Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events Immediately after the September 11 attacks in the United States, W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" was read (with many lines omitted) on National Public Radio and widely circulated and discussed for its relevance to recent events. On September 19, Amiri Baraka read his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey. December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Milton's Paradise Lost at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours."Memorising Milton's Paradise Lost: A study of a septuagenarian exceptional memoriser," Memory, 18:5:498-503, April 22, 2010 , retrieved May 8, 2011 American computer hacker Seth Schoen wrote DeCSS haiku as one of a number of artworks intended to demonstrate that source code should be accorded the privileges of freedom of speech. In The Best American Poetry 2001, poet and guest editor Robert Hass wrote, "There are roughly three traditions in American poetry at this point: a metrical tradition that can be very nervy and that is also basically classical in impulse; a strong central tradition of free verse made out of both romanticism and modernism, split between the impulses of an inward and psychological writing and an outward and realist one, at its best fusing the two; and an experimental tradition that is usually more passionate about form than content, perception than emotion, restless with the conventions of the art, skeptical about the political underpinnings of current practice, and intent on inventing a new one, or at least undermining what seems repressive in the current formed style. [...] At the moment there are poets doing good, bad, and indifferent work in all these ranges." Critic Maureen McLane said of Hass' description that "it's hard to imagine a more judicious account of major tendencies." Hass quoted from his Introduction to The Best American Poetry 2001, by Maureen McLane in "Eclectic collection: A new anthology of American works includes a wide range of forms, styles and themes", a review of the book on page 4 of the Books section of the Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2001, accessed via Newsbank.com Web site, October 13, 2007 The appointment of Billy Collins as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress generated a protest in which Anselm Hollo was elected "anti-laureate" in a contest run by Robert Archambeau (the influential online POETICS list at the University of Buffalo served as the main forum).
Works published in English 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 Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems 1970–2001 Les Murray, Conscious & Verbal, shortlisted for the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize Philip Salom, A Cretive Life. (sic.) (Fremantle Arts Centre) Chris Wallace-Crabbe, By and Large, Manchester: Carcanet; and Sydney; Brandl and Schlesinger
Canada Bruce Andrews, Lip Service (Coach House Books) Louise Bak, Tulpa (Coach House Books) Gary Barwin, Raising Eyebrows (Coach House Books) Christian Bök, Eunoia, winner of the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize (Coach House Books) George Elliott Clarke: Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press, Canada Blue. Vancouver: Polestar, Victor Coleman, Honeymoon Suite/Letter Drop, illustrations by David Bolduc, (Coach House Books) Diane Keating, The Year One: New and Selected Poems Karen MacCormack, At Issue (Coach House Books) Steve McCaffery: Seven Pages Missing Volume 1 (Coach House Books) Seven Pages Missing Volume 2: Selected Ungathered Work (Coach House Books) Roy Miki, Surrender winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry W. Mark Sutherland, Code X (Coach House Books) Sharon Thesen, editor, The New Long Poem Anthology, Burnaby, British Columbia: Talonbooks Daniel Wincenty, Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers (Coach House Books)
India, in English Imtiaz Dharker, I Speak for the Devil ( Poetry in English ), first foreign edition brought out from United Kingdom by Bloodaxe (first India edition: Penguin Books India, 2003)Web page titled "Imtiaz Dharker" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Ranjit Hoskote, The Sleepwalker's Archive ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai: Single FileWeb page titled "Ranjit Hoskote" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 26, 2010 Arundhathi Subramaniam, On Cleaning Bookshelves ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai: Allied Publishers, Web page titled "Arundhathi Subramaniam" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Sudeep Sen, Perpetual Diary, London: Aark ArtsWeb page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, So Many Births: Three Decades of Poetry, Konarak Publishers Pvt Ltd, DelhiWeb page titled "K. Satchidanandan" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
Ireland Pat Boran, As the Hand, the Glove (Dedalus)"Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, IrelandWeb page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008 Tom French (poet), Touching the Bones, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Seamus Heaney, Electric Light, Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968–1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States Aidan Murphy (poet), Looking in at Eden, New Island Books,
New Zealand Alistair Campbell, Maori Battalion: a poetic sequence, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press Allen Curnow, The Bells of Saint Babel's, a winner of the Montana New Zealand Book AwardsAllen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Leigh Davis: The Book of Hours, Auckland: Jack Books General Motors, Auckland: Jack Books Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems 1975–2000, edited by K. O. Arvidson, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, posthumousRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Bill Manhire, Collected Poems Cilla McQueen, Axis, Otago University PressCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Paul Millar, Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter's Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942–1946 Michael O'Leary, He Waiatanui Kia Aroha Hone Tuwhare, Piggyback Moon Ian Wedde, The Commonplace Odes Kate Camp, Realia, Victoria University Press
United Kingdom Eavan Boland, CodeCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Ciarán Carson: The Twelfth of Never, Picador, Wake Forest University Press Kate Clanchy, Slattern Carol Ann Duffy, editor, Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems, Picador (anthology); 36 poets from around the world were each invited to select a love poem written by someone of the opposite sex and appearing opposite the selecting poet's own love poemAmazon.co web page, retrieved May 34, 2009. Archived 2009-05-14. James Fenton: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed, Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Seamus Heaney, Electric Light, Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Geoffrey Hill, Speech! Speech! Selima Huill, Bunny Elizabeth Jennings, Timely Issues Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Penguin Andrew Motion, Here to Eternity Paul Muldoon, Vera of Las Vegas; Irish poet living in the United States and published in the United Kingdom Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador) Craig Raine, Collected Poems 1978–1999 Peter Reading, [untitled] W. G. Sebald For Years Now. Short Books.Published by Short Books London with illustrations by Tess Jaray Jo Shapcott, Tender Taxes Hugo Williams, Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse, (editor) Faber and Faber Benjamin Zephaniah, Too Black, Too Strong
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Stephen Wade, editor, Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s, Liverpool University Press,
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Keith Tuma, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press) Elaine Feinstein, Ted Hughes – The Life of a Poet, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
United States Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream BookWeb page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008 Ralph Angel, Twice Removed (Sarabande) Renée Ashley, The Revisionist's Dream Bei Dao, At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991–1996 (New Directions) Eavan Boland, Against Love Poetry (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Edward Brathwaite, Ancestors, Barbadian poet living in the United States"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Joseph Brodsky: Nativity Poems, translated by Melissa Green; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Maxine Chernoff, World: Poems 1991–2001 (Salt Publications) Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" () W.S. Di Piero, Skirts and Slacks: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Ed Dorn, Chemo Sábe, Limberlost Press (posthumous) Alice Fulton, Felt (Norton); a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001" Seamus Heaney, Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt Paul Hoover, Rehearsal in Black, (Cambridge, England: Salt Publications) James Merrill, Collected Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" W. S. Merwin, The Pupil, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927– )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968–1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States Amos Oz, The Same Sea (Harcourt); a novel about sexual hanky-panky involving a man, son and several women; most of the book is in verse; the author collaborated on the translation by Nicholas de Lange); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Carl Phillips, The TetherMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 James Reiss, Ten Thousand Good Mornings Jay Wright, Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Louisiana State University Press); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Anthologies in the United States Caroline Kennedy, editor, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a hardcover New York Times best seller for 15 weeks late this year and into 2002. Garner, Dwight, "TBR/ Inside the List" column, The New York Times Book Review, January 15, 2006 Michelle Yeh and N. G. D. Malmqvist, Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Columbia University Press