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

Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

• Griffin Poetry Prize
  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. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
  
   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
  Janice Mirikitani
  Janice Mirikitani is an American Sansei poet and activist.She was born in Stockton, California to Shigemi and Ted Mirikitani, who were Nisei farmers in San Joaquin County. During World War II, she was interred along with her family at the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arkansas. Following the...
  
   succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers...
  
   as San Francisco's Poet Laureate
• October 3 — Edward Lear's
  Edward Lear
  Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...
  
   "The Owl and the Pussycat
  The Owl and the Pussycat
  "The Owl and the Pussycat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871.- Background :Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds...
  
  " named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll
• October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's
  Robert Frost
  Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
  
   "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
  Pierre Trudeau
  Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...
  
  
• October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall
  Royal Festival Hall
  The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
  
   along with 4,000 other people nationwide perform Agbabi's
  Patience Agbabi
  Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word. Although her poetry is hard-hitting in addressing contemporary themes, her work often makes use of strong formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms...
  
   "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record
  Guinness World Records
  Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
  
   for simultaneous mass performance of a poem
• Spike Milligan
  Spike Milligan
  Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
  
   made an honorary knight
• In the film Pandaemonium, released this year, the lives of William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  
   and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
  
  , 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

Australian literature

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to...

• Les Murray
  Les Murray (poet)
  Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
  
  :
  • Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize
    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. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
    
    
  • An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  Chris Wallace-Crabbe AO is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.-Biography:...
  
  , The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru
• Les Wicks
  Les Wicks
  Les Wicks is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of eight books of poetry.-Life:...
  
  , The Ways of Waves, Sidewalk

Canada

Canadian literature

Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...

• Roo Borson
  Roo Borson
  Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia....
  
  , Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread
  Pain Not Bread
  Pain Not Bread is a collaborative writing group formed in 1990 by Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, and Andy Patton. The name is derived from the circumstances surrounding the death of the French critic Roland Barthes.-Works:...
  
  ) American-Canadian
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  
• Clint Burnham, Buddyland (Coach House Books
  Coach House Books
  Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario. Coach House publishes innovative and experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundaries of convention.-History:The company was...
  
  ) ISBN 978-1-55245-022-2
• Margaret Christakos
  Margaret Christakos
  Margaret Christakos is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.-Life:Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. Christakos received her B.F.A. in Visual Arts from York University in 1985. She lived in Montreal from 1985 to 1987, settling in Toronto in 1988. She went on to pursue an M.A...
  
  :
  • Wipe Under A Love (Toronto: The Mansfield Press)
  • Charisma (Toronto: Pedlar Press)
• George Elliott Clarke
  George Elliott Clarke
  George Elliott Clarke, OC is a Canadian poet and playwright. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia".-Life:Born to William and Geraldine...
  
  , Whylah Falls
  Whylah Falls
  Whylah Falls is a long narrative poem by George Elliott Clarke, published in book form in 1990.As with much of Clarke's work, the poem is inspired by the history and culture of the Black Canadian community in Nova Scotia, which he refers to as the "Africadian" community...
  
  , Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990
  1990 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day...
  
  , ISBN 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) Canada
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  
• Louis Dudek
  Louis Dudek
  Louis Dudek, OC was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books...
  
  , The Surface of Time. Montreal: Empyreal.
• Claire Harris
  Claire Harris
  For the science fiction author, see Clare Winger HarrisClaire Harris is a Canadian poet who lives in Calgary, Alberta....
  
  , She, Trinidadian
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
  -born, Canadian
  Canadian poetry
  - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
  
  
• Don McKay
  Don McKay
  Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...
  
  , Another Gravity (Canada
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  )
• John Pass
  John Pass
  John Pass is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia....
  
  , Water Stair (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) Canada
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  
• Anne Simpson
  Anne Simpson
  -Career:Simpson received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queen’s University, and she also graduated in Fine Arts from OCAD University . Subsequently, she worked as a CUSO volunteer English teacher for two years in Nigeria. She teaches part-time at St...
  
  , Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award
  Gerald Lampert Award
  The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert...
  
   and the Atlantic Poetry Prize
  Atlantic Poetry Prize
  The Atlantic Poetry Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.-Winners:*1998 - Carmelita McGrath, To the New World...
  
  ) ISBN 0-7710-8077-8, Canada
  Canadian literature
  Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
  
  
• Raymond Souster
  Raymond Souster
  Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...
  
  , Of Time & Toronto. Ottawa: Oberon Press.

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

Milton Acorn

Milton James Rhode Acorn , nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright. He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island....

, Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

, Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison

Margaret Avison, OC was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. "Her work has often been praised for the beauty of its language and images."-Life:...

, Earle Birney

Earle Birney

Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...

, bill bissett

Bill Bissett

bill bissett is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. He often does not capitalise his name or use capital letters.-Life:...

, Marianne Bluger

Marianne Bluger

-Life:She graduated with distinction from McGill University where she studied pre-medical subjects and philosophy as well as taking poetry courses with Louis Dudek....

, Stephanie Bolster

Stephanie Bolster

Stephanie Bolster is a Canadian poet who lives in Montreal, Quebec, and is a professor of creative writing at Concordia University. She was at one point a writer in residence at York House School.-Awards:...

, Roo Borson

Roo Borson

Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia....

, George Bowering

George Bowering

George Harry Bowering, OC, OBC is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate....

, Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...

, Ron Charach, Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University...

, Peter Christensen

Peter Christensen

Peter Christensen is a Danish politician representing the Liberal Party Venstre. He is an electrician by profession and has been a Member of Parliament since November 20, 2001...

, Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian, author and dub poet.-Biography:Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in African-Canadian history with specialties in slavery and abolition...

, Don Coles

Don Coles

Donald L. Coles, also known as Don Coles, is a Canadian poet and a novelist. Coles won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English poetry for his collection Forests of the Medieval World and the Trillium Book Award in 2000 for his collection Kurgan.Don Coles was born on April 12, 1927, in...

, John Robert Colombo

John Robert Colombo

John Robert Colombo, CM is nationally known as the Master Gatherer. He is among Canada's most prolific authors of serious books...

, Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches the University of Toronto.-Life and career:Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario....

, Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria....

, Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer.Born in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he received a B.A. in...

, Jeffery Donaldson

Jeffery Donaldson

Jeffery Donaldson is a Canadian poet and critic.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Donaldson was educated at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing in the English Department at McMaster University. He lives on the Niagara Escarpment near...

, Jennifer Footman, Sky Gilbert

Sky Gilbert

Schuyler Lee Gilbert, Jr. is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre in Toronto, Ontario at York University and the University of Toronto, before becoming co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times, a Toronto theatre...

, Susan Glickman

Susan Glickman

Susan Glickman is a Canadian writer and critic, celebrated for her wit, imagery, melodic language, and meticulous research. She is teacher of literature and creative writing, currently teaching at Ryerson University in Toronto...

, Maureen Harris, Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor

Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had...

