2000 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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
- April 17 - New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman appoints poet Gerald Stern to be the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey
- 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 perform 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.
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
- Brook Emery, and dug my fingers in the sand, Five Islands Press.
- 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
- * An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru
- Les Wicks, The Ways of Waves, Sidewalk
Canada
- Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, American-Canadian
- Clint Burnham, Buddyland
- Margaret Christakos:
- *Wipe Under A Love
- *Charisma
- George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, Canada
- Louis Dudek, The Surface of Time. Montreal: Empyreal.
- Claire Harris, She, Trinidadian-born, Canadian
- Don McKay, Another Gravity
- John Pass, Water Stair Canada
- Anne Simpson, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize), Canada
- Raymond Souster, Of Time & Toronto. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Anthologies in Canada
- Ayanna Black, editor, Fiery Spirits & Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent, Toronto: HarperPerennialCanada
- Wanda Campbell, editor, Susan Atkinson and Tanya Butler, assistant editors, Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, London, Ontario: Canadian Poetry Press
- Sophia Kaszuba, Sian Meikle, and Ian Lancashire, editors, Canadian Poets University of Toronto English Library, including these poets:
India, in English
- Sujata Bhatt, Augatora, Carcanet Press
- Keki Daruwalla, Night River, New Delhi: Rupa & Co.
- Ranjit Hoskote, The Cartographer's Apprentice,, Mumbai: The Pundole Art Gallery
- Tabish Khair, Where Parallel Lines Meet, New Delhi: Penguin-Viking, ; New York City: Allen Lane,
- Sudeep Sen:
- * Almanac, Columbia: University of South Carolina
- * Lines of Desire, Columbia: University of South Carolina
- * A Blank Letter, Dhaka: The High Commission of India
- K. Satchidanandan, Imperfect and Other New Poems, Kozhikode, Kerala: Olive Publications
- Dilip Chitre, No Moon Monday on the River Karha, Pune: Vijaya Chitre
New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock, Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
- Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of
- Jenny Bornholdt, These Days
- Glenn Colquhoun, An Explanation of Poetry to My Father
- Paula Green, Chrome
- Murray Edmond, Laminations
- Andrew Johnston, Birds of Europe
- Cilla McQueen, Markings, poetry and drawings, Otago University Press
- Stephanie de Montalk, Animals Indoors, Victoria University Press
Anthologies in New Zealand
- Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, editors, My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, Random House New Zealand,
- Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, editors, Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960–1975, Auckland: Auckland University Press
- Lauris Edmond, editor, New Zealand Love Poems: An Oxford Anthology, posthumous
United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock, Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
- Gerry Cambridge, The Praise of Swans, Shoestring Press,
- Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah, editors, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Oldest Girl in the World, Faber and Faber
- U. A. Fanthorpe, Consequences
- James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures
- James Fenton (Ulster Scots poet), Thonner an Thon: an Ulster-Scots collection, Ulster Scots dialect poet living and published in Northern Ireland
- Elaine Feinstein, Gold, Carcanet
- Thom Gunn:
- * Boss Cupid
- * Collected Poems
- Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin, Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
- Craig Raine, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
- Peter Reading, Marfan
- Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living and published in the United Kingdom:
- * Floods, Faber and Faber
- * Editor, with Jon Turney, A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science, anthology, Faber and Faber
- Jo Shapcott, Her Book
- Sulpicia, The Poems of Sulpicia, ancient Roman poet translated by John Heath-Stubbs
United States
- John Ashbery:
- * Your Name Here
- * As Umbrellas Follow Rain
- Bei Dao, Unlock, English translation by Eliot Weinberger & Iona Man-Cheong
- Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadian poet living in the United States
- Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972–1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Gwendolyn Brooks, In Montgomery
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf
- Paul Celan, Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
- Anita Endreszze, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, combination of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press
- Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems
- Fanny Howe, Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
- Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf
- Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton
- Stanley Lombardo, Odyssey by Homer, Hackett
- Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin, 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, translation, Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf;
- Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro
- Michael O'Brien, Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland
- Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud
- Grace Paley, Begin Again: Collected Poems
- Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
