2000 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 2000 poetry literature Events Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate April 17 - New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman appoints poet Gerald Stern to be the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perform Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem Spike Milligan made an honorary knight In the film Pandaemonium, released this year, the lives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads," are discussed. 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 Brook Emery, and dug my fingers in the sand, Five Islands Press. 0864186428 Les Murray: Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru Les Wicks, The Ways of Waves, Sidewalk Canada Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian Clint Burnham, Buddyland (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-022-2 Margaret Christakos: Wipe Under A Love (Toronto: The Mansfield Press) Charisma (Toronto: Pedlar Press) George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) Canada Louis Dudek, The Surface of Time. Montreal: Empyreal."Louis Dudek: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063957/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dudek/pub.htm 2011-05-23 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Claire Harris, She, Trinidadian-born, Canadian"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Don McKay, Another Gravity (Canada)http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t%3D2 The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Shortlist 2007 - Don McKay 2008-04-27 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080316075031/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=2 2008-03-16 Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize 2007" at the Griffen Poetry Prize Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 John Pass, Water Stair (0-88982-179-8) Canada Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize) 0-7710-8077-8, Canada Raymond Souster, Of Time & Toronto. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html August 17, 2011 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Anthologies in Canada Ayanna Black, editor, Fiery Spirits & Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent, Toronto: HarperPerennialCanada Wanda Campbell, editor, Susan Atkinson and Tanya Butler, assistant editors, Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, London, Ontario: Canadian Poetry Press Sophia Kaszuba, Sian Meikle, and Ian Lancashire, editors, Canadian Poets University of Toronto English Library, including these poets: Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Earle Birney, bill bissett, Marianne Bluger, Stephanie Bolster, Roo Borson, George Bowering, Dionne Brand, Ron Charach, Lesley Choyce, Peter Christensen, Afua Cooper, Don Coles, John Robert Colombo, Lynn Crosbie, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Jeffery Donaldson, Jennifer Footman, Sky Gilbert, Susan Glickman, Maureen Harris, Elisabeth Harvor, Jan Horner, Susan Ioannou, Ellen Jaffe, Adeena Karasick, Penn Kemp, A. M. Klein, Irving Layton, Noah Leznoff, Dennis Lee, Pat Lowther, Laura Lush, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Kim Maltman, Dave Margoshes, David W. McFadden, Susan McMaster, Bruce Meyer, Anne Michaels, Kim Morrissey, Erín Moure, Susan Musgrave, John Newlove, P. K. Page, E. J. Pratt, Robert Priest, Janis Rapoport, Wayne Scott Ray, Michael Redhill, John Reibetanz, D. C. Reid, Harold Rhenisch, Stan Rogal, Linda Rogers, Joe Rosenblatt, Jay Ruzesky, Richard Sanger, F. R. Scott, Peter Dale Scott, Kathy Shaidle, Kenneth Sherman, Carolyn Smart, Sandy Shreve, John Steffler, Nathalie Stephens, Rosemary Sullivan, Robert Sward, Rhea Tregebov, Jane Urquhart, R. M. Vaughan, Fred Wah, Tom Wayman, Natalie Wilson, Eddy Yanofsky India, in English Sujata Bhatt, Augatora ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet PressWeb page titled "Sujata Bhatt" https://web.archive.org/web/20050224034500/http://sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Bhatt+Sujata 2005-02-24 , Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Keki Daruwalla, Night River ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa & Co.Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131210510/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2725 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Ranjit Hoskote, The Cartographer's Apprentice ( Poetry in English ), (with drawings by Laxman Shreshtha), Mumbai: The Pundole Art GalleryWeb page titled "Ranjit Hoskote" https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092807/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2735&x=1 2012-02-25 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 26, 2010 Tabish Khair, Where Parallel Lines Meet ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin-Viking, 978-0-670-89432-1; New York City: Allen Lane, 0-670-89432-X Web page titled "Tabish Khair" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213455/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17783 2012-02-14 at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Sudeep Sen: Almanac, Columbia: University of South CarolinaWeb page titled "Sudeep Sen" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040921/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 2012-03-25 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Lines of Desire, Columbia: University of South Carolina A Blank Letter, Dhaka: The High Commission of India K. Satchidanandan, Imperfect and Other New Poems, Kozhikode, Kerala: Olive PublicationsWeb page titled "K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Dilip Chitre, No Moon Monday on the River Karha, Pune: Vijaya ChitreWeb page titled "Dilip Chitre" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213612/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13518 