, Jan Horner, Susan Ioannou

Susan Ioannou

Susan Ioannou is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She was previously an English teacher at Bloor Collegiate Institute, for six years during the 1970s...

, Ellen Jaffe, Adeena Karasick, Penn Kemp

Penn Kemp

Penn Kemp is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and sound poet who lives in London, Ontario. In 2010 Kemp became London's first poet laureate.-Works:...

, A. M. Klein

A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses Klein was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer, and lawyer. He has been called "One of Canada's greatest poets and a leading figure in Jewish-Canadian culture."...

, Irving Layton

Irving Layton

Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

, Noah Leznoff, Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee may refer to:*Dennis Lee , Canadian children's writer and poet*Dennis Lee, director of Fireflies in the Garden*Dennis Lee, lead screamer for the North Carolinian band, Alesana-See also:...

, Pat Lowther

Pat Lowther

Patricia Louise Lowther was a Canadian poet. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she grew up in the neighboring city of North Vancouver.-Life:...

, Laura Lush, Gwendolyn MacEwen

Gwendolyn MacEwen

Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen was a Canadian poet and novelist. A "sophisticated, wide-ranging and thoughtful writer," she published more than 20 books in her brief life. "A sense of magic and mystery from her own interests in the Gnostics, Ancient Egypt and magic itself, and from her wonderment at...

, Kim Maltman

Kim Maltman

Kim Maltman is a Canadian poet and physicist who lives in Toronto. He is a professor of Applied Mathematics at York University and pursues research in theoretical nuclear/particle physics.- Works :...

, Dave Margoshes, David W. McFadden, Susan McMaster

Susan McMaster

Susan McMaster is a Canadian poet, literary editor, and spoken word/performance poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. She is currently President of the League of Canadian Poets....

, Bruce Meyer

Bruce Meyer

Bruce Meyer is a Canadian poet and educator.He has been the Director of Writing and Literature at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and has taught at the University of Windsor, McMaster University, Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Seneca College, Humber College,...

, Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels

-Background:Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the Department of English. Her first book, The Weight of Oranges , a volume of poetry, was awarded the Commonwealth...

, Kim Morrissey

Kim Morrissey

Kim Morrissey is a Canadian poet and playwright who lives in London, England. Many of her works examine the role of women in nineteenth century culture, re-imagining the lives of historical figures. She is also part of the Comedy Collective UK...

, Erin Mouré

Erin Mouré

Erin Mouré is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry from languages which include, French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish to English. Her mother Mary Irene was born 1924 in Galicia, Poland and moved to Canada in 1929. Erin’s father is William Moure born in Ottawa Canada in 1925...

, Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and the Queen Charlotte Islands....

, John Newlove

John Newlove

John Newlove was a Canadian poet who was considered to be one of the dominant voices of prairie poetry, though he lived most of his adult life in British Columbia and Ontario.-Life:...

, P. K. Page

P. K. Page

Patricia Kathleen Page, CC, OBC, FRSC , commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet...

, E. J. Pratt

E. J. Pratt

Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC , who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time." He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario...

, Robert Priest

Robert Priest

Robert Priest is a British born Canadian poet and children's author. He has written numerous books of poetry, several children's novels, and has often appeared on CBC radio's hit spoken word show "Wordbeat" under the alias "Dr Poetry". He is well known for his aphorisms and performance poetry...

, Janis Rapoport, Wayne Scott Ray, Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Redhill was raised in the metropolitan Toronto, Ontario area. He pursued one year of study at Indiana University, and then returned to Canada, completing his education at York University and the...

, John Reibetanz, D. C. Reid

D. C. Reid

Dennis Reid is a Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer. He also writes about fly fishing, high end automobiles, round the world yacht races and the human brain...

, Harold Rhenisch, Stan Rogal, Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Port Alice, British Columbia.A past president of the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of BC Writers she lives in Victoria, British Columbia.-Poetry:...

, Joe Rosenblatt

Joe Rosenblatt

Joseph Rosenblatt is a Canadian poet who lives in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He has won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry...

, Jay Ruzesky, Richard Sanger, F. R. Scott

F. R. Scott

Francis Reginald Scott, CC commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party...

, Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian born, former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a former diplomat and a poet....

, Kathy Shaidle

Kathy Shaidle

Kathy Shaidle is a Canadian author, columnist, poet and blogger. A self-described "anarcho-peacenik" in the early years of her writing career, she moved to a conservative, Roman Catholic position following the attacks of September 11, 2001, and entered the public eye as the author of the popular...

, Kenneth Sherman, Carolyn Smart

Carolyn Smart

Carolyn Smart is an author, mostly of poetry, who lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches Contemporary Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Queen's University....

, Sandy Shreve

Sandy Shreve

Sandy Shreve is a Canadian poet living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sandy has published four poetry collections, most recently Suddenly, So Much. Recent work has appeared in her chapbook, Cedar Cottage Suite and the journals Literary Canada Review, Exile, and The Windsor Review. A new...

, John Steffler

John Steffler

-Biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Steffler was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Since 1975 he has lived in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador where he taught at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College...

, nathalie stephens, Rosemary Sullivan

Rosemary Sullivan

Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist.Sullivan was born in the small town of Valois on Lac St. Louis, which is located just outside of Montreal, Quebec. After graduating from St. Thomas high school, she attended McGill University on a scholarship, and earned her...

, Robert Sward

Robert Sward

Robert Sward is an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's Collected Poems, 1957-2004 calls him, "in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries...

, Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov

Rhea Tregebov is a Canadian poet and children's writer who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.- Background :Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Tregebov attended the University of Manitoba, Cornell and Boston universities. For many years she lived in Toronto,...

, Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...

, R. M. Vaughan

R. M. Vaughan

Richard Murray Vaughan is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright.A graduate of the creative writing program at the University of New Brunswick, Vaughan currently lives in Toronto. He was playwright-in-residence at Buddies in Bad Times in 1994-95, and has published numerous works, including...

, Fred Wah

Fred Wah

Frederick James Wah is a Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar.Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior of British Columbia. His Canadian-born father was raised in China, the son of a Chinese father and a Scots-Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother was a Swedish-born...

, Tom Wayman

Tom Wayman

Thomas Ethan Wayman is a Canadian poet and academic.Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia. He studied at the University of British Columbia, Colorado State University, and the University of California, Irvine.Wayman has received the Canadian Authors...

, Natalie Wilson, Eddy Yanofsky

India

Indian poetry

Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

, in English

Indian Poetry in English

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

• Sujata Bhatt
  Sujata Bhatt
  Sujata Bhatt is an Indian poet, a native speaker of Gujarati.-Life and career:Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, and brought up in Pune until 1968, when she emigrated to the United States with her family. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa, and for a time was writer-in-residence at the...
  
  , Augatora ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), Carcanet Press
• Keki Daruwalla, Night River ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), New Delhi: Rupa & Co.
• Ranjit Hoskote
  Ranjit Hoskote
  Ranjit Hoskote is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator.-Early life and education:...
  
