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 •
Alison Croggon,
Attempts at Being, Salt Publishing, . •
Robert Gray,
Afterimages •
Emma Lew,
Anything the Landlord Touches, won the
2003 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and was short-listed for the
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry that same year •
Chris Mansell: •
Stalking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002) •
Fickle Brat (IP Digital, Brisbane, 2002) •
Les Murray: •
Poems the Size of Photographs, Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet •
New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003 •
Joe Rosenblatt,
Parrot fever. collages by Michel Christensen. Toronto: Exile. •
Raymond Souster,
Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
India, in English •
Meena Alexander,
Illiterate Heart ( Poetry in English ), Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing, living, and publishing in the
United States •
Smita Agarwal,
Wish-granting Words,(Poetry in English) New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002. •
Sujata Bhatt,
A Colour for Solitude ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet Press •
Keki Daruwalla,
The Map-maker ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal •
Ranjit Hoskote, editor,
Reasons for Belonging, Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets ( Poetry in English ),
New Delhi: Viking/Penguin Books India; anthology including work from:
Jerry Pinto,
Vijay Nambisan,
C. P. Surendran,
Smita Agarwal,
Arundhati Subramaniam,
Jeet Thayil,
Tabish Khair,
Ranjit Hoskote and
Rukhmini Bhaya Nair,
Vivek Narayanan,
Gavin Barrett,
Anjum Hasan and
H. Masud Taj •
Sudeep Sen,
Monsoon, re-issued in 2005 as
Rain ( Poetry in English );
London: Aark Arts, •
C. P. Surendran,
Canaries on the Moon ( Poetry in English ), Kozhikode: Yeti,
Chennai. •
Mallika Sengupta,
Carriers Of Fire, (translated from the original
Bengali,
Kolkata: Bhashanagar
Ireland •
Vona Groarke,
Flight, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Ireland •
Justin Quinn: •
Fuselage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, •
Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism)
New Zealand •
James K. Baxter, ''The Tree House: James K. Baxter's Poems for Children'' (posthumous), the first illustrated edition of his work for children •
Janet Charman,
Snowing Down South, Auckland: Auckland University Press •
Alan Brunton,
Fq, a sequence of 144 poems (posthumous) •
Cilla McQueen,
Soundings, Otago University Press •
Mike Minehan,
O Jerusalem: James K. Baxter an Intimate Memoir •
Kendrick Smithyman, posthumous: •
Last Poems, Auckland: Holloway Press, designed by Tara hir poi a pek fhj nbb a: Auckland University Press •
Stephanie de Montalk,
The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang, Victoria University Press •
Kay McKenzie Cooke,
Feeding the Dogs, Otago University Press)
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Best New Zealand Poems series, an annual online anthology, is started this year with
Iain Sharp as the first annual editor. Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year. The first selection is called
Best New Zealand Poetry 2001. Unlike
The Best American Poetry series, the year named in each edition refers to the year the poems were originally published, not the following year, when the collection is put together and made public. Sharp chose poems published in 2001 from these poets: •
James K. Baxter •
Jenny Bornholdt •
Bernard Brown •
James Brown •
Alan Brunton •
Kate Camp •
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell •
Allen Curnow •
Leigh Davis •
Chloe Gordon •
Bernadette Hall •
Dinah Hawken •
Anna Jackson •
Jan Kemp (writer) •
James Naughton •
Gregory O'Brien •
Peter Olds •
Bob Orr •
Vincent O'Sullivan •
Chris Price •
Richard Reeve •
Elizabeth Smither •
Brian Turner •
Ian Wedde •
Nick Williamson United Kingdom •
Neil Astley, editor,
Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (anthology) •
Anthony Burgess,
Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems, edited by
Kevin Jackson •
Ciarán Carson:
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (translator), Granta, awarded the
Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize •
Carol Ann Duffy,
Feminine Gospels Picador •
Elaine Feinstein,
Collected Poems and Translations, Carcanet •
James Fenton:
An Introduction to English Poetry •
Paul Henry,
The Slipped Leash, Seren •
Ted Hughes,
Selected Poems, 1957–1994 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a
New York Times "notable book of the year" •
Glyn Maxwell,
The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); a
New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of
The New Republic magazine) •
Sean O'Brien: •
Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 (Picador) • With
John Kinsella and
Peter Porter,
Rivers (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia) •
Alice Oswald: •
Dart, Faber and Faber, • Co-editor, with
Peter Oswald and
Robert Woof), ''Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of
Wordsworth's "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge"''
Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, •
John Heath-Stubbs,
The Return of the Cranes •
Peter Redgrove,
From the Virgil Caverns •
R.S. Thomas,
Residues (posthumous) •
Hugo Williams,
Collected Poems, Faber and Faber
United States •
Meena Alexander,
Illiterate Heart, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an
Indian writing living in and published in the
United States •
Paul Hoover,
Winter Mirror, (Flood Editions) •
Kenneth Koch: •
Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954, New York: Knopf •
A Possible World, New York: Knopf •
Marie Ponsot,
Springing: New and Selected Poems (Knopf); a
New York Times "notable book of the year" •
Claudia Rankine and
Juliana Spahr, editors,
American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, Wesleyan University Press, , anthology including work by
Lucie Brock-Broido,
Harryette Mullen,
Ann Lauterbach,
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,
Brenda Hillman and
Jorie Graham •
Margaret Reynolds, editor,
The Sappho Companion (scholarship) Palgrave Macmillan, •
W. G. Sebald,
After Nature (Random House); a book-length poem; a
New York Times "notable book of the year" •
Aharon Shabtai,
Artzenu (Hebrew: "Our Land") •
Adam Zagajewski,
Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a
New York Times "notable book of the year"
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2002 Poems from these 75 poets were in
The Best American Poetry 2002,
David Lehman, editor;
Robert Creeley, guest editor: •
Rae Armantrout •
John Ashbery •
Amiri Baraka •
Charles Bernstein •
Anselm Berrigan •
Frank Bidart •
Jenny Boully •
T. Alan Broughton •
Michael Burkard •
Anne Carson •
Elizabeth Biller Chapman •
Tom Clark •
Peter Cooley •
Clark Coolidge •
Ruth Danon •
Diane di Prima •
Theodore Enslin •
Elaine Equi •
Clayton Eshleman •
Norman Finkelstein •
Jeffrey Franklin •
Benjamin Friedlander •
Gene Frumkin •
Forrest Gander •
Peter Gizzi •
Louise Glück •
Albert Goldbarth •
Donald Hall •
Michael S. Harper •
Everett Hoagland •
Fanny Howe •
Ronald Johnson •
Maxine Kumin •
Bill Kushner •
Joseph Lease •
Timothy Liu •
Mộng-Lan •
Jackson Mac Low •
Nathaniel Mackey •
Steve Malmude •
Sarah Manguso •
Harry Mathews •
Duncan McNaughton •
W. S. Merwin •
Philip Metres •
Jennifer Moxley •
Eileen Myles •
Maggie Nelson •
Charles North •
Alice Notley •
D. Nurkse •
Sharon Olds •
George Oppen •
Jena Osman •
Carl Phillips •
Pam Rehm •
Adrienne Rich •
Corinne Robins •
Elizabeth Robinson •
Ira Sadoff •
Hugh Seidman •
Reginald Shepherd •
Ron Silliman •
Dale Smith •
Gustaf Sobin •
Juliana Spahr •
John Taggart •
Sam Truitt •
Jean Valentine •
Lewis Warsh •
Claire Nicolas White •
Nathan Whiting •
Dara Wier •
Charles Wright •
John Yau ==Works published in other languages==