This article presents lists of historical events related to the writing of poetry during 2004. The historical context of events related to the writing of poetry in 2004 are addressed in articles such as History of Poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants. Naming names." Members and visitors contribute information which links judges and prize winners in various poetry contests in attempts to document whether some contests have been rigged. February 16 — Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first ever official national poet, The Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament.ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland. Jang Jin-sung defects from North Korea. Publication of remaining fragments of Sappho's Tithonus poem (6th/7th cent. BCE). Samizdat poetry magazine, founded in 1998, ceases publication. David and Helen Constantine relaunch Modern Poetry in Translation, a British journal focusing on the art of translating poetry. The magazine was founded in 1966 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort.Web page titled "Modern Poetry in Translation" at the website of Poetry Library Southbank Centre, retrieved December 14, 2008
Works published 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 Reading the River: Selected Poems Alison Croggon, November Burning, Vagabond M. T. C. Cronin, Luke Davies, Totem Sarah Day, The Ship, winner of the 2005 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; Blackheath, N.S.W.: Brandl & Schlesinger Noel Rowe, Next to Nothing Dipti Saravanamuttu, The Colosseum Samuel Wagan Watson, Smoke Encrypted Whispers Les Wicks, Stories of the Feet, published by Five Islands
Anthologies in Australia Bean, Joan Marion & Blaney-Murphy, Kelly (eds.), Suburbs of the Mind: A Poetry Anthology, Central Coast Poets Inc. Anthony Lawrence, editor, The Best Australian Poetry 2004, Publisher: UQP Les Murray, editor, The Best Australian Poems 2004, Publisher: Black Inc.
Canada Robert Archambeau, Home and Variations (Salt) Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award, the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2005 Pat Lowther Award, , American-Canadian Jon Paul Fiorentino, Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books) Susan Holbrook, Good Egg Bad Seed Dennis Lee, So cool. Dennis Lee; illustrations by Maryann Kovalski. Toronto : Key Porter."Dennis Lee: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011. Don McKay, Camber, shortlisted for the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) Michael Ondaatje, Vintage Ondaatje, Vintage, Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 Ian Samuels, The Ubiquitous Big (Coach House Books) Mark Truscott, Said Like Reeds or Things (Coach House Books) Julia Williams, The Sink House (Coach House Books)
India, in English Meena Alexander, Raw Silk (Poetry in English), Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Ajeet Cour and Nirupama Dutt, editors, Our Voices: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry, in various languages, with some translations into English; New Delhi: Foundation of SAARC Writers and LiteratureWeb page titled "Nirupama Dutt" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Yellow Hibiscus: New and Selected Poems (Poetry in English), New Delhi: PenguinWeb page titled "Robin Ngangom" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Robin Ngangom, editors, Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast, Shillong: Nehu PublishingDaruwalla, Keki N., "Poetry and the Northeast: Foraging for a destiny", book review, The Hindu, November 7, 2004, retrieved July 15, 2010 Jeet Thayil, English (Poetry in English), Penguin, Delhi and Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004. ; India, Indian poetry in EnglishWeb page titled "Jeet Thayil" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Mamang Dai, River Poems (Poetry in English), Kolkata: Writers WorkshopWeb page titled "Mamang Dai" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
Ireland Sebastian Barry, The Pinkening Boy: New Poems New Island New Poetry, Dermot Bolger, The Chosen Moment Ciarán Carson: The Midnight Court, (translation of Brian Merriman's Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche Gallery Press, 2005; Wake Forest University Press Peter Fallon, translator, The Georgics of Virgil, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Vona Groarke, Flight and Earlier Poems, Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S. Michael D. Higgins, An Arid Season William Wall, Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me, Dedalus Press, Dublin
New Zealand Diane Brown, Learning to Lie Together, Godwit Paula Green, Crosswind, Auckland University Press Mark Pirie, Ron Riddell and Saray Torres, editors, The 2nd Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology, Wellington: HeadworXWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale, Writers Group Tusiata Avia, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, Victoria University Press
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Robin Dudding for Best New Zealand Poems 2003, published online this year:
David Beach Peter Bland Jenny Bornholdt Kate Camp Gordon Challis Geoff Cochrane Fiona Farrell Cliff Fell Sia Figiel Rhian Gallagher Robin Hyde Kevin Ireland Anna Jackson Anne Kennedy Graham Lindsay Anna Livesey Karlo Mila James Norcliffe Gregory O'Brien Bob Orr Chris Price Sarah Quigley Elizabeth Smither Brian Turner Richard von Sturmer