  , The Cartographer’s Apprentice ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), (with drawings by Laxman Shreshtha), Mumbai: The Pundole Art Gallery
• Tabish Khair
  Tabish Khair
  Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark...
  
  , Where Parallel Lines Meet ( Poetry in English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   ), New Delhi
  New Delhi
  New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
  
  : Penguin-Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-89432-1; New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
  : Allen Lane, ISBN 0-670-89432-X

• Sudeep Sen
  Sudeep Sen
  -Life and work:Sen studied at St Columba's School and read literature at Hansraj College Delhi University. As an Inlaks Scholar, he received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York...
  
  :
  • Almanac, Columbia: University of South Carolina
  • Lines of Desire, Columbia: University of South Carolina
  • A Blank Letter, Dhaka: The High Commission of India
• K. Satchidanandan, Imperfect and Other New Poems, Calicut, Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
  : Olive Publications, Calicut, Kerala
  Kerala
  or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
  
  
• Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938...
  
  , No Moon Monday on the River Karha, Pune
  Pune
  Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
  
  : Vijaya Chitre

New Zealand

New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

• Fleur Adcock
  Fleur Adcock
  Kareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
  
   (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963
  1963 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...
  
  ), Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
• Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of
• Jenny Bornholdt
  Jenny Bornholdt
  Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.-Biography:Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism...
  
  , These Days
• Glenn Colquhoun
  Glenn Colquhoun
  Dr. Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura, Auckland in 1964, is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.-Life:He practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive....
  
  , An Explanation of Poetry to My Father
• Paula Green, Chrome
• Murray Edmond, Laminations
• Andrew Johnston
  Andrew Johnston (poet)
  Andrew Johnston is an award-winning New Zealand poet and journalist who works as an editor for the International Herald Tribune in Paris....
  
  , Birds of Europe
• Cilla McQueen
  Cilla McQueen
  Cilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.-Early years and Education:McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four....
  
  , Markings, poetry and drawings, Otago University Press

Anthologies in New Zealand

• Jenny Bornholdt
  Jenny Bornholdt
  Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.-Biography:Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism...
  
   and Gregory O'Brien
  Gregory O'Brien
  Gregory O’Brien , is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.-Life:He trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland...
  
  , editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand ISBN 0-908877-81-1, ISBN 978-0-908877-81-2
• Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott
  Michele Leggott
  Michele Joy Leggott MNZM is a New Zealand poet, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Auckland. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and received her secondary education at New Plymouth Girls High School, before attending the University of Canterbury where she completed an MA...
  
  , editors, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975, Auckland: Auckland University Press
• Lauris Edmond
  Lauris Edmond
  Lauris Dorothy Edmond was a New Zealand poet and writer. Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, she survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, Edmond raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life...
  
  , editor, New Zealand Love Poems: An Oxford Anthology, posthumous

United Kingdom

English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

• Fleur Adcock
  Fleur Adcock
  Kareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
  
   (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963
  1963 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...
  
  ), Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
• Gerry Cambridge, The Praise of Swans (pamphlet, 28 pp), Shoestring Press, ISBN 1-899549-49-8
• Robert Crawford
  Robert Crawford (Scottish poet)
  Robert Crawford FRSE FRA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.-Early life:...
  
   and Mick Imlah
  Mick Imlah
  Michael Ogilvie Imlah , better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.-Background:Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow...
  
  , editors, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press ISBN 978-0-14-058711-1(anthology)
• Carol Ann Duffy
  Carol Ann Duffy
  Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...
  
  , The Oldest Girl in the World, Faber and Faber (children's poetry)
• U. A. Fanthorpe
  U. A. Fanthorpe
  Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL was an English poet. She published as UA Fanthorpe.-Early life:She was educated in Surrey and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a first-class degree in English language and literature, and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College...
  
  , Consequences
• James Fenton
  James Fenton
  James Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...
  
  : The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures
• Elaine Feinstein
  Elaine Feinstein
  Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.-Biography:...
  
  , Gold, Carcanet
• Thom Gunn
  Thom Gunn
  Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...
  
  :
  • Boss Cupid
  • Collected Poems
• Glyn Maxwell
  Glyn Maxwell
  Glyn Maxwell is a British poet.-Early life:Though his parents are Welsh, Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. He studied English at Worcester College, Oxford. He began an MLitt there, but in 1987 moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at...
  
  , 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
  The New Republic
  The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
  
  living in the United States
• Craig Raine
  Craig Raine
  Craig Raine is an English poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry.-Life:...
  
  , A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
• Peter Reading
  Peter Reading
  Peter Reading was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as "strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical"...
  
  , Marfan
• Maurice Riordan
  Maurice Riordan
  Maurice Riordan is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, Riordan has published three collections of poetry: A Word from the Loki , a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S...
  
  , Irish
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
   poet living and published in the United Kingdom:
  • Floods, Faber and Faber (Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
    
     poet living and published in the United Kingdom)
  • Editor, with Jon Turney (a science journalist), A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science, anthology, Faber and Faber
• Jo Shapcott
  Jo Shapcott
  Jo Shapcott FRSL, 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 Award.-Career:...
  
  , Her Book
• Sulpicia
  Sulpicia
  -Sulpicia I:The earlier Sulpicia is the only known woman from Ancient Rome whose poetry survives to this day. She is said to have lived in the reign of Augustus and have been probably the daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufus and a niece of Messalla Corvinus, an important patron of literature...
  
  , The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs
  John Heath-Stubbs
  John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...
  
  

United States

• John Ashbery
  John Ashbery
  John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
  
  :
  • Your Name Here
  • As Umbrellas Follow Rain
• Bei Dao
  Bei Dao
  Bei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...
  
  , Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger
  Eliot Weinberger
  Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...
  
   & Iona Man-Cheong (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1447-8
• Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadan
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
   poet living in the United States
• Joseph Brodsky
  Joseph Brodsky
  Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
  
  : Collected Poems in English, 1972-1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian
  Russian literature
  Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...
  
  -American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Gwendolyn Brooks
  Gwendolyn Brooks
  Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...
  
  , In Montgomery
• Anne Carson
  Anne Carson
  Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
  
  , Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Paul Celan
  Paul Celan
  Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
  
  , Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh
  Heather McHugh
  -Life:Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, and educator, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents, John Laurence, a marine biologist, and Eileen Francesca . They raised McHugh in Gloucester Point, Virginia. There, her father directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River...
  
   and Nikolai Popov)
• Anita Endreszze, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, combination of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press
• Michael S. Harper
  Michael S. Harper
  Michael Steven Harper is an American poet from Brooklyn, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. He has published ten books of poetry, two of which, "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" and "Images of Kin" , have been nominated for the National Book Award. A great deal of his poetry...
  
  , Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems
• Fanny Howe
  Fanny Howe
  Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S...
  
  , Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
• Kenneth Koch
  Kenneth Koch
  Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77...
  
  , New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Stanley Kunitz
  Stanley Kunitz
  Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...
  
  , The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Stanley Lombardo
  Stanley Lombardo
  Stanley F. Lombardo is an American professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid...
  
