1999 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1999 poetry literature Events May 1 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years July 1 — The new Scottish Parliament opens with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man for A' That", instead of "God Save the Queen" October 4 — In the United States, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman signs into law Assembly Bill No. 2714 (P.L. 1999, c. 228) sent to her from the state legislature and creates the New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit—effectively, Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Whitman subsequently selects poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925), then a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey, as the first appointed to the post in the following AprilNew Jersey State Legislature. "An Act establishing the New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit, supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes and making an appropriation" from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L. 1999, c. 228), Approved 4 October 1999. Retrieved 26 June 2013. The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is established at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Derek Attridge is the first winner Carl Rakosi's 99th birthday celebrated at the Kelly Writers House with a live audiocast A new grave slab is installed at the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh over the final resting place of William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1904), comically renowned as the worst poet in the English language; the slab is inscribed: William McGonagall Poet and Tragedian "I am your gracious Majesty ever faithful to Thee, William McGonagall, the Poor Poet, That lives in Dundee." 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, Black Water: Approaching Zukofsky Jennifer Maiden, Mines, Paper Bark, 90-5704-046-8 Les Murray: Fredy Neptune, verse novel, winner of the 2005 Premio Mondello (in Italy) 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 New Selected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove Conscious and Verbal, Carcanet, Duffy & Snellgrove Canada Ken Babstock, Mean, his first book of poetry, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award (Canada) https://web.archive.org/web/20070929090308/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=1 2007-09-29 Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize/ Canadian Shortlist" at the Griffen Poetry Award Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Afua Cooper, editor, Utterances and Incantations: Women, Poetry and Dub, Toronto: Sister Vision Press (scholarship) Jeffery Donaldson, Waterglass,Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 McGill-Queen's University Press George Elliott Clarke, Gold Indigoes. Durham: Carolina Wren, 0-932112-40-4 Susan Holbrook, misled Tim Lilburn, To the River, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year A. F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu, editors, Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry, Vancouver, British Columbia: Arsenal Pulp Press India, in English Rukmini Bhaya Nair, The Ayodhya Cantos ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: PenguinWeb page titled "Robin Ngangom" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131205434/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11771 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 C. P. Surendran, Posthumous Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin (Viking); not posthumously publishedWeb page titled "C. P. Surendran" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234610/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11040 2012-04-06 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Sudeep Sen: Bodytext: Dramatic Monologues in Motion, London Borough of Harrow: Harrow Arts and Leisure ServiceWeb 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 Retracing American Contours, Columbia: University of South Carolina Eunice de Souza, editor, Talking Poems: Conversations with Poets, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 0-19-564782-3Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919131732/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16077 September 19, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 E.V. Ramakrishnan, editor, The Tree of Tongues: An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, Arundhathi Subramaniam called the volume "a landmark book of translations of modern Indian poetry"; Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 81-85952-70-1 Ireland Ciaran Carson, The Ballad of HMS Belfast, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-246-2 Vona Groarke, Other People's Houses, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Joan McBreen, editor, The White Page an bhileog bh'an: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Thomas McCarthy, Mr Dineen's Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems, Anvil Press, London, Irish poet published in the United KingdomWeb page titled "Thomas McCarthy" https://web.archive.org/web/20100515195236/http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 2010-05-15 at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008 Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, translators, The