- Carl Phillips, Pastoral
- Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain
- Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg:
- * The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- * Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992,
- Derek Walcott, The Prodigal
- Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing ''The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky''
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- John Ashbery, Other Traditions, thoughts on six poets ; from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Alison Lurie, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
- Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney,
Anthologies in the United States
- Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang, editors, The Body Electric, anthology of poetry published in American Poetry Review, 1972–1999., 820 pagesAmerican Poetry: The Twentieth Century, two volumes, The Library of America
- Cary Nelson, editor, Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Oxford University Press
- Jeffrey Paine, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, and Helen Vendler, editors, The Poetry of Our World: an International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, New York: HarperCollins
Poets appearing in ''The Best American Poetry 2000''
- Kim Addonizio
- Pamela Alexander
- A. R. Ammons
- Julianna Baggott
- Erin Belieu
- Richard Blanco
- Janet Bowdan
- Grace Butcher
- Lucille Clifton
- Billy Collins
- Jim Daniels
- Gregory Djanikian
- Denise Duhamel
- Christopher Edgar
- Karl Elder
- Lynn Emanuel
- B. H. Fairchild
- Charles Fort
- Frank X. Gaspar
- Elton Glaser
- Ray Gonzalez
- Jennifer Grotz
- Thom Gunn
- Mark Halliday
- Barbara Hamby
- Forrest Hamer
- Brenda Hillman
- Marsha Janson
- Mark Jarman
- Patricia Spears Jones
- Rodney Jones
- Donald Justice
- Olena Kalytiak Davis
- David Kirby
- Carolyn Kizer
- Lynne Knight
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Thomas Lux
- Lynne McMahon
- W. S. Merwin
- Susan Mitchell
- Jean Nordhaus
- Mary Oliver
- Michael Palmer
- Paul Perry
- Carl Phillips
- Robert Pinsky
- Donald Platt
- Stanley Plumly
- Lawrence Raab
- Thomas Rabbitt
- Mary Jo Salter
- Rebecca Seiferle
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- Laurie Sheck
- Reginald Shepherd
- Rudy Delgado Jr.
- Cathy Song
- Gary Soto
- Gabriel Spera
- A. E. Stallings
- Susan Stewart
- Adrienne Su
- Pamela Sutton
- Dorothea Tanning
- Natasha Trethewey
- Quincy Troupe
- Reetika Vazirani
- Paul Violi
- Derek Walcott
- Richard Wilbur
- Susan Wood
- John Yau
- Dean Young
Other in English
- Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadian poet living in the United States
- Moya Cannon, Oar, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland
- Claire Harris, She, Trinidadian-born, Canadian
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:China
- Yang Ke, editor, 2000 Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry
- Yu Jian, China:
- *Shige • Biantiaoji
- *''Yu Jian de shi''
Denmark
- Klaus Høeck, fra Hjem, publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark
- Henrik Nordbrandt:
- * Drømmebroer, winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize
- * Egne digte, Copenhagen: Gylendal, 289 pages
French language
Canada, in French
- Denise Desautels, Tombeau de Lou, Montréal: Le Noroît
- Pierre Labrie, À tout hasard
- Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, L'Amérique un peu/Au bord du rouge absolu, with James Sacré; Montréal: Trait d'union
- Jean Royer, Le visage des mots, Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges//Marchainville: Proverbe
France
- Andre du Bouchet, L'emportement du muet
- Seyhmus Dagtekin, Les chemins du nocturne, publisher: Le Castor Astral
- Abdellatif Laabi, Poèmes périssables, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France
- Jean-Claude Pinson, Fado
- Jacqueline Risset, ''Les instants''
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:Bengali
- Joy Goswami:
- * Jogotbari, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers,
- * Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 3, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers,
- Debarati Mitra:
- * Tunnur Computer, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers
- * Srestha Kavita, Kolkata: Dey's Publishing
- Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language:
- * Shakulley Teenjon, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers
- * Joler Jailkhana Theke, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers
Hindi
- Anamika, Kavita Mein Aurat, Delhi: Itihas Bodh
- Teji Grover, Ant Ki Kucch Aur Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan
- Udayan Vajpeyi, Vie Invisible, translated and published in France; Lignon: Cheyne Editeur;
Other in India
- Amarjit Chandan; Punjabi-language:
- * Gurhti, Navyug, New Delhi
- * Anaran vala Vehra, Kitab Tirinjan, Lahore
- Chandrakant (Chandu) Shah, also known as Chandu Shah, Blue Jeans, Mumbai: Image Publications; Gujarati-language
- Jiban Narah, Ta-Ri-Ri, Guwahati, Assam: Bak; Indian, Assamese-language
- K. Satchidanandan, Sambhashanathinu Oru Sramam, ; Malayalam-language
- K. Siva Reddy, Kavisamayam, Vijayawada: Sahiti Mitrulu; Telugu-language
- Kutti Revathi, Poonaiyai pola alaiyum velicham,, Chennai: Thamizhini
- S. Joseph, Karutha Kallu, winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; Kottayam: DC Books,
- Prathibha Nandakumar, Aha! Purushakaram!, Srirangapattana, Mandya district, Karnataka: Nelamane Prakashana
- Salma, Oru Maalaiyum Innoru Maalaiyum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam
- Varavara Rao, Unnadedo Unnattu ; Telugu-language
Bangladesh
- Rahman Henry, Prokrito Saros Urey Jae, A Book of Poetry in Bengali, Shraban, Shahbag, Dhaka. Bangladesh.