   (translator), Odyssey
  Odyssey
  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...
  
   by Homer
  Homer
  In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
  
  , Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Glyn Maxwell
  Glyn Maxwell
  Glyn Maxwell is a British poet.-Early life:Though his parents are Welsh, Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. He studied English at Worcester College, Oxford. He began an MLitt there, but in 1987 moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at...
  
  , 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
  The New Republic
  The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
  
  living in the United States
• Constance Merritt
  Constance Merritt
  Constance Merritt is an American poet. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1966, and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. She is also the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award...
  
  , A Protocol for Touch: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Eleanor Wilner
  Eleanor Wilner
  -Life:She graduated from Goucher College, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D.She was editor of The American Poetry Review, and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx....
  
  
• W. S. Merwin
  W. S. Merwin
  William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...
  
  , translation, Purgatorio
  Purgatorio
  Purgatorio is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno, and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegory telling of the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil...
  
  from The Divine Comedy
  The Divine Comedy
  The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature...
  
  of Dante
  DANTE
  Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various national research and education networks in Europe and surrounding regions...
  
  ; New York: Knopf; (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Grazyna Miller
  Grazyna Miller
  Grażyna Miller was a poet, born in Poland.She lived in Italy, where she wrote poems and translates publications from Polish into Italian. She was also a literary critic whose work was published by the most prestigious Italian press media...
  
  , Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
• Michael O'Brien
  Michael O'Brien (American poet)
  Michael O'Brien is an American poet.He began his poetry career as part of the "Eventorium", a relatively obscure group of New York artists with an interest in surrealism...
  
  , Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland
• Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
  
  , The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem)
• Grace Paley
  Grace Paley
  Grace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
  
  , Begin Again: Collected Poems
• Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
  
  , The Promises of Glass
• Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis....
  
  , Pastoral
• Robert Pinsky
  Robert Pinsky
  Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
  
  , Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
• Michael Ryan
  Michael Ryan (poet)
  Michael Ryan has been teaching creative writing and literature at University of California, Irvine since 1990.-Life:He taught previously at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers...
  
  , A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays)
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  Gjertrud Schnackenberg is an American poet.-Life:Schnackenberg graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1975. She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University, and was Writer-in-Residence at Smith College and visiting fellow at St...
  
  :
  • The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
  • Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992, ISBN 0-374-52754-7
• Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
  , The Prodigal (West Indian)
• Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky
  Louis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
  
  , 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
  John Ashbery
  John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
  
  , Other Traditions (Harvard University Press), thoughts on six poets (John Clare
  John Clare
  John Clare was an English poet, born the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among...
  
  , Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  Thomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician.- Biography :Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford...
  
  , Raymond Roussel
  Raymond Roussel
  Raymond Roussel was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau...
  
  , John Wheelwright
  John Wheelwright
  John Wheelwright was a clergyman in England and America.-Early life:...
  
  , Laura Riding
  Laura Riding
  Laura Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.- Early life :...
  
  , and David Schubert); from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
  Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
  The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts. Distinguished creative figures and scholars in the arts, including painting,...
  
   (criticism) ISBN 978-0-674-00315-6 ISBN 0-674-00315-2
• Alison Lurie
  Alison Lurie
  Alison Lurie is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.-Personal...
  
  , Familiar Spirits
  Familiar Spirits
  Familiar Spirits is a memoir published in 2000 by American writer Alison Lurie. In it, she recounts a friendship with poet James Merrill and his life partner David Jackson which began in the 1950s....
  
  : A Memoir of James Merrill
  James Merrill
  James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...
  
   and David Jackson
  David Noyes Jackson
  David Noyes Jackson was the life partner of poet James Merrill . A writer and artist, Jackson is remembered today primarily for his literary collaboration with Merrill....
  
  
• Helen Vendler
  Helen Vendler
  Helen Hennessy Vendler is a leading American critic of poetry.-Life and career:Vendler has written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; between 1981 and 1984 she taught...
  
  , Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
  
  , ISBN 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
  The American Poetry Review
  The American Poetry Review is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint.Founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg, APR has always been published from editorial offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Berg is one of three editors, along with David Bonanno and Elizabeth...
  
  , 1972-1999.(W.W. Norton & Company), 820 pages
• American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, two volumes, The Library of America (Henry Adams to May Swenson
  May Swenson
  Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright...
  
  )
• Cary Nelson
  Cary Nelson
  Cary Nelson , professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the current president of the American Association of University Professors and a prominent scholar-activist....
  
  , editor, Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Oxford University Press (also published in the United Kingdom)
• Jeffrey Paine
  Jeffrey Paine
  Jeffery Paine is an award-winning writer recognized especially for his work in bringing Eastern culture and spirituality to popular audiences in the West...
  
  , Kwame Anthony Appiah
  Kwame Anthony Appiah
  Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge...
  
  , Sven Birkerts
  Sven Birkerts
  Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."Birkerts was born in Pontiac,...
  
  , Joseph Brodsky
  Joseph Brodsky
  Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
  
  , Carolyn Forché
  Carolyn Forché
  Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...
  
  , and Helen Vendler
  Helen Vendler
  Helen Hennessy Vendler is a leading American critic of poetry.-Life and career:Vendler has written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; between 1981 and 1984 she taught...
  
  , editors, The Poetry of Our World: an International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, New York: HarperCollins

Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 2000

The Best American Poetry 2000

The Best American Poetry 2000 , a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Rita Dove....

These 75 poets had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2000

The Best American Poetry 2000

The Best American Poetry 2000 , a volume in The Best American Poetry series, was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Rita Dove....

, edited by David Lehman

David Lehman

David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...

, with Rita Dove

Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...

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• Kim Addonizio
  Kim Addonizio
  Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....
  
  
• Pamela Alexander
  Pamela Alexander
  -Life:She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an M.F.A. in 1973.She teaches at Oberlin College.Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.Her papers...
  
  
• A. R. Ammons
• Julianna Baggott
  Julianna Baggott
  Julianna Baggott is a novelist, essayist and poet who also writes under pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's Creative Writing Program.-Life:...
  
  
• Erin Belieu
  Erin Belieu
  -Life:She graduated from Boston University, and Ohio State University with an MFA.She taught at Washington University, Boston University, Kenyon College, and Ohio University.She teaches at Florida State University....
  
  
• Richard Blanco
  Richard Blanco
  -Life:He immigrated with his Cuban exile family to Miami where he was raised and educated.He graduated from Florida International University in Civil Engineering and Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing , where he studied with Campbell McGrath....
  
  
• Janet Bowdan
• Grace Butcher
• Lucille Clifton
  Lucille Clifton
  Lucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...
  
  
• Billy Collins
  Billy Collins
  Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
  
  
• Jim Daniels
  Jim Daniels
  James Raymond Daniels is an American poet and writer.Since 1981, Daniels has been on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English.He won the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry in...
  
  
• Gregory Djanikian
• Denise Duhamel
  Denise Duhamel
  -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 resident poet at Bucknell University...
  