Water Horse: Poems in Irish Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press New Zealand Alistair Campbell, Gallipoli & Other Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press Janet Charman, Rapunzel Rapunzel, Auckland: Auckland University PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article Leigh Davis, Te Tangi a te Matuhi, Auckland: Jack Books Michele Leggott, As far as I can see, Auckland: Auckland University Press Robin Hyde, The book of Nadath, introduction and notes by Michele Leggott; Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous Bill Manhire, What to Call Your Child Sarah Quigley, Raewyn Alexander and Anna Jackson, AUP New Poets 1: Sarah Quigley, Raewyn Alexander and Anna Jackson, Auckland: Auckland University PressWeb page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20040811073753/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/alexander.htm 2004-08-11 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 United Kingdom Mark Bryant, editor, Literary Hymns: An Anthology, London: Hodder & Stoughton Gerry Cambridge, Nothing But Heather!, Luath Press 0-946487-49-9"Publications" page https://web.archive.org/web/20081119155651/http://www.gerrycambridge.com./publications.html 2008-11-19 , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008 Julia Donaldson. The Gruffalo, children's story in verse Carol Ann Duffy: Meeting Midnight, Faber and Faber (children's poetry)O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page), titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. The World's Wife,Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Anvil Press Poetry Seamus Heaney: The Light of the Leaves, Bonnefant Press Translator: Beowulf, Faber & Faber Translator: Diary of One Who Vanished, a song cycle by Leoš Janáček of poems by Ozef Kalda, Faber & Faber John Heath-Stubbs, The Sound of Light Ted Hughes, translator: Aeschylus: The Oresteia Alcestis Kathleen Jamie, Jizzen Andrew Johnston, The Open Window, Arc Publications, New Zealand poet living in Paris, France Anne MacLeod, Just the Caravaggio, Scottish poet Derek Mahon, Collected Poems, Gallery Press Don Paterson, The Eyes Tom Paulin, The Wind Dog Peter Reading, Apophthegmatic Peter Redgrove, Selected Poems Mary Jo Salter, A Kiss in Space, Knopf Marina Tsvetayeva, The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein, fifth edition, with new poems and a new introduction, Oxford University Press/Carcanet Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain, Faber and Faber Anthologies in the United Kingdom Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, editors, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970, an anthology of poetry outside The Movement (essentially the mainstream) of English and Irish poetry (Wesleyan University Press) Carol Ann Duffy, editor, Time's Tidings: Greeting the 21st Century, Anvil Press Poetry Elaine Feinstein, editor, After Pushkin, "versions by contemporary poets", published by the Folio Society and Carcanet Iona Opie, editor, Here Comes Mother Goose, a collection of nursery rhymes Michael Schmidt, The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Adam Schwartzman, editor, Ten South African poets, Manchester: Carcanet United States John Ashbery, Girls on the Run, a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist Henry Darger Joseph Brodsky: Discovery, 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 Jared Carter, Les Barricades Mysterieuses, Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Robert Dassanowsky, Telegrams from the Metropole. Selected Poems 1980-1998 978-3-901993-02-2 Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Beth Gylys, Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press); winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award Geoffrey Hill, The Triumph of Love (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" John Hollander, Figurehead and Other Poems Fanny Howe, Forged William Logan, Night Battle Glyn Maxwell, The Breakage, (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" W. S. Merwin, The River Sound: Poems, 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" Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems: 1920-1954 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; translated from Italian Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Michael Palmer, The Danish Notebook (Avec Books); memoir/poetic essay. 9781880713181 George Quasha (with Chie Hasegawa), Ainu Dreams (Station Hill Press) Carl Rakosi, The Old Poet's Tale Kenneth Rexroth, Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poems of Protest and Rebellion (Glad Day; posthumous) Charles Simic, Jackstraws: Poems (Harcourt Brace); a New York Times "notable book of the year" A. E. Stallings, Archaic Smile Mark Strand, Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Eleanor Ross Taylor, Late LeisureNews release, "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize" https://web.archive.org/web/20100609012327/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_041310.html?id=186210 June 9, 2010 , April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 9, 2010 Melvin B. Tolson, Harlem Gallery: And Other Poems (University Press of Virginia); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Rosmarie Waldrop, Reluctant Gravities (New