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.
Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living in London, named poetry editor of ''Poetry London''

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published ; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

David Brooks, Walking to Point Clear. Blackheath: Brandl & Schlesinger
Pam Brown, Ken Bolton, and Laurie Duggan, Let's Get Lost, Sydney: Vagabond
Laurie Duggan, Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971–2003, Exeter: Shearsman
Alan Gould, The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973–2003
John Kinsella, The New Arcadia, winner of the 2006 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; W.W. Norton; Australian living in and published in the United States
Jennifer Maiden, Friendly Fire Giramondo,
Chris Mansell, Mortifications & Lies
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,
Jaya Savige, Latecomers
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Universe Looks Down, Brandl & Schlesinger,

Canada

Shannon Bramer, The Refrigerator Memory
Stephen Cain, American Standard/Canada Dry
Margaret Christakos:
*Sooner
*Retreat Diary
Brian Joseph Davis, Portable Altamont
George Elliott Clarke, Illuminated Verses. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press,
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
Michael Palmer, Company of Moths, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize
John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom, Governor General's Award 2006.
James Reaney, Souwesto Home. Stan Dragland, ed.
Sherwin Tija, The World is a Heartbreaker,

India, in English

Meena Alexander, editor, Indian Love Poems, Everyman's Library/Knopf, anthology, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States
Dilip Chitre, Post Climactic Love Poem, a single, long poem; London and New Delhi: Aark Arts;
Jayanta Mahapatra, Random Descent, Third Eye Communications,
Jerry Pinto and Arundhathi Subramaniam, Confronting Love, contemporary Indian love poetry in English; Penguin India,
K. Siva Reddy, Mohana! Oh Mohana! and Other Poems, translated from the original Telugu by M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,.
Melanie Silgardo and Eunice de Souza, editors, The Puffin Book of Poetry for Children, New Delhi: Puffin Books,
Eunice de Souza, editor, Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology: 1829–1947, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,.
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Where I Live, Mumbai: Allied, ; Indian, English-language
Arundhathi Subramaniam, co-editor, Confronting Love, Delhi: Penguin India, ; an anthology of contemporary love poetry

Ireland

Sara Berkeley, Strawberry Thief, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Ciaran Carson, The Midnight Court, an 18th-century poem by Brian Merriman, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin:
*Verbale by Michele Ranchetti, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and others, Dublin: Instituto Italiano di Cultura
* After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poems by Ileana Mălăncioiu, Cork: Southword Editions
Seán Dunne, Collected, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince, Anvil Press, London, Irish work published in the United Kingdom
Immanuel Mifsud, translated by Maurice Riordan, Confidential Reports, Maltese poet published in Ireland, Southword Editions
Justin Quinn, American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry, University College of Dublin Press
Gabriel Rosenstock, I Met A Man... Doghouse Books,

New Zealand

Raewyn Alexander:
* It's a Secret: Selected Poems
* Writing Poetry: Fireworks, Clay & Architecture
Stu Bagby, As it was in the beginning
Wystan Curnow, Modern Colours
Stephanie de Montalk, Cover Stories
Anne Kennedy, Time of the Giants
Michele Leggott, Milk & Honey, Auckland: Auckland University Press
Bill Manhire, Lifted, New Zealand
Cilla McQueen, Fire-penny, Otago University Press
Karlo Mila,
James Norcliffe, Along Blueskin Road
Gregory O'Brien, Afternoon of An Evening Train
Vivienne Plumb, Scarab: A Poetic Documentary
Anna Smaill, The Violinist in Spring
Robert Sullivan, Voice Carried My Family
Ian Wedde, Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty
Kate Camp, Beauty Sleep,

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:

United Kingdom

Maurice Bowra, New Bats in Old Belfries
Carol Ann Duffy:
* Another Night Before Christmas, John Murray.
* Rapture, Picador
John Heath-Stubbs, Pigs Might Fly
Jackie Kay, Life Mask
Tim Kendall, Strange Land
Nick Laird, To a Fault, Northern Ireland-born poet
José Letria, The Moon Has Written You a Poem, children's poetry translated and adapted by Irish expatriate poet Maurice Riordan from the original Portuguese and published in the UK, WingedChariot Press, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Derek Mahon, Harbour Lights. Gallery Press
Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince, London; Anvil Press, Irish work published in the United Kingdom
Brian Merriman: The Midnight Court, Gallery Press; Wake Forest University Press, 2006, posthumous
Pete Morgan, August Light
Alice Oswald, Woods etc., Faber and Faber,

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Alice Oswald, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet, Faber and Faber,
Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Kadija Sesay, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, 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 ; N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006