  
• Christopher Edgar

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• Lynn Emanuel
  Lynn Emanuel
  Lynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ....
  
  
• B. H. Fairchild
  B. H. Fairchild
  B.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is Usher , and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The...
  
  
• Charles Fort
  Charles Fort
  Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...
  
  
• Frank X. Gaspar
  Frank X. Gaspar
  Frank Xavier Gaspar is a Portuguese American poet, novelist and professor. His most recent novel is Stealing Fatima . His most recent collection of poetry, Night of a Thousand Blossoms was one of 12 books honored as the "Best Poetry of 2004" by Library Journal...
  
  
• Elton Glaser
  Elton Glaser
  -Life:He is a native of New Orleans, teaches at the University of Akron, and edits the Akron Series in Poetry.He lives in Akron, Ohio.-Awards:* 2002 Marlboro Prize in Poetry for his poem, "Meditation in Blue and White"* 2002 Crab Orchard Award-Works:* *...
  
  
• Ray Gonzalez
  Ray Gonzalez
  Ramón González Rivera, better know by his ring name Ray González, is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler who has wrestled in Mexico, Japan, as well as with the XWF in the United States, and the World Wrestling Council along with the International Wrestling Association of Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Jennifer Grotz
  Jennifer Grotz
  Jennifer Grotz is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and at the University of Rochester, where she is Assistant Professor...
  
  
• Thom Gunn
  Thom Gunn
  Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...
  
  
• Mark Halliday
  Mark Halliday
  Mark Halliday is a noted American poet, professor and critic. He is author of five collections of poetry, most recently Keep This Forever...
  
  
• Barbara Hamby
  Barbara Hamby
  -Life:She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium , received literary recognition...
  
  
• Forrest Hamer
  Forrest Hamer
  Forrest Hamer is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Rift . His first collection, Call & Response, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, Middle Ear , received the Northern California Book Award...
  
  
• Brenda Hillman
  Brenda Hillman
  Brenda Hillman , is an American poet. She was educated at Pomona College, and received her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California...
  
  
• Marsha Janson
• Mark Jarman
  Mark Jarman
  Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s...
  
  

• Patricia Spears Jones
  Patricia Spears Jones
  Patricia Spears Jones is an American poet. She is the author of two collections books of poetry: The Weather That Kills and Femme du Monde. Patricia Spears Jones was the co-editor for Ordinary Women: Poems of New York City Women. Her poem, "Beuys and the Blonde" was nominated for a Pushcart...
  
  
• Rodney Jones
  Rodney Jones
  Rodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B...
  
  
• Donald Justice
  Donald Justice
  Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr has written, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his...
  
  
• Olena Kalytiak Davis
  Olena Kalytiak Davis
  Olena Kalytiak Davis is an American poet.She is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities . Her first book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize...
  
  
• David Kirby
  David Kirby
  David Kirby is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, and was formerly a regular contributor to the New York Times since 1998. He is author of the 2005 book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy....
  
  
• Carolyn Kizer
  Carolyn Kizer
  Carolyn Ashley Kizer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Lynne Knight
• Yusef Komunyakaa
  Yusef Komunyakaa
  Yusef Komunyakaa is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly...
  
  
• Thomas Lux
  Thomas Lux
  -Biography:Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. He was, according to those who knew him in high school, very good at baseball,...
  
  
• Lynne McMahon
  Lynne McMahon
  Lynne McMahon is an American poet.She graduated from University of Utah with a PhD in 1982. She teaches at University of Missouri,Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The...
  
  
• W. S. Merwin
  W. S. Merwin
  William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...
  
  
• Susan Mitchell
  Susan Mitchell
  Susan Mitchell is an American poet, essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon.-Life:...
  
  
• Jean Nordhaus
• Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
  
  
• Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
  
  

• Paul Perry
  Paul Perry
  Paul Perry is an Australian racehorse trainer based in Broadmeadow, New South Wales. He is famous for winning the King's Stand Stakes and the Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes in the United Kingdom with Choisir.-References:...
  
  
• Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips
  Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis....
  
  
• Robert Pinsky
  Robert Pinsky
  Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
  
  
• Donald Platt
  Donald Platt (poet)
  Donald Platt is a poet and professor of English at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Recently, he was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Stanley Plumly
  Stanley Plumly
  Stanley Plumly is an American poet, who is professor of English and director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program....
  
  
• Lawrence Raab
  Lawrence Raab
  -Life:He graduated from Middlebury College, in 1968 and from Syracuse University with an MA, in 1972.He taught at American University 1970-71, University of Michigan, and Williams College 1976 to present...
  
  
• Thomas Rabbitt
• Mary Jo Salter
  Mary Jo Salter
  Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.-Life:...
  
  
• Rebecca Seiferle
  Rebecca Seiferle
  -Life:Seiferle has a BA from the University of the State of New York with a major in English and History, and a minor in Art History. In 1989, she received her MFA from Warren Wilson College....
  
  
• Brenda Shaughnessy
  Brenda Shaughnessy
  -Life:She grew up in Southern California. She received her B.A. in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and M.F.A...
  
  
• Laurie Sheck
• Reginald Shepherd
  Reginald Shepherd
  Reginald Shepherd was an American poet, born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Penascola, Florida, in 2008.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rudy Delgado Jr.
• Cathy Song
  Cathy Song
  Cathy Song is an Asian-American poet. She is the 1982 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for her collection Picture Bride. Song now resides in Kahala, Hawaii.-Personal life:Song was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii...
  
  
• Gary Soto
  Gary Soto
  Gary Soto is a Mexican-American author and poet.Mexican-American parents Manuel and Angie Soto . In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley and in factories in Fresno. Gary's father died in 1957, when he was just five years old...
  
  

• Gabriel Spera
  Gabriel Spera
  -Life:He graduated from Cornell University, and from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with an M.F.A.He lives in Los Angeles.His work appeared in Cimarron Review, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review,-Awards:...
  
  
• A. E. Stallings
  A. E. Stallings
  Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is an American poet and translator. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow-Background:Stallings was raised in Decatur, Georgia and studied classics at the University of Georgia and University of Oxford. She is an editor with the Atlanta Review. In 1999, Stallings moved...
  
  
• Susan Stewart
• Adrienne Su
• Pamela Sutton
• Dorothea Tanning
  Dorothea Tanning
  Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:...
  
  
• Natasha Trethewey
  Natasha Trethewey
  Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection, Native Guard.Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned the A.B. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in poetry from Hollins University, and an M.F.A. in poetry from...
  
  
• Quincy Troupe
  Quincy Troupe
  Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., , is a poet, editor, journalist-Early life:The son of Negro League baseball catcher Quincy Trouppe , Troupe Jr. attended Grambling State University on a baseball scholarship...
  
  
• Reetika Vazirani
  Reetika Vazirani
  Reetika Vazirani was an American poet and educator. On July 16, 2003, Vazirani was housesitting in the Chevy Chase, Maryland home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, the poet, Jane Shore. There, Vazirani took the life of her two-year-old son, Jehan, and then her own.-Life:She was born in...
  
