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at a Virginia Tech rally • March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. Named after the famed 10th century classical Arab poet, Al-Mutanabbi, it was an established street for bookselling for hundreds of years and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. On March 8, to remember the tragic event, Baghdad poets presented readings on the remains of the street. This was followed by various poetry readings around the United States commemorating the bombing of the historic center of the literary and intellectual community of Baghdad, many of the readings took place in the final weeks of August 2007. • April 17: Nikki Giovanni, a professor of English at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US state of Virginia, both spoke and recited poetry at the campus convocation commemorating the Virginia Tech massacre of the day before. Giovanni taught the Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho in a poetry class. She had previously approached the department chair to have Cho taken out of her class. "We are the Hokies! We will prevail! We will prevail! We are Virginia Tech!" Giovanni said, bringing the audience to its feet and into a spontaneous cheer. Giovanni closed the ceremony with a chant poem, intoning, "We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech... We do not understand this tragedy... No one deserves a tragedy." The attackers consisted of lawmakers and members of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party who objected to her writings on religion and oppression of women. After the attack, India criminally charged Nasreen with "hurting Muslim feelings", punishable by up to three years in jail. • The New Yorker magazine announced that longtime poetry editor Alice Quinn was leaving and, as of November, Paul Muldoon, an Irish native and U.S. citizen, would be taking over what The Chronicle of Higher Education called "one of the most powerful positions in American poetry". • Scottish poet Alastair Reid read his poem "Scotland" publicly for the last time at a literary festival in St Andrews, then burned the manuscript. • The Eagles set "An Old-Fashioned Song", a poem by John Hollander, to music (four-part harmony with guitar chords, but mostly singing it a cappella), named it "No More Walks in the Wood" after its first line. They released it on the album, "Long Road Out of Eden". The band added no words to the 21-line poem, and there are no choruses. • In Russia, the expert board for the Bunin Prize for poetry dissolved itself amid reports of interference and pressure from sponsors. A new expert board was formed and the jury awarded the prize to Andrei Dementyev. • Reality television contest Prince of Poets is launched in the United Arab Emirates. ==Works published in English==
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: AustraliaJudith Bishop, EventDavid Brooks, Urban Elegies. Sydney: Island Press (Australia)Brook Emery, Uncommon Light, Five Islands Press. • Lisa Gorton, Press ReleaseKathryn Lomer, Two Kinds of Silence, University of Queensland Press, • David Malouf, Typewriter Music, winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award • Les Murray, Selected Poems (Black Inc.) • Dorothy Porter, El DoradoPeter Skrznecki, Old/New World, University of Queensland Press, • Rob Walker, "phobiaphobia" (Picaro Press) • Petra White, The Incoming Tide Australian anthologiesPretty, Ron (ed.), The Road South: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, Kolkota, India: Bengal Creations, 2007. • Peter Rose, The Best Australian Poems 2007, Black Inc., Poets in Best Australian Poetry 2007 The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (), by series editors Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell; with 2007 guest editor John Tranter (University of Queensland Press), published work by these 40 poets: • Robert AdamsonJudith BishopPam BrownJoanne BurnsGrant CaldwellChris EdwardsMichael FarrellBarbara FisherDennis FoleyAlison GerberJennifer HarrisonDominique HecqMatt HetheringtonCharles HighamClive JamesMary JenkinsJill JonesS. K. KelenCath KenneallyJohn KinsellaCameron LoweDavid McCooeyJennifer MaidenGraeme Miles • John Millett • Pooja MittalReg MombassaLes MurrayLouise NicholasOuyang YuGeoff PageMegan PetrieCraig PowellMichael RileyPeter RoseBrendan RyanTracy RyanMichael SharkeyChris Wallace-CrabbeDennis Wild CanadaJoanne Arnott, Mother TimeDavid McGimpsey, Sitcom (Coach House Books) • George McWhirter, The IncorrectionGarry Thomas Morse, StreamsErín Moure, O CadoiroDilip Sankarreddy, Wanderings with Poetry, Peacock Books, IndiaC. P. Surendran, Portraits of the Space We Occupy (Poetry in English), New Delhi: Harper Collins, IndiaTapan Kumar Pradhan, Kalahandi, New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi Anthologies in IndiaJeet Thayil : 60 Indian Poets : 1952-2007, New Delhi : Penguin India IrelandPat Boran, New and Selected Poems Dedalus Press, Ireland • Patrick Cotter general editor, Colm Breathnach and Maurice Riordan 2007 editors, The Best of Irish Poetry 2007 designed to be the first of an annual series. • Paul Durcan, The Laughter of Mothers, (Harvill Secker) • Peter Fallon, The Company of Horses, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, • Thomas McCarthy and Bríd Ní Bhóráin, editors, Best of Irish Poetry 2008, selections from 50 Irish poets published over a 12-month period, including Ciaran Carson, Harry Clifton, Kerry Hardie, Seamus Heaney, Biddy Jenkinson, Thomas Kinsella, Medbh McGuckian, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Bernard O'Donoghue, Robert Nye, Dennis O'Driscoll, Leanne O'Sullivan, Maurice Riordan, Billy Ramsell, David Wheatley, Liam Ó Muirthile, Celia de Fréine, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, William Wall, published October 2007 (Southword Editions) (anthology) • Maurice Riordan, The Holy Land London: Faber and Faber, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom New ZealandJanet Charman, Cold Snack, Auckland: Auckland University Press • Andrew Johnston, SolMichele Leggott, Journey to Portugal (Holloway Press) a collection of poems written during a 2004 trip to Portugal and inspired by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's great Modernist poet. Illustrated by Gretchen Albrecht. • Paula Green, Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins, Auckland University Press • Kay McKenzie Cooke, Made for Weather: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke, Otago University Press • Jessica Le Bas, Incognito, Auckland University Press Poets in Best New Zealand Poems These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2006, published this year: • Hinemoana BakerCherie BarfordJenny BornholdtJames BrownAlistair Te Ariki CampbellGeoff CochraneMurray EdmondDavid EggletonCliff FellBrian FlahertyPaula GreenBernadette HallAnna JacksonAndrew JohnstonMichele LeggottSelina Tusitala MarshKarlo MilaGregory O'BrienBrian PotikiChris PriceElizabeth SmitherC. K. SteadJC SturmRichard von SturmerAlison Wong United Kingdom at the Spectrum XXI festival in Paris, 2007 • Simon Armitage, translator, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation, Faber and FaberW. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library) (Anglo-American poet), posthumous • Dale Craske Remedy The Remedy With New Improved Remedy, Faber • Carol Ann Duffy: • Editor, Answering Back, Picador (anthology) • The Hat, Faber and Faber (children's poetry) • Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark (Picador), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize • Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves (Gallery), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeSophie Hannah, Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeSeamus Heaney: Something to Write Home About, Nicholson and Bass • Paul Henry, ''Ingrid's Husband'', Seren • Mimi Khalvati, The Meanest Flower (Carcanet), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeNick Laird, On Purpose (Faber & Faber) • Frances Leviston, Public Dream (Picador), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeSarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeEdwin Morgan, A Book of Lives (Carcanet), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeDaljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, Faber and Faber • Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book, Picador, winner of the T. S. Eliot PrizeMichael O'Neill, The All Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, Irish and American Poetry Since 1900 (scholarship) • Iona Opie, editor, ''Mother Goose's Little Treasures'', a collection of nursery rhymesMaurice Riordan, The Holy Land London: Faber and Faber, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom • Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer (Carcanet), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot PrizeZoë Skoulding, Dark Wires (with Ian Davidson) • Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon (Jonathan Cape), on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize United StatesRae Armantrout, Next Life (Wesleyan University Press), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", 92 pages, • John Ash, The Parthian Stations (Carcanet), • John Ashbery: • A Worldly Country: New Poems Ecco/HarperCollins, • Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN • W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library) (Anglo-American poet), posthumous • Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, Graywolf, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • Roger Bonair-Agard, Tarnish and Masquerade (Cypher Books, Rattapallax Press) • Yosa Buson (1716–1783), Haiku Master Buson, translated from the Japanese by Edith Shiffert and (posthumous) Yuki Sawa, University of Washington Press, ; claimed by the publisher to be "the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English" • Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets, Counterpath