United States

Elizabeth Alexander, American Sublime
Meena Alexander, editor, Indian Love Poems, Everyman's Library/Knopf, anthology, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States
John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander
Bei Dao, Midnight's Gate translation by Matthew Fryslie, edited by Christopher Mattison,
Ted Berrigan, Collected Poems, 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"
Oscar Brown Jr., What It Is: Poems and Opinions of Oscar Brown Jr.
Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
Ana Castillo, Watercolor Women/Opaque Men in Verse
Adrian Castro, Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time
Dan Chiasson, Natural History: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
Henri Cole, Vingt-Deux Poèmes
Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems
Mark Doty, School of the Arts, HarperCollins
Forrest Gander, Eye Against Eye
Jorie Graham, Overlord: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
Suheir Hammad, ZaatarDiva
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
June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, posthumous
Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows
Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems
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. S. Merwin:
* Migration: New and Selected Poems, awarded the National Book Award for Poetry this year; Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
* Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
* Translator: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, New York: Knopf
W. K. Lawrence, State of Love and Trust
David Lehman, editor, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, an anthology
William Logan, The Whispering Gallery
Richard Loranger, Poems for Teeth
Claire Lux and John Most, Atelier
W. S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire, winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series
Rusty Morrison, Whethering, University Press of Colorado, January,
Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980–2002
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, war poetry
Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943–2004, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"
Marvin X, Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995–2005
Jesse Lee Kercheval, ''Chartreuse''

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:

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Anthony Holden, ''The Wit in the Dungeon: The Remarkable Life of Leigh Hunt — Poet, Revolutionary, and the Last of the Romantics''

Works published in other languages

Brazil

Ricardo Domeneck, Carta aos anfíbios, Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi
Miguel Sanches Neto, Venho de um país obscuro e outros poemas
Marco Vasques, Sístole, Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi

Chile

Sergio Badilla Castillo, Transrealistic Poems and Some Gospels. 2005. Aura Latina. Santiago/Stockholm.

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Anamika, Khurduri Hatheliyan, Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan; Hindi-language
Basudev Sunani, Karadi Haata, Nuapada: Eeshan-Ankit Prakashani; Oraya-language
Debashis Chanda, editor, Visual Rhapsody, an anthology including poems by Mithu Sen, New Delhi: Niyogi Offset; Bengali-language
K. Satchidanandan, Ghazalukal, Geetangal ; Malayalam-language
K. Siva Reddy, Atanu-Charitra, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-language
Mallika Sengupta, Shreshtha Kabita, Dey's Publishers; Bengali-language
Namdeo Dhasal, Mee Marale Sooryachya Rathache Ghode Saat, Marathi-language
S. Joseph, Identity Card, Kottayam: DC Books, ; Malayalam-language
Tarannum Riyaz, Purani Kitabon ki Khushboo, New Delhi: Modern Publishing House; Urdu-language
Udaya Narayana Singh, Madhyampurush Ekvachan, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan; Maithili-language

Bangladesh

Rahman Henry, Tomake Basona Kori, A Book of Poetry in Bengali, BALAKA, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Rahman Henry, Khunjhara Nodi, A Book of Poetry in Bengali, BALAKA, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Poland

Tomasz Różycki, translator, Rzut kośćmi nigdy nie zniesie przypadku, translated from the original French of Stéphane Mallarmé, Kraków: Korporacja Ha!Art
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Dzieje rodzin polskich
Adam Zagajewski, Anteny, Kraków: a5
Wisława Szymborska, ''Dwukropek''

Other languages

Nicole Brossard, editor, Anthologie: De la poésie des femmes au Québec des origines à nos jours, Rémue-Ménage, France
Dmitry Bykov, Boris Pasternak, published by Molodaya Gvardiya, received the "National Bestseller Prize", biography, Russia
Abdellatif Laabi, Écris la vie, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, Prix Alain Bosquet 2006, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France
Pavel Nastin, Yazyk Zhestov ; Russia
Rami Saari, Ha-shogun Ha-xamishi, Israel

Awards and honors

International

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: M. T. C. Cronin,
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Samuel Wagan Watson, ''Smoke Encrypted Whispers''

Canada

Archibald Lampman Award: Stephen Brockwell, Fruitfly Geographic
Atlantic Poetry Prize: David Helwig, The Year One
Gerald Lampert Award: Ray Hsu, Anthropy
Governor General's Literary Awards: Anne Compton, Processional ; Jean-Marc Desgent, Vingtièmes siècles
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: Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
Prix Alain-Grandbois: Robert Melançon, Le Paradis des apparences
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing
Prix Émile-Nelligan: Renée Gagnon, ''Des fois que je tombe''

New Zealand

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
Montana New Zealand Book Awards First-book award for poetry
* Poetry: Sonja Yelich, Clung, Auckland University Press
* NZSA Jessie Mackay Best 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
*Best First Collection: Helen Farish, Intimates
T. S. Eliot Prize : Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
Whitbread Award for poetry : 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
AML Award for poetry to Lance Larsen for In All Their Animal Brilliance
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
Discovery/The Nation Award: Eduardo C. Corral
Frost Medal: Marie Ponsot
National Book Award for Poetry: W. S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems
North Carolina Poet Laureate: Kathryn Stripling Byer appointed.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows
Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Marina Tarlinskaya
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: C. K. Williams
Wallace Stevens Award: Gerald Stern
Whiting Awards: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, John Keene, Dana Levin, Spencer Reece, Tracy K. Smith
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Claudia Rankine

Deaths

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