2007 in poetry

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Events

March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. Named after the famed 10th century classical Arab poet, Al-Mutanabbi, it was an established street for bookselling for hundreds of years and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. On March 8, to remember the tragic event, Baghdad poets presented readings on the remains of the street. This was followed by various poetry readings around the United States commemorating the bombing of the historic center of the literary and intellectual community of Baghdad, many of the readings took place in the final weeks of August 2007.
April 17: Nikki Giovanni, a professor of English at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US state of Virginia, both spoke and recited poetry at the campus convocation commemorating the Virginia Tech massacre of the day before. Giovanni taught the Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho in a poetry class. She had previously approached the department chair to have Cho taken out of her class. "We are the Hokies! We will prevail! We will prevail! We are Virginia Tech!" Giovanni said, bringing the audience to its feet and into a spontaneous cheer. Giovanni closed the ceremony with a chant poem, intoning, "We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech... We do not understand this tragedy... No one deserves a tragedy."
August 9: Bangladeshi poet Taslima Nasreen was attacked at a book signing in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh by a crowd of protesters who shouted for her death. The attackers consisted of lawmakers and members of the India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party who objected to her writings on religion and oppression of women. After the attack, India criminally charged Nasreen with "hurting Muslim feelings", punishable by up to three years in jail.The New Yorker magazine announced that longtime poetry editor Alice Quinn was leaving and, as of November, Paul Muldoon, an Irish native and U.S. citizen, would be taking over what The Chronicle of Higher Education called "one of the most powerful positions in American poetry".
Scottish poet Alastair Reid read his poem "Scotland" publicly for the last time at a literary festival in St Andrews, then burned the manuscript.
The Eagles set "An Old-Fashioned Song", a poem by John Hollander, to music, named it "No More Walks in the Wood" after its first line. They released it on the album, "Long Road Out of Eden". The band added no words to the 21-line poem, and there are no choruses.
In Russia, the expert board for the Bunin Prize for poetry dissolved itself amid reports of interference and pressure from sponsors. A new expert board was formed and the jury awarded the prize to Andrei Dementyev.
Reality television contest Prince of Poets is launched in the United Arab Emirates.

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

Judith Bishop, Event
David Brooks, Urban Elegies. Sydney: Island Press (Australia)
Brook Emery, Uncommon Light, Five Islands Press.
Lisa Gorton, Press Release
Kathryn Lomer, Two Kinds of Silence, University of Queensland Press,
David Malouf, Typewriter Music, winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award
Les Murray, Selected Poems
Dorothy Porter, El Dorado
Peter Skrznecki, Old/New World, University of Queensland Press,
Rob Walker, "phobiaphobia"
Petra White, ''The Incoming Tide''

Australian anthologies

Pretty, Ron, The Road South: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, Kolkota, India: Bengal Creations, 2007.
Peter Rose, The Best Australian Poems 2007, Black Inc.,
Poets in ''Best Australian Poetry 2007''

The Best Australian Poetry 2007, by series editors Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell; with 2007 guest editor John Tranter, published work by these 40 poets:

Robert Adamson
Judith Bishop
Pam Brown
Joanne Burns
Grant Caldwell
Chris Edwards
Michael Farrell
Barbara Fisher
Dennis Foley
Alison Gerber
Jennifer Harrison
Dominique Hecq
Matt Hetherington
Charles Higham
Clive James
Mary Jenkins
Jill Jones
S. K. Kelen
Cath Kenneally
John Kinsella
Cameron Lowe
David McCooey
Jennifer Maiden
Graeme Miles
John Millett
Pooja Mittal
Reg Mombassa
Les Murray
Louise Nicholas
Ouyang Yu
Geoff Page
Megan Petrie
Craig Powell
Michael Riley
Peter Rose
Brendan Ryan
Tracy Ryan
Michael Sharkey
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Dennis Wild

