Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or

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Events

* January 19 – For the first time since

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to show up at the tomb of

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...

at the

Westminster Hall and Burying Ground Westminster Hall and Burying Ground is a graveyard and former church located at 519 West Fayette Street (at North Greene Street) in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It occupies the southeast corner of West Fayette and North Greene Street on ...

, early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The absence of the man, who would toast Poe with Cognac and leave three red roses at the grave (along with the rest of the Cognac), disappointed more than 30 people who stayed up all night to be present at the appearance. * March 27 – The ''Mezzo Cammin'' Women Poets Timeline Project, designed to become the largest

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases ...

of women poets in the world, was launched in Washington, D.C. at the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openi ...

. The database will feature biographical information about female poets, as well as photos of them and, when possible, reprints of their work. * April 12 –

Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the Unive ...

wins the

Pulitzer Prize in Poetry The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...

for her collection Versed. "Having also won the National Book Critics Circle Award, after being named a finalist for the

National Book Award The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The Nat ...

, Armantrout is only the third poet to win two out of the three awards in one year." * May 1 – David Biespiel, writing in ''

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...

'', suggests (in an essay titled "This Land Is Our Land") that the insularity of America's poets has left them with a minimal presence in American civic discourse and a minuscule public role in the life of American democracy. * November 26 – Japanese government honors Canadian poet

Joy Kogawa Joy Nozomi Kogawa (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Life Kogawa was born Joy Nozomi Nakayama on June 6, 1935, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to first-generation Japanese Canadians Lois Yao Nakayama a ...

with the

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"for her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."Tracy Sherlock,
Joy Kogawa to receive Order of the Rising Sun
" ''Vancouver Sun'', Nov. 6, 2010, Web, Apr. 5, 2011.

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, editor, ''Best Australian Poems 2010'', Black Inc., anthology with works by * Ali Alizadeh, * Chris Andrews, * Meera Atkinson, * Luke Beesley, * Judith Beveridge, * Judith Bishop, * Ken Bolton, *

Peter Boyle Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. Known as a character actor, he played Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom '' Everybody Loves Raymond'' and the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof '' Young ...

, * Michael Brennan, * David Brooks, * Jen Jewel Brown, *

Pam Brown Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet. Career Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne a ...

, * Allison Browning, * Joanne Burns, * Elizabeth Campbell, * Bonny Cassidy, * Eileen Chong, * Justin Clemens, * Stuart Cooke, * Nathan Curnow, *

Luke Davies Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film '' Lion'', which e ...

, * Bruce Dawe, * Tricia Dearborn, *

B. R. Dionysius B. R. Dionysius (born 1969) is an Australian poet, editor and educator. His poems have appeared in numerous national and international anthologies, journals, magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. He was born in Dalby, Queensland. He ...

, *

Lucy Dougan Lucy Dougan (born 1966) is an Australian poet who began publication in 1998. Early life and education Dougan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966. In 2009 she completed her PhD thesis at the University of Western Australia in dual forma ...

, * Laurie Duggan, * Will Eaves, * Ali Cobby Eckermann, *

Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar (born 1951) is an Australian poet, editor and indexer. Background and education Edgar was born in Sydney, where he attended Sydney Technical High School. After time spent living in London, he later returned to Australia, going o ...

, * Chris Edwards, *

Anne Elvey Anne Frances Elvey is an Australian academic, editor, researcher and poet. Education Elvey has completed at Bachelor of Science with Honours, a Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary), a Bachelor of Theology, a Master of Theology and a ...

, * Brook Emery, *

Kate Fagan Kate Fagan (born November 15, 1981) is an American sports reporter and commentator who previously was employed by ESPN. Before joining the ESPN staff, she worked as the ''Philadelphia Inquirer's'' beat writer for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. ...

, * Mike Farrell, * Susan Fealy, * Liam Ferney, * S.J. Finn, * Lionel Fogarty, * Adam Ford, * Adam Formosa, * Angela Gardner, * Claire Gaskin, * Jane Gibian, * Keri Glastonbury, * Lisa Gorton, * Robert Gray, * Martin Harrison, *

Kevin Hart Kevin Darnell Hart (born July 6, 1979) is an American comedian and actor. Originally known as a stand-up comedian, he has since starred in Hollywood films and on TV. He has also released several well-received comedy albums. After winning se ...

, *

Matt Hetherington Matt Hetherington (born 25 May 1970) is an Australian singer and actor, who rose to prominence as a contestant on the first series of ''The Voice (Australia)''. He has appeared in musicals ''Next to Normal'', Green Room Award, '' Dirty Rotten Sco ...

, * Barry Hill, * Sarah Holland Batt, * L. K. Holt, *

Duncan Hose Duncan may refer to: People * Duncan (given name), various people * Duncan (surname), various people * Clan Duncan * Justice Duncan (disambiguation) Places * Duncan Creek (disambiguation) * Duncan River (disambiguation) * Duncan Lake ...

, * Lisa Jacobson, * Carol Jenkins, * A. Frances Johnson, * Jill Jones, * Frank Kellaway, * Peter Kenneally, * Graeme Kinross-Smith, * John Kinsella, * Andy Kissane, *

Anna Krien Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet. Career Krien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including ''The'' ''Monthly'', ''The Age'', ''The Big Issue'', ''The Best Australia ...

, *

Mike Ladd Mike Ladd is an American hip hop musician from Boston, Massachusetts. He is based in Paris, France. '' The Guardian'' described him as "the king of the hip-hop concept." Early life Mike Ladd was born in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, he ...

, * Martin Langford, * Anthony Lawrence, * Michelle Leber, *

Geoffrey Lehmann Geoffrey Lehmann (born 28 June 1940) is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in arts and law from the University of Syd ...

, *

Kate Lilley Kate Lilley (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. Early life Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1960 and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, and ...

, * Debbie Lim, * Astrid Lorange, * Cameron Lowe, * Roberta Lowing, * Anthony Lynch, *

Jennifer Maiden Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 36 books published: 28 poetry collections, 6 novels and 2 nonfiction works. Her current publishers are Quemar Press in Australia and Blooda ...

, *

Rhyll McMaster Rhyll McMaster (born 1947 in Brisbane) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000. She is a recipient of the Barbara Jef ...

, * Kate Middleton, * Peter Minter, * Anne Morgan, * Derek Motion, * Les Murray, * Jenni Nixon, * Nguyen Tien Hoang, * Geoff Page, * Pi.0, * Claire Potter, * Peter Rose, * Josephine Rowe, * Robyn Rowland, * Brendan Ryan, * Gig Ryan, *

Thomas Shapcott Thomas William Shapcott (born 21 March 1935) is an Australian poet, novelist, playwright, editor, librettist, short story writer and teacher. Biography Thomas William Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, and attended the Ipswich Grammar ...

, * Craig Sherborn, * Vivian Smith, * Peter Steele, * James Stuart, * Maria Takolander, * Hugh Tolhurst, *

John Tranter John Ernest Tranter (born 29 April 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program ''Books and Writing''; and founding in 199 ...

, * Mark Tredinnick, * Louise Wakeling, *

Chris Wallace-Crabbe Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was K ...

, * Meredith Wattison, * Petra White, * Chloe Wilson, * Ouyang Yu * Grant Caldwell, ''glass clouds'', Five Islands Press * Les Murray, ''Taller When Prone'', Black Inc., *

Dorothy Porter Dorothy Featherstone Porter (26 March 1954 – 10 December 2008) was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Early life Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister ...

, ''Love Poems'', Black Inc., * Ron Pretty, ''Postcards From the Centre'' *

, ''Parts of Us'', University of Queensland Press *

, ''Starlight: 150 Poems'', University of Queensland Press

Canada

Shane Book Background Shane Book born in 1970, grew up in Canada and Ghana. Shane Book is a Canadian poet and writer. He is known for his work in contemporary poetry. His poetry often explores themes related to identity, history, and the human experience. ...