Press • Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned, edited by John Martin, Ecco/HarperCollins • Kelly Cherry, Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press), • Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • Jim Daniels, Now Showing (Ahadada Books) • Edward Dorn: • Way More West, edited by Michael Rothenberg, Penguin Books (posthumous) • Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes, edited by Joseph Richey, University of Michigan Press (posthumous), criticism • Mark Doty, Dog Years (HarperCollins) • Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union, (University of Massachusetts Press, Juniper Prize for Poetry) • Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites, Tupelo Press • Aaron Fagan, Garage (Salt Publishing) • Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft, foreword by Louise Glück (Yale UP) • Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger, Flood Editions • Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes: Poems, William Morrow • Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007, Graywolf • Noah Eli Gordon, Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins • Mildred White Greear, Moving Gone Dancing (Fall Line Arts Press), • Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin) • Paul Guest, Notes For My Body Double, University of Nebraska–LincolnBeth Gylys, Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press), later set to music by Dan WelcherForrest Hamer, Rift (Four Way Books) • Matthea Harvey, Modern Life, Graywolf, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005 (Ecco/Harper-Collins), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • Christian Hawkey, Citizen Of, Wave Books • Brian Henry, The Stripping Point, Counterpath Press • Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems: 1956–1998 (Ecco), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • Bob Hicok, This Clumsy Living, Pittsburgh University Press • Anselm Hollo, Guests of Space, Coffee House • Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press • Susan Howe, Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions) • Eugen Jebeleanu, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, translated from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder, (Coffee House) • Pierre Joris, Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Halla, 1 – 21, (Anchorite Press, Albany, NY) • James Browning Kepple, Kim Göransson, Couplet (pretend genius [press]) • Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California PressX. J. Kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems 1955–2007, Johns Hopkins University Press • Karl Kirchwey, The Happiness of This WorldYusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia, Gilgamesh: A Verse Play, Wesleyan University Press • Hiram Larew, More Than Anything (VRZHU Press) • James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter (Spring) • Martial, Martial: The World of the Epigram, translated by William Fitzgerald, University of Chicago Press (posthumous) • Michael Meyerhofer Leaving Iowa (Briery Creek Press) • William Michaelian: • Another Song I Know (Cosmopsis Books) • Winter Poems (Cosmopsis Books), • Jennifer Moxley The Line (The Post-Apollo Press) • Ann E. Mullaney, translator, Teofilo Folengo (1491–1544), Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII, translated from a blend of Latin and various Italian dialects (Harvard University Press), posthumous • Laura Mullen, Murmur, Futurepoem Books • Kate Northrup, Things Are Disappearing Here: Poems Braziller/Persea • Alice Notley In the Pines (Penguin Books) • Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • George Oppen, Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers (edited by Stephen Cope), University of California Press, 2007 (publication was 2007, but not available until 2008) • Terry Philips, Oulipoems (Ahadada Books) • Carl Phillips, Quiver of Arrows: Selected poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux) • Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Robert Pinsky, Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), • J. E. Pitts The Weather of Dreams (David Robert Books) • Meghan O'Rourke, Halflife (Norton) • Bin Ramke, Tendril, Omnidawn • Donald Revell, A Thief of Strings, Alice James Books • Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment (Norton) • Kim Roberts, The Kimnama (VRZHU Press) • Martha Ronk, Vertigo, Coffee House Press • J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again, (Fall) Ivan R. Dee • Jerome Rothenberg, China Notes & The Treasures of DunHuang (Ahadada Books) • Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Leslie Scalapino, ''Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999–2006'' (Green Integer) • Grace Schulman, The Broken StringW. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions • David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965–2006 (Overlook Press) • Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts (complete) (UC Press) • Tom Sleigh, Space WalkCathy Song, Cloud Moving Hands, University of Pittsburgh PressRod Smith, Deed (Iowa UP) • Gary Soto, A Simple PlanMark Strand, New Selected Poems, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States • Cole Swensen, The Glass Age, Alice James Books • Tony Tost, Complex Sleep (Iowa UP) • David Trinidad, The Late Show: Poems Turtle Point • Nance Van Winckel, No Starling, University of Washington Press, • Derek Walcott, Selected Poems, edited by Edward Baugh (Faber), one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • G. C. Waldrep, Disclamor, BOA Editions • Philip Whalen, The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, Wesleyan University Press • John Wieners, A Book of Prophecies (Bootstrap Press • C. D. Wright, One Big Self: An Investigation, a book-length poem, Copper Canyon • C. Dale Young, The Second Person (Four Way Books) • Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead, (Knopf) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United StatesEdward Dorn, Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (University of Michigan Press) • Robert Faggen, editor, The Notebooks of Robert Frost, Harvard University PressSam Hamill, Avocations: On Poets and Poetry, Red Hen • James Longenbach, The Art of the Poetic Line, Graywolf Press, • Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, about Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas (Yale University Press), biography • Karen Marguerite Moloney, Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope, • A. David Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet I: The Young Genius 1885–1920Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment: An EssayMark Scroggins, The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky Anthologies in the United StatesAllison Hedge Coke, editor – To Topos/Oregon State University Ahani: Indigenous American PoetryJulia Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell, editors, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, anthology (New York University) • David Lehman, general editor, Heather McHugh, 2007 editor, The Best American Poetry 2007 Scribner • Kei Miller, New Caribbean Poetry, including poems by Christian Campbell, Loretta Collins, Delores Gauntlett, Shara McCallum, Marilene Phipps, Jennifer Rahim, Tanya Shirley, and Ian Strachan; Carcanet • Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, editors, American Poets in the 21st century: The New Poetics, featuring the work of 13 poets: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young; accompanied by an audio CD of readings from each poet; Wesleyan University Press, • Daniel Tobin, editor, The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, University of Notre Dame Press • Natasha Trethewey, editor, Jeb Livingood, series editor, Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Samovar Press) Poets in The Best American Poetry 2007 These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, with David Lehman, general editor, and Heather McHugh, guest editor (who selected the poetry) (Scribner ): • Kazim AliJeannette AlleeRae ArmantroutMary Jo BangNicky BeerMarvin BellChristian BökLouis E. BourgeoisGeoffrey BrockMatthew ByrneMacGregor CardJulie CarrMichael CollierBilly CollinsRobert CreeleyMike DockinsSharon DolinDenise DuhamelStephen DunnRussell EdsonElaine EquiLandis EversonThomas FinkHelen Ransom FormanLouise GlückAlbert GoldbarthDonald HallMark HallidayForrest HamerMatthea HarveyRobert HassJane HirshfieldDaniel JohnsonRichard KenneyMilton KesslerGalway KinnellDavid KirbyJulie LariosBrad LeithauserBen LernerJoanie MackowskiAmit MajmudarSabrina Orah MarkCampbell McGrathLeslie Adrienne MillerMarilyn NelsonMeghan O'RourkeEd OchesterGregory OrrDanielle PafundaChad ParmenterSusan ParrPeter PereiraRobert PinskyDavid RivardMarya RosenbergNatasha SajéFrederick SeidelAlan ShapiroDavid ShumateCarmine StarninoBrian TurnerArthur VogelsangCody WalkerKary WaysonCharles Harper WebbJoe WenderothRichard WilburGeorge WitteTheodor WorozbytHarriet Zinnes Other in EnglishBreyten Breytenbach, Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems, 1964–2006, Harcourt (South African) ==Works published in other languages==
Works published in other languages