Canada

Joanne Arnott, Mother Time
Margaret Atwood, The Door
Yvonne Blomer, A Broken Mirror, Fallen Leaf
Nicole Brossard, Notebook of Roses and Civilization, translated by Erin Moure
Lorna Crozier, The Blue Hour of the Day
Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged,, winner of the Governor General's Book Award
Patrick Friesen, Earth's Crude Gravities
Paul Haines, edited by Stuart Broomer, Secret Carnival Workers
Brian Henderson, Nerve Language
Sarah Lang, Work of Days
Dennis Lee:
* The Bard of the Universe. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press.
* Yesno. Toronto: Anansi.
David McGimpsey, Sitcom
George McWhirter, The Incorrection
Garry Thomas Morse, Streams
Erín Moure, O Cadoiro
George Murray The Rush to Here,
bpNichol, edited by Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler-Henry, Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader
Barbara Nickel, Domain
Elizabeth Philips, Torch River
Anne Simpson Quick,
Agnes Walsh, Going Around with Bachelors
Rob Winger, Muybridge's Horse
Rachel Zolf, ''Human Resources''

India, in English

Dilip Chitre, As Is, Where Is,, Mumbai:Poetrywala; India,
Dilip Sankarreddy, Wanderings with Poetry, Peacock Books, India
C. P. Surendran, Portraits of the Space We Occupy, New Delhi: Harper Collins, India
Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Kalahandi, New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi

Anthologies in India

Jeet Thayil : 60 Indian Poets : 1952-2007, New Delhi : Penguin India

Ireland

Pat Boran, New and Selected Poems Dedalus Press, Ireland
Patrick Cotter general editor, Colm Breathnach and Maurice Riordan 2007 editors, The Best of Irish Poetry 2007 designed to be the first of an annual series.
Paul Durcan, The Laughter of Mothers,
Peter Fallon, The Company of Horses, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Thomas McCarthy and Bríd Ní Bhóráin, editors, Best of Irish Poetry 2008, selections from 50 Irish poets published over a 12-month period, including Ciaran Carson, Harry Clifton, Kerry Hardie, Seamus Heaney, Biddy Jenkinson, Thomas Kinsella, Medbh McGuckian, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Bernard O'Donoghue, Robert Nye, Dennis O'Driscoll, Leanne O'Sullivan, Maurice Riordan, Billy Ramsell, David Wheatley, Liam Ó Muirthile, Celia de Fréine, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, William Wall, published October 2007
Maurice Riordan, The Holy Land London: Faber and Faber, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

Janet Charman, Cold Snack, Auckland: Auckland University Press
Andrew Johnston, Sol
Michele Leggott, Journey to Portugal a collection of poems written during a 2004 trip to Portugal and inspired by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's great Modernist poet. Illustrated by Gretchen Albrecht.
Paula Green, Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins, Auckland University Press
Kay McKenzie Cooke, Made for Weather: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke, Otago University Press
Jessica Le Bas, Incognito, Auckland University Press

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2006, published this year:

United Kingdom

Simon Armitage, translator, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation, Faber and Faber
W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson, posthumous
Dale Craske Remedy The Remedy With New Improved Remedy, Faber
Carol Ann Duffy:
* Editor, Answering Back, Picador
* The Hat, Faber and Faber
Ian Duhig, The Speed of Dark, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Sophie Hannah, Pessimism for Beginners, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Seamus Heaney: Something to Write Home About, Nicholson and Bass
Paul Henry, Ingrid's Husband, Seren
Mimi Khalvati, The Meanest Flower, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Nick Laird, On Purpose
Frances Leviston, Public Dream, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Sarah Maguire, The Pomegranates of Kandahar, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover!, Faber and Faber
Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book, Picador, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize
Michael O'Neill, The All Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, Irish and American Poetry Since 1900
Iona Opie, editor, Mother Goose's Little Treasures, a collection of nursery rhymes
Maurice Riordan, The Holy Land London: Faber and Faber, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom
Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Zoë Skoulding, Dark Wires
Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon, on the short list for the T. S. Eliot Prize

