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Events

* January 5 – The
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government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet
Nâzım Hikmet Mehmed Nâzım Ran (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), Note: 403 Forbidden error received 10 October 2022. commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (), was a Turkish people, Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. ...
, a Marxist who died in
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
as an exile in the Soviet Union. * January 20 – Poet Elizabeth Alexander reads " Praise Song for the Day" at presidential inauguration of President
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. * February 9 – Eritrean poet and broadcaster Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu is arbitrarily arrested and begins 6 years imprisonment without trial. * March 16 –
Nicholas Hughes Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was a British and American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology.Ted Hughes Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He wa ...
(British poet laureate 1984–98) and
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for '' The Colossus and Other Poems'' (1960), '' Ariel'' (1965), a ...
, who famously committed suicide in
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
when her son was a year old, hangs himself in his home in Alaska. He had suffered from depression. * May 1 –
Carol Ann Duffy Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She wa ...
is appointed
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom The British poet laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister. The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation ...
, the first woman appointed to the position in its 341-year history, a position that has been held by, among others,
John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration (En ...
(whom Charles II named the first official poet laureate ),
Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's ...
,
Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication '' Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ...
and
Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudony ...
. Duffy is also the first
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and the first openly
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occupant of the post. * May 5 – Posthumous publication of
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's
narrative poem Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need to rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may ...
''
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún ''The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún'' is a book containing two narrative poems and related texts composed by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HarperCollins on 5 May 2009. The two poems that mak ...
'' in
alliterative verse In meter (poetry), prosody, alliterative verse is a form of poetry, verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying Metre (poetry), metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most commonly s ...
based on the 13th century ''
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'' and probably written in the 1930s. * May 16 & May 25 –
Ruth Padel Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author. Life She studied Greek at Oxford, where she sang in Schola Cantorum of Oxford, wrote a PhD on ancient Greek poetry, and was a Research Fellow at W ...
becomes the first female ever elected
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at the
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but resigns nine days later after she is alleged to have been involved in what some sources refer to as a smear campaign against
Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as ...
, her leading rival for the post. * June 25 – American pop singer
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dies of an acute
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intoxication at the age of 50. * July 30 – ''
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'', a poem by
Carol Ann Duffy Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She wa ...
, the
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom The British poet laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister. The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation ...
, is read on the
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programme ''
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''. Commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of
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and
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, two of the last three surviving British veterans of the
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, it is read on the day of Allingham's funeral. * September 18 – The film '' Bright Star'', about
John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tub ...
and his relationship with
Fanny Brawne Frances "Fanny" Brawne Lindon (9 August 1800 – 4 December 1865) is best known as the fiancée and muse to English Romantic poet John Keats. As Fanny Brawne, she met Keats, who was her neighbour in Hampstead, at the beginning of h ...
, is released in the United States, and on November 6 in the United Kingdom. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats, "
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", written at the time of the love affair.
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directed the movie. * '' A Room and a Half'', a Russian film directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky and based on the life of
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–
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poet
Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly ...
, is released. It is distributed in the United States in 2010.


Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


Australia

* Robert Adamson, ''The Best Australian Poems'', Black Inc., , anthology including works by
Ivy Alvarez Ivy Alvarez is a New Zealand–based Filipina Australian poet, editor, and reviewer. Alvarez has had her work featured in various publications in Australia, Canada, England, the Philippines, New Zealand, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, Wales, the US, ...
,
Judith Beveridge Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. S ...
,
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, Jen Jewel Brown,
Anne Elvey Anne Frances Elvey is an Australian academic, editor, researcher and poet. Education Elvey has completed at Bachelor of Science with Honours, a Graduate Diploma in Education (Secondary), a Bachelor of Theology, a Master of Theology and a ...
, Lisa Gorton,
Clive James Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.Les Murray,
Dorothy Porter Dorothy Featherstone Porter (26 March 1954 – 10 December 2008) was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Early life Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister ...
, Peter Porter,
Thomas Shapcott Thomas William Shapcott (born 21 March 1935) is an Australian poet, novelist, playwright, editor, librettist, short story writer and teacher. Biography Thomas William Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, and attended the Ipswich Gramma ...
,
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,
John Tranter John Ernest Tranter (29 April 1943 – 21 April 2023) was an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program ''Books and Writing''; and foundin ...
, and
Chris Wallace-Crabbe Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Ke ...
. *
Stephen Edgar Stephen Edgar (born 1951) is an Australian poet, editor and indexer. Background and education Edgar was born in 1951 in Sydney, where he attended the prestigious Sydney Technical High School. After time spent living in London, he later return ...
, ''Other Summers'', 109 pp; Melbourne:
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, * Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse, editors, ''Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986 – 2008'', 120 poets represented, 342 pp, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, , anthology * Emma Jones, ''The Striped World'', winner of the 2009 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award;
Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret S ...
* Martin Langford: ** editor, ''Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788–2008'', Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, , anthology ** ''The Human Project: New and Selected Poems'' * John Kinsella, ''The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry'', Penguin Group (Australia) * Les Murray, ''Killing the Black Dog'', Black Inc., *
Dorothy Porter Dorothy Featherstone Porter (26 March 1954 – 10 December 2008) was an Australian poet. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Early life Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister ...
, ''The Bee Hut'', Black Inc., * Nathan Shepherdson, ''Apples With Human Skin'', St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, *
Alan Wearne Alan Wearne (born 23 July 1948) is an Australian poet. Early life and education Alan Wearne was born on 23 July 1948 and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University, where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott. ...
, guest editor, ''The Best Australian Poetry 2009'', University of Queensland Press, *
Les Wicks Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than fifteen books of poetry. Early life and education Wicks grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Asian ...
''The Ambrosiacs'' (
Island Press (Australia) Island Press is an Australian publisher of poetry and other interests. Island Press was founded in 1970 by Canadian poet, musician and Sydney University lecturer Philip Roberts. He lived on Scotland Island at that time, hence the name. In 1973 ...
) ** editor, ''Guide to Sydney Beaches''
Meuse Press ''Meuse Press'' s an Australian Press, publishing a range of "poetry outreach" projects in a number of media ranging from a literary magazine to poetry published on the surface of a river. It was founded by Bill Farrow and Les Wicks. It is mostly ...


