2000 in poetry explained
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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
- 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[1]
- 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, (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian
- Clint Burnham, Buddyland (Coach House Books)
- Margaret Christakos:
- Wipe Under A Love (Toronto: The Mansfield Press)
- Charisma (Toronto: Pedlar Press)
- George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, (revised edition number) Canada
- Louis Dudek, The Surface of Time. Montreal: Empyreal.[2]
- Claire Harris, She, Trinidadian-born, Canadian[3]
- Don McKay, Another Gravity (Canada)[4]
- 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.[5]
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:
Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Earle Birney, bill bissett, Marianne Bluger, Stephanie Bolster, Roo Borson, George Bowering, Dionne Brand, Ron Charach, Lesley Choyce, Peter Christensen, Afua Cooper, Don Coles, John Robert Colombo, Lynn Crosbie, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Jeffery Donaldson, Jennifer Footman, Sky Gilbert, Susan Glickman, Maureen Harris, Elisabeth Harvor, Jan Horner, Susan Ioannou, Ellen Jaffe, Adeena Karasick, Penn Kemp, A. M. Klein, Irving Layton, Noah Leznoff, Dennis Lee, Pat Lowther, Laura Lush, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Kim Maltman, Dave Margoshes, David W. McFadden, Susan McMaster, Bruce Meyer, Anne Michaels, Kim Morrissey, Erín Moure, Susan Musgrave, John Newlove, P. K. Page, E. J. Pratt, Robert Priest, Janis Rapoport, Wayne Scott Ray, Michael Redhill, John Reibetanz, D. C. Reid, Harold Rhenisch, Stan Rogal, Linda Rogers, Joe Rosenblatt, Jay Ruzesky, Richard Sanger, F. R. Scott, Peter Dale Scott, Kathy Shaidle, Kenneth Sherman, Carolyn Smart, Sandy Shreve, John Steffler, Nathalie Stephens, Rosemary Sullivan, Robert Sward, Rhea Tregebov, Jane Urquhart, R. M. Vaughan, Fred Wah, Tom Wayman, Natalie Wilson, Eddy Yanofsky
India, in English
- Sujata Bhatt, Augatora (Poetry in English), Carcanet Press[6]
- Keki Daruwalla, Night River (Poetry in English), New Delhi: Rupa & Co.[7]
- Ranjit Hoskote, The Cartographer's Apprentice (Poetry in English), (with drawings by Laxman Shreshtha), Mumbai: The Pundole Art Gallery[8]
- Tabish Khair, Where Parallel Lines Meet (Poetry in English), New Delhi: Penguin-Viking, ; New York City: Allen Lane,
[9]
New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books[13]
- 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[14]
- 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[15]
United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books[13]
- Gerry Cambridge, The Praise of Swans (pamphlet, 28 pp), Shoestring Press, [16]
- Robert Crawford and Mick Imlah, editors, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press (anthology)
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Oldest Girl in the World, Faber and Faber (children's poetry)[17]
- U. A. Fanthorpe, Consequences[18]
- James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures[19]
- 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[18]
- Collected Poems
- Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), Briton and poetry editor of The New Republic living in the United States
- Craig Raine, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu[18]
- Peter Reading, Marfan[18]
- Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living and published in the United Kingdom:
- Floods, Faber and Faber
- Editor, with Jon Turney (a science journalist), A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science, anthology, Faber and Faber
- Jo Shapcott, Her Book[18]
- 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 (New Directions)
- Edward Brathwaite, Words Need Love Too, Barbadian poet living in the United States[3]
- Joseph Brodsky: Collected Poems in English, 1972–1999, edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[20] Russian-American; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Gwendolyn Brooks, In Montgomery
- Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Paul Celan, (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
- Anita Endreszze, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon,[21] combination of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press
- Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems[22]
- Fanny Howe, Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
- Kenneth Koch, New Addresses: Poems, Knopf (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems, Norton (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Stanley Lombardo (translator), Odyssey by Homer, Hackett (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Glyn Maxwell, The Boys at Twilight: Poems, 1990–1995, Houghton Mifflin (a New York Times "notable book of the year"), 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;[23] (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Grazyna Miller, Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
- Michael O'Brien, Sills: Selected Poems, Zoland
- Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem)
- Grace Paley, Begin Again: Collected Poems
- Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
- Carl Phillips, Pastoral[24]
- Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Michael Ryan, A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing (essays)
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg:
- The Throne of Labdacus, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
- Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992,
- Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (West Indian)
- Louis Zukofsky, Wesleyan University Press begins publishing The Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky (posthumous)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- John Ashbery, Other Traditions (Harvard University Press), thoughts on six poets (John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert); from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (criticism)
- 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 The American Poetry Review, 1972–1999.(W.W. Norton & Company), 820 pages
- American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, two volumes, The Library of America (Henry Adams to May Swenson)
- Cary Nelson, editor, Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Oxford University Press (also published in the United Kingdom)
- 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
These 75 poets had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2000, edited by David Lehman, with Rita Dove as guest editor:
Other in English
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 (anthology)[25]
- Yu Jian, China:
- Shige • Biantiaoji (short poems)[26]
- Yu Jian de shi (poems and translations)[26]
Denmark
French language
Canada, in French
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 (épuisé), Moroccan author writing in French and published in France
- Jean-Claude Pinson, Fado (avec fantomes et flacons)
- Jacqueline Risset, Les instants
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Bengali
- Joy Goswami:
- Jogotbari, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, [33]
- Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 3, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, [33]
- Debarati Mitra:
- Tunnur Computer, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers[34]
- Srestha Kavita, Kolkata: Dey's Publishing[34]
- Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language:
- Shakulley Teenjon, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers[35]
- Joler Jailkhana Theke, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers[35]
Hindi
- Anamika, Kavita Mein Aurat, Delhi: Itihas Bodh[36]
- Teji Grover, Ant Ki Kucch Aur Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan[37]
- Udayan Vajpeyi, Vie Invisible, translated and published in France; Lignon: Cheyne Editeur;[38]
Other in India
- Amarjit Chandan; Punjabi-language:
- Gurhti (in Persian script), Navyug, New Delhi[39]
- Anaran vala Vehra (in Persian script), Kitab Tirinjan, Lahore[39]
- Chandrakant (Chandu) Shah, also known as Chandu Shah, Blue Jeans, Mumbai: Image Publications; Gujarati-language[40]
- Jiban Narah, Ta-Ri-Ri, Guwahati, Assam: Bak; Indian, Assamese-language[41]
- K. Satchidanandan, Sambhashanathinu Oru Sramam, ("An Attempt to Converse"); Malayalam-language[11]
- K. Siva Reddy, Kavisamayam, Vijayawada: Sahiti Mitrulu; Telugu-language[42]
- Kutti Revathi, Poonaiyai pola alaiyum velicham, ("Light Prowls Like a Cat"), Chennai: Thamizhini[43]
- S. Joseph, Karutha Kallu, winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; Kottayam: DC Books, [44]
- Prathibha Nandakumar, Aha! Purushakaram! ("Aha! The Human Form!"), Srirangapattana, Mandya district, Karnataka: Nelamane Prakashana[45]
- Salma, Oru Maalaiyum Innoru Maalaiyum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathippagam[46]
- Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Unnadedo Unnattu ("As It Is"); Telugu-language[47]
Bangladesh
Poland
Serbia
- Dejan Stojanović:
- Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children),[51] Prosveta, Beograd
- Oblik (The Shape),[52] Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro
- Tvoritelj (The Creator),[53] Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd
- Krugovanje (Circling),[54] Third Edition (poems added to the third edition), Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd
Other
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Ludwig Harig, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2001 ("Poetry Yearbook 2001"), publisher: Beck; anthology[55]
- Matilde Camus, Prisma de emociones ("Prism of emotions"), Spain
- Faruk Šehić, Pjesme u Nastajanju ("Acquired Poems"), Bosnia
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, La freccia, Italy
- Yang Ke, editor, 2000 Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry, China (anthology)[25]
Awards and honors
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
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 (Picador)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
- Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): 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 (separately) 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[56]
- 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 (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Roland Flint, 66 (born 1934), American, of cancer
- January 22 – Anne Hébert, 83 (born 1916), Canadian, French language
- January 28 – Lauris Edmond, 75 (born 1924), New Zealand
- February 4 – Edgar Bowers, 75 (born 1924), American, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- April 16 – John Bruce, 78 (born 1922) Canadian
- April 21
- May 14 – Karl Shapiro, 86 (born 1913), American
- September 25 – R. S. Thomas, 87 (born 1913), Anglo-Welsh poet and clergyman
- June 9 – Ernst Jandl, 74 (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
- June 26 – Judith Wright, 85 (born 1915) Australian poet and environmental campaigner, of a heart attack
- July 13 – A. D. Hope, 92 (born 1907), Australian poet and satirist
- September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, 76 (born 1924), Israeli, Hebrew language
- November 14 – Libby Scheier, 54 (born 1946), Canadian, of breast cancer
- November 29 – William Scammell, 59 (born 1939), English
- December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83 (born 1917), American, of cancer
- December 20 – Adrian Henri, 68 (born 1932), English member of the Liverpool poets
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