United States

Rae Armantrout, Next Life, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year", 92 pages,
John Ash, The Parthian Stations,
John Ashbery:
* A Worldly Country: New Poems Ecco/HarperCollins,
* Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems, Ecco/HarperCollins, ISBN
W. H. Auden, Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson, posthumous
Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, Graywolf, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Roger Bonair-Agard, Tarnish and Masquerade
Yosa Buson, Haiku Master Buson, translated from the Japanese by Edith Shiffert and Yuki Sawa, University of Washington Press, ; claimed by the publisher to be "the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English"
Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets, Counterpath Press
Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned, edited by John Martin, Ecco/HarperCollins
Kelly Cherry, Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems,
Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf
Jim Daniels, Now Showing
Edward Dorn:
* Way More West, edited by Michael Rothenberg, Penguin Books
* Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes, edited by Joseph Richey, University of Michigan Press, criticism
Mark Doty, Dog Years
Michael Dumanis, My Soviet Union,
Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites, Tupelo Press
Aaron Fagan, Garage
Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft, foreword by Louise Glück
Graham Foust, Necessary Stranger, Flood Editions
Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes: Poems, William Morrow
Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007, Graywolf
Noah Eli Gordon, Novel Pictorial Noise, HarperCollins
Mildred White Greear,,
Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North
Paul Guest, Notes For My Body Double, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Beth Gylys, Matchbook, later set to music by Dan Welcher
Forrest Hamer, Rift
Matthea Harvey, Modern Life, Graywolf, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
Christian Hawkey, Citizen Of, Wave Books
Brian Henry, The Stripping Point, Counterpath Press
Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems: 1956–1998, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
Bob Hicok, This Clumsy Living, Pittsburgh University Press
Anselm Hollo, Guests of Space, Coffee House
Fanny Howe, The Lyrics, Graywolf Press
Susan Howe, Souls of the Labadie Tract
Eugen Jebeleanu, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, translated from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder,
Pierre Joris, Meditations on the Stations of Mansour Al-Halla, 1 – 21,
James Browning Kepple, Kim Göransson, Couplet
Henia Karmel and Ilona Karmel, A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kraków to Buchenwald and Beyond, adapted by Fanny Howe, University of California Press
X. J. Kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems 1955–2007, Johns Hopkins University Press
Karl Kirchwey, The Happiness of This World
Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia, Gilgamesh: A Verse Play, Wesleyan University Press
Hiram Larew, More Than Anything
James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter
Martial, Martial: The World of the Epigram, translated by William Fitzgerald, University of Chicago Press
Michael Meyerhofer Leaving Iowa
William Michaelian:
* Another Song I Know
* Winter Poems,
Jennifer Moxley The Line
Ann E. Mullaney, translator, Teofilo Folengo, Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII, translated from a blend of Latin and various Italian dialects, posthumous
Laura Mullen, Murmur, Futurepoem Books
Kate Northrup, Things Are Disappearing Here: Poems Braziller/Persea
Alice Notley In the Pines
Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
George Oppen, Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers, University of California Press, 2007
Terry Philips, Oulipoems
Carl Phillips, Quiver of Arrows: Selected poems
Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, Flood, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Robert Pinsky, Gulf Music,
J. E. Pitts The Weather of Dreams
Meghan O'Rourke, Halflife
Bin Ramke, Tendril, Omnidawn
Donald Revell, A Thief of Strings, Alice James Books
Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment
Kim Roberts, The Kimnama
Martha Ronk, Vertigo, Coffee House Press
J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again, Ivan R. Dee
Jerome Rothenberg, China Notes & The Treasures of DunHuang
Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Leslie Scalapino, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999–2006
Grace Schulman, The Broken String
W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions
David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965–2006
Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts
Tom Sleigh, Space Walk
Cathy Song, Cloud Moving Hands, University of Pittsburgh Press
Rod Smith, Deed
Gary Soto, A Simple Plan
Mark Strand, New Selected Poems, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
Cole Swensen, The Glass Age, Alice James Books
Tony Tost, Complex Sleep
David Trinidad, The Late Show: Poems Turtle Point
Nance Van Winckel, No Starling, University of Washington Press,
Derek Walcott, Selected Poems, edited by Edward Baugh, one of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"
G. C. Waldrep, Disclamor, BOA Editions
Philip Whalen, The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, Wesleyan University Press
John Wieners, A Book of Prophecies
Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead,

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Edward Dorn, Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes
Robert Faggen, editor, The Notebooks of Robert Frost, Harvard University Press
Sam Hamill, Avocations: On Poets and Poetry, Red Hen
James Longenbach, The Art of the Poetic Line, Graywolf Press,
Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, about Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, biography
Karen Marguerite Moloney, Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope,
A. David Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet I: The Young Genius 1885–1920
Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment: An Essay
Mark Scroggins, ''The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky''

