2001 in poetry
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Events
- Immediately after the National Public Radio and widely circulated and discussed for its relevance to recent events. On September 19, Amiri Baraka read his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey.
- December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Milton's Paradise Lost at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours.[1][2]
- Seth Schoen wrote DeCSS haiku as one of a number of artworks intended to demonstrate that source code should be accorded the privileges of freedom of speech.
- In Maureen McLane said of Hass' description that "it's hard to imagine a more judicious account of major tendencies."[3]
- The appointment of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress generated a protest in which Anselm Hollo was elected "anti-laureate" in a contest run by Robert Archambeau (the influential online POETICS list at the University of Buffalo served as the main forum).[4]
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Australia
- Robert Adamson Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems 1970–2001
- Les Murray, Conscious & Verbal, shortlisted for the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize
- ISBN 978-1-86368-300-5
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, By and Large, Manchester: Carcanet; and Sydney; Brandl and Schlesinger
Canada
- ISBN 978-1-55245-063-5
- ISBN 978-1-55245-083-3
- ISBN 978-1-55245-094-9
- ISBN 978-1-933368-15-3
- George Elliott Clarke:
- Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press, ISBN 1-894031-48-2 Canada
- Blue. Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 1-55192-414-5
- Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Gaspereau Press,
- ISBN 978-1-55245-096-3
- Diane Keating, The Year One: New and Selected Poems
- ISBN 978-1-55245-093-2
- Steve McCaffery:
- Seven Pages Missing Volume 1 (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-049-9
- Seven Pages Missing Volume 2: Selected Ungathered Work (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-051-2
- Seven Pages Missing Volume 1 (Coach House Books)
- Roy Miki, Surrender winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
- ISBN 978-1-55245-075-8
- Sharon Thesen, editor, The New Long Poem Anthology, Burnaby, British Columbia: Talonbooks
- ISBN 978-1-55245-067-3
India, in English
- Imtiaz Dharker, I Speak for the Devil ( Poetry in English ), first foreign edition brought out from United Kingdom by Bloodaxe (first India edition: Penguin Books India, 2003)[5]
- Ranjit Hoskote, The Sleepwalker's Archive ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai: Single File[6]
- ISBN 81-7764-176-X[7]
- Sudeep Sen, Perpetual Diary, London: Aark Arts[8]
- K. Satchidanandan, So Many Births: Three Decades of Poetry, Konarak Publishers Pvt Ltd, Delhi[9]
Ireland
- Pat Boran, As the Hand, the Glove (Dedalus)[10]
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland[11]
- ISBN 978-1-85235-306-3
- Electric Light, Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968–1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States
- ISBN 978-1-902602-47-9
New Zealand
- Alistair Campbell, Maori Battalion: a poetic sequence, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards[12]
- Leigh Davis:
- The Book of Hours, Auckland: Jack Books
- General Motors, Auckland: Jack Books
- Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems 1975–2000, edited by K. O. Arvidson, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, posthumous[13]
- Bill Manhire, Collected Poems
- Cilla McQueen, Axis, Otago University Press[14]
- Paul Millar, Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter's Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942–1946
- Michael O'Leary, He Waiatanui Kia Aroha
- Hone Tuwhare, Piggyback Moon
- Ian Wedde, The Commonplace Odes
- Kate Camp, Realia, Victoria University Press
United Kingdom
- Eavan Boland, Code[15]
- Ciarán Carson: The Twelfth of Never, Picador, Wake Forest University Press
- Kate Clanchy, Slattern
- Carol Ann Duffy, editor, Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems, Picador (anthology); 36 poets from around the world were each invited to select a love poem written by someone of the opposite sex and appearing opposite the selecting poet's own love poem[16]
- James Fenton: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed, Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux[17]
- Electric Light, Faber & Faber; Irishpoet published in the United Kingdom
- Geoffrey Hill, Speech! Speech![15]
- Selima Huill, Bunny[15]
- Elizabeth Jennings, Timely Issues[15]
- Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Penguin
- Andrew Motion, Here to Eternity[15]
- Paul Muldoon, Vera of Las Vegas;[15] Irish poet living in the United States and published in the United Kingdom
- Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador)
- Craig Raine, Collected Poems 1978–1999[15]
- Peter Reading, [untitled][15]
- W.G. Sebald For Years Now. Short Books.[18]
- Jo Shapcott, Tender Taxes[15]
- Hugo Williams, Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse, (editor) Faber and Faber
- Benjamin Zephaniah, Too Black, Too Strong[15]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- ISBN 0-85323-727-1
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Keith Tuma, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press)
- Elaine Feinstein, Ted Hughes – The Life of a Poet, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
United States
- Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream Book[19]
- Ralph Angel, Twice Removed (Sarabande)
- Renée Ashley, The Revisionist's Dream
- ISBN 0-8112-1495-8
- Eavan Boland, Against Love Poetry (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Joseph Brodsky: Nativity Poems, translated by Melissa Green; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,[21] Russian-American
- Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Maxine Chernoff, World: Poems 1991–2001 (Salt Publications)
- ISBN 0-375-50380-3)
- W.S. Di Piero, Skirts and Slacks: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Ed Dorn, Chemo Sábe, Limberlost Press (posthumous)
- Alice Fulton, Felt (Norton); a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001"
- Seamus Heaney, Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States
- Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt
- Paul Hoover, Rehearsal in Black, (Cambridge, England: Salt Publications)
- J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser(Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- W. S. Merwin, The Pupil, New York: Knopf[22]
- Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968–1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; Irish poet living in the United States
- Amos Oz, The Same Sea (Harcourt); a novel about sexual hanky-panky involving a man, son and several women; most of the book is in verse; the author collaborated on the translation by Nicholas de Lange); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Carl Phillips, The Tether[23]
- James Reiss, Ten Thousand Good Mornings
- Jay Wright, Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Louisiana State University Press); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Anthologies in the United States
- Caroline Kennedy, editor, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a hardcover New York Times best seller for 15 weeks late this year and into 2002.[24]
- Michelle Yeh and N. G. D. Malmqvist, Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Columbia University Press
- The Best American Poetry 2001, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Robert Hass (including 75 poets)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Kate Sontag and David Graham, editors, After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography, Graywolf Press
Other in English
- Pamela Mordecai, Certifiable, Jamaican[20]
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
French language
Canada, in French
- Edmond Robillard, Du temps que le goglu chantait, Montréal: Maxime[25]
- Jean Royer, Nos corps habitables: Poèmes choisis, 1984–2000, Montréal: Le Noroît[26]
France
- Yves Bonnefoy:
- Le Théâtre des enfants
- Le Cœur-espace
- Les Planches courbes
- Turkish poet writing in and published in France
- Claude Esteban:
- Morceaux de ciel, presque rien, Gallimard
- Etranger devant la porte, I. Variations, Farrago
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Bengali
Other in India
- Oraya-language[29]
- Hindi languages[30]
- Hemant Divate, Chautishiparyantachya Kavita, Mumbai: Prabhat Prakashan; Marathi-language[31]
- Tamil-language[32]
- Tamil language[33]
- Nitin Kulkarni, Sagla Kasa Agdi Safehaina, Mumbai: Lokvangmaya Griha Prakashan; Marathi-language[34]
Poland
- Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Ars poetica[35]
- ISBN 83-86056-98-3[36]
- Ewa Lipska, Sklepy zoologiczne ("Pet Shops"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[37]
- Tadeusz Różewicz, Nożyk profesora ("The Professor's Knife"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie[38]
- Tomasz Różycki, Chata Umaita ("Country Cottage"), Warsaw: Lampa i Iskra Boża[39]
- Jan Twardowski, Kiedy mówisz. When You Say, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie[40]
Other languages
- Germany[41]
- Denmark[42]
- Denmark[43]
- Chen Kehua, Hua yu lei yu heliu ("Flowers and Tears and Rivers") Chinese (Taiwan)[44]
- Jun Er, Chenmo yu xuanhua de shijie ("Quiet in a Tumultuous World"), Chinese (People's Republic of China)[45]
- Rahman Henry, Circusmukhorito Graam, ( A Book of Poetry ), Bangladesh.
