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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 (and again by the poet's native land, if different); 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 (Kardoorair, Armidale) 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 (Coach House Books) Stephen Cain, American Standard/Canada Dry (Coach House Books) Margaret Christakos: Sooner (Coach House Books) Retreat Diary (Toronto: Book Thug) Brian Joseph Davis, Portable Altamont (Coach House Books) 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 (Coach House Books) Michael Palmer, Company of Moths, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2006) John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (), Governor General's Award 2006. James Reaney, Souwesto Home. Stan Dragland, ed. (Brick Books) Sherwin Tija, The World is a Heartbreaker (Coach House Books),
India, in English Meena Alexander, editor, Indian Love Poems (poetry in English), Everyman's Library/Knopf, anthology, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States, Poetry International, retrieved September 5, 2015. Dilip Chitre, Post Climactic Love Poem (poetry in English), a single, long poem; London and New Delhi: Aark Arts;, Poetry International, retrieved September 9, 2015. Jayanta Mahapatra, Random Descent( Poetry in English ), Third Eye Communications,Ramnarayan, Gowri, "In Conversation: Brutal landscape" in the Sunday "Literary review" section of The Hindu, dated October 2, 2005, accessed October 16, 2007. Jerry Pinto and Arundhathi Subramaniam, Confronting Love, contemporary Indian love poetry in English; Penguin India, , Poetry International, retrieved September 5, 2015. K. Siva Reddy, Mohana! Oh Mohana! and Other Poems, translated from the original Telugu by M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, ., Poetry International, retrieved September 5, 2015. Melanie Silgardo and Eunice de Souza, editors, The Puffin Book of Poetry for Children, New Delhi: Puffin Books, , Poetry International, retrieved September 5, 2015. 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, Poetry International, retrieved September 5, 2015. 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 (translator), The Midnight Court (Cúirt An Mhéan Oíche), 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, Poetry International, accessed September 5, 2015. 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, Poetry International, accessed September 5, 2015. 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 (scholarship) Gabriel Rosenstock, I Met A Man ... Doghouse Books,
New Zealand Raewyn Alexander: It's a Secret: Selected Poems (Auckland: Brightsparkbooks)"Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" , University of Auckland Library, accessed April 30, 2008. Writing Poetry: Fireworks, Clay & Architecture (Auckland: Brightsparkbooks) Stu Bagby, As it was in the beginning (Steele Roberts Publications Ltd) Wystan Curnow, Modern Colours (Jack Books) Stephanie de Montalk, Cover Stories (Victoria University Press) Anne Kennedy, Time of the Giants (Auckland University Press) Michele Leggott, Milk & Honey, Auckland: Auckland University Press Bill Manhire, Lifted, New Zealand Cilla McQueen, Fire-penny, Otago University PressCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Karlo Mila, Dream Fish Floating (Huia Publishers) James Norcliffe, Along Blueskin Road (Canterbury University Press) Gregory O'Brien, Afternoon of An Evening Train (Victoria University Press) Vivienne Plumb, Scarab: A Poetic Documentary (Seraph Press) Anna Smaill, The Violinist in Spring (Victoria University Press) Robert Sullivan, Voice Carried My Family (Auckland University Press) Ian Wedde, Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty (Auckland University Press) Kate Camp, Beauty Sleep, (Victoria University Press)
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:
Tusiata Avia Hinemoana Baker Diane Brown James Brown Geoff Cochrane
Linda Connell Wystan Curnow Anne French Paula Green David Howard
Andrew Johnston Tim Jones Anne Kennedy Tze Ming Mok Peter Olds
Vincent O'Sullivan Vivienne Plumb Richard Reeve Elizabeth Smither Kendrick Smithyman
C. K. Stead Brian Turner Sue Wootton Sonja Yelich Ashleigh Young
United Kingdom Maurice Bowra (died 1971), New Bats in Old Belfries Carol Ann Duffy: Another Night Before Christmas (illustrated by Marc Boutavant), John Murray (children's poetry).Amazon.co web page, retrieved May 4, 2009. Rapture, Picador"Carol Ann Duffy" , Contemporary Poets, British Council, retrieved May 4, 2009. 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 (translation by Ciarán Carson of Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche), Gallery Press; Wake Forest University Press, 2006, posthumous Pete Morgan, August LightSalter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010. Alice Oswald, Woods etc., Faber and Faber,
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Alice Oswald, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (editor), Faber and Faber, Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Kadija Sesay, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa (flipped eye), 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"Elizabeth Alexander", Poetry Foundation, accessed September 5, 2015. 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 (New Directions), Ted Berrigan, Collected Poems (University of California Press), 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""100 Notable Books of the Year", New York Times Book Review, December 4, 2005. Oscar Brown Jr., What It Is: Poems and Opinions of Oscar Brown Jr. (Oyster Knife Publishing) Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (Ecco) Ana Castillo, Watercolor Women/Opaque Men in Verse (Curbstone Press) Adrian Castro, Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time (Coffee House Press) Dan Chiasson, Natural History: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" Henri Cole, Vingt-Deux Poèmes(Yvon Lambert, Paris) Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems () Mark Doty, School of the Arts, HarperCollins Forrest Gander, Eye Against Eye (New Directions) 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 (Omnidawn Publishing) June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press), posthumous Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon Press) Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems (W. W. Norton) 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"W. S. Merwin (1927– )", Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 8, 2010. 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 (Scribner), an anthology William Logan, The Whispering Gallery Richard Loranger, Poems for Teeth (We Press) Claire Lux and John Most, Atelier (AQP Collective) W. S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005), winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Rusty Morrison, Whethering, University Press of Colorado, January, Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980–2002 (Knopf)