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe BooksWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of Jenny Bornholdt, These Days Glenn Colquhoun, An Explanation of Poetry to My Father Paula Green, Chrome Murray Edmond, Laminations Andrew Johnston, Birds of Europe Cilla McQueen, Markings, poetry and drawings, Otago University PressCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024955/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm March 6, 2006 Stephanie de Montalk, Animals Indoors, Victoria University Press Anthologies in New Zealand Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand 0-908877-81-1, 978-0-908877-81-2 Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, editors, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960–1975, Auckland: Auckland University Press Lauris Edmond, editor, New Zealand Love Poems: An Oxford Anthology, posthumousRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books Gerry Cambridge, The Praise of Swans (pamphlet, 28 pp), Shoestring Press, 1-899549-49-8"Publications" page https://web.archive.org/web/20081119155651/http://www.gerrycambridge.com./publications.html 2008-11-19 , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008 Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah, editors, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press 978-0-14-058711-1(anthology) Carol Ann Duffy, The Oldest Girl in the World, Faber and Faber (children's poetry)Micelis, Angelica and Anthony Rowland, The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Choosing Tough Roads, retrieved via Google Books on May 4, 2009 U. A. Fanthorpe, ConsequencesCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 James Fenton (Ulster Scots poet), Thonner an Thon: an Ulster-Scots collection, Ulster Scots dialect poet living and published in Northern Ireland Elaine Feinstein, Gold, Carcanet Thom Gunn: Boss Cupid Collected Poems Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States Craig Raine, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Peter Reading, Marfan Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living and published in the United Kingdom: Floods, Faber and Faber Editor, with Jon Turney (a science journalist), A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science, anthology, Faber and Faber Jo Shapcott, Her Book Sulpicia, The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs United States John Ashbery: Your Name Here As Umbrellas Follow Rain Bei Dao, Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger & Iona Man-Cheong (New Directions) 0-8112-1447-8 Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadian poet living in the United States Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972–1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Gwendolyn Brooks, In Montgomery Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov) Anita Endreszze, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon,Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009 combination of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected PoemsWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 Fanny Howe, Fanny Howe: Selected Poems Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States Constance Merritt, A Protocol for Touch: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Eleanor Wilner W. S. Merwin, translation, Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf;Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927– )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath) Michael O'Brien, Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem) Grace Paley, Begin Again: Collected Poems Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass Carl Phillips, PastoralMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays) Gjertrud Schnackenberg: The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year") Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992, 0-374-52754-7 Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian) Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky (posthumous) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Ashbery, Other Traditions (Harvard University Press), thoughts on six poets (John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert); from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (criticism) 978-0-674-00315-6 0-674-00315-2 Alison Lurie, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney, 0-674-00205-9 Anthologies in the United States Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang, editors, The Body Electric, anthology of poetry published in The American Poetry Review, 1972–1999.(W.W. Norton & Company), 820 pages American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, two volumes, The Library of America (Henry Adams to May Swenson) Cary Nelson, editor, Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Oxford University Press (also published in the United Kingdom) Jeffrey Paine, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, and Helen Vendler, editors, The Poetry of Our World: an International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, New York: HarperCollins Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 2000 These 75 poets had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by David Lehman, with Rita Dove as guest editor: Kim Addonizio Pamela Alexander A. R. Ammons Julianna Baggott Erin Belieu Richard Blanco Janet Bowdan Grace Butcher Lucille Clifton Billy Collins Jim Daniels Gregory Djanikian Denise Duhamel Christopher Edgar Karl Elder Lynn Emanuel B. H. Fairchild Charles Fort Frank X. Gaspar Elton Glaser Ray Gonzalez Jennifer Grotz Thom Gunn Mark Halliday Barbara Hamby Forrest Hamer Brenda Hillman Marsha Janson Mark Jarman Patricia Spears Jones Rodney Jones Donald Justice Olena Kalytiak Davis David Kirby Carolyn Kizer Lynne Knight Yusef Komunyakaa Thomas Lux Lynne McMahon W. S. Merwin Susan Mitchell Jean Nordhaus Mary Oliver