, ''Ceiling of Sticks'' * Anne Carson, ''Nox'', New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101; Canadian published in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

Simon, Jeff
"A revelatory, haunting elegy from poet Anne Carson"
review, July 4, 2010, ''Buffalo News'', retrieved July 5, 2010 *

Jen Currin Jen Currin is an American/Canadian poet and fiction writer. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.Joe Denham Joe Denham is a Canadian poet and fiction writer."Windstorm, by Joe Denham"
''

, ''Windstorm'' * Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, ''Rhapsodomancy'', Toronto: Coach House Press, * Kenneth Leslie, ''The Essential Kenneth Leslie.'' d. Zachariah WellsErin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2010.The Essential Kenneth Leslie by Zacariah Wells
," Books in Print, The Porcupine's Quill, Web, Apr. 15, 2011. , *

A. F. Moritz Albert Frank Moritz (born April 15, 1947) is a United States-born Canadian poet, teacher, and scholar. Born in Niles, Ohio, Moritz was educated at Marquette University. Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto, Ontario where he has wor ...

, editor, ''The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2010'', work by the winners of the

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, the awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English languag ...

, House of Anansi Press, 112 pages, * Garry Thomas Morse, ''After Jack'' *

James Reaney James Crerar Reaney, (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary ...

, ''A Suit of Nettles''. Porcupine's Quill. *

Lisa Robertson Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961) is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France. Life and work Born in Toronto, Ontario, Robertson moved to British Columbia in 1979, first living on Saltspring Island, then in Vancouver, w ...

, ''R's Boat'', 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, , written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the

* Priscila Uppal, ''Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998–2010'', Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, , Canadian author published in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...

India, in English

* Arun Kamal, ''Naye Ilake Mein'', translated from the original

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

into English by Giriraj Kiradoo,

New Delhi New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Hous ...

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

, India 2010. * J. T. Jayasingh, editor, ''New Voices'', anthology; Thiruvananthapuram: Roots and Wings * Tabish Khair, ''Man of Glass'' ( Poetry in English )., New Delhi: Harper Collins, India 2010. * Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and

Robin Ngangom Robin S Ngangom (born 1959) is an Indian poet and translator from Manipur, North Eastern India. Biography Robin Singh Ngangom was born in Imphal, Manipur of North Eastern India. He is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Meiteilon. He stud ...

, editors, ''Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India''Scharf, Michael
"The Other Mother Tongue"
, book review, ''Boston Review'', May/June 2010 issue, retrieved July 19, 2010. Penguin Books, India * Srinivas Sistla, Amuktamalyada, translated from the original

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode ...

Krishna Deva Raya Krishnadevaraya (17 January 1471 – 17 October 1529) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire, also known as the Karnata Empire, reigning from 1509 to 1529. He was the third monarch of the Tuluva dynasty, and is considered to be one of the ...

's classic epic; Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh: Drusya Kala Deepika *

Meena Kandasamy Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Meena published two collections of poetry, ''Touch'' (2006) and ''Ms. Militancy'' (2010). From 2001-2002, she ...

, "Ms. Militancy", Chennai: Navayana, India 2010 * Anindita Sengupta, "City of Water" ( Poetry in English ).,

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

, India 2010.

Ireland

Anthony Cronin Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (28 December 1923 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poet, arts activist, biographer, commentator, critic, editor and barrister. Early life and family Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford on 28 December ...

, ''The Fall'', 120 pages, New Island Press, *

Theo Dorgan Theo Dorgan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer, translator, librettist and documentary screenwriter. He lives in Dublin. Life Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953 being second child born into a family of 8 boys and 8 girls to pare ...

, ''Greek'', Dedalus Press, *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, '' Human Chain'', 85 pages, Faber & FaberGarner, Dwight
"Shared Homeland, Different Worldview", book review (of Seamus heaney's ''Human Chain'' and Paul Muldoon's ''Maggot''), ''The New York Times'', September 16, 2010, retrieved September 22, 2010
/ref> * Thomas Kilroy, ''Christ, Deliver Us'', Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press *

Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including '' Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', '' The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and '' From He ...

''How Now!'' Anvil Press Poetry, *

Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University P ...

, ''Maggot'' *

Micheal O'Siadhail Micheal O'Siadhail ( ga, Mícheál Ó Siadhail ; born 12 January 1947) is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature. Early life Micheal O'Siadhail was born into ...

, ''Tongue'', Irish poet published in the

, Bloodaxe Books

New Zealand

Paula Green Paula Green (September 18, 1927 – December 4, 2015) was an American advertising executive, best known for writing the lyrics to the "Look for the Union Label" song for ILGWU and the Avis motto "We Try Harder". Green was one of the pioneer ...

, ''Slip Stream'', Auckland University Press *

(editor), ''Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems'', Godwit *

and

Harry Ricketts Harry Ricketts (born 1950) is a poet, biographer, editor, anthologist, critic, academic, literary scholar and cricket writer. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen British First World War poets. Life Ricketts was bor ...

, ''99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry'', Vintage * Kate Camp, ''The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls'', Victoria University Press * Lynn Jenner, ''Dear Sweet Harry'', Auckland University Press

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Robyn Marsack for '' Best New Zealand Poems 2009'', published online this year: * Tusiata Avia *

Sarah Broom Sarah Broom (1972–2013) was a New Zealand poet, Oxford graduate, university lecturer and mother of three children. Her work included two books of poetry, ''Tigers at Awhitu'' (published jointly in England and New Zealand) and ''Gleam.'' After ...

Geoff Cochrane Geoffrey O'Neill Cochrane (1951 – November 2022) was a New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer. He published 19 collections of poetry, a novel and a collection of short fiction. Many of his works were set in or around his hometown o ...

* Jennifer Compton * Lynn Davidson * John Gallas *

Bernadette Hall Bernadette Hall (born 1945) is a New Zealand playwright and poet. Biography Hall was born in 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much en ...

* David Howard * Lynn Jenner * Brent Kininmont *

Michele Leggott Michele Joy Leggott (born 1956) is a New Zealand poet, and an emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland. She was the New Zealand Poet Laureate between 2007 and 2009. Biography Leggott was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and r ...

Emma Neale Emma Neale (born 2 January 1969) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Background Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria University of Wellin ...

James Norcliffe James Norcliffe is a novelist, short story writer, poet, editor, teacher and educator. His work has been widely published and he has been the recipient of a number of writing residencies. Several of his books have been shortlisted for or won award ...

Gregory O'Brien Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor. Life Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckl ...

* Chris Price * Kerrin P. Sharpe * Marty Smith *

Elizabeth Smither Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer. Life and career Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian. Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was publi ...

C. K. Stead Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers. Early l ...

* Brian Turner * Tim Upperton *

Louise Wallace Louise Annette Wallace (née Hooper, born 21 November 1959) is a New Zealand television presenter, actress, and director. Early life Born Louise Annette Hooper in Auckland on 21 November 1959, Wallace was educated at St Cuthbert's College. S ...

Ian Wedde Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator. Biography Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended ...

* Douglas Wright *

Ashleigh Young Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''Can You Tolerate This?'' which also won ...

United Kingdom

Fleur Adcock Fleur Adcock (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doct ...

, ''Dragon Talk'', Bloodaxe Books *

Jill Bialosky Jill Bialosky (Born Jill Robin Bialosky, April 13, 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, novelist, essayist and executive book editor. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, three novels, and two recent memoirs. She co-edited w ...

, ''The Skiers: Selected Poems'', 144 pages, *

Matthew Caley Matthew may refer to: * Matthew (given name) * Matthew (surname) * ''Matthew'' (ship), the replica of the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 * ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith * Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Chi ...