Poland
- Leszek Engelking, I inne wiersze Poland
- Czesław Miłosz, To ; Kraków: Znak
- Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Przewodnik dla bezdomnych niezależnie od miejsca zamieszkania
- Jan Twardowski, Elementarz księdza Twardowskiego dla najmłodszego, średniaka i starszego, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie
Serbia
- Dejan Stojanović:
- * Znak i njegova deca, Prosveta, Beograd
- * Oblik, Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro
- * Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd
- * Krugovanje, Third Edition, Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd
Other
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Ludwig Harig, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2001, publisher: Beck; anthology
- Matilde Camus, Prisma de emociones, Spain
- Faruk Šehić, Pjesme u Nastajanju, Bosnia
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, La freccia, Italy
- Yang Ke, editor, 2000 Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry, China
Awards and honors
Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, ''Memory Shell''
Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award: Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit
- Archibald Lampman Award: Stephanie Bolster, Two Bowls of Milk
- Atlantic Poetry Prize: Ken Babstock, Mean
- 2000 Governor General's Awards: Don McKay, Another Gravity ; Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien
- Pat Lowther Award: Esta Spalding, Lost August
- Prix Alain-Grandbois: Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: Tania Langlais, ''Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme''
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- Sahitya Akademi Award : Manglesh Dabral for Hum Jo Dekhte Hain
- Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Shahnaz Habib for Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones & Revathy Gopal for I Would Know You Anywhere
New Zealand
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards :
- * First-book award for poetry: Glenn Colquhoun, The Art of Walking Upright, Steele Roberts
- * A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award: Allen Curnow
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti
- Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In
- Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
- T. S. Eliot Prize : Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
- Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside, The Asylum Dance
- National Poetry Competition : Ian Duhig for ''The Lammas Hireling''
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Rudy Delgado Jr., A Path Between Houses
- Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
- National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed
- Poet Laureate of Virginia: Grace Simpson, two year appointment 2000 to 2002
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
- Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: T. V. F. Brogan
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Carl Dennis
- Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
- Whiting Awards: Albert Mobilio, James Thomas Stevens, Claude Wilkinson
- William Carlos Williams Award: Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour, Judge: Jean Valentine
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 2 – Roland Flint, 66, American, of cancer
- January 22 – Anne Hébert, 83, Canadian, French language
- January 28 – Lauris Edmond, 75, New Zealand
- February 4 – Edgar Bowers, 75, American, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- April 16 – John Bruce, 78 Canadian
- April 21
- * Douglas Oliver, 62, English, of prostate cancer
- * Al Purdy, 81, Canadian, of lung cancer
- May 14 – Karl Shapiro, 86, American
- September 25 – R. S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet and clergyman
- June 9 – Ernst Jandl, 74, Austrian poet, author and translator
- June 26 – Judith Wright, 85 Australian poet and environmental campaigner, of a heart attack
- July 13 – A. D. Hope, 92, Australian poet and satirist
- September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, 76, Israeli, Hebrew language
- November 14 – Libby Scheier, 54, Canadian, of breast cancer
- November 29 – William Scammell, 59, English
- December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, American, of cancer
- December 20 – Adrian Henri, 68, English member of the Liverpool poets