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[edit] Events
- March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
[edit] Works published
- W. G. Sebald, After Nature]] (Random House); a book-length poem; named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Brad Leithauser, Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a 5,700-line verse novel in 10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed; named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- J.D. McClatchy, Hazmat: Poems (Knopf); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Glyn Maxwell, The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 (Ecco/HarperCollins); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems (Random House); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Ted Hughes, Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Abba Kovner, Sloan-Kettering: Poems (Schocken); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Marie Ponsot, Springing: New and Selected Poems (Knopf); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
- Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review
[edit] Awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Moniza Alvi, David Constantine, Liz Lochhead, Brian Patten
- Eric Gregory Award: Caroline Bird, Christopher James, Jacob Polley, Luke Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection): Peter Porter, Max is Missing (Picador); Best First Collection: Tom French, Touching the Bones (The Gallery Press)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Porter
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Alice Oswald, Dart
- Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom):
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Shao Wei for Pulling a Dragon's Teeth
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Grace Schulman
- Arthur Rense Prize for poetry awarded to B.H. Fairchild by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Timothy Donnelly, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Alice Fulton for Felt
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Anna George Meek, Acts of Contortion
- Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell
- National Book Award for poetry (United States): Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Dennis, Practical Gods
- Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Paul Fussell
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Lisel Mueller
- Wallace Stevens Award: Ruth Stone
- William Carlos Williams Award: Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer
- June 14 - June Jordan, American poet, of breast cancer
- July 6 - Kenneth Koch, American poet, of leukemia
- August 25 - Dorothy Hewett (born 1923), Australian poet and playwright
- October 21 - Harbhajan Singh (born 1920), Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator
- December 9 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice
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