, ''Apparently'', Bloodaxe Books *

Stewart Conn Stewart Conn (born 1936) is a Scottish poet and playwright, born in Hillhead Hillhead ( sco, Hullheid, gd, Ceann a' Chnuic) is an area of Glasgow, Scotland. Situated north of Kelvingrove Park and to the south of the River Kelvin, Hillhead is ...

, ''The Breakfast Room'', Bloodaxe Books * Razmik Davoyan, ''Whispers and Breath of the Meadows'', translated from the original Armenian by Armine Tamrazian, introduction by

W. N. Herbert W. N. Herbert , also known as Bill Herbert (born 1961) is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine '' Gairfish''. He currently teaches at Newcastle University. Earl ...

, 172 pages, *

Katie Donovan Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports *Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player * Katie Clark (born 1994), Br ...

, ''Rootling'', Bloodaxe Books * Carol Ann Duffy, ''Love Poems'', a selection, 84 pages, Picador, * Bernardine Evaristo & Daljit Nagra. editors, ''Ten: New poets from Spread the Word'', an anthology, with work by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Rowyda Amin, Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Karen McCarthy, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul, Seni Seniviratne, Shazea Quraishi and Janet Kofi Tsekpo; Bloodaxe Books * Ruth Fainlight, ''New & Collected Poems'', Bloodaxe Books * Sylva Fischerová, ''The Swing in the Middle of Chaos'', translated by Stuart Friebert and Sylva Fischerova from the original Czech; Bloodaxe Books *

Roy Fisher Roy Fisher (11 June 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English poet and jazz pianist. His poetry shows an openness to both European and American modernist influences, while remaining grounded in the experience of living in the English Midlands. ...

, ''Standard Midland'', Bloodaxe Books * Cheryl Follon, ''Dirty Looks'', Bloodaxe Books * Miriam Gamble, ''The Squirrels Are Dead'', Bloodaxe Books * Bill Griffiths, ''Collected Earlier Poems (1966–80)'', Reality Street, Sussex *

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, '' Human Chain'', Faber and Faber *

Tony Hoagland Anthony Dey Hoagland (November 19, 1953 – October 23, 2018) was an American poet. His poetry collection, ''What Narcissism Means to Me'' (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grant ...

, ''Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty'', Bloodaxe Books * Ishion Hutchinson, ''Far District: Poems'', Jamaican poet published in the United Kingdom,

Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books. It was founded after a paper shortage in Guyana halted production of new bo ...

* Helen Ivory, ''The Breakfast Machine'', Bloodaxe Books * Arun Kolatkar, ''Collected Poems in English'', edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Marathi- and English-language poet of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

, published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books; posthumous (died

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...

) * Gwyneth Lewis, ''A Hospital Odyssey'', Bloodaxe Books *

Kona Macphee Kona Macphee is a British poet. She has published three poetry collections, ''Tails'', ''Perfect Blue'' and ''What Long Miles''. She is the recipient of the Eric Gregory Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was named the poetry book of t ...

, ''Perfect Blue'', Bloodaxe Books * Harry Martinson, ''Chickweed Wintergreen'', translated from the original Swedish by

Robin Fulton Robin Fulton is a Scottish poet and translator, born on 6 May 1937 on the Isle of Arran. Since 2011 he has published under the name Robin Fulton Macpherson. Biography The son of a Church of Scotland minister, Robin Fulton was born in Arran in 19 ...

, Bloodaxe Books *

Grace Nichols Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, ''I is a Long-Memoried Woman'' (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In De ...

, ''I Have Crossed an Ocean'', Bloodaxe Books *

, ''Tongue'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books * Don Paterson, ''Rain'', Faber & Faber *

Mario Petrucci Mario Petrucci (born 1958) is a poet, literary translator, educator and broadcaster. He was born in Lambeth, London and trained as a physicist at Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge and later completed a PhD in vacuum crystal growth at ...

, ''i tulips'', Enitharmon Press, 112, pages, * Ralph Pordzik, ''Hotel Salvador Dali and Other Poems'', Lulu Press, 49 pages, *

Peter Reading Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011) was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his deep interest for the nature and use of classical metres. ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry'' de ...

, ''Vendage Tardive'', Bloodaxe Books *

Robin Robertson Robin Robertson (born in 1955) is a Scottish poet. Biography Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London. After working as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and Wa ...

, ''The Wrecking Light'', 112 pages, Picador, * Anna Robinson, ''The Finders of London'', Enitharmon Press, 64, pages, * Lawrence Sail, ''Waking Dreams'', Bloodaxe Books *

Penelope Shuttle Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is a British poet. Life Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She wrote her first novel at the age of 20. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove ( ...

, ''Sandgrain and Hourglass'', Bloodaxe Books * Louis Simpson, ''Voices in the Distance'', Bloodaxe Books * John Stammers, ''Interior Night'', 64 pages, Picador, *

Pia Tafdrup Pia Tafdrup (born 29 May 1952 in Copenhagen) is a Danish writer; primarily a poet, she has also written a novel and two plays, as well as works for radio. She made her literary debut in 1981 and has till now published 17 collections of poetry. P ...

, ''Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems'', translated by David McDuff from the original Danish; Bloodaxe Books * Marina Tsvetaeva, ''Art in the Light of Conscience'', translated by

Angela Livingstone Angela may refer to: Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River Fiction * Angel ...

from the original Russian; Bloodaxe Books * Brian Turner, ''Phantom Noise'', Bloodaxe Books * Chase Twichell, ''Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been'', Bloodaxe Books * Priscila Uppal, ''Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998–2010'', Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ,

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

author published in the United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

* Anthony Astbury, editor, ''A Field of Large Desires: A Greville Press Anthology 1975–2010'', Carcanet Press, * Roddy Lumsden, editor, ''Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets'', anthology; Bloodaxe Books ::Poets included:

Patience Agbabi Patience Agbabi Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word.. Although her poetry hits hard in addressing contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including t ...

, Jonathan Asser,

Tiffany Atkinson Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972) is a British academic and award-winning poet. In 1993, she moved to Wales, where after completing her studies in Cardiff, she became a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. In 2014, she ...

, Simon Barraclough, Paul Batchelor, Kate Bingham, Julia Bird, Patrick Brandon, David Briggs, Andy Brown, Judy Brown,

Colette Bryce Colette Bryce is a poet, freelance writer, and editor. She was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee from 2003 to 2005, and a North East Literary Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 2005 to 2007. She was the ...

, Siobhan Campbell, Vahni Capildeo, Melanie Challenger, Kate Clanchy, Polly Clark, Julia Copus,

Sarah Corbett Sarah Corbett is a speaker, professional activist, author and the founder of Craftivist Collective, a social enterprise which uses the technique of craftivism - combining craft and activism - to engage people in social justice issues "in a qui ...

, Claire Crowther, Tim Cumming, Ailbhe Darcy, Peter Davidson,

Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. He did not find a wide audience during his lifetime, but his work gradually achieved wider notice and recognit ...

Sasha Dugdale Sasha Dugdale FRSL is a British poet, playwright and translator. She has written five poetry collections and is a translator of Russian literature. Biography Sasha Dugdale was born in 1974 in Sussex. Between 1995 and 2000, Dugdale worke ...

, Chris Emery, Bernardine Evaristo,

Paul Farley Paul Farley, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster. Life and work Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. His first collection of poet ...

Leontia Flynn Leontia Flynn (born December 1974) is a poet and writer from Northern Ireland. She grew up between the towns of Dundrum and Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. She is the second-youngest of five siblings. She has worked at The Seamus He ...

, Annie Freud, Alan Gillis, Jane Griffiths,

Vona Groarke Vona Groarke is an Irish poet. Groarke was born in Mostrim in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork. Groarke has published five collections of poetry with the Gallery Press (and by Wake ...

