2017 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- May 23 – English poet Tony Walsh reads his 2013 poem "This is the place" to the crowds gathered in Albert Square, Manchester for a public vigil following this week's Manchester Arena bombing.
- June 23 – English-resident writer Ben Okri publishes his poem "" in the Financial Times following this month's Grenfell Tower fire in London.
Anniversaries
- March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell.
Selection of works published in English
Australia
- Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry
- Alan Wearne, These Things Are Real
- Fiona Wright, ''Domestic Interior''
Canada
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
- Lorna Crozier, What the Soul Doesn't Want
- Nora Gould, Selah
- Aisha Sasha John, I have to live
- Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War
- Donato Mancini, Same Diff
- Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between
- Joshua Whitehead, ''Full-Metal Indigiqueer''
New Zealand
- Airini Beautrais, Flow: Whanganui River Poems, Victoria University Press
- Kate Camp, The Internet of Things, Victoria University Press
- Paula Green, New York Pocket Book, Seraph Press
Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''
These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2016, published this year:- Nick Ascroft
- Tusiata Avia
- Airini Beautrais
- Hera Lindsay Bird
- James Brown
- Rachel Bush
- John Dennison
- Ish Doney
- Lynley Edmeades
- Rata Gordon
- Bernadette Hall
- Scott Hamilton
- Adrienne Jansen
- Andrew Johnston
- Anna Livesey
- Bill Manhire
- Leslie McKay
- Bill Nelson
- Claire Orchard
- Vincent O’Sullivan
- Kerrin P. Sharpe
- Marty Smith
- Oscar Upperton
- Tim Upperton
- Ashleigh Young
United Kingdom
England
- Megan Beech, You Sad Feminist
- Emily Berry, Stranger, Baby
- Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda
- Helen Dunmore, Inside the Wave
- Michael Longley, Angel Hill
- Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words: A Spell Book
- Hollie McNish, Plum
- Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance
- Richard Osmond, ''Useful Verses''
United States
Alphabetical listing by author name- Clark Coolidge, Selected Poems: 1962-1985, Station Hill Press
- Airea D. Matthews, Simulacra, Yale University Press
- Shara McCallum, Madwoman, Alice James Books
- Morgan Parker, There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé, Tin House Books
Awards and honors by country
- See also: List of poetry awards
International
- Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate:
Australia awards and honors
Canada awards and honors
- Archibald Lampman Award: Stephen Brockwell, All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
- Atlantic Poetry Prize: Jennifer Houle, The Back Channels
- 2017 Governor General's Awards: Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood, Louise Dupré, La Main hantée
- Griffin Poetry Prize:
- *Canada: Jordan Abel, Injun
- *International: Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
- *Lifetime Recognition Award : Frank Bidart
- Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Louise Bernice Halfe
- Gerald Lampert Award: Ingrid Ruthig, This Being
- Pat Lowther Award: Sue Sinclair, Heaven's Thieves
- Prix Alain-Grandbois: Marie-Célie Agnant, Femmes des terres brûlées
- Raymond Souster Award: Louise Bernice Halfe, Burning in this Midnight Dream
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Guerrette, ''Constellation des grands brûlés''
France awards and honors
New Zealand awards and honors
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- * Fiction: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler
- * Nonfiction: Peter Simpson
- * Poetry: Paula Green
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards :
United Kingdom awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Caroline Bergvall, Sasha Dugdale, Philip Gross, Paula Meehan
- Costa Award for poetry:
- * Shortlist: Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda; 'Helen Dunmore ', Inside the Wave ; Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance; Richard Osmond, Useful Verses
- English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
- Eric Gregory Award :
- Forward Poetry Prize:
- *Best Collection:
- **Shortlist:
- *Best First Collection:
- **Shortlist:
- *Best Poem:
- **Shortlist:
- Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
- *Shortlist:
- Manchester Poetry Prize:
- National Poet of Wales:
- National Poetry Competition 2017:
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Paul Muldoon
- T. S. Eliot Prize :
- *Shortlist : 2017 Short ListThe Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors
- Arab American Book Award :
- *Honorable Mentions:
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
- Best Translated Book Award :
- Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
- Bollingen Prize: to Jean Valentine
- Jackson Poetry Prize: to Patricia Spears Jones
- *Judges: Henri Cole, Kwame Dawes, and Mary Szybist
- Lambda Literary Award:
- * Gay Poetry:
- * Lesbian Poetry:
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
- *Finalists:
- National Book Award for Poetry :
- *NBA Finalists:
- *NBA Longlist:
- *NBA Judges:
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : to Tyehimba Jess for Olio
- *Finalists: XX by Campbell McGrath; Collected Poems: 1950-2012, by Adrienne Rich
- Wallace Stevens Award:
- Whiting Awards:
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
- PEN Center USA 2017 Poetry Award:
- PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry:
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Vievee Francis for Forest Primeval
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award: Phillip B. Williams for Thief in the Interior
- Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
- Yale Younger Series: Duy Doan for ''We Play a Game''
From the Poetry Society of America
- Frost Medal: to Susan Howe
- Shelley Memorial Award: to Gillian Conoley
- Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
- Lyric Poetry Award:
- Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
- Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
- George Bogin Memorial Award:
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
- Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
- Norma Farber First Book Award:
- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
- William Carlos Williams Award:
- *Finalists for WCW Award:
Deaths
January – June
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 2 – John Berger, 90, English novelist, painter and art critic, and poet
- January 25 – Harry Mathews, 86, American novelist and poet
- February 5 – Thomas Lux, 70, American poet and teacher
- February 8 – Tom Raworth, 78, British poet, visual artist, publisher, and teacher
- March 10 – Mari Evans, 93, American poet.
- March 16 – Wojciech Młynarski, 75, Polish poet, singer and songwriter
- March 17 – Derek Walcott, 87, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate in 1992
- March 22 – Joanne Kyger, 82, American poet who had ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation,
- April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet, 84
- May 24 – Denis Johnson, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 67.
- June 5 – Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer, 64
- June 8 - Shinichiro Hagihara, Japanese tanka poet
July – December
- November 15 – Michelle Boisseau, 62, American poet