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[edit] Events
- Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" was read (with many lines omitted) on National Public Radio and was widely circulated and discussed for its relevance to recent events.
- December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Milton's Paradise Lost at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours.
- In The Best American Poetry 2001, poet and guest editor Robert Hass wrote, "There are roughly three traditions in American poetry at this point: a metrical tradition that can be very nervy and that is also basically classical in impulse; a strong central tradition of free verse made out of both romanticism and modernism, split between the impulses of an inward and psychological writing and an outward and realist one, at its best fusing the two; and an experimental tradition that is usually more passionate about form than content, perception than emotion, restless with the conventions of the art, skeptical about the political underpinnings of current practice, and intent on inventing a new one, or at least undermining what seems repressive in the current formed style. [...] At the moment there are poets doing good, bad, and indifferent work in all these ranges." Critic Maureen McLane said of Hass' description that "it's hard to imagine a more judicious account of major tendencies."[1]
[edit] Works published
- Alistair Campbell, Maori Battalion: a poetic sequence, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, New Zealand
- Bill Manhire, Collected Poems, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Axis
- Paul Millar, Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter’s Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946
- Michael O'Leary, He Waiatanui Kia Aroha
- Hone Tuwhare, Piggyback Moon
- Ian Wedde, The Commonplace Odes
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Stephen Wade, editor, Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s, Liverpool University Press, ISBN 0-85323-727-1
[edit] Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Bei Dao, At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1495-8
- Eavan Boland, Against Love Poetry (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Joseph Brodsky: Nativity Poems, translated by Melissa Green; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,[3] Russian-American
- Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Maxine Chernoff, World: Poems 1991-2001 (Salt Publications)
- Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (ISBN 0-375-50380-3)
- W.S. Di Piero, Skirts and Slacks: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Seamus Heaney, Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (Irish poet living in the United States)
- Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt
- Paul Hoover, Rehearsal in Black, (Cambridge, England: Salt Publications)
- James Merrill, Collected Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968-1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet in the United States)
- Amos Oz, The Same Sea (Harcourt); a novel about sexual hanky-panky involving a man, son and several women; most of the book is in verse; the author collaborated on the translation by Nicholas de Lange); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Jay Wright, Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Louisiana State University Press); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
[edit] Anthologies in the United States
- Caroline Kennedy, editor, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a hardcover New York Times best seller for 15 weeks late this year and into 2002.[4]
The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2001, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Robert Hass:
[edit] Awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Ian Duhig, Paul Durcan, Kathleen Jamie, Grace Nichols
- Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick Mackie, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read
- Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection): Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador)
- Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection): John Stammers, The Panoramic Lounge Bar (Picador)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Longley
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Selima Hill, Bunny
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for A Defense of Poetry
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Frederick Morgan
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Circus Fire, 1944”
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Louise Glück
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Robin Behn, Horizon Note
- Frost Medal: Sonia Sanchez
- National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Billy Collins appointed
- Poets' Prize: Philip Booth, Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
- Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Edward Weismiller
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Yusef Komunyakaa
- Wallace Stevens Award: John Ashbery
- William Carlos Williams Award: Ralph J. Mills, Grasses Standing: Selected Poems, Judge: Fanny Howe
- January 17 — Gregory Corso, American Beat Generation poet, 70, of prostate cancer
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- February 14 — Alan Ross (born 1922), English poet
- February 22 — Leo Connellan (born 1928), American poet
- March 23 — Louis Dudek, Canadian poet
- September 23 — Allen Curnow, New Zealand poet and journalist
- October 16 — Anne Ridler (born 1912), British poet and Faber and Faber editor
- October 20 — Andrew Waterhouse
- October 26:
- November 25 — David Gascoyne (born 1915), British poet associated with the Surrealist movement
- December 20 — Léopold Senghor, first President of Senegal; a world-renowned poet and writer.
- December 27 — Ian Hamilton (born 1938), British poet, critic, magazine publisher
- date not known:
- ^ [1]Hass quoted from his Introduction to The Best American Poetry 2001, by Maureen McLane in "Eclectic collection: A new anthology of American works includes a wide range of forms, styles and themes", a review of the book on page 4 of the Books section of The Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2001, accessed via Newsbank.com Web site, October 13, 2007
- ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ [3] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ [4]Garner, Dwight, "TBR/ Inside the List" column, The New York Times Book Review, January 15, 2006
- [5] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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