Jen Hadfield Jen Hadfield (born 1978) is a British poet and visual artist. She has published four poetry collections. Her first collection, ''Almanacs'', won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Hadfield is the youngest female poet to be awarded the TS Eliot Pr ...

, Sophie Hannah,

Tracey Herd Tracey Herd (born 1968) is a Scottish poet based in Dundee. Education Herd graduated from the University of Dundee in English and American Studies in 1991. Career Herd's early works were published in anthologies such as ''New Women Poets'' ...

, Kevin Higgins,

Matthew Hollis Matthew Hollis (born 1971) is an English author, editor, professor, and poet, currently living in London, England. Career and background He was born in Norwich, the son of politician Patricia Hollis and academic Martin Hollis. He has studied ...

, A. B. Jackson,

Anthony Joseph Anthony Joseph (born 12 November 1966 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. Biography Joseph was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where he was raised by his grandparents. He ...

, Luke Kennard,

Nick Laird Nicholas Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet. Education Laird was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, where he attended the local comprehensive school. He then gained entry to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he init ...

, Sarah Law,

Frances Leviston Frances Leviston (born 1982) is a British poet. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University, where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in creat ...

, Gwyneth Lewis, John McAuliffe, Chris McCabe, Helen Macdonald, Patrick McGuinness,

Peter Manson Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include ''Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse'' (Miami University Press 2012), ''Between Cup and Lip'' (Miami University Press, 2008), ''For the Good of Liars'' ( Barque Pres ...

, D. S. Marriott, Sam Meekings, Sinéad Morrissey, Daljit Nagra, Caitríona O'Reilly, Alice Oswald, Katherine Pierpoint, Clare Pollard,

Jacob Polley Jacob Polley (born 1975) is a British poet and novelist. He has published four collections of poetry. His novel, ''Talk of the Town'', won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. His latest poetry collection, ''Jackself'', won the T.S. Eliot Prize ...

, Diana Pooley, Richard Price, Sally Read,

Deryn Rees-Jones Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo-Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although, Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a We ...

Neil Rollinson Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West Yorkshire) is a British poet. Life He has published four collections of poetry, all Poetry Book Society Recommendations (Jonathan Cape UK). His last collection Talking Dead was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Awar ...

, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Antony Rowland, James Sheard,

Zoë Skoulding Zoë Skoulding is an English/Welsh poet, whose work also encompasses translation, editing, sound-based vocal performance, literary criticism and teaching creative writing. Her poetry has been included in several UK anthologies, translated into 1 ...

, Catherine Smith,

Jean Sprackland Jean Sprackland (born 1962) is an English poet and writer, the author of five collections of poetry and two books of essays about place and nature. Biography Originally from Burton upon Trent, Jean Sprackland studied English and Philosophy at th ...

, John Stammers, Greta Stoddart, Sandra Tappenden, Tim Turnbull, Julian Turner, Mark Waldron, Ahren Warner, Tim Wells, Matthew Welton, David Wheatley, Sam Willetts, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Tamar Yoseloff. * George Szirtes, ''New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation'', 300 pages,

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Ruth Padel, ''Silent Letters of the Alphabet'', series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books * George Szirtes, ''Fortinbras at the Fishhouses'', series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books

United States

* Renée Ashley, ''The Verbs of Desiring'' * Nicky Beer, ''The Diminishing House'', 77 pages, Carnegie Mellon University Press, *

Millicent Borges Accardi Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American poet who lives in California. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Fulbright, CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Ar ...

, ''Injuring Eternity'', 108 pages, World Nouveau Press, * Elizabeth Bradfield, ''Approaching Ice: Poems'', 112 pages, Persea, * Charles Bernstein, ''All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein'', Farrar, Straus & Giroux, * Nicole Brossard, ''Selections'', introduction by Jennifer Moxley, translations by many hands, University of California Press, Berkeley * Julie Carr, ''100 Notes on Violence'', Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID * Anne Carson, ''Nox'', New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101;

published in the United States * Billy Collins, ''Ballistics: Poems'', 128 pages, Random House, *

Bei Dao Bei Dao (, born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai (S: 赵振开, T: 趙振開, P: ''Zhào Zhènkāi''). Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he is often regarded as a candida ...

, author, and Eliot Weinberger, translator and editor, ''The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems'', a bilingual English/ Chinese edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterword by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, * Todd F. Davis, ''The Least of These: Poems'', 140 pages, Michigan State University Press, *

Camille Dungy Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an American poet and professor. Career Born in Denver, Colorado, Dungy graduated from Stanford University (BA) and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA. She is the author of fou ...

, ''Suck on the Marrow'', 88 pages, Red Hen Press, *

Rachel Blau DuPlessis Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born December 14, 1941) is an American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized. Early life DuPlessis ...

, ''Pitch: Drafts 77 – 95'', Salt Publishing, London *

Larry Eigner Larry Eigner (August 7, 1927 – February 3, 1996), also known as Laurence Joel Eigner, was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School. Eigner is associated with th ...

, ''The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner'', edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2010, (Vol. I: 1937–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1966; Vol. III: 1966–1978; Vol. IV: 1978–1995); * Aaron Fagan, ''Echo Train'', Salt Publishing, London, * Elyse Fenton, ''Clamor'',

Cleveland State University Poetry Center The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is a literary small press and poetry outreach organization in Cleveland, Ohio, operated under the auspices of the English Department at Cleveland State University. It publishes original works of poetry ...

, Cleveland, OH * Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translator, ''Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems'', translation from the original

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Afzal Ahmed Syed Afzal Ahmed Syed (افضال احمد سيد) is a contemporary Urdu poet and translator, known for his mastery of both classical and modern Urdu poetic expression. Born in Ghazipur, India, in 1946, Afzal Ahmed Syed has lived since 1976 in Karachi ...

, 120 pages, Wesleyan University Press, * Nada Gordon, ''Scented Rushes'', Roof Books, * Nathalie Handal, ''Love and Strange Horses'', 91 pages; University of Pittsburgh PressJennings, Dana
"The Sting of Salt Air, Old Loves and Honey Bees"
book review (of several books), ''The New York Times'', October 19, 2010, retrieved same day * Megan Harlan, ''Mapmaking'', BkMk Press, * Robert Hass, ''The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems'', Ecco Press, * Terrance Hayes, ''Lighthead'', Penguin, New York / London *

, ''Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems'', the author's first collection in seven years, 100 pages,

Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mello ...

, * Brenda Iijima, ''If Not Metaphoric'', Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID * Carrie Jerrell, ''After the Revival'', 80 pages, Waywiser Press, * Andrew Joron, ''Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems'', City Lights, San Francisco * Reb Livingston, ''God Damsel'', No Tell Books, Reston VA * Ben Lerner, ''Mean Free Path'', Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA *

Shane McCrae Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of ''Image''. McCrae was the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award, and in 2012 his collection ''Mule'' was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Di ...

, ''Mule'', Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH * Mark McMorris, ''Entrepôt'', 90 pages, Coffee House Press, * John McNeeley, ''39'', 260 pages, CreateSpace, * Deborah Meadows, ''Depleted Burden Down'', Factory School, Queens, NY * Erika Meitner, ''Ideal Cities'', 86 pages; Harper Perennial * Simone Muench, ''Orange Crush: Poems'', 88 pages, Sarabande Books, * Sawako Nakayasu, ''Texture Notes'', Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver * Travis Nichols, ''Iowa'', Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver * Tamae K. Prindle, translator, ''On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku'', translated from the original Japanese of the

tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Etymology Originally, in the time of the '' Man'yōshū'' (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term ''tanka'' was used to distinguish "short ...

poems written until the author's death in

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ** German geophysicist Alfred ...

at age 26, 146 pages, Syllabic Press, * Barbara Ras, ''The Last Skin'', Penguin, New York / London * Adrienne Rich, ''Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007–2010'', . *

Atsuro Riley Atsuro Riley is an American writer. Riley is the author of the poetry collections ''Heard-Hoard'' (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and ''Romey's Order'' (University of Chicago Press, 2010). In 2023, Riley was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fe ...

