2000 in poetry

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[edit] Events

Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.
February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate
October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll
October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perfor Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem
Spike Milligan made an honorary knight
In the film Pandaemonium, released this year, the lives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads," are discussed.

[edit] Works published in English

[edit] Australia

Les Murray:
- Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize^[1]
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru

[edit] Canada

Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian
George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, ISBN 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) Canada
Don McKay, Another Gravity (Canada)^[2]
John Pass, Water Stair (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) Canada
Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize) ISBN 0-7710-8077-8, Canada

[edit] New Zealand

Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of
Jenny Bornholdt, These Days
Paula Green, Chrome
Murray Edmond, Laminations
Andrew Johnston, Birds of Europe
Cilla McQueen, Markings, poetry and drawings

[edit] Anthologies in New Zealand

Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand ISBN-10: 0908877811, ISBN-13: 978-0908877812
Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, editors, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975, Auckland: Auckland University Press

[edit] United Kindgom

James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures^[3]
Elaine Feinstein, Gold, Carcanet
Thom Gunn, Collected Poems
Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
Sulpicia, The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs

[edit] United States

John Ashbery:
- Your Name Here
- As Umbrellas Follow Rain
Bei Dao, Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger & Iona Man-Cheong (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1447-8
Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972-1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[4] Russian-American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Gwendolyn Brooks, In Montgomery
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
Fanny Howe, Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990-1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
Constance Merritt, A Protocol for Touch: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Eleanor Wilner
W. S. Merwin (translator). Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem)
Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg:
- The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992, ISBN 0-374-52754-7
Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian)
Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky (posthumous)

[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0-674-00205-9

[edit] Anthologies in the United States

Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang, editors, The Body Electric, anthology of poetry published in The American Poetry Review, 1972-1999.(W.W. Norton & Company), 820 pages