Anthologies in the United States

Allison Hedge Coke, editor – To Topos/Oregon State University Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry
Julia Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell, editors, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, anthology
David Lehman, general editor, Heather McHugh, 2007 editor, The Best American Poetry 2007 Scribner
Kei Miller, New Caribbean Poetry, including poems by Christian Campbell, Loretta Collins, Delores Gauntlett, Shara McCallum, Marilene Phipps, Jennifer Rahim, Tanya Shirley, and Ian Strachan; Carcanet
Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, editors, American Poets in the 21st century: The New Poetics, featuring the work of 13 poets: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young; accompanied by an audio CD of readings from each poet; Wesleyan University Press,
Daniel Tobin, editor, The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, University of Notre Dame Press
Natasha Trethewey, editor, Jeb Livingood, series editor, ''Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers''
Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2007''

These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, with David Lehman, general editor, and Heather McHugh, guest editor :

Other in English

Breyten Breytenbach, Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems, 1964–2006, Harcourt

Works published in other languages

Bangladesh

Chandan chowdhury- Crab of Red river. ; Balaka prakash, Chittagong, Bangladesh. – Bengali poetry

Denmark

Annette Kure Andersen, Andetsteds
Thomas Boberg, Gæstebogen
Anne-Louise Bosmans, Villa
Duna Ghali, En have med duft af mand
Simon Grotrian:
* Din frelser bliver din klippe, psalms
* Tyve sorte kinder
Lone Hørslev, Lige mig
Niels Lyngsø, 39 digte til det brændende bibliotek
Henrik Nordbrandt, Besøgstid
Palle Sigsgaard, Glitrende støv danser, a short collection
Peter Christensen Teilmann, ''Friværdi''

French language

France

Guillaume Apollinaire, Je pense à toi mon Lou, publisher: Textuel; writings published for the first time
Seyhmus Dagtekin, Juste un pont sans feu, publisher: Le Castor astral
Emily Dickinson, Car l'adieu, c'est la nuit, translated from the original English by Claire Malroux, based on the Johnson edition; Gallimard/NRF
Claude Esteban, La Mort à distance, published posthumously, publisher: Gallimard
Louise Gaggini, Les Enfants sont la mémoire des hommes, publisher: Multitudes, a poetic tale for the benefit of UNICEF
Jean Grosjean, Arpèges et paraboles,, publisher: Gallimard
Abdellatif Laabi, Mon cher double, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France
Anthologies published in France
L'Année poétique 2007, publisher: Seghers; 125 contemporary poems; anthology
Jean Orizet, editor, Anthologie de la poésie française, publisher: Larousse, anthology
Christian Poslianec, editor, Duos d'amour,, publisher: Seghers, anthology of love poems

Canada, in French

Jacques Allard, editor, Le Bonheur des poètes, publisher: Écrits des Forges, contemporary poetry anthology

German

Lindita Arapi, Am Meer, nachts, Albanian poet writing in German
Christoph Buchwald, series editor, 25. Jahrbuch der Lyrik: Die schönsten Gedichte aus 25 Jahren ; Frankfurt: Fischer, 410 pages,, an anthology
Hendrik Jackson, Im Innern der zerbrechenden Schale. Poetik und Pastichen, Kookbooks, 144 pages, ; Germany
Monika Rinck, with Daniela Seel, and Andrew Potter, zum fernbleiben der umarmung, 78 pages, Kookbooks, ; Germany
Ron Winkler, Fragmentierte Gewässer: Gedichte, Berlin Verlag, 83 pages,

Greece

Katerina Iliopoulou, Mister T., Melani editions
Patricia Kolaiti, ‘Celesteia, Nefeli Publishing; nominated for the 2008 Diavazo First Book AwardKaraoke Poetry Bar, Athens: Futura Editions, an anthology

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Malayalam

K. G. Sankara Pillai, KGS Kavithakal 1997–2006, Kottayam, Kerala: D C Books
Raghavan Atholi:
* Kanalormmakal, Calicut: Avvaiyar Books
* Kathunna Mazhakal, Calicut: Mathrubhumi
Veerankutty, Autograph, Kottayam: DC Books