, ''Romey's Order'', 54 pages; University of Chicago Press *

, ''R's Boat'', 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, , written by a

poet living in and published in the United States * Marc Rosen, James P. Wagner, coeditors and compilers, ''Perspectives: Poetry Concerning Autism and Other Disabilities'', 178 pages, Local Gems Poetry Press, * R. M. Ryan, ''Vaudeville in the Dark'', 68 pages; Louisiana State University Press *

Benjamin Alire Sáenz Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born August 16, 1954) is an American poet, novelist, and writer of children's books. Early life and education Sáenz was raised near Las Cruces, New Mexico. He earned a BA in Humanities and Philosophy from St. Thomas Semi ...

, ''The Book of What Remains'', Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA * Sonia Sanchez, ''Morning Haiku'', 144 pages, Beacon Press, *

Sherod Santos Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American poet, essayist, translator and playwright. His newest poetry collection, ''Square Inch Hours'' (W.W. Norton) was published in 2017. His work has appeared in ''The ...

, ''The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems'', 164 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, * Leslie Scalapino, ''Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows'', Starcherone Books, * Steven Seymour, translator, ''If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems'', translated from the original Russian of his wife,

Vera Pavlova Vera Anatolyevna Pavlova (russian: Вера Анатольевна Павлова; born 1963) is a Russian poet. Biography Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow, 1963. She studied at the Oktyabryskaya Revolyutsiya Music College and only started publish ...

, 128 pages, Knopf, * Melissa Stein, ''Rough Honey'', 98 pages; American Poetry Review * Edwin Torres, ''In the Function of Extreme Circumstances'', Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NY * Nguyen Trai, ''Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems'', edited & translated by Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover, Counterpath, Denver, 2010 * Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, ''Selected Poems'', edited by Ben Mazer with an introduction by

Stephen Burt Stephanie Burt (born 1971) is a literary critic and poet who is Professor of English at Harvard University. '' The New York Times'' has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of ergeneration". Burt grew up around Washington, D.C. ...

, Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MA * Rosmarie Waldrop, ''Driven to Abstraction'', New Directions, NY * Connie Wanek, ''On Speaking Terms'', Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA * Karen Weiser, ''To Light Out'', Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn *

C.D. Wright Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. Background C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery jud ...

, ''One With Others'' (

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both ...

)Web page titled "C.D. Wright" at the Academy of American Poets "poets.org" website, retrieved September 18, 2011 *

Matthew Zapruder Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, ''The Pajamaist'', won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by ''Library Journal ...

, ''Come On All You Ghosts'', 111 pages; Copper Canyon Press

Anthologies in the United States

* David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, editors and translators, ''Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition'', 240 pages, New World Library, *

David Groff David Groff is an American poet, writer, and independent editor. Biography Groff graduated from the University of Iowa, with an MFA, and MA. He has taught at University of Iowa, Rutgers University, and NYU, and at William Paterson University ...

and Philip Clark, ''Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS'', 240 pages, Alyson Books, *

Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye ( ar, نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is an American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In tot ...

, ''Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25'', for "young adults", 256 pages, Greenwillow Books, * Kevin Young, editor, ''The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing'', 150 poems arranged to correspond with the grieving process, grouped by: Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery and Redemption; 336 pages, Bloomsbury USA,

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* Robert Archambeau, ''Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry'' (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press) * David Biespiel, ''Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces'' (Kelson Books) *

Norma Cole Norma Cole (born May 12, 1945) is a Canadian poet, visual artist, translator, and curator. An Anglophone Canadian by birth, Cole learned French at an early age, and went on to translate the works of French poets Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Coll ...

, ''To Be At Music: Essays & Talks'' (Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing) * Stephen Ratcliffe, ''Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet'' (Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2010)

Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2010''

These poets appeared in ''

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David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman
at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...

, general editor, and

Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Biography Amy Gerstler was born in 1956. She is a graduate of Pitzer College and holds an M.F.A. from Bennington Co ...

, guest editor (who selected the poetry): * Dick Allen *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

* Sandra Beasley *

Mark Bibbins Mark Bibbins (born 1968 in Albany, New York) is an American poet and received an MFA from The New School. He received a Lambda Literary Award for his collection of poems ''Sky Lounge'' (Graywolf Press, 2003), and was awarded a 2005 Poetry Fell ...

Todd Boss Todd (Ryan) Boss (born December 6, 1968) is an American poet, installation artist, and film producer, and inventor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published several collections of poetry and contributed to literary journals. He has als ...

Fleda Brown Fleda Brown (born 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson. Biography Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978 she joined the University ...

* Anne Carson * Tom Clark * David Clewell * Michael Collier * Billy Collins * Dennis Cooper * Kate Daniels * Peter Davis * Tim Dlugos *

Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been re ...

Thomas Sayers Ellis Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, photographer and band leader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawre ...

Lynn Emanuel Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections are ''Then, Suddenly—'' and ''Noose and Hook'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the A ...

Elaine Equi Elaine Equi (born 1953) is an American poet. Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York City with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master ...

* Jill Alexander Essbaum *

B. H. Fairchild B.H. Fairchild (born 1942) is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is ''An Ordinary Life'' ( W.W. Norton, 2023), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker'', ''The Par ...

* Vievee Francis *

Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". H ...

Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948) is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mar ...

* Amy Glynn Greacen * Sonia Greenfield * Kelle Groom *

Gabriel Gudding Gabriel Gudding is an American poet, essayist, and translator. Life Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is Professor of English in the English ...

* Kimiko Hahn * Barbara Hamby * Terrance Hayes *

Bob Hicok Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. He formerly taught ...

* Rodney Jones * Michaela Kahn *

Brigit Pegeen Kelly Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951 – October 14, 2016) was an American poet and teacher. Born in Palo Alto, California, Kelly grew up in southern Indiana and lived much of her adult life in central Illinois. An intensely private woman, little is known ...

* Corinne Lee * Hailey Leithauser * Dolly Lemke *

Maurice Manning Maurice Manning (born 14 June 1943) is an Irish academic and former Fine Gael politician. Manning was a member of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) for 21 years, serving in both the Dáil and the Seanad. Since August 2002 he has been President ...

Adrian Matejka Adrian Matejka is an American poet. He was the poet laureate of Indiana for the 2018–2019 term. Since May 2022, he has been the editor of '' Poetry'' magazine. Life Born in Nuremberg, Germany, while his family served in the U.S. military, ...

Jeffrey McDaniel Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967) is an American poet. He has published six books of poetry, most recently ''Holiday in the Islands of Grief'' (University of Pittsburgh Press). He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National En ...

* W. S. Merwin * Sarah Murphy *

Eileen Myles Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. No ...

* Camille Norton * Alice Notley * Sharon Olds * Gregory Pardlo *

Lucia Perillo Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet. In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Life and career Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 19 ...

* Carl Phillips * Adrienne Rich * James Richardson * J. Allyn Rosser * James Schuyler *

Tim Seibles Tim Seibles (born 1955) is an American poet, professor and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, ''Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems'' (Etruscan Press, 2022). His honors include ...

* David Shapiro * Charles Simic * Frank Stanford *

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indi ...

* Stephen Campbell Sutherland * James Tate *

David Trinidad David Trinidad (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet. David Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge, where he studied poetry wit ...

* Chase Twichell *

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

* G.C. Waldrep * J. E. Wei * Dara Wier *

Terence Winch Terence Patrick Winch is an Irish-American poet, writer and musician. Biography Winch was born in New York City in 1945. He grew up in an Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, the child of Irish immigrants. In 1971, he moved to Washington, DC, where h ...