BangladeshChandan chowdhury- Crab of Red river. (Lal kakrar nodi); Balaka prakash, Chittagong, Bangladesh. – Bengali poetry DenmarkAnnette Kure Andersen, Andetsteds ("Elsewhere") • Thomas Boberg, Gæstebogen ("Guest Book") GermanLindita Arapi, Am Meer, nachts, Albanian poet writing in German • Christoph Buchwald, series editor, 25. Jahrbuch der Lyrik: Die schönsten Gedichte aus 25 Jahren ("25. Yearbook of Poetry: The most beautiful poems from 25 years"); Frankfurt: Fischer (S.), 410 pages, , an anthology • Hendrik Jackson, Im Innern der zerbrechenden Schale. Poetik und Pastichen ("Inside the crumbling shell: Poetics and pastiche"), Kookbooks, 144 pages, ; GermanyMonika Rinck, with Daniela Seel (editor), and Andrew Potter (narrator), zum fernbleiben der umarmung ("to stay away from the embrace"), 78 pages, Kookbooks, ; GermanyRon Winkler, Fragmentierte Gewässer: Gedichte ("Fragmented Waters: Poems"), Berlin Verlag, 83 pages, GreeceKaterina Iliopoulou, Mister T., Melani editions • Patricia Kolaiti, ‘Celesteia, Nefeli Publishing; nominated for the 2008 Diavazo First Book Award • Karaoke Poetry Bar, Athens: Futura Editions, an anthology India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: MalayalamK. G. Sankara Pillai, KGS Kavithakal 1997–2006, Kottayam, Kerala: D C Books • Raghavan Atholi: • Kanalormmakal, Calicut: Avvaiyar Books • Kathunna Mazhakal, Calicut: Mathrubhumi Other in IndiaGagan Gill, translator, Devadoot Ki Bajay Kuchh Bhi, poems by Zbigniew Herbert, edited and translated into Hindi from the original Polish; Remadhav Publications, New Delhi, 2007 • Mamta Sagar, Hiige HaaLeya Maile HaaDu, Bangalore: Abhinava Prakashana, Kannada-language • Mithu Sen, Bashmati Sarir Bagan Ba Gaan, (1995–2005), Kolkata: Nandimukh; Bengali-language • Rituraj, Asha Naam Nadi, Hindi-language PolandEwa Lipska, Pomarańcza Newtona, ("Newton's Orange"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie • Tadeusz Różewicz, nauka chodzenia, Wrocław: Biuro Literackie • Tomasz Różycki, The Forgotten Keys Spanish language Latin AmericaRoberto Bolaño, La universidad desconocida, his complete poems, a collection he prepared (posthumous), Chile Other languagesQaysar Aminpur, Dastur-i zaban-i eshq (“A Grammar of Love”), the best-selling poetry book this year in IranSheida Mohamadi, ''Aks-e fowri-ye 'eshq-bazi'' ("A Snapshot of Love-Making"), a (Los Angeles) United States-based author published this year in Tehran, Iran; PersianSuzan 'Ulaywan, Bayt min sukkar, ("A House Made of Sugar"), ArabicSantiago B. Villafania, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles, Filipino poet writing in Pangasinan ==Awards and honors==
Awards and honors
InternationalNobel Prize in Literature: Doris Lessing, Great BritainGolden Wreath of Poetry: Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine) AustraliaC. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judy Johnson, Jack, Pandanus Press • Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert AdamsonKenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: CanadaArchibald Lampman Award: Monty Reid, Disappointment IslandAtlantic Poetry Prize: Steve McOrmond, Primer on the HereafterGerald Lampert Award: Steven Price, Anatomy of KeysGovernor General's Literary Awards: Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (English); Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Seul on est (French) • Griffin Poetry Prize: • Canada, in the English language: Don McKay, Strike/Slip • Canada, in the French language: Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Seul on est • International, in the English Language: Charles Wright, Scar Tissue; and **"Lifetime Recognition Award" (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Tomas Tranströmer • International shortlist: Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames (Picador); Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues (Houghton Mifflin); Frederick Seidel, Ooga Booga (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) • Pat Lowther Award: Sina Queyras, Lemon HoundPrix Alain-Grandbois: François Charron, Ce qui nous abandonneDorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Don McKay, Strike/SlipPrix Émile-Nelligan: Danny Plourde, ''calme aurore (s'unir ailleurs, du napalm plein l'œil)'' India New Zealand • Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Dick Scott, Bill Manhire and Fiona FarrellMontana New Zealand Book Awards: • Poetry: Janet Frame, for The Goose Bath • Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry: Airini Beautrais Secret Heart. Victoria University Press United KingdomCosta Award (formerly the Whitbread Awards) for poetry : John Haynes (poet), Letter to Patience (Seren, 2006), a book-length poem; (Judges: Elaine Feinstein, Jeremy Noel-Tod and Deryn Rees-Jones) • Cholmondeley Award : Judith Kazantzis, Robert Nye, Penelope ShuttleDavid Cohen Prize : Derek MahonEric Gregory Award : Rachel Curzon, Miriam Gamble, Michael McKimm, Helen Mort, Jack UnderwoodForward Poetry Prizes: • Best collection : Sean O'Brien, for The Drowned Book • Best first collection : Daljit Nagra, for Look We Have Coming To Dover! • Best single poem : Alice Oswald, for "Dunt" • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : James FentonNational Poetry Competition : Sinead Morrissey for Through the Square WindowT. S. Eliot Prize : Sean O'Brien for The Drowned Book United StatesAgnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Michael McGriff for Dismantling the HillsBollingen Prize: Frank BidartLenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Alice Notley, for Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry: Stanley Plumly, Old Heart: Poems (W. W. Norton) • National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Hass, for Time and MaterialsThe New Criterion Poetry Prize: J. Allyn Rosser, for Foiled AgainPulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Natasha Trethewey, for Native GuardWallace Stevens Award: Charles SimicWhiting Awards: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin From the Poetry Society of AmericaFrost Medal: John HollanderShelley Memorial Award: Kimiko Hahn; Judges: Major Jackson, Maurya Simon, and George StanleyWriter Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: James Richardson; Judge: Matthea Harvey • Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Yerra Sugarman; Judge: Michael Palmer • Lyric Poetry Award: Ed Skoog; Judge: Srikanth Reddy • Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Wayne Miller; Judge: Tracy K. Smith • Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rusty Morrison; Judge: Susan Howe • Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Laura Ruffino; Judge: Thomas Sayers Ellis • George Bogin Memorial Award: Wayne Miller; Judge: Eleni Sikelianos • Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Charlene Fix; finalists: Eva Heisler, Rick Hilles • Norma Farber First Book Award: Kate Colby, Fruitlands Litmus Press; Judge: Rosmarie WaldropWilliam Carlos Williams Award: Matthew Zapruder, The Pijamaist, Copper Canyon Press; finalists: Liam Rector, Elaine Terranova; Judge: Tony Hoagland Awards and honors given elsewhereCervantes Prize (Spain): Juan Gelman (Argentina) ==Deaths==
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 13 – Diké Omeje, English, cancer • January 19 – Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão (born 1938), Portugal • February 13 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-born, Australian author, poet and scriptwriter • February 14 – Emmett Williams, 81, American poet, known for among other reasons, his collaborations with Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry, dynamic theater, etc., from 1957 to 1959 • February 24 – Julia Casterton, EnglishRobert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer • March 20 – Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, of Parkinson's disease. • May 25 – Len Roberts, 60, American poet, professor • May 30 – William M. Meredith, 88, American, poet, professor • May 31 – Sarah Hannah, 40, American poet, professor • June 2 – John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher • June 20 – Nazik al-Mala'ika, 85, Iraqi poet • June 21 – Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet, critic • June 11 – Mercer Simpson, 81, Welsh poet, critic and academic writing in English • June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian poet • July 1 – Mộng Tuyết, 93, Vietnamese poet • July 2: • Philip Booth, 81, American poet, professor • Sandy Crimmins, 55, American poet, performance artist • July 11 – Noel Rowe (born 1951), Australian, poet, writer, academic and Roman Catholic priest in the Marist order • July 16 – Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, artist • July 18 – Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, performance artist • July 31 – Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet • August 15: • Liam Rector, 57, American poet, professor, critic • Khalid Alig, 82, Indian poet, journalist • August 22 – Grace Paley, 84, American poet, short story writer, activist • August 24 – Robbie Benoit, Canadian cowboy poet and writer • August 25 – Tarapada Roy (born 1936) Bengali poet, essayist and short-story writer known for his satirical sense of humour • August 27 – Alberto de Lacerda 78, Portuguese poet • September 13 – Bill Griffiths, 59, English poet and writer • October 30: • James Michie (poet), 80 (born 1927), English poet, translator and publisher • Paul Roche, 91 (born 1916), English poet, translator and academic once associated with the Bloomsbury Group • November 16 – Vernon Scannell, 85 (born 1922), English poet, novelist and biographer • November 17? – Landis Everson, 81, American poet, had a loose affiliation with the Berkeley Renaissance via his association with Jack Spicer's circle of poets. Everson's work was "rediscovered" only a few years before his death. • November 17: • Siv Cedering, 68, Swedish-American poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and author, of pancreatic cancerMeg Campbell (born 1937), New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell • November 29 – Jaleh Esfahani, 86 (born 1921), in London, Iranian, a woman • December 16 – Diane Wood Middlebrook, née Helen Diane Wood, 68, (born 1939), American poet, academic and biographer • December 30 – Rosemary C. Wilkinson, American poet and Honorary President of the World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC) • Also: • Edith Hannah Campion, New Zealand poet and actress • Alberto da Cunha Melo, Brazil ==References==
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