Directions) Jesse Lee Kercheval, World as Dictionary Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms (first published in 1958), goes into its seventh edition, Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace Charles Bernstein, A Poetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) Molly Peacock, How to Read a Poem ... and Start a Poetry Circle, New York: Riverhead Books Anthologies in the United States Riohard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, editors, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 Wesleyan University Press Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, editors (and Brotherston, translator), Sun Unwound: Original Texts from Occupied America, North Atlantic BooksWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 anthology Tanure Ojaide and Tijan M. Sallah, editors, The New African Poetry: An Anthology, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner Publishers A. L. Soens, editor, I, the Song : Classical Poetry of Native North America, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press Poets in The Best American Poetry 1999 Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1999, edited by David Lehman, guest editor, Robert Bly: Dick Allen John Balaban Coleman Barks George Bilgere Elizabeth Bishop Chana Bloch Philip Booth John Brehm Hayden Carruth Lucille Clifton Billy Collins Robert Creeley Lydia Davis Debra Kang Dean Chard deNiord Russell Edson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dan Gerber Louise Glück Ray Gonzalez John Haines Donald Hall Jennifer Michael Hecht Bob Hicok Jane Hirshfield Tony Hoagland John Hollander Amy Holman David Ignatow Gray Jacobik Josephine Jacobsen Louis Jenkins Mary Karr X. J. Kennedy Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Ron Koertge Yusef Komunyakaa William Kulik James Laughlin Dorianne Laux Li-Young Lee Denise Levertov Philip Levine David Mamet Gigi Marks William Matthews Wesley McNair Czesław Miłosz Joan Murray Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Franco Pagnucci Molly Peacock Alberto Ríos David Ray Adrienne Rich Kay Ryan Sonia Sanchez Revan Schendler Myra Shapiro Charles Simic Louis Simpson Thomas R. Smith Marcia Southwick William Stafford Peggy Steele Ruth Stone Larissa Szporluk Diane Thiel David Wagoner Richard Wilbur C.K. Williams Charles Wright Timothy Young 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 Yves Bonnefoy, La Pluie d'été, France Claude Esteban, Janvier, février, mars. Pages, Farrago; France Madeleine Gagnon, Rêve de pierre, Montréal, VLB; CanadaWeb page titled "Madeleine Gagnon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164243/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/madeleine_gagnon.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Michel Houellebecq, Renaissance, poèmes, Flammarion; France Valérie Rouzeau, Pas revoir, France Hungary György Petri, Amíg lehet India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Bengali Joy Goswami Suryo-Pora Chhai, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, 81-7215-773-8Web 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 Mallika Sengupta, Kathamanabi, Kolkata: Ananda PublishersWeb page title "Mallika Sengupta" https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092657/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 2012-02-25 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Nirendranath Chakravarti, Onno Gopal, 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 2012-02-14 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Udaya Narayana Singh, Anukriti, New Delhi: Sahitya AkademiWeb page title "Udaya Narayana Singh" https://web.archive.org/web/20090123175626/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9331 2009-01-23 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 NOBBOIER KOBITA, An anthology of poetry 1990s Bangladesh, edited by Mahbub Kabir, Loak Prokashana, Shahbag, Dhaka. Malayalam K. Satchidanandan, Theranjedutha Kavithakal, selected poems; Malayalam-languageWeb 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 P. P. Ramachandran, Kanekkane, winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for poetry: Kottayam: DC BooksWeb page titled "P. P. Ramachandran" https://web.archive.org/web/20090515210702/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14005&x=1 2009-05-15 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 19, 2010 Veerankutty, Jalabhoopadam ("Mapping the Waters"), Kozhikode: PapillonWeb page titled "Veerankutty" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234140/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9991 2012-04-06 , Poetry International website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Marathi Dilip Chitre, Ekoon Kavita – 3, Mumbai: Popular PrakashanWeb 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 Malika Amar Sheikh: Deharutu, Mumbai: Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Prabodhini Mahanagar, Mumbai: Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar PrabodhiniWeb page titled "Malika Amar Sheikh" https://web.archive.org/web/20110920051450/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2727_id=13518 2011-09-20 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Oriya Basudev Sunani, Mahula Bana, Nuapada: Eeshan-Ankit PrakashaniWeb page titled "Basudev