Michael Palmer Paul Perry Carl Phillips Robert Pinsky Donald Platt Stanley Plumly Lawrence Raab Thomas Rabbitt Mary Jo Salter Rebecca Seiferle Brenda Shaughnessy Laurie Sheck Reginald Shepherd Rudy Delgado Jr. Cathy Song Gary Soto Gabriel Spera A. E. Stallings Susan Stewart Adrienne Su Pamela Sutton Dorothea Tanning Natasha Trethewey Quincy Troupe Reetika Vazirani Paul Violi Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur Susan Wood John Yau Dean Young Other in English Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadian poet living in the United States Moya Cannon, Oar, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-263-9 Ireland Claire Harris, She, Trinidadian-born, Canadian 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: China Yang Ke, editor, 2000 Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry (zh no Zhongguo xinshi nianjian) (anthology)"Sheng Xing" https://web.archive.org/web/20110725132031/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=971 2011-07-25 article and Web page, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Yu Jian, China: Shige • Biantiaoji (short poems)Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian" https://web.archive.org/web/20070709091425/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=977 2007-07-09 , article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008 Yu Jian de shi (poems and translations) Denmark Klaus Høeck, fra Hjem, publisher: Gyldendal; DenmarkWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" https://web.archive.org/web/20250826151839/http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Bstage%5D=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Buid%5D=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Blang%5D=_eng&id=2092&no_cache=1 2025-08-26 , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Henrik Nordbrandt: Drømmebroer ("Dream Bridges"), winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (Denmark)Web page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" https://web.archive.org/web/20110927114500/http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cla/discoveries/2009/03/danish-poetry-its-hereditary-t.html 2011-09-27 at the Poetry International website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Egne digte ("Own Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 289 pagesWeb page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" https://web.archive.org/web/20101223163443/http://www.litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/henrik-nordbrandt 2010-12-23 at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010 French language Canada, in French Denise Desautels, Tombeau de Lou, Montréal: Le NoroîtWeb page titled "Denise Desautels" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164219/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/denise_desautels.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Pierre Labrie, À tout hasard Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, L'Amérique un peu/Au bord du rouge absolu, with James Sacré; Montréal: Trait d'unionWeb page titled "Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164300/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/madeleine_ouelettemichalska.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Jean Royer, Le visage des mots, Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges//Marchainville: ProverbeWeb page titled "Jean Royer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164236/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jean_royer.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 France Andre du Bouchet, L'emportement du muet Seyhmus Dagtekin, Les chemins du nocturne, publisher: Le Castor Astral Abdellatif Laabi, Poèmes périssables, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris (épuisé), Moroccan author writing in French and published in France Jean-Claude Pinson, Fado (avec fantomes et flacons) Jacqueline Risset, Les instants India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Bengali Joy Goswami: Jogotbari, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, 81-7756-107-3Web page title "Joy Goswami" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090841/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2722 2011-09-19 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 3, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, 81-7756-088-3 Debarati Mitra: Tunnur Computer, Kolkata: Ananda PublishersWeb page title "Debarati Mitra" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040406/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2717 2012-03-25 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Srestha Kavita, Kolkata: Dey's Publishing Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language: Shakulley Teenjon, Kolkata: Ananda PublishersWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 February 14, 2012 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Joler Jailkhana Theke, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers Hindi Anamika, Kavita Mein Aurat, Delhi: Itihas BodhWeb page titled "Anamika" https://web.archive.org/web/20111020151844/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6772 2011-10-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Teji Grover, Ant Ki Kucch Aur Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani PrakashanWeb page titled "Teji Grover" https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011224/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17742 2012-04-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Udayan Vajpeyi, Vie Invisible, translated and published in France; Lignon: Cheyne Editeur;Web page titled "Udayan Vajpeyi" https://web.archive.org/web/20120310081013/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10559 2012-03-10 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Other in India Amarjit Chandan; Punjabi-language: Gurhti (in Persian