women's Day. The poets are: Carol Ann Duffy (England), Liz Lochhead (Scotland), Gillian Clarke (Wales), Paula Meehan (Ireland), and Sinéad Morrissey (Northern Ireland). March 19 – PEN International comes out with an action appeal protesting the two-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian poet Omar Hazek. PEN states that this poet has been "imprisoned for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and assembly." Hazek, who has won several poetry awards and is a former employee of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has been held in custody since early December 2013. April 22 – The Writers' Trust of Canada announces the new Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, a new Canadian literary award to honour the body of work of a Canadian poet who has published at least three volumes of poetry."New prize to award $25,000 annually to Canadian poets" . National Post, April 22, 2014. The award is slated to be presented for the first time in November. May 22 – The translation of Beowulf by J. R. R. Tolkien, which he had first completed in 1926, is published in England (after nearly 90 years) as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (his essay "On Translating Beowulf had been published in 1940). June 12 – The Library of Congress selects Charles Wright as the new United States Poet Laureate, succeeding Natasha Trethewey. August 22 – New Zealand celebrates its own National Poetry Day, now in its 17th year, with more than 60 events held around the country. Included among the various readings and contests are events sponsoring the current New Zealand Poet Laureate, Vincent O’Sullivan, who reads poetry in Dunedin, and 2007–2009 Poet Laureate, Michele Leggott, who MCs the annual Auckland Library event.
Anniversaries January 28 – On this day 75 years ago, W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France. February 21 – Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday). March 9 – On this day 20 years ago, Charles Bukowski died (1994). March 31 – On this day 100 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz was born (1914). April 23 – It is assumed that William Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on April 26). May – The 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. September 4 – On this day 100 years ago, French poet and essayist Charles Péguy, 41 (born 1873) was killed in action near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, in the early months of World War I October 10 – On this day 100 years ago, German poet Ernst Stadler, 31 (born 1883) was killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres. – On this day 200 years ago Mikhail Lermontov was born; he is sometimes referred to as "Russia's second-greatest poet." October 25 – On this day 100 years ago, American poet John Berryman (given name:John Allyn Smith) was born. October 27 – On this day 100 years ago, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea. October 30 – On this day 100 years ago, American poet and publisher James Laughlin, founder of New Directions Publishers, was born. November 3 – On this day 100 years ago, Austrian poet Georg Trakl, 27, committed suicide.
Works published in English
Australia
Benedict Andrews. Lens Flare. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Louis Armand. Indirect Objects. Sydney: Vagabond Press Judith Beveridge. Devadatta's Poems. Artarmon: Giramondo Publishing Company a.j. carruthers. AXIS Book 1: Areal. Tokyo: Vagabond Press Paul Carter. Ecstacies and Elegies. Perth: UWAP Melinda Bufton. Girlery. Hobart: Inken Publisch Nandi Chinna. Swamp. Fremantle: Fremantle Press Eileen Chong. Peony. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Dan Disney. Mannequin’s Guide to Utopias. Macau: ASM, Benjamin Dodds. Regulator. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann Laurie Duggan. Allotments. Bristol: Shearsman Books Anne Elvey. Kin. Parkville: Five Islands Press Geoff Goodfellow. Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze. Kent Town: Wakefield Press Libby Hart. Wild. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas, editors. Antigone Kefala: a writer’s journey. Brighton: Owl Publishing Jacinta Le Plastrier. The Book of Skins. St Kilda: John Leonard Press Alan Loney. eMailing flowers to Mondrian. Malvern East: Hawk Press Kent MacCarter. Sputnik’s Cousin. Yarraville: Transit Lounge Publishing John Mateer. Emptiness: Asian Poems, 1998 – 2012. Fremantle: Fremantle Press Page, Geoff (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2014, Black Inc. Paul Scully. An Existential Grammar. North Hobart: Walleah Press Marie Slaight & Terrence Tasker. The Antigone Poems. Potts Point: Altaire Publications Maria Takolander. The End of the World. Artarmon: Giramondo Publishing Company Tim Thorne. The Unspeak Poems and Other Verses. North Hobart: Walleah Press Ann Vickery & John Hawke, editors. Poetry and The Trace. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann Chris Wallace-Crabbe. My Feet Are Hungry. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry Lucy Williams. Internal Weather. North Hobart: Walleah Press
Canada Joanne Arnott – Halfling Spring John Barton – Polari Shane Book – Congotronic Christopher Levenson – Night Vision Garth Martens – Prologue for the Age of Consequence Arleen Paré – Lake of Two Mountains
Anthologies in Canada Why Poetry Sucks: Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry, Jonathan Ball & Ryan Fitzpatrick, editors. (Insomniac Press) Under the Mulberry Tree: poems for & about Raymond Souster, James Deahl, editor. (Quattro Books)
India Ranjit Hoskote, Central Time, Penguin India,