Sunani" https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011159/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8635 2012-04-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Bharat Majhi, Agadhu Duari, Varsapallavi, KendraparaWeb page titled "Bharat Majhi" https://web.archive.org/web/20110929184154/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14793 September 29, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Rajendra Kishore Panda, Ishakhela, Cuttack: Cuttack Students' StoreWeb page titled "Rajendra Kishore Panda" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919085035/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9302 2011-09-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Other in India Ajmer Rode, Leela, considered by critics "a landmark volume in modern Punjabi poetry", according to Arundhathi Subramaniam; London, Vancouver: The Rainbird Press, 0-9690504-9-6Web page titled "Ajmer Rode" https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011408/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11767 2012-04-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Amarjit Chandan, Guthli, Kitab Tirinjan, Lahore; Punjabi-languageWeb 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 Chandrakanta Murasingh; Kokborok-language: Lok Chethuwang Lok, Krishnanagar: Akshar PublicationsWeb page titled "Chandrakant Shah" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040435/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2716 2012-03-25 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Pindi Watawi Pin, Agartala: Hachukni Khorang Publisher Jiban Narah, Suwaranir San, Guwahati, Assam: Jyoti-Prakashan; 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 Mamta Sagar, Nadiya Neerina Teva, Bangalore: Ila Prakashana, Kannada-languageWeb page titled "Mamta Sagar" https://web.archive.org/web/20100202031626/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13507&x=1 2010-02-02 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 K. Siva Reddy, Telugu-language: Varsham, Varsham, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry CircleWeb 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 Jaitrayatra, Hyderabad: Sivareddy Mithrulu Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, Mayadesh ("The Land of Maya"), Imphal: Writer's Forum; Meitei language poet and academicWeb page titled "Thangjam Ibopishak Singh" https://web.archive.org/web/20110920032931/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6290 2011-09-20 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 29, 2010 Vaidehi, pen name of Janaki Srinivasa Murthy, Parijatha, Bangalore: Christ College Kannada Sangha, Kannada-languageWeb page titled "Vaidehi" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234011/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14723 2012-04-06 at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Nepal Poland Zbigniew Herbert, Podwójny oddech. Prawdziwa historia nieskończonej miłości. Wiersze dotąd niepublikowane, Gdynia: Małgorzata Marchlewska Wydawnictwo (posthumous)Web page titled "Herbert Zbigniew" https://web.archive.org/web/20090418181922/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,193.php 2009-04-18 , at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website — this source for information other than the translation of the title — retrieved February 27, 2010 Tymoteusz Karpowicz, Słoje zadrzewne ("Tree Rings"), the work stirred "a literary sensation" in Poland, according to critic Tomasz TabakoTabako, Tomasz, "The Return of the Forester: On Reading Tymoteusz Karpowicz", Chicago Review (Summer/Fall 2000): 68, via the "Literature Resource Center" website, retrieved March 2, 2010 Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb pages titled "Karpowicz Tymoteusz" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20090425231844/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,183.php 2009-04-25 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062557/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,85.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 2, 2010 Ewa Lipska, 1999, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php 2011-09-16 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 Tadeusz Różewicz, Matka odchodzi ("Mother Departs"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20120303165053/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,182.php 2012-03-03 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062455/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,84.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010 Tomasz Różycki, Anima, Zielona Sowa, KrakówWeb page titled "Tomasz Różycki" https://web.archive.org/web/20100304095221/http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_rozycki_tomasz 2010-03-04 , at Culture.pl website, retrieved March 1, 2010 Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Znak niejasny, baśń półżywa ("The Unclear sign, a Half-living Legend"), Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut WydawniczyWeb page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Piotr Sommer, Piosenka pasterskaWeb page titled "Piotr Sommer" https://web.archive.org/web/20101011221045/http://poland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14531&x=1 October 11, 2010 , "Poetry International" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Jan Twardowski, Miłość