  
• Paul Violi
  Paul Violi
  Paul Randolph Violi was an American poet born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Splurge, Fracas, The Curious Builder, Likewise, and most recently Overnight...
  
  
• Derek Walcott
  Derek Walcott
  Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
  
  
• Richard Wilbur
  Richard Wilbur
  Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....
  
  
• Susan Wood
• John Yau
  John Yau
  John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978...
  
  
• Dean Young
  Dean Young (poet)
  Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets,...
  
  

Other in English

• Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadan
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
   poet living in the United States
• Moya Cannon
  Moya Cannon
  Moya Cannon is an Irish author.Cannon was born in 1956 in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. She studied History and Politics at University College Dublin, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge....
  
  , Oar, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-263-9 Ireland
  Irish poetry
  The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
  
  
• Claire Harris
  Claire Harris
  For the science fiction author, see Clare Winger HarrisClaire Harris is a Canadian poet who lives in Calgary, Alberta....
  
  , She, Trinidadian
  Caribbean poetry
  Caribbean poetry is any form of poem, rhyme, or song that gets its derivatives from the Caribbean. This type of media became popular primarily in the early 1900s with the works of poets Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott.-Origins:...
  
  -born, Canadian
  Canadian poetry
  - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
  
  

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

Chinese poetry

Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...

• Yang Ke, editor, 2000 Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry (Zhongguo xinshi nianjian) (anthology)
• Yu Jian, China
  Chinese poetry
  Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
  
  :
  • Shige • Biantiaoji (short poems)
  • Yu Jian de shi (poems and translations)

Denmark

• Klaus Høeck, fra Hjem, publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark
• Henrik Nordbrandt
  Henrik Nordbrandt
  Henrik Nordbrandt is a Danish poet, novelist and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the poetry collection Digte. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry collection' Drømmebroer...
  
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  • Drømmebroer ("Dream Bridges"), winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (Denmark)
  • Egne digte ("Own Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 289 pages

Canada

Canadian literature

Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...

, in French

• Denise Desautels, Tombeau de Lou, Montréal: Le Noroît
• Pierre Labrie
  Pierre Labrie
  Pierre Labrie is a Québécois poet, born at Mont-Joli, Quebec. He now lives in Trois-Rivières.Very involved in the social and cultural milieu of the region, he was president of the Société des Écrivains de la Mauricie, co-founder and editor of les Éditions Cobalt, and co-founder of the magazine...
  
  , À tout hasard
• Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
  Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
  Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska is a Canadian writer from Quebec.She studied Arts in University of Montreal, University of Quebec and University of Sherbrooke, where she received a PhD degree in 1987...
  
  , L'Amérique un peu/Au bord du rouge absolu, with James Sacré; Montréal: Trait d'union
• Jean Royer
  Jean Royer
  Jean Royer was a French catholic and conservative politician, former Minister, and former Mayor of Tours.-Mayor of Tours:...
  
  , Le visage des mots, Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges//Marchainville: Proverbe

France

French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

• Andre du Bouchet
  André du Bouchet
  André du Bouchet was a French poet.- Biography :Born in Paris, he lived in France until 1941, when his family left occupied Europe for the United States. He studied at Amherst College and then at Harvard University . After teaching for a year, he returned to France...
  
  , L'emportement du muet
• Seyhmus Dagtekin
  Seyhmus Dagtekin
  Seyhmus Dagtekin is a Kurdish poet and writer. He has lived in Paris since 1987. He writes in Turkish, in Kurdish or in French, and is the author of seven poetry books, and a novel À la source, la nuit...
  
  , Les chemins du nocturne, publisher: Le Castor Astral
• Abdellatif Laabi
  Abdellatif Laabi
  Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966...
  
  , Poèmes périssables, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris (épuisé), Moroccan author writing in French
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
   and published in France
• Jean-Claude Pinson, Fado (avec fantomes et flacons)
• Jacqueline Risset
  Jacqueline Risset
  Jacqueline Risset is a French poet noted for her work on the board of the literary journal Tel Quel along with Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, and for her translations of Italian poetry into French. Risset's books include Sleep's Powers and The Translation Begins.Risset was born in Besançon,...
  
  , Les instants

Bengali

Bengali poetry

Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

• Joy Goswami
  Joy Goswami
  Joy Goswami is an Indian poet. Goswami writes in Bangla and is widely considered as one of the most important Bengali poets of his generation.-Biography:...
  
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  • Jogotbari, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, ISBN 81-7756-107-3
  • Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 3, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, ISBN 81-7756-088-3
• Debarati Mitra:
  • Tunnur Computer, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers
  • Srestha Kavita, Kolkata: Dey’s Publishing
• Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali
  Bengali poetry
  Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...
  
  -language:
  • Shakulley Teenjon, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers
  • Joler Jailkhana Theke, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers

Hindi

• Anamika
  Anamika
  Anamika is a Bollywood film starring Dino Morea, Minissha Lamba and Koena Mitra in the lead roles. It is written and directed by Anant Mahadevan and produced by Bhanwar Lal Sharma...
  
  , Kavita Mein Aurat, Delhi: Itihas Bodh
• Teji Grover, Ant Ki Kucch Aur Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan
• Udayan Vajpeyi, Vie Invisible, translated and published in France
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
  ; Lignon: Cheyne Editeur;

Other in India

• Amarjit Chandan; Punjabi-language:
  • Gurhti (in Persian
    Persian language
    Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
    
     script), Navyug, New Delhi
  • Anaran vala Vehra (in Persian
    Persian language
    Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
    
     script), Kitab Tirinjan, Lahore
• Chandrakant Shah
  Chandrakant Shah
  Chandrakant Shah, OOnt, MD, FRCP, FAAP, SM is a Canadian doctor, researcher and social activist. Dr. Shah is the clinical coordinator of Anishnawbe Health Toronto, where he has been a staff physician since 1996, providing primary health care to Toronto’s aboriginal community as well as people who...
  
  , also known as Chandu Shah, Blue Jeans, Mumbai: Image Publications; Gujarati-language
• Jiban Narah, Ta-Ri-Ri, Guwahati, Assam: Bak; Indian
  Indian poetry
  Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
  
  , Assamese
  Assamese Poetry
  Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...
  
  -language
• K. Satchidanandan, Sambhashanathinu Oru Sramam, ("An Attempt to Converse"); Malayalam
  Malayalam poetry
  There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...
  
  -language
• K. Siva Reddy, Kavisamayam, Vijayawada: Sahiti Mitrulu; Telugu
  Telugu poetry
  Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
  
  -language
• Kutti Revathi, Poonaiyai pola alaiyum velicham, ("Light Prowls Like a Cat"), Chennai: Thamizhini
• S. Joseph
  S. Joseph
  S. Joseph is a Malayalam poet in the post modern era.His collections are Karutha Kallu , Meenkaran and Identity card .-External links:*...
  