- Rie Yasumi, 平凡な兎 ("Ordinary Rabbit") and やすみりえのとっておき川柳道場 ("Senryu Dojo reserve: Fun begins at any time"), Japan
Awards and honors
Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Mateer, Barefoot Speech
- Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Untold Lives and Later Poems by Rosemary Dobson
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Ken Taylor, Africa
- Miles Franklin Award: Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace
Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award: Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
- Archibald Lampman Award: Colin Morton, Coastlines of the Archipelago
- Atlantic Poetry Prize: Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You
- 2001 Governor General's Awards: George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (English); Paul Chanel Malenfant, Des ombres portées (French)
- Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada): Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
- Griffin Poetry Prize (International, in the English Language): Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
- Pat Lowther Award: Sharon Thesen, A Pair of Scissors
- Prix Alain-Grandbois: Martine Audet, Les tables
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Don McKay, Another Gravity
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: Mathieu Boily, Le grand respir
New Zealand
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no winner in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Stephanie de Montalk, Animals Indoors, Victoria University Press
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Ian Duhig, Paul Durcan, Kathleen Jamie, Grace Nichols
- Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick Mackie, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read
- Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection): Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador)
- Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection): John Stammers, The Panoramic Lounge Bar (Picador)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Longley
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Selima Hill, Bunny
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for A Defense of Poetry
- Frederick Morgan
- American Book Award, Janet McAdams, for "The Island of Lost Luggage"
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, for "Circus Fire, 1944"
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Louise Glück
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Robin Behn, Horizon Note
- Frost Medal: Sonia Sanchez
- National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Billy Collinsappointed
- Poets' Prize: Philip Booth, Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950–1999
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
- Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Edward Weismiller
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Yusef Komunyakaa
- Wallace Stevens Award: John Ashbery
- Whiting Awards: Joel Brouwer, Jason Sommer
- Ralph J. Mills, Grasses Standing: Selected Poems, Judge: Fanny Howe
Other
- France: Prix Goncourt for poetry: Claude Esteban, for his oeuvre as a whole
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 17 – Gregory Corso (born 1930), American Beat Generation poet, of prostate cancer
- February 25 – A. R. Ammons (born 1926), American author and poet
- February 14 – Alan Ross (born 1922), British writer and poet
- February 22 – Leo Connellan (born 1928), American poet
- March 23 – Louis Dudek (born 1918), Canadian poet, academic critic and publisher
- August 28 – American poet Gary Snyder
- September 23 – Allen Curnow (born 1911), New Zealand poet and journalist
- October 16 – Faber and Fabereditor
- October 20 – Andrew Waterhouse (born 1958), English poet and environmentalist, suicide
- October 26:
- Pamela Gillilan (born 1918), English poet[46]
- Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926), English poet
- November 18 – R. N. Currey (born 1907), English poet
- November 25 – David Gascoyne (born 1915), English poet associated with the Surrealist movement
- December 8 – Agha Shahid Ali (born 1949), Kashmiri-born English-language American poet
- December 20 – President of Senegal, poet and writer
- December 27 – Ian Hamilton (born 1938), British poet, critic and magazine publisher
- Date not known – Bill Sewell (born 1951), New Zealand poet, German literary scholar and lawyer[47]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Memorising Milton's Paradise Lost: A study of a septuagenarian exceptional memoriser," Memory, 18:5:498-503, April 22, 2010
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved May 8, 2011
- ^ [2] Hass quoted from his Introduction to The Best American Poetry 2001, by Maureen McLane in "Eclectic collection: A new anthology of American works includes a wide range of forms, styles and themes", a review of the book on page 4 of the Books section of the Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2001, accessed via Newsbank.com Web site, October 13, 2007
- ^ [3] [4] Archived 2003-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Web page titled "Imtiaz Dharker" Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Ranjit Hoskote" Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 26, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Arundhathi Subramaniam" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
- ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" Archived 2008-05-19 at the Wayback Machine at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page Archived 2008-04-17 at the Wayback Machine at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ Cilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Archived March 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
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- ^ Web page titled "Manushya Puthiran" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Nitin Kulkarni", Poetry International website, retrieved July 16, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Juliusz Erazm Bolek był gościem wczorajszego Wieczoru w "Arce" (zdjęcia)" (in Polish; Google translation: "Julius Erasmus Bolek was a guest last night in the "Ark" (photos)") at the "moja-ostroleka" website, retrieved February 19, 2010
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