Other in India

Gagan Gill, translator, Devadoot Ki Bajay Kuchh Bhi, poems by Zbigniew Herbert, edited and translated into Hindi from the original Polish; Remadhav Publications, New Delhi, 2007
Mamta Sagar, Hiige HaaLeya Maile HaaDu, Bangalore: Abhinava Prakashana, Kannada-language
Mithu Sen, Bashmati Sarir Bagan Ba Gaan, , Kolkata: Nandimukh; Bengali-language
Rituraj, Asha Naam Nadi, Hindi-language

Poland

Ewa Lipska, Pomarańcza Newtona, ; Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
Tadeusz Różewicz, nauka chodzenia, Wrocław: Biuro Literackie
Tomasz Różycki, ''The Forgotten Keys''

Spanish language

Latin America

Roberto Bolaño, La universidad desconocida, his complete poems, a collection he prepared, Chile
Pablo De Santis, El enigma de Paris, Argentina
Jorge Nájar, El árbol de Sodoma, Peru

Serbia

Dejan Stojanović, Ples vremena, Konras, Beograd, 2007

Other languages

Qaysar Aminpur, Dastur-i zaban-i eshq, the best-selling poetry book this year in Iran
Mahmud Darwish,, published posthumously; Arabian, Egypt
Sheida Mohamadi, Aks-e fowri-ye 'eshq-bazi, a United States-based author published this year in Tehran, Iran; Persian
Suzan 'Ulaywan, Bayt min sukkar,, Arabic
Santiago B. Villafania, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles, Filipino poet writing in Pangasinan

Awards and honors

International

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judy Johnson, Jack, Pandanus Press
Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:

Canada

Archibald Lampman Award: Monty Reid, Disappointment Island
Atlantic Poetry Prize: Steve McOrmond, Primer on the Hereafter
Gerald Lampert Award: Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
Governor General's Literary Awards: Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged ; Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Seul on est
Griffin Poetry Prize:
* Canada, in the English language: Don McKay, Strike/Slip
* Canada, in the French language: Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Seul on est
* International, in the English Language: Charles Wright, Scar Tissue; and **"Lifetime Recognition Award" to Tomas Tranströmer
* International shortlist: Paul Farley, Tramp in Flames ; Rodney Jones, Salvation Blues ; Frederick Seidel, Ooga Booga
Pat Lowther Award: Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound
Prix Alain-Grandbois: François Charron, Ce qui nous abandonne
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Don McKay, Strike/Slip
Prix Émile-Nelligan: Danny Plourde, ''calme aurore ''

New Zealand

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Dick Scott, Bill Manhire and Fiona Farrell
Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
* Poetry: Janet Frame, for The Goose Bath
* Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry: Airini Beautrais Secret Heart. Victoria University Press

United Kingdom

Costa Award for poetry : John Haynes (poet), Letter to Patience, a book-length poem;
Cholmondeley Award : Judith Kazantzis, Robert Nye, Penelope Shuttle
David Cohen Prize : Derek Mahon
Eric Gregory Award : Rachel Curzon, Miriam Gamble, Michael McKimm, Helen Mort, Jack Underwood
Forward Poetry Prizes:
* Best collection : Sean O'Brien, for The Drowned Book
* Best first collection : Daljit Nagra, for Look We Have Coming To Dover!
* Best single poem : Alice Oswald, for "Dunt"
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : James Fenton
National Poetry Competition : Sinead Morrissey for Through the Square Window
T. S. Eliot Prize : Sean O'Brien for ''The Drowned Book''

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Michael McGriff for Dismantling the Hills
Bollingen Prize: Frank Bidart
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Alice Notley, for Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry: Stanley Plumly, Old Heart: Poems
National Book Award for Poetry: Robert Hass, for Time and MaterialsThe New Criterion Poetry Prize: J. Allyn Rosser, for Foiled Again
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Natasha Trethewey, for Native Guard
Wallace Stevens Award: Charles Simic
Whiting Awards: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin

From the Poetry Society of America

Frost Medal: John Hollander
Shelley Memorial Award: Kimiko Hahn; Judges: Major Jackson, Maurya Simon, and George Stanley
Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: James Richardson; Judge: Matthea Harvey
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Yerra Sugarman; Judge: Michael Palmer
Lyric Poetry Award: Ed Skoog; Judge: Srikanth Reddy
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Wayne Miller; Judge: Tracy K. Smith
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rusty Morrison; Judge: Susan Howe
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Laura Ruffino; Judge: Thomas Sayers Ellis
George Bogin Memorial Award: Wayne Miller; Judge: Eleni Sikelianos
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Charlene Fix; finalists: Eva Heisler, Rick Hilles
Norma Farber First Book Award: Kate Colby, Fruitlands Litmus Press; Judge: Rosmarie Waldrop
William Carlos Williams Award: Matthew Zapruder, The Pijamaist, Copper Canyon Press; finalists: Liam Rector, Elaine Terranova; Judge: Tony Hoagland

Awards and honors given elsewhere

Cervantes Prize : Juan Gelman

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 13 – Diké Omeje, English, cancer
January 19 – Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Portugal
February 13 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-born, Australian author, poet and scriptwriter
February 14 – Emmett Williams, 81, American poet, known for among other reasons, his collaborations with Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry, dynamic theater, etc., from 1957 to 1959
February 24 – Julia Casterton, English
March 19:
* Shimon Tzabar, 80, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia
* Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer
March 20 – Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, of Parkinson's disease.
May 25 – Len Roberts, 60, American poet, professor
May 30 – William M. Meredith, 88, American, poet, professor
May 31 – Sarah Hannah, 40, American poet, professor
June 2 – John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher
June 7 –; Michael Hamburger, 83, German poet, translator
June 20 – Nazik al-Mala'ika, 85, Iraqi poet
June 21 – Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet, critic
June 11 – Mercer Simpson, 81, Welsh poet, critic and academic writing in English
June 25 – Rahim al-Maliki, 39, Iraqi poet
June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian poet
July 1 – Mộng Tuyết, 93, Vietnamese poet
July 2:
* Philip Booth, 81, American poet, professor
* Sandy Crimmins, 55, American poet, performance artist
July 11 – Noel Rowe, Australian, poet, writer, academic and Roman Catholic priest in the Marist order
July 16 – Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, artist
July 18 – Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, performance artist
July 31 – Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet
August 15:
* Liam Rector, 57, American poet, professor, critic
* Khalid Alig, 82, Indian poet, journalist
August 22 – Grace Paley, 84, American poet, short story writer, activist
August 24 – Robbie Benoit, Canadian cowboy poet and writer
August 25 – Tarapada Roy Bengali poet, essayist and short-story writer known for his satirical sense of humour
August 27 – Alberto de Lacerda 78, Portuguese poet
September 13 – Bill Griffiths, 59, English poet and writer
October 21 – R. B. Kitaj, 74, American-born artist, a friend of poets, via his portraits of poets Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson & others
October 30:
* James Michie (poet), 80, English poet, translator and publisher
* Paul Roche, 91, English poet, translator and academic once associated with the Bloomsbury Group
November 16 – Vernon Scannell, 85, English poet, novelist and biographer
November 17? – Landis Everson, 81, American poet, had a loose affiliation with the Berkeley Renaissance via his association with Jack Spicer's circle of poets. Everson's work was "rediscovered" only a few years before his death.
November 17:
* Siv Cedering, 68, Swedish-American poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and author, of pancreatic cancer
* Meg Campbell, New Zealand poet and wife of Alistair Campbell
November 29 – Jaleh Esfahani, 86, in London, Iranian, a woman
December 16 – Diane Wood Middlebrook, née Helen Diane Wood, 68,, American poet, academic and biographer
December 30 – Rosemary C. Wilkinson, American poet and Honorary President of the World Academy of Arts and Culture
Also:
* Edith Hannah Campion, New Zealand poet and actress
* Alberto da Cunha Melo, Brazil

2007 in poetry

Events

Works published in English

Australia

Australian anthologies

Poets in ''Best Australian Poetry 2007''

Canada

India, in English

Anthologies in India

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Anthologies in the United States

Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2007''

Other in English

Works published in other languages

Bangladesh

Denmark

French language

France

Anthologies published in France

Canada, in French

German

Greece

India

Malayalam

Other in India

Poland

Spanish language

Latin America

Serbia

Other languages

Awards and honors

International

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

From the Poetry Society of America

Awards and honors given elsewhere

Deaths