* Catherine Wing * Mark Wunderlich * Matthew Yeager * Dean Young * Kevin Young

Works Published by Language

Danish language

* Jöannes Nielsen, ''Broer af sultne ord'' ("Bridges of Hungry Words"), translated from the Faeroese by Erik Skyum-Nielsen, , 52 pages * Andrea Petri, ''Kulørte Balletfantasier'' ("Colored Ballet Fantasies"), , 41 pages * Allan Strandby Nielsen, ''Hvis der ikke er sandstorme, så er der nok noget andet'' ("If There Are Sandstorms, Then There Is Probably Something Else"), , 88 pages

French language

France

Marc Alyn Marc Alyn (Alain-Marc Fécherolle), (born 18 March 1937 in Reims) is a French poet. Life He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957. He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard. He traveled in the Middle East to the ruins of the Phoenician cit ...

, ''Anthologie poétique amoureuse'', 330 pages, Ecriture, * Luc Bérimont, ''Poésies Complètes'', publisher: Presses Universitaires d'Angers * Abdellatif Laabi, ''Oeuvre poétique II'', publisher: La Différence * Yvon Le Men, ''Le Tour du monde en 80 poèmes'', publisher: Flammarion *

Bernard Noël Bernard Noël (19 November 1930 – 13 April 2021) was a French writer and poet. He received the ''Grand Prix national de la poésie'' (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992 and the ''Prix Robert Ganzo'' (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010. Biography ...

, ''Les Plumes d'éros'' ("The Feathers of Eros"), Works, Volume 1, poetry and prose, 448 pages, Galimard, *

Sergio Badilla Castillo Sergio Badilla Castillo (born November 30, 1947 in Valparaiso, Chile) is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry. He is considered the Latin American poet with the broadest Nordic influence, from the Finnish ...

''Ville Asiégée''. Al Manar. Voix Vives de Méditerraée. Juillet 2010

=Anthologies in France

= * Marie-Claire Bancquart, editor, ''Couleurs femmes: Poèmes de 57 femmes'', Le Castor Astral * Christine Planté, editor, ''Femmes poètes du XIXe siècle: Une anthologie'', PUL * Erhan Turgut, editor, ''Voix de femmes. Anthologie de femmes poètes et photographes du monde'', Turquoise Editions

Germany

, ''Ein Weltgewandtes Land: Gedichte. Zweisprachig'' ("A Worldly Country: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by

Gerhard Falkner Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1 ...

, Jan Wagner, Ron Winkler,

Uljana Wolf Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work. Wolf works in both Berlin and New York. She teaches German at New York University. Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. ...

et. a. 340 pages, Luxbooks, * Tadeusz Dabrowski, ''Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund. Zweisprachig'' a bilingual Polish/German edition; translated into German by Andre Rudolph,

Monika Rinck Monika Rinck (born 29 April 1969 in Zweibrücken) is a German writer. Life and work After graduating from high school, Monika Rinck studied religious studies, history, and comparative literature in Bochum, Berlin and Yale. She writes poetry, pro ...

, 140 pages, Luxbooks, * Rolf Haufs, ''Tanzstunde auf See: Gedichte'', 128 pages, Hanser, * Martina Hefter, ''Nach den Diskotheken: Gedichte'', 80 pages, Kookbooks, * Gert Jonke, ''Alle Gedichte: Gedichte'' ("Complete Poems"), 160 pages, Jung und Jung, * Nadja Küchenmeister, ''Alle Geister: Gedichte'', 104 pages, Schöffling, * Ben Lerner, ''Die Lichtenbergfiguren: Gedichte. Zweisprachig'' ("The Lichtenberg Figures: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Steffen Popp, 70 pages, Luxbooks, * Gwendolyn McEwen ''Die T. E. Lawrence Gedichte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig'', a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Christine Koschel, 160 pages, Edition Rugerup, * Benard Noel, ''Körperextrakte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig'', a bilingual French/German edition; translated into German by Angela Sanmann, 106 pages, Das Wunderhorn, * Jörn Pfennig, ''Grondlos Zärtlich: Gedichte'' ("Unwarranted Tenderness: Poems"), 116 pages, Talberg, *

Marion Poschmann Marion Poschmann (born 15 December 1969 in Essen) is a German author, novelist, and poet. Life Marion Poschmann grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen. From 1989 to 1995 she studied German, philosophy, and Slavic studies in Bonn and Berlin. ...

, ''Geistersehen: Gedichte'' ("Seeing Ghosts"), 126 pages, Suhrkamp, * Marcus Roloff, ''Im toten Winkel des goldenen Schnitts'', 72 pages, Gutleut, * Doris Runge, ''Was da auftaucht: Gedichte'', 84 pages, dtv, * Lutz Seiler, ''Felderlatein: Gedichte'', 102 pages, Suhrkamp, * Ernest Wichner ''Bin ganz wie aufgesperrt'', 47 pages, Das Wunderhorn, * Ron Winkler, ''Frenetische Stille: Gedichte'' ("Frenetic Silence: Poems"), 96 pages, Berlin Verlag,

Poland

* Jacek Gutorow, ''Na brzegu rzeki''; publisher: Biuro Literackie *

Jiří Kolář Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art. Life Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914, in a work ...

, ''Sposób użycia i inne wiersze'', selected, translated from the original Czech and annotated by

Leszek Engelking Leszek Engelking (2 February 1955 – 22 October 2022) was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer. Engelking translated a vast amount ...

; publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT * Urszula Kozioł, ''Horrendum''; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie *

Ewa Lipska Ewa Lipska (born 8 October 1945 in Kraków), is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna an ...

, ''Pogłos''; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie * Andrzej Sosnowski, ''Poems'' (untranslated title); publisher: Biuro Literackie * Bohdan Zadura, ''Węgierskie lato. Przekłady z poetów węgierskich'', translated from the original Hungarian; publisher: Biuro Literacke * Adam Zagajewski, ''Wiersze wybrane'' (''Selected Poems''), publisher: Wydawnictwp a5

Spanish language

* Elvis Dino Esquivel, ''Llantos del silencio'', Solar Empire Publishing, *

''Ok Atacama''. Pentagrama edicions. Julio 2010, Santiago de Chile,

Other languages

* János Háy, ''Egy szerelmes vers története'' ("The Story of a Love Poem"), Palatinus;

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...

Karol Gwóźdź Karol Gwóźdź (; born 2 April 1987 in Katowice) is a Silesian poet, writer, graphic designer, photographer, DJ, musician and producer of ambient and electronic music, also known as Nail (''gwóźdź'' is Polish for ''nail''). Promoter of Sil ...

, ''Myśli ukryte'', publisher: Hologram, published in the

Upper Silesia Upper Silesia ( pl, Górny Śląsk; szl, Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; cs, Horní Slezsko; german: Oberschlesien; Silesian German: ; la, Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, locate ...

, written in

Silesian language Silesian * Polish: ''etnolekt śląski'', ''język śląski'', ''gwara śląska'', ''śląszczyzna'' * german: link=no, Schlonsakisch, Wasserpolnisch or Upper Silesian is a West Slavic ethnolect of either the Lechitic group or the Czech ...

Awards and honors

Awards announced this year:

International

* Golden Wreath of Poetry:

Lyubomir Levchev Lyubomir is a Bulgarian masculine given name, a variant of the Slavonic Lubomir. Notable people with this name include: * Lyubomir Andreychin (born 1910), Bulgarian linguist * Lyubomir Bogdanov (born 1982), Bulgarian football midfielder * Lyubomir ...

(Bulgaria)

Australia awards and honors

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: *

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.Archibald Lampman Award:

Craig Poile Craig Poile is a Canadian poet, who won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2010 for his collection ''True Concessions''.

, ''True Concessions'' * Atlantic Poetry Prize:

Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen Tonya is an English given name that is a short form of Antonia in use in Mexico, United States, most of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia, India, Pakistan, England, Scotland, Wale ...