miłości szuka, t. 1-2, Warsaw: PIW, Księgarnia i Drukarnia Świętego WojciechaWeb page titled "Jan Twardowski" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063117/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php 2011-07-18 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Kamień pełen pokarmu. Księga wierszy z lat 1987-1999Web page titled "Eugene Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (1962)" https://web.archive.org/web/20091008102449/http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/autorzy/autorzy.php?site=700&kto=tkaczyszyn-dycki 2009-10-08 , at the Biuro Literackie literary agency website, retrieved February 25, 2010 Adam Zagajewski, Pragnienie, Kraków: a5Web page titled Zagajewski Adam" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062356/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,2.php 2011-07-18 , at the Instytut Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010 Serbia Dejan Stojanović, Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself),Web page titled Sunce sebe gleda by Dejan Stojanović at the Open Library Književna reč, Beograd, 1999 Spain Matilde Camus: Clamor del pensamiento ("Clamour of thought") Cancionero multicolor ("Multicolour collection of verses") La estrellita Giroldina ("Giroldina the star") Other languages Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Raoul Schrott, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1999/2000 ("Poetry Yearbook 1999/2000"), publisher: Beck; anthologyWeb page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf 2011-07-17 at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010 Luo Fu, Silent Falls the Snow, Chinese (Taiwan)Balcom, John, "Lo Fu" https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 January 1, 2011 , article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Aharon Shabtai, Politiqa (Hebrew: "Politics") Maria Luisa Spaziani, Italy: Un fresco castagneto La radice del mare Marie Šťastná, Jarním pokrytcům ("To Spring Hypocrites"), Czech Republic Yu Jian, Yi mei chuanguo tiankong de dingzi ChinaPatten, 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 Awards and honors Nobel prize: Günter Grass Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gig Ryan, Pure and Applied Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: The Impossible, and other Poems by R. A. Simpson Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Lee Cataldi, Race Against Time Miles Franklin Award: Murray Bail, Eucalyptus Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems Archibald Lampman Award: John Barton, Sweet Ellipsis Atlantic Poetry Prize: John Steffler, That Night We Were Ravenous 1999 Governor General's Awards: Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (English); Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations (French) Pat Lowther Award: Hilary Clark, More Light Prix Alain-Grandbois: Hugues Corriveau, Le Livre du frère Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jean-Éric Riopel, Papillons réfractaires New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry winner this year) First-book award for poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Vicki Feaver, Geoffrey Hill, Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh Eric Gregory Award: Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers, Dan Wyke Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Nick Drake, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe) Poet Laureate of Great Britain: Andrew Motion appointed Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Daisy Fried, She Didn't Mean To Do It Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Garrett Arthur Rense Prize awarded to James McMichael by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: J.D. McClatchy, "Tattoos" Bollingen Prize: Robert Creeley Frost Medal: Barbara Guest National Book Award for poetry: Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems Special Bicentential Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Rita Dove, Louise Glück, and W.S. Merwin appointed Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, Blizzard of One Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Derek Attridge Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Maxine Kumin Wallace Stevens Award: Jackson Mac Low Whiting Awards: Michael Haskell, Terrance Hayes, Martha Zweig William Carlos Williams Award: B.H. Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe (Working Classics), Judge: Garrett Hongo Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Gwendolyn Brooks Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 13 – John Frederick Nims, 86, American poet February 18 – Felipe Alfau, 96 (born 1902), Spanish-American poet, translator and author February 22 – William Bronk, 81, American poet May 10 – Shel Silverstein, 68, American children's poet July 4 – Mark O'Brien, 49, American poet August 15 – Patricia Beer, 79, English poet and critic September 8 – Moondog (aka Louis T. Hardin), 83, American street poet October 9 – João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat November 14 – Ida Affleck Graves, 97, Indian-born English poet November 22 – Sufia Kamal, 88 (born 1911), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist December 10 – Edward Dorn, 70, American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Category:20th-century poetry *