Canada

*
Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...
, ''Listening: The Last Poems'', posthumously published''Britannica (2010)'', "English: Canada" *
Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 1946) is a CanadianWong (1999). poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The El ...
, ''Selected Poems'' * Jan Conn, ''Botero's Beautiful Horses'', Brick Books * Barry Dempster, ''Love Outlandish'', Brick Books * Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, editors, ''Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics'', Coach House Books, ; an anthology of 15 poets:
Nicole Brossard Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. She lives i ...
,
Margaret Christakos Margaret Christakos (born 1962 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. Life Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She is a Canadian poet, fiction author, literary essayist and creative writing instructor. Sinc ...
, Susan Holbrook, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk,
Karen Mac Cormack Karen Mac Cormack (born Luanshya, Zambia, 1956) is a contemporary experimental poet. She holds dual British/Canadian citizenship, and lived for many years in Toronto; more recently, she moved to Buffalo, New York, when her husband, the poet Steve Mc ...
,
Daphne Marlatt Daphne Marlatt, CM ( Buckle, July 11, 1942), is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. At a young age, her family moved to Malaysia and at age nine, they moved to British Columbia, where she later attended the Un ...
,
Erín Moure Erín Moure (born 1955 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian poet and translator with 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs. She has translated or co-tran ...
, M. NourbeSe Philip, Sina Queyras, Lisa Robertson, Gail Scott, Nathalie Stephens,
Catriona Strang Catriona is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Caitríona Balfe (born 1979), ...
,
Rita Wong Rita Wong (born 1968) is a Canadian poet. Biography Wong grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of multiple books of poetry, including ''monkeypuzzle'', ''forage'', and ''undercurrent ...
, and Rachel Zolf * Kim Goldberg, ''Red Zone'', Pig Squash Press * Chris Hutchinson, ''Other People's Lives'', Brick Books *
Adeena Karasick Adeena Karasick (born June 1, 1965) is a Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist. Born in Winnipeg of Russian Jewish heritage, she is the author of 13 books of poetry and poetic theory, as well as a series of parodic videopoems, such as th ...
, ''Amuse Bouche'' *
Douglas Lochhead Douglas Grant Lochhead (pronounced ''Lock''-heed) FRSC (March 25, 1922 – March 15, 2011) was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer and university professor who published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from ...
, ''Looking into Trees'' * Jeanette Lynes, ''The New Blue Distance'' *
Susan Musgrave Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California, to Canadian parents, and lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and Haida Gwaii. She has been nominated ...
, ''When the World Is Not Our Home: Selected Poems, 1985–2000'' * Soraya Peerbaye, ''Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names'' * Marguerite Pigeon, ''Inventory'' * Sina Queyras, ''Expressway'', Coach House Books *
James Reaney James Crerar Reaney, (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary ...
, ''The Essential James Reaney''. Brian Bartlett, ed., Porcupine's Quill *
Laisha Rosnau Laisha Rosnau (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Biography Born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Rosnau grew up in Vernon, British Columbia.Dan Davidson, "Author Laisha Rosnau didn't see writing as a career". ''Whitehorse Star'', April 21, 200 ...
, ''Lousy Explorers'', Nightwood Editions * Stephen Rowe, ''Never More There'', Nightwood Editions * Carolyn Smart, ''Hooked'', Brick Books *
Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino is a Canadians, Canadian poet, essayist, educator and editing, editor. Biography He was born in 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian people, Italian heritage. His first poetry collection ''The New World'' (1997) was nomina ...
, ''This Way Out'', Gaspereau Press *
Fred Wah Frederick James Wah, OC, (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Life Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior (West Kootenay) of British Col ...
, ''Is a Door'' *
David Zieroth David Zieroth (born November 7, 1946, in Neepawa, Manitoba)Anju Makhija, E V Ramakrishan, editors, ''We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets 1990–2007'', anthology, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi * Anthony Theodore, ''The Song of My Dance and Dance of My Dreams'', *
Arundhathi Subramaniam Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet and author, who has written about culture and spirituality. Life and career Subramaniam is a poet and writer based in Mumbai. She is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose. She has received the Ra ...
, editor, ''Hot is the Moon: Poems and Stories of Women in Kannada, Tamil, Konkani And Tulu'', anthology in various languages, with translations into English; Mumbai: Sparrow *
Eunice de Souza Eunice de Souza (1 August 1940 – 29 July 2017) was an Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Among her notable books of poetry are ''Women in Dutch painting'' (1988), ''Ways of Belonging'' (1990), ''Nine Indian Women Poet ...
, ''A Necklace of Skulls, Collected Poems'' ( Poetry in
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), New Delhi: Penguin * Uddipana Goswami, ''We Called the River Red'' ( Poetry in
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), Authorspress * Yash Sharma, ''Tale of a Virgin River'', translated into English by Anil Sehgal from the original Dogri; released with a CD of six songs composed and sung by the poet's daughter, Seema Anil Sehgal, a prominent singer; published in Singapore


Ireland

* Michael Coady, ''Going by Water'', Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press * Ray Givans, ''Tolstoy in Love'', 82 pages, * Kerry Hardie, ''Only This Room'', Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press * Ron Houchin, ''Museum Crows'', 84 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, * Dorothy Molloy, ''Long-distance Swimmer'', 60 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, , posthumously published (died
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) *
Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humani ...
, ''Wayside Shrines'', 40 pages, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press, *
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19). Biography Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942, the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuillean� ...
, ''The Sun-fish'', Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press * Matthew Sweeney, ''Best of Irish Poetry 2010'', Southword Editions, including work by
Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...
,
Michael Longley Michael George Longley (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ... When I write a poem I am movi ...
,
Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humani ...
, Michael McKimm, Leanne O'Sullivan,
Leontia Flynn Leontia Flynn is a poet and writer from Northern Ireland. Life and work Leontia Flynn was born in Downpatrick, Co Down and grew up between Dundrum and Newcastle, Co Down. She attended Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch and afterwards be ...
,
Eva Bourke Eva Bourke (born 1946) is a German-born Irish poet. Biography Bourke was born in Germany but has lived for much of her life in Galway, Ireland. She studied German Literature and History of Art at the University of Munich. Towards the end of th ...
and Kerry Hardie * Peggy O'Brien, ''Frog Spotting'', 87 pages, Dedalus Press, * Stephen Roger Powers, ''The Follower's Tale'', 100 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, *
Gabriel Rosenstock Gabriel Rosenstock (born 29 September 1949) is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána, he is a poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born ...
, ''Uttering Her Name'', 126 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, * A.E. Stringer, ''Human Costume'', 100 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, *
Enda Wyley Enda Wyley is an Irish writer of poetry and children's literature. Life Enda Wyley was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin in 1966 and lives in Dublin. She was awarded a B.Ed. by the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin and then worked ...
, ''To Wake to This'', Dedalus Press,


New Zealand

* Stephanie de Montalk, ''Vivid Familiar'', Victoria University Press *
Jessica Le Bas Jessica Le Bas is a Nelson-based poet from New Zealand. Background Le Bas received her MA(Hons) from the University of Auckland. Career During the Balkan Wars, Le Bas worked for the United Nations as a Training Consultant for UNPROFOR. She ...
''Walking to Africa'', Auckland University Press *
Tusiata Avia Donna Tusiata Avia (born 1966) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. She has been recognised for her work through receiving a 2020 Birthday Honours (New Zealand), 2020 Queen's Birthday Honour and in 2021 her collection ''The Savage Colo ...
, ''Bloodclot'', Victoria University Press


Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by
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for '' Best New Zealand Poems 2008'', published online this year: * Johanna Aitchison * Hinemoana Baker * Emma Barnes * David Beach *
Peter Bland Peter Bland (born 12 May 1934 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire) is a British-New Zealand poet and actor. Life He emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 20 and graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington. He worked as a radio producer f ...
* Jenny Bornholdt * Amy Brown * Cliff Fell * Joan Fleming * Bernadette Hall *
Sam Hunt Sam Lowry Hunt (born December 8, 1984) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Hunt played American football, football in his high school and college years and once attempted to pursue a professional sport ...
* Lynn Jenner * Michele Leggott * Jean McCormack *
Emma Neale Emma Neale (born 2 January 1969) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Background Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria University of Welling ...
*
Gregory O'Brien Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter, author and editor. He is also an art curator and writes art history and criticism for both adults and children. Life Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in ...
* Bob Orr * Chris Orsman * Richard Reeve * Sam Sampson * Kerrin P. Sharpe * Tim Upperton * Richard von Sturmer * Tom Weston *
Sonja Yelich Sonja Yelich (; born 1965) is a New Zealand poet. She is the mother of singer Lorde. Early life Sonja Yelich () was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1965, into an immigrant family from the region of Dalmatia. She studied literature at the Univer ...


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* James Byrne, ''Blood/Sugar'', * Caroline Grigson, editor, ''The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's Tuneful Voice'' (Hunter,
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, wrote lyrics to much of Haydn's music)
Liverpool University Press Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, lit ...
(Liverpool English Texts and Studies) *
Brian Henry Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. Biography Henry completed a B.A. at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published p ...
, ''Quarantine::Contagion'', *
Luke Kennard Luke Douglas Kennard ( ; born June 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils and was drafted by the Detro ...
, ''The Migraine Hotel'', Salt, 96 pages, * Herbert Lomas, ''A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems'', contains all nine of the author's previous poetry books and one previously unpublished book of poems; 428 pages, * Sean O'Brien, ''Night Train'' (with artist Birtley Aris), Flambard Press *
Ruth Padel Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author. Life She studied Greek at Oxford, where she sang in Schola Cantorum of Oxford, wrote a PhD on ancient Greek poetry, and was a Research Fellow at W ...
, ''Darwin: A Life in Poems'', the author is his great-granddaughter''Britannica (2010)'' "English: United Kingdom" * Christopher Reid, '' A Scattering'' ( 2009 Costa Book Awards book of the year) * Matthew Welton, ''We needed coffee but...'', 96 pages, Carcanet Press,


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* Gerard Carruthers, editor, ''Scottish Poems'' *
Fiona Sampson Fiona Ruth Sampson (born 1963) is a British poet, literary biographer, writer on ecology, editor, translator and scholar. She was appointed an MBE for services to literature in 2017. Early life Sampson was born in London, England, and was ra ...
, editor, ''A Century of
Poetry Review ''The Poetry Review'' is the magazine of The Poetry Society, edited by the poet Wayne Holloway-Smith. Founded in 1912, shortly after the establishment of the Society, previous editors have included poets Muriel Spark, Adrian Henri, Andrew Mo ...
'', Carcanet Press,


Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Zachary Leader, editor, ''The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, and Their Contemporaries'', Oxford University Press (April 2009) * ''Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990'' (Cambridge Contexts in Literature) Cambridge University Press, 1st edition


United States

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Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up ...
, ''Face'', the author's first collection in nine years, Hanging Loose Press (April)Web page title
"Spring 2009 Hardcovers: Poetry"
at ''Publishers Weekly'' website, retrieved March 12, 2009 *
Miguel Algarín Miguel Algarín Jr. (11 September 1941 – 30 November 2020) was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and a Rutgers University professor of English. Early years Algarín was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and ...
, ''Survival Supervivencia'', essays and poems''Britannica (2010)'', "English: United States" * Simone dos Anjos, ''Comedies'', Iowa City, Iowa: Cosa Nostra Editions * Philip Appleman, ''Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie'' Quantuck Lane Press (April) *
Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose. Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Aw ...
, '' Versed'', winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;
Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist. History and overview Founded (in its present form ...
* Renée Ashley, ''Basic Heart'' * Anny Ballardini, ''Ghost Dance in 33 Movements'' Otoliths, * Richard Bauch, ''These Extremes'' *
David Biespiel David Biespiel (born 1964) is an American poet, critic, memoirist, and novelist. He was born and raised in the Meyerland section of Houston, Texas. He is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon and Poet-in-Resi ...
, ''The Book of Men and Women'' * Jules Boykoff, ''Hegemonic Love Potion'', Factory School, Brooklyn, New York *
Joel Brouwer Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is ''Off Message'' released in 2016 He is also the author of ''Exactly What Happened,'' which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Comm ...
, ''And So'', Four Way, Web page title
"Fiction Book Reviews"
dated March 16, 2009, at ''Publishers Weekly'' website, retrieved March 24, 2009 * Louis Cabri, ''that can’t'', Nomados, Vancouver *
Gabrielle Calvocoressi Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor. Life and career Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in 1974 in central Connecticut. Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across ...
, ''Apocalyptic Swing'' (August), Persea * C. P. Cavafy, translated from the
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Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Adam Mendelsohn (born 1960) is an American author, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator. He is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, the Editor at Large of the '' New York Review of Books,'' ...
: ** ''Collected Poems'', Knopf, ** ''The Unfinished Poems'', C.P. Cavafy, 30 poems, left in various stages of completion by Cavafy when he died in 1933, discovered in the Cavafy Archive in the 1960s by George Savidis, the poet's editor, and published in a scholarly Greek edition by Renata Lavagnini in 1994; Knopf, *
Kelly Cherry Kelly Cherry (December 21, 1940 – March 18, 2022) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary critic
, ''The Retreats of Thought'' *
Florence Earle Coates Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates ( Earle; July 1, 1850 – April 6, 1927) was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, w ...
(1850–1927), ''Victi Resurgunt''. Published posthumously. A 26-page pamphlet of fifteen "fugitive" patriotic and war poems written by Mrs. Coates. The poems were originally published in various periodicals and texts between the years 1915 and 1922, and have been compiled and organized into pamphlet format. * Arda Collins, ''It Is Daylight'',
Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...
's sixth pick as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition; Yale University Press, (April) * Ben Doller, (né Doyle), ''FAQ'', Ahsahta, *
Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as United States Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have bee ...
, ''Sonata Mulattica'', Norton, (April) * Brett Evans, ''Slosh Models'', Brooklyn: Factory School *
Sarah Gambito Sarah Gambito is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, ''Loves You'' (Persea Books, 2019), ''Delivered'' (Persea Books, 2009), and ''Matadora'' (Alice James Books, 2004). Her first collection, ''Matadora ...
, ''Delivered'' (Persea), *
Peter Ganick Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...
, ''arranger'', White Sky Books, Puhos, Finland * Molly Gaudry, ''We Take Me Apart: A Novel(la) n verse', Mud Luscious Press *
Jack Gilbert Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself a ...
, ''The Dance Most of All'', Knopf, (April) *
Jim Harrison James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children's lit ...
, ''In Search of Small Gods'', Copper Canyon Press (April) * Michael Heller, ''Eschaton'', Jersey City, New Jersey: Talisman House *
Leland Hickman Leland Hickman (September 15, 1934 – May 12, 1991) was an American poet, editor, actor, and literary magazine publisher. During his lifetime, Hickman was best known as the publisher and editor of the influential magazine ''Temblor'' which was no ...
, ''Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman'', edited by
Stephen Motika Stephen Motika (born 1977 in Santa Monica, CA) is an American poet, editor, and publisher. Life and work As of 2024, Motika is the director and publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, he wo ...
(Preface by Dennis Phillips and Afterwords by Bill Mohr), Nightboat Books *
Ernest Hilbert Ernest Hilbert (born 1970) is an American poet, critic, opera librettist, and editor. Biography Ernest Hilbert was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and grew up in South Jersey. He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's d ...
, ''Sixty Sonnets'', Los Angeles: Red Hen. *
Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, Royal_Society_of_Literature#Fellowship, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston Uni ...
, ''Selected Poems'', Yale University Press, ; including "Mercian Hymns" * Lucy Ives, ''My Thousand Novel'', Iowa City, Iowa: Cosa Nostra Editions * Stuart Taylor James, ''Heart Well Worn: The LWAs'', 143 pages, PublishAmerica, Baltimore, MD, * Marilyn Kallet, ''Packing Light'' * Erica Kaufman, ''Censory Impulse'', Factory School, Brooklyn, New York *
Jesse Lee Kercheval Jesse Lee Kercheval (born 1956) is an American poet, memoirist, translator, fiction writer and visual artist. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of numerous books, notably ''Building Fiction, ...
, ''Cinema Muto'' *
Burt Kimmelman Burt Joseph Kimmelman (born May 5, 1947) is an American poet and scholar. Life and work Born and raised in New York City after World War Two, Burt Kimmelman has published eleven collections of poetry. His poetry is often anthologized and was fea ...
, ''As If Free'', Talisman, Jersey City, New Jersey * Natalie Knight, ''Archipelagos'', Punch Press, Buffalo * Jennifer Kronovet, ''Awayward'', debut book of poetry, selected by
Jean Valentine __NOTOC__ Jean Valentine (April 27, 1934December 29, 2020) was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, ''Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003'', was awarded the 2004 N ...
for BOA's A. Poulin Jr. prize; BOA, * Matthew Landis, ''Like a Moth From His Death Mouth'', privately printed, Philadelphia *
Timothy Liu Timothy Liu (born 1965 in San Jose, California) is an American poet and the author of such books as ''Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse'', ''For Dust Thou Art'', ''Of Thee I Sing'', ''Hard Evidence'', ''Say Goodnight'', ''Burnt Offer ...
, ''Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse'', Talisman House, Jersey City, New Jersey * Lewis MacAdams, ''Lyrics'', Palo Alto, California: Blue Press * Randall Mann, ''Breakfast with Thom Gunn'', University of Chicago Press, * Clay Matthews, ''Runoff'', BlazeVOX, Buffalo, New York *
Campbell McGrath Campbell John McGrath (born January 26, 1962) is an American poet. He is the author of twelve full-length collections of poetry, including ''Seven Notebooks'' (Ecco Press, 2008), ''Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition'' (Ecco Press, 20 ...
, ''Shannon'', about the youngest member of the
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Barry McKinnon Barry Benjamin McKinnon (1944 – October 30, 2023) was a Canadian poet. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he taught English and Creative Writing at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia, one of the original 19 faculty appointed ...
, ''In the Millennium'', New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, Washington * Deborah Meadows, ''Goodbye Tissues'', Shearsman Books, Exeter, UK * Didi Menendez, ''For Love of an Armadillo'', GOSS 183:: Casa Menendez, Bloomington, Illinois *
Sheila Murphy Sheila E. Murphy (born 1951 in Mishawaka, Indiana) is an American text and visual poet who has been writing and publishing since 1978. She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for her book ''Letters to Unfinished J''. Green Integer Pres ...
& , ''How to Spell the Sound of Everything'', Xerox Sutra Editions, West Lima, Wisconsin *
Marilyn Nelson Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, biographer, and children's book author. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, and the former Poet Laureate of Connecticut. She is a winner of the Ruth ...
– '' Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story Of The Greatest All-Girl Swing Band In The World'' *
Mary Oliver Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in th ...
, ''Evidence'', 44 poems, Beacon Press (April) * Simon Pettet, ''Hearth'', Talisman House, Jersey City, New Jersey *
D. A. Powell Douglas A. Powell (born May 16, 1963) is an American poet. Life and career Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst, California. He then worked in a number of jobs before even ...
, ''Chronic'',
Graywolf Press Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mel ...
, winner of the 2010
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards are a pair of American prizes based at Claremont Graduate University. They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the U ...
* Hilda Raz, ''What Happens'' *
Kit Robinson Kit Robinson (born May 17, 1949) is an American poet, translator, writer and musician. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 28 books of poetry. Life and work Born in Evanston, Illinois, Robinson graduated ...
, ''The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976–2003'', Adventures in Poetry, Princeton, New Jersey * Ce Rosenow, ''Pacific'', Mountain Gate Press, Hillsboro, Oregon *
Frederick Seidel Frederick Seidel (born February 19, 1936) is an American poet. Biography Seidel was born to a family of Russian Jewish descent in St. Louis, Missouri in 1936. His family owned Seidel Coal and Coke, which supplied coal to the brewing industry in St ...
, ''Poems 1959–2009'', Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (April) *
Mohammad Shaheen Mohammad Youssef Shaheen (; 1938 – 30 June 2025) was a Jordanian scholar, literary critic, translator and professor of English literature. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of literary studies in Jordan. Shaheen taught English literature ...
, translation from the original
Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
of the late
Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish (; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinians, Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet. In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declarat ...
, ''Almond Blossoms and Beyond'', Interlink (March) *
Frank Sherlock Frank Sherlock is an American poet, and second Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. He was a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Life Frank Sherlock was the 2014–15 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature. His most ...
, ''Over Here'', Factory School, Brooklyn, New York *
Louis Simpson Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) was an American poet born in Jamaica. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work ''At the End of the Open Road''. Life and career Simpson was born in Jamaica, the s ...
, ''Struggling Times.'' Rochester, New York: BOA Editions. . This is the Jamaica-born Simpson's 18th collection. * Logan Ryan Smith, ''Tracks'', Ypolita Press, San Francisco, California *
Elizabeth Swados Elizabeth Swados (February 5, 1951 – January 5, 2016) was an American writer, composer, musician, choreographer, and theatre director. Swados received Tony Award nominations for Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Music ...
, ''The One and Only Human Galaxy'', Hanging Loose Press (April) *
Eleanor Ross Taylor Eleanor Ross Taylor (June 30, 1920 – December 30, 2011) was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. This reference gives Taylor's birthdate. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter re ...
, ''Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems'' * Simon Thompson, ''Why Does It Feel So Late?'', New Star Books, Vancouver BC / Point Roberts, Washington * Sotère Torregian, ''Envoy'', (preface by
Andrew Joron Andrew Joron (born March 6, 1955) is an American writer of experimental poetry, speculative fiction, and lyrical and critical essays. He began by writing science fiction poetry. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas ...
), Punch Press, Buffalo, New York * Pamela Ushuk, ''Crazy Love'' *
Fred Wah Frederick James Wah, OC, (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, scholar and former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Life Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior (West Kootenay) of British Col ...
, ''The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah'', selected with an introduction by Louis Cabri; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada *
Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political acti ...
, ''Manatee/ Humanity'', Penguin, book-length poem taking its form and concerns from a Tibetan Buddhist ritual and from the poet's close encounter with a Manatee *
Keith Waldrop Bernard Keith Waldrop (December 11, 1932 – July 27, 2023) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Early life and educ ...
: ** Translator from the original
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Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics ...
, ''Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose'', Wesleyan University Press (May) ** ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy'', University of California Press, Waldrop has long been a major force in American avant-garde poetics, and this substantial new volume is big news indeed. Comprising three sequences—each almost a book in itself—plus an epilogue, and received the National Book Award (see below) * Peter Waterhouse, ''Language Death Night Outside: Poem / Novel'', translated by
Rosmarie Waldrop Rosmarie Waldrop (born Rosmarie Sebald; August 24, 1935) is an American poet, novelist, translator, essayist and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958 and has settled in Providence, Rhode Island since the late ...
; Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island * Emily Wilson, ''Micrographia'', title from
Robert Hooke Robert Hooke (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living ...
's 1665 scientific study of the natural world through a microscope; University of Iowa Press,


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David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for '' The Best American Poetry''. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such pub ...
, general editor,
David Wagoner David Russell Wagoner (June 5, 1926 – December 18, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, and educator. Biography David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5, 1926, in Massillon, Ohio. Raised in Whiting, Indiana, from the age of seven, Wagoner at ...
, editor, ''The Best American Poetry 2009'' (September 2009) *
David Yezzi David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor, actor, and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Life Yezzi was born in Albany, New YorkHonor Moore Honor Moore (born October 28, 1945) is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays. She currently teaches at The New School in the MFA program for creative nonfiction, where she is a part-time associate teaching professor. ''The ...
, ''Poems from the Women's Movement'' (April), work from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Library of America * Miekal And, editor, "Anthology Spidertangle", representative work of more than 50 visual poets, , Xexoxial Editions


Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* ''International Who's Who in Poetry 2009'', Routledge, *
Pierre Joris Pierre Joris (July 14, 1946 – February 26, 2025) was a Luxembourgish- American poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist. He moved between Europe, North Africa, and the United States for fifty-five years, publishing over eighty books of poet ...
, ''Justifying the Margins'', Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK; essays, criticism via poetics *


Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2009''

These poets appeared in ''
The Best American Poetry 2009 ''The Best American Poetry 2009'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by poet David Wagoner, guest editor, who made the final selections, and David Lehman, the general editor for the series. This book is the 22nd volume i ...
'', with
David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for '' The Best American Poetry''. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such pub ...
, general editor, and
David Wagoner David Russell Wagoner (June 5, 1926 – December 18, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, and educator. Biography David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5, 1926, in Massillon, Ohio. Raised in Whiting, Indiana, from the age of seven, Wagoner at ...
, guest editor (who selected the poetry): *
John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...
* Caleb Barber * Mark Bibbins *
Bruce Bond Bruce Bond (born June 25, 1954) is an American poet and creative writing educator at the University of North Texas. Formal education & academic career Bond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College, a Master of Arts degre ...
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Marianne Boruch Marianne Boruch (born June 19, 1950) is an American poet whose published work also includes essays on poetry, sometimes in relation to other fields (music, visual art, ornithology, medicine, aviation, etc.) and a memoir about a hitchhiking trip t ...
* Fleda Brown *Catherine Carter * Suzanne Cleary *
Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Co ...
* Rob Cook * James Cummins *
Mark Doty Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence ...
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Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been r ...
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Alice Friman Alice Friman (born October 20, 1933) is an American poet. She has taught at a number of universities and helped to found the Indiana Writers' Center. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Indianapolis, and was poet-in-residence at Georgia ...
* Margaret Gibson * Douglas Goetsch *
Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948) is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mar ...
* Barbara Goldberg * Michael J. Grabell *
Debora Greger Debora Greger (born 1949) is an American poet as well as a visual artist. She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Art ...
* Jennifer Grotz * Barbara Hamby * Sarah Hannah * Jerry Harp *
Jim Harrison James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children's lit ...
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Dolores Hayden Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the so ...
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Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, ''Lighthead'', won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In 2014, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ...
* K. A. Hay *
Bob Hicok Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 2003 with the exception of the 2015-2016 academic year when he taught at Purdue as a full-t ...
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Daniel Hoffman Daniel Gerard Hoffman (April 3, 1923 – March 30, 2013) was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. Early life and education Hoffman wa ...
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Richard Howard Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, ...
* P. Hurshell * Michael Johnson * Tina Kelley * Maud Kelly * Lance Larsen *
Phillis Levin Phillis Levin (born 1954 Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet. Life Levin is the daughter of Charlotte E. Levin and Herbert L. Levin of Yardley, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976, and Johns Hopkins University i ...
* Philip Levine *
Sarah Lindsay Sarah Lindsay (born 1958) is an American poet from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to writing the two chapbooks ''Bodies of Water'' and ''Insomniac's Lullabye'', Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: ''Primate Behavior' ...
* Thomas Lux * Joanie Mackowski * Christine Marshall *
Cleopatra Mathis Cleopatra Mathis (born 1947 in Ruston, Louisiana) is an American poet who since 1982 has been the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the English department at Dartmouth College, where she is also director of the Creative Writing Program. Her m ...
* J.D. McClatchy * W. S. Merwin * Jude Nutter *
Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Mary Oliver Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in th ...
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Linda Pastan Linda Pastan (May 27, 1932 – January 30, 2023) was an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She was known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood ...
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Kevin Prufer Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, novelist, academic, editor, and essayist. He is Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. Life Prufer graduated from Western Reserve Aca ...
* Susan Blackwell Ramsey * Keith Ratzlaff *
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...
* James Richardson *
Pattiann Rogers Pattiann Rogers (born 1940) is an American poet, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In 2018, she was awarded a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry. Life Pattiann Rogers is an American poet ...
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Gibbons Ruark Gibbons Ruark (born 1941) is a contemporary American poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as ''The New Yorker'', ''The New Republ ...
* John Rybicki *
Betsy Sholl Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl (born 1945) is an American poet who was poet laureate of Maine from 2006 to 2011 and has authored nine collections of poetry. Sholl has received several poetry awards, including the 1991 AWP Award, and the 2015 Maine Lite ...
* Martha Silano * Mitch Sisskind *
Tom Sleigh Tom Sleigh () is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who lives in New York City. He has published nine books of original poetry, one full-length translation of Euripides' ''Herakles'' and two books of essays. His most recent books ...
* Vincent Stanley * Pamela Sutton * Alexandra Teague *
Craig Morgan Teicher Craig Morgan Teicher (born 1979) is an American author, poet and literary critic. His poetry collection, ''The Trembling Answers'', won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2018. He currently lives in New Jersey. Biography Teicher was born in N ...
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Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who served as United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and is a former Poet Laureate of Missi ...
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Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as ...
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Jeanne Murray Walker Jeanne Murray Walker (born May 27, 1944) is an American poet and playwright. Life Jeanne Murray was born on May 27, 1944, in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, the daughter of John Gerald and Erna Murray. In 1965, she won the Atlantic Monthly Award fo ...
* Ronald Wallace * Charles Harper Webb * Lisa Williams *
Carolyne Wright Carolyne Wright (born in 1949, in Bellingham, Washington) is an American poet. Life She studied at Seattle University, New York University, and graduated from Syracuse University with master's and doctoral degrees. She has held visiting creative ...
* Debbie Yee * Kevin Young * Matthew Zapruder


Works published in other languages


French language


France

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Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
, ''Poésies complètes'', translated from the original English by Françoise Delphy; Flammarion * Patrice Delbourg, editor, ''L'année poétique 2009'' ("Poetry Year 2000"),
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
-language poetry published in the past 12 months, Publisher: Seghers; . an anthology * Dominique Sorrente, ''Pays sous les continents, un itinéraire poétique 1978–2008'', MLD * Jean Max Tixier, ''Chants de l'évidence'', publisher: Autres Temps,


French poetry in Canada

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Normand de Bellefeuille Normand de Bellefeuille (; 31 December 1949 – 8 January 2024) was a Canadian poet, writer, literary critic, and essayist. He was a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2000 Governor Genera ...
, ''Mon nom'', Publisher: Éditions du Noroît; ; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetryWeb page title
"Canada Council for the Arts announces the finalists for the 2009 Governor General's Literary Awards"
, a news release dated October 14, 2009, retrieved January 29, 2010 *
René Lapierre René Lapierre (born 1953) is a Québécois writer and teacher. Mainly a poet and essayist, he has published over the last 30 years more than twenty books, among which are several essays on writing and theories of creation, social criticism, and ...
, ''Traité de physique'', Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; ; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry *
Hélène Monette Hélène Monette (June 11, 1960 – June 25, 2015) was a Quebec writer of poetry. The youngest daughter of André Monette and Rita Roquebrune, she was born in Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie and was educated at the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, at the Un ...
, ''Thérèse pour joie et orchestre'', Publisher: Les Éditions du Boréal; ; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry * Philippe More, ''Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait'', Publisher: Poètes de brousse; ; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry * André Roy, Montreal, ''Les espions de Dieu'', Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; ; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry


French poetry in Switzerland

* Markus Hediger, ''En deçà de la lumière'', Publisher: Éditions de l'Aire;


German

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Christoph Buchwald Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenho ...
, series editor, and
Uljana Wolf Uljana Wolf (born 6 April 1979) is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work. Biography Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. She studied German studies, cultural studies and E ...
, guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009'' ("Yearbook of Poetry 2009"), including poems by Christian Ide Hintze,
Herta Müller Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Si ...
, Harald Hartung,
Marcel Beyer Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer. Life Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991, he studied German studies, German language and literature, English studies and li ...
; Frankfurt: Fischer (S.), 254 pages, , an anthology * Christoph Janacs, ''Die Zärtlichkeit von Stacheln''; Salzburg: Tandem Edition * Daniel Falb, ''Bancor'', Kookbooks, 64 pages, * Monika Rinck (author, illustrator) and Andreas Töpfer (illustrator), ''Helle Verwirrung/Rincks Ding- und Tierleben: Gedichte & Zeichnungen'' ("Bright confusion/Rinck thing and animal life: Poems & Drawings"), Kookbooks, 200 pages, * Andre Rudolph (author) and Annette Kühn (illustrator), ''Fluglärm über den Palästen unsrer Restinnerlichkeit'', Luxbooks, 130 pages, *
Uljana Wolf Uljana Wolf (born 6 April 1979) is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work. Biography Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. She studied German studies, cultural studies and E ...
, ''falsche freunde: Prosa-Gedichte'' ("false friends: Prose Poems"), Kookbooks, 85 pages,


Greece

* Phoebe Giannisi, ''Homerika'', publisher: Kedros Editions"News"
Web page at the Greek Poetry Now website, retrieved January 29,m 2010 * Christoph Janacs, ''Zärtlichkeit mit Stacheln. Gedichte zu Adalbert Stifter'' ("The Tenderness of Quills: Poems by Adalbert Stifter"), Salzburg: Edition Tandem, 88 pages, * Giorgos Lillis, ''Bounds of the Labyrinth'', publisher: Kedros Editions * Yiannis Stigas, '' Isopalo Travma '' ("An Even Wound"), publisher: Kedros Editions * ''Noveltly Within or Beyond Language'', an anthology of young Greek poets, Athens: Gavriilidis Editions * Christos Chrysoopoulos (Χρήστος Χρυσόοπουλος), ''Η άλλη Λώρα'' ("Another Laura"), criticism; Athens: Kastaniotis


India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name: * Bharat Majhi, ''Dho'', Bhubaneswar: Timepass,
India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
, Oriya-language * K. Siva Reddy, ''Aame Evaraite Matram'', Hyderabad: Palapitta Prachuranalu,
Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of South India ** Telugu literature, is the body of works written in the Telugu language. * Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Tel ...
-languageWeb page title
"K. Siva Reddy"
at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 * Pratyush Guleri, editor and translator, ''Urvar Pradesh'', New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, , anthology of poems translated from the original Himachali into
Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
* S. Joseph, ''Uppante Kooval Varakkunnu'', winner of a Thiruvananthapuram Book Fair award for one of the ten best books of this year; Kottayam: DC Books, ;
Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...
-language * Teji Grover and Rustam Singh, ''Teji aur Rustam Ki Kavitaen'', selected poems of both poets, New Delhi: Harper Collins, ,
Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
-language * Venkatapu Satyam, translator, ''Antarjanam'', translated into
Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
from the original
Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of South India ** Telugu literature, is the body of works written in the Telugu language. * Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Tel ...
of K. Siva Reddy; Bangalore: Kannada Prakashana


Nepal


Poland

* Juliusz Erazm Bolek, ''Sens-or'' * Tadeusz Dąbrowski, ''Czarny kwadrat'', winner of the 2009 Koscielski Foundation Prize (popularly known in Poland as the ''nagrodą Kościelskich'', or "Koscielski award") for works by Polish writers under 40 years old *
Jerzy Jarniewicz Jerzy Jarniewicz (Polish pronunciation: ; born 4 May 1958) is a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2022 Nike Award, the most important distinction in Polish literature as well as the Medal for Merit to Cult ...
, ''Makijaż'' (''Make-up'') Wrocław: Biuro Literackie *
Ryszard Krynicki Ryszard Krynicki (Polish: ; born 28 June 1943) is a Polish poet and translator, member of the Polish "New Wave" Movement. He is regarded as one of the most prominent post-war contemporary Polish poets. In 2015, he was awarded the Zbigniew Herber ...
, ''Wiersze wybrane''; Kraków: Wydawnictwo a5Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (bot
English version
an
Polish version
), at the Institute Książki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 * Piotr Sommer, ''Rano na ziemi'' *
Wisława Szymborska Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szostagazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 11 February 2012 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish people, Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Liter ...
, ''Tutaj'' ("Here") *
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962) is a 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 has a sister, Wanda Tkaczyszyn, and a nephew named Matthew R ...
, ''Rzeczywiste i nierzeczywiste staje się jednym ciałem.111 wierszy'' *
Adam Zagajewski Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 ...
, '' Unseen Hand'' (''Niewidzialna ręka''), Kraków: ZnakWeb page title
Zagajewski Adam"
, at the Instytut Książki website , "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010


Portuguese language

* Rosa Lia Dinelle, ''Enquanto os sinos plangem'', poems in many different styles;
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
''Britannica (2010)'', "Portuguese: Brazil" * Carlos Newton Júnior, editor, ''O cangaço na poesia brasileira'', anthology;
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
* Arménio Vieira, ''O poema, a viagem, o sonho'',
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...


Russia

Books of poetry were published this year by Igor Bulatovsky, Ilya Kucherov, Dmitry Grigoryev, Natalya Chernykh, Aleksey Porvin,
Boris Khersonsky Borys Hryhorovych Khersonskyi (; born 28 November 1950) is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Clinical psychology, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, poet and former Soviet dissidents, dissident.Czech National Authority Database Language interpretation ...
,
Aleksandr Mironov Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are A ...
, Gali-Dana Singer and Vadim Mesyats''Britannica (2010)'', "Russian"


Other languages

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Antonio Gamoneda Antonio Gamoneda Lobón (born 30 May 1931) is a Spanish poet, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2006. Biography Antonio Gamoneda was born in Oviedo, Asturias, on 30 May 1931. His father, also named Antonio, was a modernist poet who published ...
, ''Extravío en la luz'' ("Lost in the light"), Madrid: Casariego, six previously unpublished poems, ,
Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
*
Jorge Volpi Jorge Volpi (full name Jorge Volpi Escalante, born July 10, 1968) is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as ''In Search of Klingsor ( En busca de Klingsor)''. Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s wi ...
, ''Oscuro bosque oscuro'', novel in free verse,
Spanish poetry This article concerns poetry in Spain. Medieval Spain The Medieval period covers 400 years of different poetry texts and can be broken up into five categories. Primitive lyrics Since the findings of the Kharjas, which are mainly two, three, ...
-language, Mexican poetry, Mexico * Rahman Henry, ''Traansundoree'' ( A Book of Poems), Bhashachitra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. * Toyo Shibata – ''Kujikenaide'' (″Don't lose heart″), Japanese poetry, Japan


Awards and honors

Awards announced this year:


International

*Struga Poetry Evenings, Golden Wreath of Poetry: Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenia)


Australia awards and honors

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:


Canada awards and honors

* Lampman-Scott Award: David O'Meara, ''Noble Gas, Penny Black'' * Gerald Lampert Award: Katia Grubisic, ''what if red ran out'' * Griffin Poetry Prize: Canadian: A. F. Moritz, for ''The Sentinel'' ** Others on the shortlist: Kevin Connolly (writer), Kevin Connolly, ''Revolver''; Jeramy Dodds, ''Crabwise to the Hounds'' * Griffin Poetry Prize: International, in the English Language: C.D. Wright, ''Rising, Falling, Hovering'' ** Others on the shortlist: Mick Imlah, ''The Lost Leader''; Derek Mahon, ''Life on Earth''; Dean Young (poet), Dean Young, ''Primitive Mentor'' *Governor General's Award for English language poetry:
David Zieroth David Zieroth (born November 7, 1946, in Neepawa, Manitoba)Sina Queyras, ''Expressway'';
Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino is a Canadians, Canadian poet, essayist, educator and editing, editor. Biography He was born in 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian people, Italian heritage. His first poetry collection ''The New World'' (1997) was nomina ...
, ''This Way Out'' *Governor General's Award for French language poetry:
Hélène Monette Hélène Monette (June 11, 1960 – June 25, 2015) was a Quebec writer of poetry. The youngest daughter of André Monette and Rita Roquebrune, she was born in Saint-Philippe-de-Laprairie and was educated at the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, at the Un ...
, ''Thérèse pour joie et orchestre'' ** Others on the shortlist:
Normand de Bellefeuille Normand de Bellefeuille (; 31 December 1949 – 8 January 2024) was a Canadian poet, writer, literary critic, and essayist. He was a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2000 Governor Genera ...
, ''Mon nom'';
René Lapierre René Lapierre (born 1953) is a Québécois writer and teacher. Mainly a poet and essayist, he has published over the last 30 years more than twenty books, among which are several essays on writing and theories of creation, social criticism, and ...
, ''Traité de physique''; Philippe More, ''Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait''; André Roy (writer), André Roy, ''Les espions de Dieu'' * Pat Lowther Award: Alice Major, ''The Office Tower Tales'' * Prix Alain-Grandbois: Monique Deland, ''Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désordres'' * Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:
Daphne Marlatt Daphne Marlatt, CM ( Buckle, July 11, 1942), is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. At a young age, her family moved to Malaysia and at age nine, they moved to British Columbia, where she later attended the Un ...
, ''The Given'' * Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Turcot, ''Cette maison n'est pas la mienne''


India awards and honors

*Sahitya Akademi Award : Kailash Vajpayee for ''Hawa Mein Hastakshar'' (Hindi)


New Zealand awards and honors

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (poetry): Brian Turner (New Zealand poet), Brian Turner * Montana New Zealand Book Awards: ** Poetry category winner: Jenny Bornholdt, ''The Rocky Shore'' ** NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: ''Everything Talks'' by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press)


United Kingdom awards and honors

* Cholmondeley Award: Bernard O'Donoghue, Alice Oswald,
Fiona Sampson Fiona Ruth Sampson (born 1963) is a British poet, literary biographer, writer on ecology, editor, translator and scholar. She was appointed an MBE for services to literature in 2017. Early life Sampson was born in London, England, and was ra ...
, Pauline Stainer * Whitbread Awards, Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: ** Shortlist: * David Cohen Prize:
Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...
* English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes: * Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Liz Berry, James Brookes (poet), James Brookes, Swithun Cooper, Alex McRae (poet), Alex McRae, Sam Riviere * Forward Poetry Prize: **Best Collection: Don Paterson, ''Rain'' ***Shortlist: Peter Porter; Christopher Reid, ''A Scattering'' **Best First Collection: ***Shortlist: * Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry: **Shortlist: * Manchester Poetry Prize: * Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets (first award): Elizabeth Burns (poet), Elizabeth Burns, ''The Shortest Days'' * National Poet of Wales: * National Poetry Competition 2008: * T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Jen Hadfield, ''Nigh-No-Place'' **Shortlist (announced in November 2008): * ''The Times''/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:


United States awards and honors

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Bobby C. Rogers for ''Paper Anniversary'' * AML Award for poetry to Lance Larsen for ''Backyard Alchemy'' * O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana SpahrO.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana Spahr
 Judges: Claudia Rankine and Joshua Weiner * Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Linda Gregg * Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Brenda Hillman, ''Practical Water'' (Wesleyan University Press) * National Book Award for Poetry:
Keith Waldrop Bernard Keith Waldrop (December 11, 1932 – July 27, 2023) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy''. Early life and educ ...
for ''Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy'' *
National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose. Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Aw ...
for '' Versed'' ** Finalists:
Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...
, ''A Village Life'', D.A. Powell, ''Chronic'',
Eleanor Ross Taylor Eleanor Ross Taylor (June 30, 1920 – December 30, 2011) was an American poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009. This reference gives Taylor's birthdate. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but thereafter re ...
''Captive Voices'', Rachel Zucker, ''Museum of Accidents'' * ''The New Criterion'' Poetry Prize: William Virgil Davis for ''Landscape and Journey'' * PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Marilyn Hacker for her translation from the French of ''King of a Hundred Horsemen'' by Marie Etienne, Marie Étienne * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): W.S. Merwin for ''The Shadow of Sirius''Web page title
"The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners/Poetry"
Pulitzer Prixe website, retrieved June 8, 2010 ** Finalists: Frank Bidart, ''Watching the Spring Festival,'' and Ruth Stone, ''What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems'' * Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism: Ange Mlinko * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Fanny HoweFanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation
Howe received $100,000 * Wallace Stevens Award:
Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...
* Whiting Awards: Jericho Brown, Jay Hopler, Joan Kane


From the Poetry Society of America

* Frost Medal: X.J. Kennedy * Shelley Memorial Award: Ron Padgett and Gary Young (poet), Gary Young; Judges: John Koethe and Christopher Buckley (poet), Christopher Buckley * Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Richard Robbins (poet), Richard Robbins; Judge: Graham Foust * Lyric Poetry Award: Susan Kinsolving; Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido * Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Wayne Miller (poet), Wayne Miller; Judge: Elizabeth Alexander; finalist: * Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Melissa Kwasny; Judge: Ed Roberson; finalists: * Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Grace Dunhame; Judge: Matthew Rohrer; finalists: * George Bogin Memorial Award: Rusty Morrison; Judge: John Yau * Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Eliot Khalil Wilson; Judge: Henri Cole; finalists: * Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Melissa Kwasny; Judge: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge * Norma Farber First Book Award: Richard Deming for ''Let's Not Call It Consequence''; Judge: Martha Ronk * William Carlos Williams Award: Linda Gregg for ''All of It Singing''; Judge: James Longenbach; finalists:


From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest

2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-3 Category – Grades 5 & 6 *1st place Eloise H. Kelley, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "One Unique World" *2nd place Eliza D’Anieri, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Piano Images" *3rd place Cullan Kerner, Winchester, Virginia for the poem "Benched" *1st Honorable Mention Graydon Nuk, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "The Bike" *2nd Honorable Mention Josephine Norris Cotton, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "A Cat's Personality" *3rd Honorable Mention Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Florida's Smiles" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8 *1st place Nate Friant, Harbor, Maine for the poem "November Jay" *2nd place Ashley Harris, Mt. Kisco, NY for the poem "Lines" *3rd place Emma Moorhead, Bath, Maine for the poem "My Crayola" *1st Honorable Mention Lia Russell, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Dogwood" *2nd Honorable Mention Amelia Neilson, Arrowsic, Maine for the poem "Harvested" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10 *1st place Cassandra Gergely, Owings, Maryland for the poem "Sun Dreams" *2nd place Kelsey Tripp, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Clarity" *3rd place Aleck Berry, Williamsburg, Virginia for the poem "Golden Fried Love" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-6 Category – Grades 11 & 12 *1st place Duncan Lyle, Manakin Sabot, Virginia for the poem "Smoking is not allowed in School" *2nd place Bianca LaBarbena, Edison, New Jersey for the poem "Haven" *3rd place Keenan Nathaniel Thompson, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Sunflower Angel" *1st Honorable Mention Brown Farinholt, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Your Temple" *2nd Honorable Mention Kara Wang, Saratoga, California for the poem "Longing" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-7 Category – Community College *1st place Tyler Iseley, Newport News, Virginia for the poem "Warrior" *2nd place Linda Arnott, Tucson, Arizona for the poem "The Corpse" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College *1st place Nathan W. Friedman, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Like Clara Bow" *2nd place Nicole Fegeas, Warrenton, Virginia for the poem "Semantics" *3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Piedmont Station" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize *1st place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Where My Poems Hide" *2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "How to be in a Play" *3rd place Maura Eileen Anderson, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Late Night Wing: An Alphabet Poem" *1st Honorable Mention Daniel Mayer, Walpole, Maine for the poem "My Ascent and Descent" *2nd Honorable Mention Jacob Maxmin, Nobleboro, Maine for the poem "Holiday Helpers" *3rd Honorable Mention Virginia Hindman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Ignorance" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize *1st place Kelsey Tripp, Roanoke, Virginia for the poem "Suppressed Voice" *2nd place Mikal Cardine, Warrington, Virginia for the poem "Lost" *3rd place Robyn Walters, Yorktown, Virginia for the poem "For the Love of Book" 2009 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize *1st place Brown Farinholt, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Henrietta's" *2nd place Mikal Cardine, Warrington, Virginia for the poem "Lonely" *3rd place Michelle Moses, Virginia Beach, Virginia for the poem "Novelty Love" *1st Honorable Mention Sam Perry, Dillwyn, Virginia for the poem "The Musician" *2nd Honorable Mention Philip Halsey, Richmond, Virginia for the poem "Spoiled" *3rd Honorable Mention Peter Chiappa, Yorktown, Virginia for the poem "Sonnet 31"


Awards and honors elsewhere

* Polish poetry, Poland: ** Gdynia Literary Prize, for poetry:
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962) is a 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 has a sister, Wanda Tkaczyszyn, and a nephew named Matthew R ...
, ''Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach'' (2008 in poetry, 2008) ** Nike Award for literature:
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (born 1962) is a 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 has a sister, Wanda Tkaczyszyn, and a nephew named Matthew R ...
, ''Piosenka o zależnościach i uzależnieniach'' * Portuguese poetry, Portuguese: Camões Prize: Arménio Vieira *
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: Cervantes Prize: José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poetry, Mexico


Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: * January 2 – Inger Christensen, 73 (born 1935 in poetry, 1935), Danish poetry, Danish poet, writer, novelist, essayist and children's book author * January 4 – Gert Jonke, 62, (born 1946 in poetry, 1946), Austrian poetry, Austrian poet, novelist playwright and screenwriter, of cancer * January 10 – Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez, 92 (born 1917 in poetry, 1917), Latin American poetry, Panamanian journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller, of a heart ailment (surname: Rodriguez Velez) * January 11 – Milan Rufus, 80 (born 1928 in poetry, 1928), Slovak poetry, Slovak poet and academic * January 12 – Mick Imlah, 52 (born 1956 in poetry, 1956), English poetry, British poet * January 13 – W. D. Snodgrass, 83 (born 1926 in poetry, 1926),
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poet and academic * January 15 – Maurice Chappaz, 92 (born 1916 in poetry, 1916), Swiss poetry, Swiss,
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-language poet, writer and translator * January 18 – Grigore Vieru, 73 (born 1935 in poetry, 1935), a Moldovan poet writing in Romanian poetry, Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova; died from a car accident * January 27 – John Updike, 76 (born 1932 in poetry, 1932),
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novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer * January 30 – James Schevill, 88 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920),
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poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State and Brown University * February 4 – Arnljot Eggen, (born 1923 in poetry, 1923), Norwegian poetry, Norwegian poet, playwright and author of children's books * February 5 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri", 104 (born 1904 in poetry, 1904), Indian poetry, Indian, Gujarati poetry, Gujarati-language ghazal poet * February 9: ** Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian poetry, Lithuanian poet and editor ** Don Maclennan, 80 (born 1929 in poetry, 1929), English-born South African poetry, South African poet, critic and academic * February 13 – Bahtiyar Vahabzade (born 1925 in poetry, 1925), Azerbaijani poetry, Azerbaijani poet, philology, philologist * February 20 – Christopher Nolan (author), Christopher Nolan, 43 (born 1965 in poetry, 1965), Irish poet and author * February 23 – Peter Wild, 68, (born 1940 in poetry, 1940), American poet and historian, professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson * February 25 – Bill Holm (poet), Bill Holm, 65 (born 1943 in poetry, 1943),
American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...
poet, writer and academic, from complications of pneumonia * March 4 – Triztán Vindtorn (born 1942 in poetry, 1942), Norwegian poetry, Norwegian poet and performance artist * March 12 – Blanca Varela, 82 (born 1926 in poetry, 1926), Peruvian poetry, Peruvian poet * March 13 – James Purdy, 94, (born 1914 in poetry, 1914),
American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...
novelist, poet and playwright * March 14 – Gwendoline Konie, 70 (born 1938 in poetry, 1938), Zambian poet and politician * March 17 – Jane Mayhall, 90, (born 1918 in poetry, 1918),
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poet and novelist * April 3 – Alexei Parshchikov, 54,(born 1954 in poetry, 1954),
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poet, critic and translator * April 8 – Henri Meschonnic, 77, (born 1932 in poetry, 1932),
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poet, linguist, translator and theoretician * April 10 – Deborah Digges (born 1950 in poetry, 1950),
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poet and academic * April 12 – Franklin Rosemont (born 1943 in poetry, 1943),
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Surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group * April 13 – Stefan Brecht (born 1924 in poetry, 1924), 84, German poetry, German-born
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poet, critic and scholar of theater; son of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel * April 28 – U. A. Fanthorpe (born 1929 in poetry, 1929), 79, English poetry, English poet * April 29, but date uncertain – Craig Arnold (born 1967 in poetry, 1967), 41, American poet, fell climbing a volcano in Japan while collecting material for his next book. * May 1 –3 – Bantu Mwaura, 40, Kenyan poetry, Kenyan human-rights activist, actor, director, poet and storyteller who wrote poetry in English, Swahili language, Swahili and Gikuyu language, Gikuyu * May 7 – Robin Blaser, (born 1925 in poetry, 1925), 83, American-born Canada, Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner * May 10 – James Kirkup, 91, English poetry, English poet, translator and travel writer, from a stroke * May 17 – Mario Benedetti, 88 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920), Uruguayan poetry, Uruguayan, poet, author and journalist * May 22 – Alexander Mezhirov, 86 (born 1923 in poetry, 1923),
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poet, translator and criticУмер поэт-фронтовик Александр Межиров
(Google translation: "He died the poet-veteran Alexander Mezhirov"), May 22, 2009, ITAR/TASS news report, retrieved May 27, 2009 * May 26 – Doris Mühringer, 88 (born 1920 in poetry, 1920), Austrian poetry, Austrian poet, short story writer and children's writer * May 31 – Kamala Das, 75 (born 1934 in poetry, 1934), Indian poetry, Indian short-story writer and poet who wrote Indian poetry in English, in English and
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* June 3 – David Bromige, 75 (born 1933 in poetry, 1933), English-born Canadian poet who resided in California, winner of the Pushcart Prize. * June 8: ** Harold Norse, 92 (born 1916 in poetry, 1916),
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poet and memoirist. Considered among Beat poets. ** Habib Tanvir, 85 (born 1923 in poetry, 1923), popular
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playwright, theatre director, poet and actor * June 24 – Steven Wells, 49 (born 1960 in poetry, 1960), English poetry, English music critic, journalist, screenwriter, poet, novelist, film producer and publisher * June 25 –
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, 50 (born 1958 in poetry, 1958), American pop singer, songwriter, poet and author * July 3 – Alauddin Al-Azad, 77 (born 1932 in poetry, 1932), Bengali poetry, Bengali novelist, writer, poet, literary critic and academic * August 6 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also known as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock", 74 (born 1935 in poetry, 1935), Indonesian poetry, Indonesian poet * August 8 – Alfonso Calderón (poet), Alfonso Calderón, 78 (born 1930 in poetry, 1930), Chilean poetry, Chilean poet, writer, memoirist and poetry anthologist * August 16 – Alistair Campbell (poet), Alistair Campbell, 84 (born 1925 in poetry, 1925), New Zealand poetry, New Zealand poet, writer and editor, and once the husband of fellow poet Fleur Adcock * August 19: ** Dic Jones, 75, Welsh poetry, Welsh poet ** Lina Kasdagli (also spelled "Lina Kasdaglē"), 88 (born 1921 in poetry, 1912),
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poet and translator * August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, 96 (born 1913 in poetry, 1913),
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writer and poet, co-author of the lyrics of the ''National Anthem of the Soviet Union'' and ''National Anthem of Russia'' * September 3 – Christine D'Haen, 85, Belgian poetry, Belgian poet * September 11: **Sarane Alexandrian, 82,
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art historian, philosopher and poet ** Jim Carroll, 59 (born 1949 in poetry, 1949), American poet, author and musician. * September 15 – Wayne Brown (author), Wayne Brown, 65 (born 1944 in poetry, 1944), Trinidadian writer and poet * September 27 – Gaya Prasad Tiwari, 89,
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poet in
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and twice winner of the Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award, died after being hit by a train as he was crossing the tracks (hard of hearing, he apparently did not hear the train coming) * September 30 – Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish poetry, Spanish writer and poet. * October 1 – Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poetry, Cuban * October 18 – Lenore Kandel, 77,
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, died of lung cancer * November 1 – Alda Merini, 78, Italian poetry, Italian. * November 15 – Anna Mendelssohn, 61, English poetry, British poet and political activist, brain tumour * December 10 – Dilip Chitre, 71 (born 1938 in poetry, 1938), Indian writer who wrote in Marathi language, Marathi and English. He was also a painter and filmmaker. His ''Ekun Kavita'' or Collected Poems were published in the 1990s. His most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi bhakti poet Tukaram. * December 20 – Vera Rich, 73 (born 1936 in poetry, 1936), English poetry, British poet, journalist, historian, and translator * December 24 – Jim Chastain, 46 (born
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
), American poet, * December 24/25? – Rachel Wetzsteon, 42 (born 1967 in poetry, 1967), American poet, poetry editor of The New Republic at the time of her death, from suicide * December 26 – Dennis Brutus, 85 (born 1924 in poetry, 1924), South African poet and Anti-Apartheid Movement, anti-Apartheid activist. He was imprisoned and incarcerated in the cell next to Nelson Mandela's on Robben Island from 1963 to 1965. * December 30 –Ruth Lilly, 94, American philanthropist (Eli Lilly and Company), established $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and donated $200 million to Poetry magazineRuth Lilly 1915 – 2009
This "cyber-tombeau" at ''Silliman's Blog'' by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links


See also

*Poetry *List of poetry awards


Notes

* ''Britannica Book of the Year 2010'' (events of 2009), published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, online edition (subscription required), "Literature/Year in Review 2009" section {{DEFAULTSORT:2009 In Poetry 2000s in poetry 2009 poems, *