, ''Lean-To'' *

2010 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 13, and winning titles were announced on November 16.Richard Greene, ''Boxing the Compass'' (English); Danielle Fournier, ''effleurés de lumière'' (French) *

: **Canadian:

Karen Solie Karen Solie (born 1966) is a Canadian poet. Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an a ...

, ''Pigeon'' **International, in the English Language: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, ''The Sun-fish'' **Lifetime Recognition Award: Adrienne Rich * Gerald Lampert Award: James Langer, ''Gun Dogs'' *

Pat Lowther Award The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Karen Solie Karen Solie (born 1966) is a Canadian poet. Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an a ...

, ''Pigeon'' * Prix Alain-Grandbois: Paul Bélanger, ''Répit'' *

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry ...

: Fred Wah, ''Is a Door'' * Prix Émile-Nelligan: Philippe More, ''Le laboratoire des anges''

New Zealand awards and honors

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: * New Zealand Post Book Awards: ** Poetry Award Winner, Brian Turner, ''Just This''. Victoria University Press ** NZSA Jessie MacKay Best First Book of Poetry Award Winner: Selina Tusitala Marsh, ''Fast Talking PI''.

Auckland University Press Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...

United Kingdom awards and honors

* Cholmondeley Award:

Gillian Allnutt Gillian Allnutt (born 15 January 1949 in London) is an English poet, author of 9 collections and recipient of several prizes including the 2016 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Life Allnutt was born in London, but was educated at La Sagesse Schoo ...

, Gwyneth Lewis,

Costa Award The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then ...

(formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Christopher Reid ''A Scattering'' ** Shortlist: * English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: *

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seve ...

(for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): * Forward Poetry Prize: **Best Collection: ***Shortlist:

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

(for '' Human Chain''),

Lachlan Mackinnon Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956) is a contemporary Scottish poet, critic and literary journalist. He was born in Aberdeen and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He took early retirement from his job as a teacher of English at Winc ...

(for ''Small Hours''), Sinéad Morrissey (for ''Through the Square Window''), and

Fiona Sampson Fiona Ruth Sampson, is a British poet and writer. She is published in thirty-seven languages and has received a number of national and international awards for her writing. A former musician, Sampson has written on the links between music a ...

(for ''Rough Music''),

(for ''The Wrecking Light''),

Jo Shapcott Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Aw ...

(for ''Of Mutability'')Flood, Alison
"Forward poetry prize avoids Nobel laureate clash: Shortlist for this year's best poetry collection prize includes Seamus Heaney but overlooks Derek Walcott"
July 20, 2010, ''The Guardian''. Retrieved July 26, 2010. **Best First Collection: ***Shortlist:

Christian Campbell Christian Bethune Campbell (born May 12, 1972) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Gabriel in the film ''Trick'', Greg Ivey in the television series ''Big Love'' and on stage as Jimmy Harper in the musical '' Reefer Madness''. E ...

(for ''Running the Dusk''), Hilary Menos (for ''Berg''), Abegail Morley (for ''How to Pour Madness into a Teacup''), Helen Oswald (for ''Learning Gravity''), Steve Spence (writer), Steve Spence (for ''A Curious Shipwreck''), and Sam Willetts (for ''New Light for the Old Dark'') **Best Poem: ***Shortlist: Kate Bingham (for ''On Highgate Hill''), Julia Copus (for ''An Easy Passage''), Lydia Fulleylove (for ''Night Drive''), Chris Jones (writer), Chris Jones (for ''Sentences''), Ian Pindar (for ''Mrs Beltinska in the Bath''), and Lee Sands (for ''The Reach'') * Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: **Shortlist: * Manchester Poetry Prize: * Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet of the Year: "Advice On Wearing Animal Prints" Selima Hill (Flarestack Poets) * National Poet of Wales: * National Poetry Competition 2010: * T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):

, ''White Egrets'' **Shortlist (announced in November 2010): T. S. Eliot Prize#Shortlists, 2010 Short List * ''The Times''/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

United States awards and honors

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Glenn Shaheen for ''Predatory'' * AML Award for Poetry awarded to Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for ''Her Side of It: Poems'' * Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded to Emma Trelles for ''Tropicalia'' * Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: D. A. Powell for ''Chronic'' * Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: John Koethe, ''Ninety-fifth Street'' * National Book Award for Poetry: "Lighthead" by Terrance Hayes * National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: to

for ''One With Others'' * North Carolina Poet Laureate: Cathy Smith Bowers appointed. * PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Anne Carson for translation from the Greek of ''An Oresteia'': Agamemnon (play)#Agamemnon, Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Electra (Sophocles), Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes (play), Orestes by Euripides. Judge: Richard Sieburth * PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: Marilyn Hacker * Poet Laureate of Virginia: Kelly Cherry, two-year appointment 2010 to 2012 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States):

, '' Versed'' **Finalists: ''Tryst'' by Angie Estes and ''Inseminating the Elephant'' by

* List of winners of the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards, Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Paul Vangelisti * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize : Eleanor Ross Taylor * Wallace Stevens Award: Galway Kinnell * Whiting Awards: Matt Donovan (poet), Matt Donovan, Jane Springer, L.B. Thompson

From the Poetry Society of America

* Frost Medal: Lucille Clifton * Shelley Memorial Award: Kenneth Irby /

Judges: * Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Marlene Rosen Fine Judge: Marie Ponsot * Lyric Poetry Award: Ira Sadoff Judge: Megan O'Rourke * Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Sandra Stone Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera; finalist: * Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rebecca Morgan Frank Judge: Marilyn Hacker; finalists: * Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Liya Person-Rechtman Judge: Arda Collins; finalists: * George Bogin Memorial Award: Sawnie Morris Judge:Hettie Jones * Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Leslie Williams Judge: David St. John ; finalists: * Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Karla Kelsey Judge: Forrest Gander * Norma Farber First Book Award: Scott Coffel Judge: Edward Hirsch * William Carlos Williams Award: Eleanor Ross Taylor Judge:

; finalists: Annual Awards Page, Poetry Society of America
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From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize *1st place Catherine Ray, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Where Poems Hide For Me" *2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Alter Ego" *3rd place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “What's in My Journal” *1st Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Wabanaki" *2nd Honorable Mention Hari Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA for the poem “Non-Entity” *3rd Honorable Mention Sophie Bell, Pound Ridge, NY for the poem "The Calming Book" 2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize *1st place Edyt Dickstein, Livingston, NJ for the poem "Promises" 2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize *1st place Lauren Rae (Wren) Brown, Springfield, VA for the poem “Truly (Louis XVI's monologue)” *2nd place Meredith Makhoul, Richmond VA for the poem "Intersection of Patterson and Chopt" *3rd place Taylor Knight, Richmond, VA for the poem "Father" *1st Honorable Mention Audrey Crothers, Virginia Beach, VA for the poem "Odysseus Returns" *2nd Honorable Mention James Ruml, Richmond, VA for the poem "I Wanted" *3rd Honorable Mention Hunter Johnson, Richmond, VA for the poem "English Class" 2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College *1st place Chelsea Henderson, Charlottesville, VA for the poem "Indignities" *2nd place Stephanie Wang, Roslyn, NY for the poem "He Wrote My Name In Snow" *3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, VA for the poem “My Sister, January 1989” *1st Honorable Mention Liam Kane-Grade, Prairie du Sac, WI for the poem "Ants in the Rain" *2nd Honorable Mention Nathan W. Friedman, Richmond, VA for the poem, “Re-enactors” 2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10 *1st place Amber Brown, Oak Park, IL for the poem "Moon" *2nd place Alexis Mia Phillips, Oak Park IL for the poem “Case# 07CR0304” *3rd place Damiano R. Girona, Newport News, VA for the poem "Natural Love" 2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8 *1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem "Sentences" *2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem "Just Because" *3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat” *1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem "The Bus" *2nd Honorable Mention Abby Williams, Richmond, VA for the poem "Devotion" *3rd Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins for the poem "Together"

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 1 – Bingo Gazingo, 85, American poetry, American performance poetry, performance poet, struck by car * January 8 – Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian language, Macedonian writer and poet * January 11 – Fina de Calderón, 82, Spanish poetry, Spanish * January 14 – P. K. Page, 93 (born 1916 in poetry, 1916),

poet * January 20: ** Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born English poetry, British poet and painter ** Avrom Sutzkever, 96 (born 1913 in poetry, 1913), Israeli poetry, Israeli, Yiddish poetry, Yiddish-language poet * February 6 – Robert Dana, 80 (born 1929 in poetry, 1929), American poetry, American poet, was the List of U.S. states' Poets Laureate, poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004 to 2008, pancreatic cancer. * February 13 – Lucille Clifton, 73 (born 1936 in poetry, 1936), American poetry, American poet and former Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985). * March 12 – Todd Moore, 72 (born 1937 in poetry, 1937), American poetry, American poet * March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, 91 (born 1918 in poetry, 1918), Indian poetry, Indian, Marathi-language poet and writer, after short illness

* March 15 - Kazim al-Samawi, 85, (born 1925 in poetry, 1925), Iraqi poet. * March 20 – Ai (poet), Ai, 62 (born 1947 in poetry, 1947), American poetry, American poet whose book ''Vice'' (1999) won the National Book Award for Poetry. Born Florence Anthony, she legally changed her name to Ai. * April 2 – Carolyn Rodgers, 69 (born 1940 in poetry, 1940), American poetry, American poet based in Chicago, participated in Gwendolyn Brooks's Writers Workshops and gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement. * April 5 – William Neill (poet), William Neill, 88 (born 1922 in poetry, 1922), Scottish poetry, Scottish poet. * April 23 – Peter Porter (poet), Peter Porter, 81 (born 1929 in poetry, 1929), Australian-born English poetry, British poet. Associated with referred to in Britain as The Group (literature), The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia. * May 6 – Hoàng Cầm (poet), Hoàng Cầm, 88 (born 1922 in poetry, 1922), Vietnamese literature, Vietnamese poet and playwright * May 7 – Rane Arroyo, 55, (born 1954 in poetry, 1954), American poetry, American poet and playwright. * May 10 – David Chaloner, 65 (born 1944 in poetry, 1944), English poetry, English designer (of interior public spaces) and poet * May 17: **Mukhran Machavariani ( ka, მუხრან მაჭავარიანი), 81 (born 1929 in poetry, 1929), Georgian literature, Georgian poet, died while delivering a speech on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre on the occasion of the 85th birthday of a fellow poet, Pridon Khalvashi **Judson Crews, 92, (born 1917 in poetry, 1917), American poetry, American poet, small press publisher, and bookseller. Ludvik Kundera1

* May 18: **Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, (born 1930 in poetry, 1930), Italian poetry, Italian poet, playwright, critic and winner of the Bagutta Prize. **Peter Seaton, 67, (born 1942 in poetry, 1942), American poetry, American poet associated with the Language poetry movement, of an apparent heart attack. * May 20 – Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, Peruvian literature, Peruvian In a tribute to Valcarcel organized by Argentine poet Gabriel Impaglione, 30 poets recited free-verse poems on May 31. * May 21 – Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poetry, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage * May 22 – Veturi ( te, వేటూరి సుందరరామమూర్తి), 74, Telugu literature, Telugu-language Indian poetry, Indian poet, journalist, writer and lyricist in the Indian cinema, cardiac arrest. * May 28 – Leslie Scalapino, 65, (born 1944 in poetry, 1944), American poetry, American poet, playwright, and editor, winner of the American Book Award. * May 30 – Peter Orlovsky, 76, (born 1933 in poetry, 1933), American poetry, American poet and lifelong companion of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg. * June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, 77 (born 1933 in poetry, 1933), Russian poet * June 7: ** José Albi, 88 (born 1922 in poetry, 1922), Spanish poetry, Spanish poet, literary critic and translator ** Ndoc Gjetja, 66 (born 1944 in poetry, 1944), Albanian poetry, Albanian poet and magazine editor, after long illness Edwin Morgan by Alex Boyd

* June 16 – Allen Hoey, 57 (born 1952 in poetry, 1952), American poetry, American poet who received a Pulitzer prize nomination for his 2008 collection ''Country Music,'', of a myocardial infarction, heart attack. * June 18 – Jose Saramago, 87 (born 1922 in poetry, 1922), Portuguese poetry, Portuguese novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, communist political commentator and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature * July 2 – Tommy Tabermann, 62 (born 1947 in poetry, 1947), Finnish poetry, Finnish poet and politician * July 3 – Roberto Piva, 72 (born 1937 in poetry, 1937), Brazilian poetry, Brazilian poet and writer * July 5 – Pete Morgan, 71 (born 1939 in poetry, 1939), English poetry, English * July 12 – Tuli Kupferberg, 86, American poetry, American Beat poet and singer * August 3 – Marilyn Buck, 62 (born 1947 in poetry, 1947), radical American poetry, American left-wing terrorist and poet * August 15 – Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, 70, (born 1940 in poetry, 1940), Saudi Arabic poetry, Arabian statesman, writer, novelist and poet * August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve (Devanagari: नारायण गंगाराम सुर्वे), 83 (born 1926 in poetry, 1926), Indian poetry, Indian, Marathi-language poet * August 17: ** Ludvik Kundera, 90 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920), Czeck poetry, Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian; a cousin of Milan Kundera ** Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan, 90 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920), Scottish poetry, Scottish poet in English and Scots, appointed first "Scottish Makar" (national poet of Scotland) in

, an honor which he held the rest of his life * August 27: **George Hitchcock (poet), George Hitchcock, 96 (born 1914 in poetry, 1914), American poet; editor and publisher of Kayak (magazine), Kayak magazine and books. **Ravindra Kelekar, 85 (born 1925 in poetry, 1925), Indian author, poet and activist, after short illness. * September 3: **Micky Burn, 97 (born

), English poetry, English writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poet **Carmelo Arden Quin, 97 (born 1913 in poetry, 1913), Uruguayan poetry, Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi” * September 27: **Michael Gizzi, 61 (born

), American poet and editor, author of more than 10 books of poetry **Carmelo Arden Quin, 97 (born 1913 in poetry, 1913), Uruguayan poet, painter and sculptor * October 21: **A. Ayyappan, 61 (born

), Indian poet **Kjell Landmark, 80 (born 1930 in poetry, 1930), Norwegian poet and politician * October 22 – Alí Chumacero, 92 (born 1918 in poetry, 1918), Mexican writer and poet * November 4: **Viola Fischerová, 75 (born 1935 in poetry, 1935), Czech poet **Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, 76 (born 1934 in poetry, 1934), Filipino poet * November 5 – Adrian Păunescu, 67 (born 1943 in poetry, 1943), Romanian author, poet and politician. * November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos, 90 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920), Greek poet, pen name of Yorgis Kontoyorgis. * November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory, 87 (born 1923 in poetry, 1923), Spanish poet, leukemia. * November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, 73, (born 1937 in poetry, 1937), Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer and translator. * December 23 – Janine Pommy Vega, 68, (born 1942 in poetry, 1942) American Beat Generation poet.Janine Pommy Vega Homepage / Official Website
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Events

Works published in English

Australia

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Anthologies in the United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2010''

Works Published by Language

Danish language

French language

France

=Anthologies in France

Germany

Poland

Spanish language

Other languages

Awards and honors

International

Australia awards and honors

New Zealand awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors

United States awards and honors

From the Poetry Society of America

From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

Deaths

See also

Notes