  , Karutha Kallu, winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; Kottayam: DC Books, ISBN 81-264-0205-9
• Prathibha Nandakumar, Aha! Purushakaram! ("Aha! The Human Form!"), Srirangapattana, Mandya district, Karnataka: Nelamane Prakashana
• Salma, Oru Maalaiyum Innoru Maalaiyum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam
• Varavara Rao
  Varavara Rao
  Varavara Rao is a communist, activist, naxalite sympathizer,renowned poet, journalist, literary critic, and public speaker from Andhra Pradesh, India. He has been writing poetry for the last four decades. He is considered as one of the best Marxist critics in Telugu literature and taught Telugu...
  
   (better known as "VV"), Unnadedo Unnattu ("As It Is"); Telugu
  Telugu poetry
  Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
  
  -language

Bangladesh

Bengali poetry

Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

• Rahman Henry, Prokrito Saros Urey Jae, A Book
  Book
  A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...
  
   of Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
   in Bengali
  Bengali language
  Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
  
  , Shraban, Shahbag
  Shahbag
  Shahbag is a major neighbourhood and a police precinct or Thana in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It is also a major public transport hub, and serves as a junction between two contrasting sections of the city—Old Dhaka and New Dhaka—which lie, respectively, to its north and south...
  
  , Dhaka
  Dhaka
  Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
  
  . Bangladesh
  Bangladesh
  Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
  
  .

Poland

Polish poetry

Polish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński ....

• Leszek Engelking
  Leszek Engelking
  Leszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....
  
  , I inne wiersze (And Other Poems) Poland
  Polish poetry
  Polish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński ....
  
  
• Czesław Miłosz, To ("It"); Kraków: Znak
• Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
  Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
  Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki is an award-winning Polish poet.Born in Wólka Krowicka near Lubaczów, he is an author of nine volumes of poems and some texts for the magazine Kresy. He is a past winner of the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award, the Barbara Sadowska Award, Polish-German Days of Literature...
  
  , Przewodnik dla bezdomnych niezależnie od miejsca zamieszkania
• Jan Twardowski
  Jan Twardowski
  Jan Jakub Twardowski was a famous Polish poet, but, as he said of himself, he was a priest first of all. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, sometimes with colloquialisms...
  
  , Elementarz księdza Twardowskiego dla najmłodszego, średniaka i starszego, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie

Serbia

Serbian literature

Serbian literature refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia.The history of Serbian literature begins with theological works from the 10th- and 11th centuries, developing in the 13th century by Saint Sava and his disciples...

• Dejan Stojanović:
  • Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children), Prosveta, Beograd
  • Oblik (The Shape), Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro
    Montenegro
    Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
    
    
  • Tvoritelj (The Creator), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd
  • Krugovanje (Circling), Third Edition (poems added to the third edition), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd

Other

• Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Ludwig Harig, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2001 ("Poetry Yearbook 2001"), publisher: Beck; anthology
• Matilde Camus
  Matilde Camus
  Matilde Camus is a Spanish poet who has written research works. She was born in Santander, Cantabria.-Research Works:*Vicenta García Miranda, una poetisa extremeña ....
  
  , Prisma de emociones ("Prism of emotions") Spain
  Spanish poetry
  Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
  
  
• Maria Luisa Spaziani
  Maria Luisa Spaziani
  Maria Luisa Spaziani is an Italian poet.She was born in Turin in 1924. At nineteen, Spaziani founded the review Il dado, working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vincenzo Ciaffi. Virginia Woolf sent her a chapter of her novel The Waves, autographed to Alla piccola...
  
  , La freccia, Italy
  Italian poetry
  -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
  
  
• Yang Ke, editor, 2000 Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry (Zhongguo xinshi nianjian) China
  Chinese poetry
  Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
  
   (anthology)

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
  C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
  The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. It is named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J...
  
  : John Millett, Iceman
• Kenneth Slessor 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...
  
  : Jennifer Maiden
  Jennifer Maiden
  Jennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...
  
  , Mines
• Mary Gilmore Prize
  Mary Gilmore Prize
  The Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry is given to a first book of poetry from the previous two years; prior to 1998 it was awarded annually...
  
  : Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell

Canada

Canadian poetry

- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

• Gerald Lampert Award
  Gerald Lampert Award
  The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert...
  
  
• Archibald Lampman Award
  Archibald Lampman Award
  The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine Arc, for the year's best work of poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region.- History :...
  
  
• Atlantic Poetry Prize
  Atlantic Poetry Prize
  The Atlantic Poetry Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.-Winners:*1998 - Carmelita McGrath, To the New World...
  
  
• See 2000 Governor General's Awards
  2000 Governor General's Awards
  The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall.-Fiction:...
  
   for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award
  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. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.-Winners:*1981 - M...
  
  
• Prix Alain-Grandbois
  Prix Alain-Grandbois
  The Prix Alain-Grandbois or Alain Grandbois Prize is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry. The jury is composed of three members of the Académie des lettres du Québec...
  
  
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
  Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
  The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, established in 1996, was an annual prize given by the Canadian Poetry Association. It was named in memory of Shaunt Basmajian, a founder of the association. It was an annual manuscript publication competition and award...
  
  

New Zealand

New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards
  Montana New Zealand Book Awards
  The New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...
  
   (no poetry winner this year):
  • First-book award for poetry: Glenn Colquhoun
    Glenn Colquhoun
    Dr. Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura, Auckland in 1964, is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.-Life:He practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive....
    
    , The Art of Walking Upright, Steele Roberts
  • A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award: Allen Curnow
    Allen Curnow
    Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...
    
    

United Kingdom

English poetry

The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

• Cholmondeley Award
  Cholmondeley Award
  The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
  
  : Alistair Elliot
  Alistair Elliot
  -Life:He was born in Liverpool, son of a Scottish family doctor and an English mother, and educated at Asheville School, Asheville, North Carolina, Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Christ Church, Oxford....
  
  , Michael Hamburger
  Michael Hamburger
  Michael Hamburger OBE was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism...
  
  , Adrian Henri
  Adrian Henri
  Adrian Henri was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group The Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's...
  
  , Carole Satyamurti
  Carole Satyamurti
  Carole Satyamurti is a British poet, sociologist, and translator.-Life:She grew up in Kent, and lived in North America, Singapore and Uganda....
  
  
• Eric Gregory Award
  Eric Gregory Award
  The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
  
  : Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn
  Antony Dunn
  Antony Dunn is an English poet and dramatist. He was born in London in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize for Judith with the Head of Holofernes in 1995 and received a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published three collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators , Flying Fish and...
  
  , Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
  Clare Pollard
  Clare Pollard is an English poet and playwright. Born in 1978 and raised in Bolton, Pollard read English at Cambridge University. She published her first collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo, with Bloodaxe in 1998 aged 19. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2000, and has gone on to write three more...
  
  
• Forward Poetry Prize
  Forward Poetry Prize
  The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
  
   Best Collection: Michael Donaghy
  Michael Donaghy
  Michael Donaghy was an award-winning New York poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.-Life and career:...
  
