2022 in poetry

Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2022 are outlined below under different sections. These include poetry books released during the year in different languages, major poetry awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

April 30 - Sierra Poetry festival is organised in Nevada City, California. The theme for this year is "On the Wings of Words".
June 10 - A three-day international get together of poets and poetry translators titled Kolkata Poetry Confluence is organised in Kolkata, India by Antonym and Bhasha Sansad publishers.
June 12 - Queensland Poetry Festival kicks off with this year's theme "Emerge" with live performances by Lorna Munro and Ethan Enoch-Barlow. The program also has special sessions on the LGBTQ community.
September 25 - The Mayakovsky Square poetry readings are revived in Triumfalnaya Square, Moscow, in protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The following year, Russian poets Artyom Kamardin, Yegor Shtovba and Nikolai Dayneko are given severe prison sentences for participating or attending.
December 7 - The End Poem is released into the public domain using a CC0 license dedication by its author, Julian Gough.

Selection of works published in English

Australia

Brook Emery, Sea Scale: New & Selected Poems, Puncher and Wattmann.
Les Murray, ''Continuous Creation''

Canada

Sarah de Leeuw, ''Lot''

India

Gopi Kottoor, ''Ramanan : The Pastoral''

Lebanon

Zeina Hashem Beck, ''0''

New Zealand

Lang Leav, ''Lullabies''

Nigeria

Akwaeke Emezi, ''Content Warning : Everything''

Puerto Rico

Raquel Salas Rivera, ''Before Island is Volcano''

United Kingdom

Warsan Shire, ''Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head''

England

Eavan Boland, The Historians
Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Quiet
Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
Ella Risbridger, ''Set Me on Fire''

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

Katherine Rundell, ''Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne''

United States

Alphabetical listing by author name

Victoria Chang, Trees Witness Everything
Jos Charles, A Year and Other Poems
Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind
Robert Wood Lynn, Mothman Apologia
Roger Reeves, Best Barbarians
Solmaz Sharif, ''Customs''

Anthologies in the United States

Kimiko Hahn & Harold Schechter, ''Buzz Words: Poems About Insects''

Viet Nam

Ocean Vuong, ''Time is a Mother''

Works published in other languages

French

Abdellatif Laâbi, Le Castor astral
Markus Hediger, Dans le cendrier du temps, Publisher: Éditions de l'Aire;

Awards and honors by country

See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

International

Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate: Shuntaro Tanikawa
Struga Poetry Evenings Bridges of Struga for the best debut: Gerardo Masuccio for "Fin Qui Visse Un Uomo"

New Zealand awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors

Cholmondeley Award: Menna Elfyn
Costa Book Award for poetry:
English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
Eric Gregory Award :
Forward Poetry Prize:
* Short List:
*Best Collection:
*Best Poem:
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
Manchester Poetry Prize:
National Poet of Wales:
National Poetry Competition:
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize:
T. S. Eliot Prize:

United States awards and honors

American Book Award :
*Honorable Mentions:
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
Bollingen Prize:
Jackson Poetry Prize:
* Gay Poetry:
* Lesbian Poetry:
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
National Book Award for Poetry :
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Diane Seuss, Frank Sonnets
Wallace Stevens Award:
Whiting Awards:
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
PEN Center USA 2021 Poetry Award:
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry:
Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Divya Victor, Curb
Kate Tufts Discovery Award: torrin a. greathouse, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
Yale Younger Series: Mary-Alice Daniel, ''Mass for Shut-Ins''

From the Poetry Society of America

Frost Medal:
Shelley Memorial Award:
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:

Deaths

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

January 3 - Zheng Min, Chinese poet
January 12 - S. Ramesan, Indian Malayalam-language poet
February 15 - Taina Tudegesheva, Russian poet and translator
February 16 - Michel Deguy, French Malayalam-language poet
March 1 - Jordie Albiston, Australian poet
March 31 - Richard Howard, American poet and 1970 Pulitzer prize winner
April 7 - Maya R. Govind, Hindi poet, lyricist and singer
June 4 - George Lamming, Barbadian poet
June 12 - Peter Scupham, British English-language poet
June 14 - Simon Perchik, American poet
June 15 - Kazue Morisaki, Japanese Japanese-language poet
June 20 - Alphonse Allain, French French-language poet
June 21 - Patrizia Cavalli, Italian poet
June 21 - Ancelin Roseti, Romanian-language poet
August 18 - Hadrawi, Somalian poet
August 29 – Craig Powell, Australian poet and psychoanalyst
December 16 - Robert Adamson, Australian poet
December – Wendy Jenkins, Australian poet, editor and YA novelist