script), Navyug, New DelhiWeb page titled "Amarjit Chandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050623/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10489 July 21, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Anaran vala Vehra (in Persian script), Kitab Tirinjan, Lahore Chandrakant (Chandu) Shah, also known as Chandu Shah, Blue Jeans, Mumbai: Image Publications; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled "Chandrakant Shah" https://web.archive.org/web/20100727055239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2715 2010-07-27 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Jiban Narah, Ta-Ri-Ri, Guwahati, Assam: Bak; Indian, Assamese-languageWeb page titled "Jiban Narah" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090041/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14751 September 19, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Sambhashanathinu Oru Sramam, ("An Attempt to Converse"); Malayalam-language K. Siva Reddy, Kavisamayam, Vijayawada: Sahiti Mitrulu; Telugu-languageWeb page titled "K. Siva Reddy" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919122233/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 September 19, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Kutti Revathi, Poonaiyai pola alaiyum velicham, ("Light Prowls Like a Cat"), Chennai: ThamizhiniWeb page titled "Kutti Revathi" https://web.archive.org/web/20120119095033/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6288 2012-01-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 S. Joseph, Karutha Kallu, winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; Kottayam: DC Books, 81-264-0205-9Web page titled "S. 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The Human Form!"), Srirangapattana, Mandya district, Karnataka: Nelamane PrakashanaWeb page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" https://web.archive.org/web/20120310083134/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2734 2012-03-10 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Salma, Oru Maalaiyum Innoru Maalaiyum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu PathippagamWeb page titled "Salma" https://web.archive.org/web/20100808132409/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8126 2010-08-08 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Unnadedo Unnattu ("As It Is"); Telugu-languageGopal, Venu, "Varavara Rao – A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal (December 15, 2005)", December 15, 2005, Venu Gopal website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Bangladesh Rahman Henry, Prokrito Saros Urey Jae, A Book of Poetry in Bengali, Shraban, Shahbag, Dhaka. Bangladesh. 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J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit Archibald Lampman Award: Stephanie Bolster, Two Bowls of Milk Atlantic Poetry Prize: Ken Babstock, Mean 2000 Governor General's Awards: Don McKay, Another Gravity (English); Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien (French) Pat Lowther Award: Esta Spalding, Lost August Prix Alain-Grandbois: Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go Prix Émile-Nelligan: Tania Langlais, Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme India Sahitya Akademi Award : Manglesh Dabral for Hum Jo Dekhte Hain Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Shahnaz Habib for Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones & Revathy Gopal for I Would Know You Anywhere New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry winner this year): First-book award for poetry: Glenn Colquhoun, The Art of Walking Upright, Steele Roberts A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award: Allen Curnow United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto) Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside, The Asylum Dance National Poetry Competition : Ian Duhig for The Lammas Hireling United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Rudy Delgado Jr., A Path Between Houses Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia: Grace Simpson, two year appointment 2000 to 2002https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: T. V. F. Brogan Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Carl Dennis Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart Whiting Awards: Albert Mobilio, James Thomas Stevens, Claude Wilkinson William Carlos Williams Award: Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Roland Flint, 66 (born 1934), American, of cancer January 22 – Anne Hébert, 83 (born 1916), Canadian, French language January 28 – Lauris Edmond, 75 (born 1924), New Zealand February 4 – Edgar Bowers, 75 (born 1924), American, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma April 16 – John Bruce, 78 (born 1922) Canadian April 21 Douglas Oliver, 62 (born 1937), English, of prostate cancer Al Purdy, 81 (born 1918), Canadian, of lung cancer May 14 – Karl Shapiro, 86 (born 1913), American September 25 – R. S. Thomas, 87 (born 1913), Anglo-Welsh poet and clergyman June 9 – Ernst Jandl, 74 (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator June 26 – Judith Wright, 85 (born 1915) Australian poet and environmental campaigner, of a heart attack July 13 – A. D. Hope, 92 (born 1907), Australian poet and satirist September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, 76 (born 1924), Israeli, Hebrew language November 14 – Libby Scheier, 54 (born 1946), Canadian, of breast cancer November 29 – William Scammell, 59 (born 1939), English December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83 (born 1917), American, of cancer December 20 – Adrian Henri, 68 (born 1932), English member of the Liverpool poets References Notes "A Timeline of English Poetry" at the Representative Poetry Online website, University of Toronto See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Category:2000s in poetry *