United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy, New Selected Poems PicadorO’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. Paul Henry, The Breath of Sleeping Boys & other poems, Carreg Gwalch Muriel Spark, All the Poems
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy: Out of Fashion: An Anthology of Poems, editor (contemporary poets select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, in connection with clothing), Faber and Faber Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems (editor) (30 contemporary poets selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside one of their own poems; including contemporary poems by Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, and Wendy Cope, as well as classic poets such as Robert Burns, John Betjeman and Edward Lear) Macmillan Don Paterson and Charles Simic, editors, New British Poetry
United States Kim Addonizio, What is this Thing Called Love (Norton) Meena Alexander, Raw Silk, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States John Ash, To the City (Talisman), Wendell Berry, Given: Poems (Shoemaker & Hoard) Sophie Cabot Black, The Descent: poetry (Graywolf Press), Charles Bukowski, Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems (Ecco) Tina Chang, Half-Lit Houses, Four Way Books Billy Corgan, Blinking with Fists, Faber and Faber Rita Dove, American Smooth: Poems (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Claudia Emerson, Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press) Alice Fulton, Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (Norton) Sarah Gambito, Matadora (Alice James Book), Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (Alfred A. Knopf) Vona Groarke, Flight and Earlier Poems, Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S. Beth Gylys, Spot in the Dark (Ohio State University Press), winner of The OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry Lee Harwood, Collected Poems Allison Hedge Coke – Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (memoir of poet's life) Fanny Howe, On the Ground Donald Justice, Collected Poems (Knopf); published posthumously; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Jane Kenyon, Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems (Graywolf Press), posthumous Ted Kooser, Flying At Night: Poems 1965–1985 (University of Pittsburgh Press) W. S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) Present Company Mirabai, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems translated into English by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield Eugenio Montale, Selected Poems, translated by Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, and David Young from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems, volume two Why I Wake Early: New Poems Blue Iris: Poems and Essays Long Life: Essays and Other Writings Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Kay Ryan, The Niagara River (Grove Press) Michael Ryan, New And Selected Poems Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Tony Tost, Invisible Bride (LSU) (selected by C.D. Wright for the 2003 Walt Whitman Award) Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight (New Directions) Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Knopf) (Pulitzer Prize in Poetry) Jesse Lee Kercheval, Dog Angel
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman, editors, Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, essays (Coffee House Press)
Anthologies in the United States Mary Ann Caws, editor, Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, (Yale University Press), Apollinaire and more than 100 other poets, bi-lingual
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2004 The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2004, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Lyn Hejinian:
Kim Addonizio Will Alexander Bruce Andrews Rae Armantrout Craig Arnold John Ashbery Mary Jo Bang Alan Bernheimer Charles Bernstein Anselm Berrigan Mark Bibbins Oni Buchanan Michael Burkard Anne Carson T.J. Clark Billy Collins Jack Collom Michael Costello Michael Davidson Olena Kalytiak Davis Jean Day Rita Dove Rachel Blau DuPlessis kari edwards Kenward Elmslie Aaron Fogel Ariel Greenberg Ted Greenwald Barbara Guest Carla Harryman Jane Hirshfield John Hollander Fanny Howe Kenneth Irby Major Jackson Marc Jaffee Kenneth Koch John Koethe Yusef Komunyakaa Sean Manzano Labrador Ann Lauterbach Nathaniel Mackey Harry Mathews Steve McCaffery K. Silem Mohammad Erín Moure Paul Muldoon Eileen Myles Alice Notley Jeni Olin Danielle Pafunda Heidi Peppermint Bob Perelman Carl Phillips Robert Pinsky Carl Rakosi Ed Roberson Kit Robinson Carly Sachs Jennifer Scappettone Frederick Seidel David Shapiro Ron Silliman Bruce Smith Brian Kim Stefans Gerald Stern Virgil Suarez Arthur Sze James Tate Edwin Torres Rodrigo Toscano Paul Violi David Wagoner Charles Wright
Elsewhere Stratis Haviaras translator into English from the original Modern Greek, C.P. Cavafy, The Canon, (Athens: Hermes Publishing; reprinted by Harvard University Press in 2007), published in Greece
Works published in other languages
French language
France Seyhmus Dagtekin, La langue mordue, Publisher: Le Castor Astral; Turkish poet writing in and published in French Linda Maria Baros, Le Livre de signes et d’ombres, Publisher: Éditions Cheyne Jean Max Tixier: Editor, La Poésie française contemporaine, anthology, publisher: Cogito Editor, Joyaux au sud / Juvaere din sud, traduit du roumain, anthology, publisher: Cogito Le temps des mots, publisher: Pluie d'étoiles éditions
Canada, in French