  , Conjure (Picador)
• Forward Poetry Prize
  Forward Poetry Prize
  The Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
  
   Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse
  Andrew Waterhouse
  Andrew Waterhouse was a British poet, and musician.-Life:He grew up in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He studied at Newcastle University, and Wye College, taking an MSc. in environmental science...
  
  , In (The Rialto)
• Samuel Johnson Prize
  Samuel Johnson Prize
  The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is one of the most prestigious prizes for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award and based on an anonymous donation. The prize is named after Samuel Johnson...
  
  : David Cairns
  David Cairns (writer)
  David Cairns is a British journalist, non-fiction writer and musician. He is a leading authority on the life of Berlioz.-Biography:...
  
  , Berlioz: Volume 2
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
  Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
  The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the rest of the Commonwealth realms...
  
  : Edwin Morgan
• T. S. Eliot Prize
  T. S. Eliot Prize
  The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in...
  
   (United Kingdom and Ireland): Michael Longley
  Michael Longley
  Michael Longley, CBE is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.-Life and career:Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus...
  
  , The Weather in Japan
• Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside
  John Burnside
  John Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.-Background:Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996...
  
  , The Asylum Dance

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...
  
   awarded to Quan Barry
  Quan Barry
  -Life:She was raised on Boston's north shore.She graduated from the University of Michigan, with an MFA, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and the Diane Middlebrook poetry fellow at the University of Wisconsin...
  
   for Asylum
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
  Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
  The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A...
  
  , Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Eleanor Ross Taylor
  Eleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes...
  
  
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry
  Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry
  The Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry is given by the Paris Review "for the finest poem over 200 lines published in The Paris Review in a given year", according to the magazine. The winner is awarded $1,000....
  
  , Corey Marks
  Corey Marks
  -Biography:Corey Marks holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a BA in English from Kalamazoo College...
  
  , "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
  Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
  The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years....
  
  , David Ferry
  David Ferry
  David Ferry may refer to:* David Ferry , Canadian-born actor* David Ferry , American poet and translatorSee also*David Ferrie, pilot...
  
   for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry
  Brittingham Prize in Poetry
  The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition.The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is selected by a nationally recognized poet, The winner is...
  
  , Rudy Delgado Jr., A Path Between Houses
• Frost Medal
  Frost Medal
  The Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of $2,500....
  
  : Anthony Hecht
  Anthony Hecht
  Anthony Evan Hecht was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.-Early years:Hecht was born in New York...
  
  
• National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton
  Lucille Clifton
  Lucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...
  
  , Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
  The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...
  
  : Stanley Kunitz
  Stanley Kunitz
  Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...
  
   appointed
• Poet Laureate of Virginia
  Poet Laureate of Virginia
  The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the General Assembly.Originally the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year. The procedure was later changed and most recently codified in 1998...
  
  : Grace Simpson, two year appointment 2000 to 2002
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...
  
  : C.K. Williams, Repair
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
  Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
  The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. The award was named after the poet, critic, and translator Robert Fitzgerald. It was established in 1999 at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry...
  
  : T. V. F. Brogan
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
  Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
  The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the Foundation also publishes Poetry. The Prize was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly. The prize honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"; its value is presently $100,000...
  
  : Carl Dennis
  Carl Dennis
  Carl Dennis , an American poet and educator. His book Practical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
  Frank Bidart
  Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet.-Biography:In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop...
  
  
• William Carlos Williams Award
  William Carlos Williams Award
  The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press....
  
  : Kathleen Peirce
  Kathleen Peirce
  Kathleen Peirce is an American poet. -Life:She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA...
  
  , The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine
  Jean Valentine
  Jean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....
  
  
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian
  Lyn Hejinian
  Lyn Hejinian is an American poet, essayist, translator and publisher. She is often associated with the Language poets and is well known for her landmark work My Life , as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry .-Life:Hejinian was born in the San...
  
  

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 2 – Roland Flint
  Roland Flint
  Roland Henry Flint was an American poet and professor of English at Georgetown University.-Life:Born in Park River, North Dakota, he attended the University of North Dakota before joining the United States Marine Corps. He served in post-war Korea and then returned to and graduated from the...
  
  , United States, at 66, of cancer
• April 21 – Al Purdy
  Al Purdy
  Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC, O.Ont was one of the most popular and important Canadian poets of the 20th century. Purdy's writing career spanned more than fifty years. His works include over thirty books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence...
  
  , Canada
  Canadian poetry
  - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
  
  , at 81, of lung cancer
• April 21 – Douglas Oliver
  Douglas Oliver
  Douglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...
  
  , United Kingdom
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• May 14 – Karl Shapiro
  Karl Shapiro
  Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.-Biography:...
  
  , at 86
• September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  -Welsh
  Anglo-Welsh poetry
  There is no clear definition of what constitutes Anglo-Welsh poetry, and the term tends to have been replaced by the broader "Welsh writing in English" or Welsh literature in English. It includes poetry written by Welsh people whose first language is English, but it also includes poetry by those...
  
   poet
• June 9 – Ernst Jandl
  Ernst Jandl
  Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952....
  
   (born 1925
  1925 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank....
  
  ), Austrian
  Austrian literature
  Austrian literature is the literature written in Austria, which is mostly, but not exclusively, written in the German language. Some scholars speak about Austrian literature in a strict sense from the year 1806 on when Francis II disbanded the Holy Roman Empire and established the Austrian Empire...
  
   poet, author and translator
• June 26 – Judith Wright
  Judith Wright
  Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.-Biography:...
  
  , United States, 85, of a heart attack
• July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope
  A. D. Hope
  Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic.-Life:...
  
  , 92, poet
• September 22 – Yehuda Amichai
  Yehuda Amichai
  Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....
  
   (born 1924
  1924 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy...
  
  ), Israeli
  Israeli literature
  Israeli literature is literature written in the State of Israel by Israelis. Most works classed as Israeli literature are written in the Hebrew language, although some Israeli authors write in Yiddish, English, Arabic and Russian...
  
   poet
• November 29 – William Scammell
  William Scammell
  -Life:He was born into a working-class family, but failed the 11-plus exam. His brother is Michael Scammell. He took a succession of menial jobs before becoming a ship's photographer on the RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary....
  
  
• December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks
  Gwendolyn Brooks
  Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...
  
  , 83, of cancer
• December 20 – Adrian Henry
• Date not known:
  • Edgar Bowers
    Edgar Bowers
    Edgar Bowers was an American poet who won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989.Bowers was born in Rome, Georgia in 1924. During World War II he joined the military and served in Counter-intelligence against Germany...
    
    , at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
  • John Bruce (poet), Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
    
    
  • Lauris Edmond
    Lauris Edmond
    Lauris Dorothy Edmond was a New Zealand poet and writer. Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, she survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, Edmond raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life...
    
     (born 1924
    1924 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy...
    
    ), New Zealand
    New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...
    
    
  • Libby Scheier
    Libby Scheier
    Libby Scheier was a Canadian poet and short story writer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at Sarah Lawrence College and the State University of New York before moving to Toronto in 1975....
    
    , Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
    
    

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards