2005 in poetry

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Events

* October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK. The British event, "Howl for Now", was accompanied by a book of essays of the same name, edited by Simon Warner, reflecting on the piece's enduring power and influence.

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=

* Chris Mansell, "Mortifications & Lies" (Kardoorair, Armidale)) ISBN 0-908244-60-6
* Les Murray:
** "Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia" Carcanet
** Editor, "Best Australian Poems 2004", Melbourne, Black Inc.
* Philip Salom, "The Well Mouth". (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-1-921064-24-1
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "The Universe Looks Down", Brandl & Schlesinger, ISBN 1-876040-74-2, Australia

=Canada=

* George Elliott Clarke, "Illuminated Verses". Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, ISBN 1-55130-280-2
* Anne Compton, "Processional"
* Sylvia Legris, "Nerve Squall", winner of 2006 Pat Lowther Award, winner of the 2006 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Award (Canada)
* Michael Palmer, "Company of Moths", shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2006)
* John Pass, "Stumbling in the Bloom", (ISBN 0-88982-201-8) winner of the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry (Canada)

=Ireland=

* Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin:
**"Verbale" by Michele Ranchetti, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and others, Dublin: Instituto Italiano di Cultura [http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11162&x=1 Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin"] at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008]
** "After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin", poems by Ileana Malancioiu, Cork: Southword Editions
* Thomas McCarthy, "Merchant Prince", Anvil Press, London, Irish work published in the United Kingdom [http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy"] at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008]

=New Zealand=

* Raewyn Alexander:
** "It's a Secret: Selected Poems" (Auckland: Brightsparkbooks) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/alexander.htm Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008]
** "Writing Poetry: Fireworks, Clay & Architecture" (Auckland: Brightsparkbooks)
* Stu Bagby, "As it was in the beginning" (Steele Roberts Publications Ltd.)
* Wystan Curnow, "Modern Colours" (Jack Books)
* Stephanie de Montalk, "Cover Stories" (Victoria University Press)
* Anne Kennedy, "Time of the Giants" (Auckland University Press)
* Michele Leggott, "Milk & Honey", Auckland: Auckland University Press
* Bill Manhire, "Lifted", New Zealand
* Cilla McQueen, "Fire-penny", Otago University Press [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library ] ]
* Karlo Mila, "Dream Fish Floating" (Huia Publishers)
* James Norcliffe, "Along Blueskin Road" (Canterbury University Press)
* Gregory O’Brien, "Afternoon of An Evening Train" (Victoria University Press)
* Vivienne Plumb, "Scarab: A Poetic Documentary" (Seraph Press)
* Anna Smaill, "The Violinist in Spring" (Victoria University Press)
* Robert Sullivan, "Voice Carried My Family" (Auckland University Press)
* Ian Wedde, "Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty" (Auckland University Press)

Poets in "Best New Zealand Poems"

Poems from these 25 poets, selected by Emma Neale were included in "Best New Zealand Poems 2004", published online this year:

* Tusiata Avia
* Hinemoana Baker
* Diane Brown
* James Brown
* Geoff Cochrane
* Linda Connell
* Wystan Curnow
* Anne French
* Paula Green
* David Howard
* Andrew Johnston
* Tim Jones
* Anne Kennedy
* Tze Ming Mok
* Peter Olds
* Vincent O'Sullivan
* Vivienne Plumb
* Richard Reeve
* Elizabeth Smither
* Kendrick Smithyman
* C.K. Stead
*Brian Turner
* Sue Wootton
* Sonja Yelich
* Ashleigh Young

=United Kingdom=

* Carol Ann Duffy:
** "Another Night Before Christmas", John Murray
** "Moon Zoo", Macmillan
** "Rapture", Picador
* John Heath-Stubbs, "Pigs Might Fly"
* Jackie Kay, "Life Mask"
* Derek Mahon, "Harbour Lights." Gallery Press
* Thomas McCarthy, "Merchant Prince", London; Anvil Press, Irish work published in the United Kingdom [http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy"] at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008]
* Brian Merriman: "The Midnight Court" (translation by Ciarán Carson of "Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche"), Gallery Press; Wake Forest University Press, 2006, posthumous
* Alice Oswald, "Woods etc.", Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21852-0

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

* Alice Oswald, "The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet", (editor), Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21854-7
* Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Kadija Sesay, "Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa" (Flipped Eye Publishing) anthology with a foreword by Saro-Wiwa’s son, Ken Wiwa, including poems by Mutabaruka, Sharan Strange, Chris Abani, Jayne Cortez, Kwame Dawes, Amiri Baraka, Kamau Braithwaite; and poems in Catalan, Scots, Creole, Castilian paying tribute to Khana, Saro-Wiwa’s mother tongue.

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Elaine Feinstein, "Anna of all the Russias: A life of Anna Akhmatova", London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005 (ISBN 0-297-64309-6); N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 (ISBN 1-4000-4089-2)

United States

* Elizabeth Alexander, "American Sublime" [ [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82517 Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008]
* John Ashbery, "Where Shall I Wander"
* Bei Dao, "Midnight's Gate" translation by Matthew Fryslie, edited by Christopher Mattison (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1584-9
* Ted Berrigan, "Collected Poems" (University of California Press), edited by his widow Alice Notley and sons Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, posthumous
* Frank Bidart, "Star Dust", one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/notable-books2005.html?ei=5070&en=6f550d5f81ac87d7&ex=1163307600&pagewanted=print] "100 Notable Books of the Year", "New York Times Book Review", December 4, 2005]
* Oscar Brown Jr., "What It Is: Poems and Opinions of Oscar Brown Jr." (Oyster Knife Publishing)
* Charles Bukowski, "The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems" (Ecco)
* Ana Castillo, "Watercolor Women/Opaque Men in Verse" (Curbstone Press)
* Adrian Castro, "Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time" (Coffee House Press)
* Dan Chiasson, "Natural History: Poems, one of the New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
* Henri Cole, "Vingt-Deux Poèmes"(Yvon Lambert, Paris)
* Billy Collins, "The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems", (ISBN 0-375-50382-X)
* Mark Doty, "School of the Arts", HarperCollins
* Forrest Gander, "Eye Against Eye" (New Directions)
* Jorie Graham, "Overlord: Poems", one of the New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
* Allison Hedge Coke, "Off-Season City Pipe" Coffee House Press
* Michael Hofmann, translator, "Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems" by Durs Grünbein, German, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* John Hollander, editor, "Poems Bewitched and Haunted"
* Paul Hoover, "Poems in Spanish", (Omnidawn Publishing)
* June Jordan, "Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan" (Copper Canyon Press), posthumous
* Ted Kooser, "Delights and Shadows" (Copper Canyon Press)
* Stanley Kunitz, "The Collected Poems" (W. W. Norton)
* Laurie Lamon, "The Fork Without Hunger", CavanKerry Press
* James McMichael, "Capacity", a book-length poem and finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry
* W.K. Lawrence, "State of Love and Trust"
* David Lehman, editor, "Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present" (Scribner), an anthology
* William Logan, "The Whispering Gallery"
* Richard Loranger, "Poems for Teeth" (We Press)
* Claire Lux and John Most, "Atelier" (AQP Collective)
* W.S. Merwin, "Migration: New and Selected Poems", one of the New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
* Ange Mlinko, "Starred Wire" (Coffee House Press, 2005), winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series
* Sharon Olds, "Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002" (Knopf)
* Jason Shinder, editor, "The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later", essays on the impact of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” on American literature and culture; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* Patti Smith, "Auguries of Innocence"
* Tony Tost, "World Jelly"
* Brian Turner, "Here, Bullet", (Alice James Books), war poetry
*Richard Wilbur, "Collected Poems, 1943-2004" (Harvest Books), one of the New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
* Marvin X, "Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995-2005" (Black Bird Press)

Poets whose works appeared in "The Best American Poetry 2005"

The 75 poets included in "The Best American Poetry 2005", edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Paul Muldoon:
*A.R. Ammons
*John Ashbery
*Maureen Bloomfield
*Catherine Bowman
*Stephanie Brown
*Charles Bukowski
*Elena Karina Byrne
*Victoria Chang
*Shanna Compton
*James Cummins
*Jamey Dunham
*Stephen Dunn
*Karl Elder
*Lynn Emanuel
*Elaine Equi
*Clayton Eshleman
*Andrew Feld
*Beth Ann Fennelly
*Edward Field
*Richard Garcia
*Amy Gerstler
*Leonard Gontarek
*Jessica Goodheart
*George Green
*Arielle Greenberg
*Marilyn Hacker
*Matthea Harvey
*Stacey Harwood
*Terrance Hayes
*Samuel Hazo
*Anthony Hecht
*Jennifer Michael Hecht
*Lyn Hejinian
*Ruth Herschberger
*Jane Hirshfield
*Tony Hoagland
*Vicki Hudspith
*Donald Justice
*Mary Karr
*Garret Keizer
*Brigit Pegeen Kelly
*Galway Kinnell
*Rachel Loden
*Sarah Manguso
*Heather McHugh
*D. Nurske
*Steve Orlen
*Eugene Ostashevsky
*Linda Pastan
*Adrienne Rich
*James Richardson
*Mary Ruefle
*Kay Ryan
*Jerome Sala
*Mary Jo Salter
*Christine Scanlon
*Jason Schneiderman
*Julie Sheehan
*Charles Simic
*Louis Simpson
*W.D. Snodgrass
*Gary Snyder
*Maura Stanton
*Dorothea Tanning
*James Tate
*Chase Twichell
*David Wagoner
*Rosanna Warren
*Marlys West
*Susan Wheeler
*Richard Wilbur
*Cecilia Woloch
*Charles Wright
*Mattew Yeager
*Kevin Young

Other in English

* Jayanta Mahapatra, "Random Descent", Third Eye Communications, India [ [http://www.hindu.com/lr/2005/10/02/stories/2005100200220100.htm] Ramnarayan, Gowri, "In Conversation: Brutal landscape" in the Sunday "Literary review" section of "The Hindu", dated October 2, 2005, accessed October 16, 2007]

Works published in other languages

* Dimitris P. Kraniotis, "Fictitious Line", ISBN 960-90107-1-7 (trilingual edition, Greek poetry with English and French translation), Greece
* Rami Saari, "Ha-shogun Ha-xamishi" ("The Fifth Shogun"), Israel [ [http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00198.php Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon] , 2007]
* Wisława Szymborska: "Dwukropek" ("Colon"), Poland

Awards and honors

* Nobel prize: Harold Pinter

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: M. T. C. Cronin, "1-100"
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Samuel Wagan Watson, "Smoke Encrypted Whispers"

=Canada=

* Archibald Lampman Award
* Atlantic Poetry Prize
* Griffin Poetry Prize: Canadian: Roo Borson, "Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida"
* Griffin Poetry Prize: International, in the English Language: Charles Simic, "Selected Poems: 1963-2003"
* Pat Lowther Award
* Prix Alain-Grandbois
* Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

New Zealand

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
* Montana New Zealand Book Awards First-book award for poetry: Sonja Yelich, "Clung", Auckland University Press

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Jane Duran, Christopher Logue, M.R. Peacocke, Neil Rollinson
* Eric Gregory Award: Melanie Challenger, Carolyn Jess, Luke Kennard, Jaim Smith
* Forward Poetry Prize:
**Best Collection: David Harsent, "Legion" (Faber & Faber)
**Best First Collection: Helen Farish, "Intimates" (Jonathan Cape)
* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Carol Ann Duffy, "Rapture"
* Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Christopher Logue, "Cold Calls"
** Shortlisted: David Harsent, "Legion", Richard Price, "Lucky Day", Jane Yeh, "Marabou"

United States

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry - B.H. Fairchild
* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Rick Hilles for "Brother Salvage: Poems"
* Arthur Rense Prize awarded to Daniel Hoffman by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
* Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Jay Wright
* Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Susanna Childress Winner, "Jagged with Love"
* California Poet Laureate: Al Young, appointed
* Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards: David Hernandez, "Always Danger"
* Frost Medal: Marie Ponsot
* National Book Award for Poetry: W.S. Merwin: "Migration: New and Selected Poems"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Ted Kooser, "Delights & Shadows" (ISBN 1-55659-201-9)
* Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Marina Tarlinskaya
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: C.K. Williams
* Wallace Stevens Award: Gerald Stern
* Whiting Writers' Awards (poetry winners): Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, John Keene (fiction/poetry), Dana Levin, Spencer Reece, Tracy K. Smith
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Claudia Rankine

Deaths

ee also

*Poetry
*List of poetry awards

Notes and references

* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the "Representative Poetry Online" Web site, University of Toronto