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 •
Judith Bishop,
Event •
David Brooks,
Urban Elegies. Sydney:
Island Press (Australia) •
Brook Emery,
Uncommon Light, Five Islands Press. •
Lisa Gorton,
Press Release •
Kathryn 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 Dorado •
Peter Skrznecki,
Old/New World, University of Queensland Press, •
Rob Walker, "phobiaphobia" (Picaro Press) •
Petra White,
The Incoming Tide Australian anthologies •
Pretty, 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 Adamson •
Judith Bishop •
Pam Brown •
Joanne Burns •
Grant Caldwell •
Chris Edwards •
Michael Farrell •
Barbara Fisher •
Dennis Foley •
Alison Gerber •
Jennifer Harrison •
Dominique Hecq •
Matt Hetherington •
Charles Higham •
Clive James •
Mary Jenkins •
Jill Jones •
S. K. Kelen •
Cath Kenneally •
John Kinsella •
Cameron Lowe •
David McCooey •
Jennifer Maiden •
Graeme Miles • John Millett •
Pooja Mittal •
Reg Mombassa •
Les Murray •
Louise Nicholas •
Ouyang Yu •
Geoff Page •
Megan Petrie •
Craig Powell •
Michael Riley •
Peter Rose •
Brendan Ryan •
Tracy Ryan •
Michael Sharkey •
Chris Wallace-Crabbe •
Dennis Wild Canada •
Joanne Arnott,
Mother Time •
David McGimpsey,
Sitcom (Coach House Books) •
George McWhirter,
The Incorrection •
Garry Thomas Morse,
Streams •
Erín Moure,
O Cadoiro •
Dilip Sankarreddy,
Wanderings with Poetry, Peacock Books,
India •
C. P. Surendran,
Portraits of the Space We Occupy (Poetry in English), New Delhi: Harper Collins,
India •
Tapan Kumar Pradhan,
Kalahandi,
New Delhi :
Sahitya Akademi Anthologies in India •
Jeet Thayil :
60 Indian Poets : 1952-2007,
New Delhi :
Penguin India Ireland •
Pat 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 Zealand •
Janet Charman,
Cold Snack, Auckland: Auckland University Press •
Andrew Johnston,
Sol •
Michele 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 Baker •
Cherie Barford •
Jenny Bornholdt •
James Brown •
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell •
Geoff Cochrane •
Murray Edmond •
David Eggleton •
Cliff Fell •
Brian Flaherty •
Paula Green •
Bernadette Hall •
Anna Jackson •
Andrew Johnston •
Michele Leggott •
Selina Tusitala Marsh •
Karlo Mila •
Gregory O'Brien •
Brian Potiki •
Chris Price •
Elizabeth Smither •
C. K. Stead •
JC Sturm •
Richard von Sturmer •
Alison 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 Faber •
W. 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 Prize •
Sophie Hannah,
Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet), on the short list for the
T. S. Eliot Prize •
Seamus 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 Prize •
Nick Laird,
On Purpose (Faber & Faber) •
Frances Leviston,
Public Dream (Picador), on the short list for the
T. S. Eliot Prize •
Sarah Maguire,
The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto), on the short list for the
T. S. Eliot Prize •
Edwin Morgan,
A Book of Lives (Carcanet), on the short list for the
T. S. Eliot Prize •
Daljit Nagra,
Look We Have Coming to Dover!, Faber and Faber •
Sean O'Brien,
The Drowned Book, Picador, winner of the
T. S. Eliot Prize •
Michael 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 rhymes •
Maurice 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 Prize •
Zoë Skoulding,
Dark Wires (with Ian Davidson) •
Matthew Sweeney,
Black Moon (Jonathan Cape), on the short list for the
T. S. Eliot Prize United States •
Rae 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–Lincoln •
Beth Gylys,
Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press), later set to music by
Dan Welcher •
Forrest 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 Press •
X. J. Kennedy,
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems 1955–2007, Johns Hopkins University Press •
Karl Kirchwey,
The Happiness of This World •
Yusef 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 String •
W. 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 Walk •
Cathy Song,
Cloud Moving Hands,
University of Pittsburgh Press •
Rod Smith,
Deed (Iowa UP) •
Gary Soto,
A Simple Plan •
Mark 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 States •
Edward Dorn,
Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes (University of Michigan Press) •
Robert Faggen, editor,
The Notebooks of Robert Frost,
Harvard University Press •
Sam 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 1885–1920 •
Adrienne Rich,
Poetry and Commitment: An Essay •
Mark Scroggins,
The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky Anthologies in the United States •
Allison Hedge Coke, editor –
To Topos/Oregon State University Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry •
Julia 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 Ali •
Jeannette Allee •
Rae Armantrout •
Mary Jo Bang •
Nicky Beer •
Marvin Bell •
Christian Bök •
Louis E. Bourgeois •
Geoffrey Brock •
Matthew Byrne •
MacGregor Card •
Julie Carr •
Michael Collier •
Billy Collins •
Robert Creeley •
Mike Dockins •
Sharon Dolin •
Denise Duhamel •
Stephen Dunn •
Russell Edson •
Elaine Equi •
Landis Everson •
Thomas Fink •
Helen Ransom Forman •
Louise Glück •
Albert Goldbarth •
Donald Hall •
Mark Halliday •
Forrest Hamer •
Matthea Harvey •
Robert Hass •
Jane Hirshfield •
Daniel Johnson •
Richard Kenney •
Milton Kessler •
Galway Kinnell •
David Kirby •
Julie Larios •
Brad Leithauser •
Ben Lerner •
Joanie Mackowski •
Amit Majmudar •
Sabrina Orah Mark •
Campbell McGrath •
Leslie Adrienne Miller •
Marilyn Nelson •
Meghan O'Rourke •
Ed Ochester •
Gregory Orr •
Danielle Pafunda •
Chad Parmenter •
Susan Parr •
Peter Pereira •
Robert Pinsky •
David Rivard •
Marya Rosenberg •
Natasha Sajé •
Frederick Seidel •
Alan Shapiro •
David Shumate •
Carmine Starnino •
Brian Turner •
Arthur Vogelsang •
Cody Walker •
Kary Wayson •
Charles Harper Webb •
Joe Wenderoth •
Richard Wilbur •
George Witte •
Theodor Worozbyt •
Harriet Zinnes Other in English •
Breyten Breytenbach,
Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems, 1964–2006, Harcourt (
South African) ==Works published in other languages==