New Zealand Airini Beautrais, Dear Neil Roberts, Victoria University Press Kay McKenzie Cooke, Born to a Red-Headed Woman, Otago University Press Chris Tse, How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Auckland University Press
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Mark Williams and Jane Stafford for Best New Zealand Poems 2013, published online this year:
Fleur Adcock Hinemoana Baker Sarah Broom Amy Brown Kate Camp Mary-Jane Duffy Murray Edmond Johanna Emeney Cliff Fell Bernadette Hall Dinah Hawken Caoilinn Hughes Anna Jackson Anne Kennedy Michele Leggott Therese Lloyd Selina Tusitala Marsh John Newton Gregory O'Brien Rachel O'Neill (poet) Vincent O'Sullivan Elizabeth Smither Chris Tse Ian Wedde Ashleigh Young
United Kingdom
England Liz Berry, Black Country (Chatto) Colette Bryce, The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (Picador; Northern Ireland poet in England) John Burnside, All One Breath (Cape) Yrsa Daley-Ward, Bone Lavinia Greenlaw, A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (Faber) Selima Hill, The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism (Bloodaxe Books) Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet; Jamaican poet in England) Joss Sheldon, Involution & Evolution: A rhyming anti-war novel Rosemary Tonks (died April 15), Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books) Hugo Williams, I Knew the Bride (Faber)
Ireland Harry Clifton, The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974–2004 (BloodAxe Books)
Scotland Stewart Conn, The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems (BloodAxe Books)
Wales Jonathan Edwards, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren)
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Ten: the new wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (BloodAxe) – new poetry voices in Britain including Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Adam Lowe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Laura Jansen – The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers. (Cambridge University Press)
United States
James Baldwin, Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (Beacon Press) Jared Carter, Darkened Rooms of Summer, (University of Nebraska Press) Kendra DeColo, Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books) Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Endarkment: Selected Poems, edited by Eugene Ostashevsky, translated by Lyn Hejinian, Genya Turovskaya, Eugene Ostashevsky, Bela Shayevich, Jacob Edmund & Elena Balashova (Wesleyan University) Tarfia Faizullah, Seam (So. Illinois Univ. Press) Lizzie Harris, STOP WANTING (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) Matthea Harvey, If The Tabloids Are True, What Are You? (Graywolf Press) Chloe Honum, The Tulip-Flame (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press) Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press) Keetje Kuipers, The Keys to the Jail (BOA Editions) Cathy Linh Che, Split (Alice james Books) Sally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books) Michael Mlekoday, The Dead Eat Everything (Kent State University Press) Eugenia Leigh, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books) D. A. Powell, Repast (Graywolf Press) George Quasha, Speaking Animate (preverbs) (Between Editions) Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press) Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Nicholas Samaras, "American Psalm, World Psalm" (Ashland Poetry Press) Danez Smith, [insert] Boy (YesYes Books) Ron Silliman – Northern Soul, (Shearsman) R. A. Villanueva, Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press) Caki Wilkinson, The Wynona Stone Poems (Persea Press) Jake Adam York, Abide (So. Illinois Univ. Press) Kevin Young – Book of Hours, (Knopf)
Anthologies in the United States David Biespiel, editor. Poems of the American South (Random House) Carolyn Forché & Duncan Wu, editors. Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500–2001 (W. W. Norton)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Drury – Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert. (University of Chicago Press) Tom Hawkins – Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press) Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry (Counterpath Press)
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2014
Works published in other languages
French
German Antony Theodore, Gottliche Augenblicke : Eine Reise durch das Jahr,
Awards and honors by country
Awards announced this year:
International Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate: to Ko Un (South Korea)
Australia awards and honors C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fiona Hile, Novelties Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Melinda Smith, Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call
Canada awards and honors Archibald Lampman Award: David O'Meara, A Pretty Sight Atlantic Poetry Prize: Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper 2014 Governor General's Awards: Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (English); José Acquelin, Anarchie de la lumière (French)"Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014. Griffin Poetry Prize: Canada: Anne Carson, Red Doc>Griffin Poetry Prize | Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire Brenda Hillman and Red Doc> Anne Carson Win the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize International: Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Adelia Prado Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Ken Babstock"Miriam Toews wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, November 4, 2014.