2000 in poetry 5512957 219091191 2008-06-13T15:01:42Z TexasAndroid 271376 Removed category "2000"; Quick-adding category "2000 works" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) {{yearbox2 | in?=in poetry | in2?=in literature | cp=20th century | c=21st century | cf=22nd century | yp1=1997 | yp2=1998 | yp3=1999 | year=2000 | ya1=2001 | ya2=2002 | ya3=2003 | dp3=1970s | dp2=1980s | dp1=1990s | d=2000s | da=0 | dn1=2010s | dn2=2020s |dn3=2030s |}} ==Events== * [[Griffin Poetry Prize]] is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. * February &mdash; [[Janice Mirikitani]] succeeds [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] as San Francisco's Poet Laureate * [[October 3]] &mdash; [[Edward Lear|Edward Lear's]] "[[The Owl and the Pussycat]]" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll * [[October 3]] &mdash; Justin Trudeau quotes from [[Robert Frost|Robert Frost's]] "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister [[Pierre Trudeau]] * [[October 4]] &mdash; National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the [[Royal Festival Hall]] along with 4,000 other people nationwide perfor [[Patience Agbabi|Agbabi's]] "Word," setting a new [[Guinness World Records|Guinness World Record]] for simultaneous mass performance of a poem * [[Spike Milligan]] made an honorary knight * In the film ''[[Pandaemonium (movie)|Pandaemonium]]'', released this year, the lives of [[William Wordsworth]] and [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads," are discussed. ==Works published in English== ===[[Australian literature|Australia]]=== * [[Les Murray (poet)|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]]<ref name=paw>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed [[October 15]], [[2007]]</ref> ** ''An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow'' * [[Chris Wallace-Crabbe]], ''The Poems'', Brunswick: Gungurru ===[[Canadian literature|Canada]]=== * [[Roo Borson]], ''Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei'', ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by [[Pain Not Bread]]) [[American poetry|American]]-[[Canadian literature|Canadian]] * [[George Elliott Clarke]], ''[[Whylah Falls]]'', Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in [[1990 in poetry|1990]], ISBN 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) [[Canadian literature|Canada]] * [[Don McKay]], ''Another Gravity'' ([[Canadian literature|Canada]])<ref name=gr07>[http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=2]Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize 2007" at the Griffen Poetry Prize Web site, accessed [[October 6]], [[2007]]</ref> * [[John Pass]], ''Water Stair'' (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) [[Canadian literature|Canada]] * [[Anne Simpson]], ''Light Falls Through You'', winner of the [[Gerald Lampert Award]] and the [[Atlantic Poetry Prize]]) ISBN 0-7710-8077-8, [[Canadian literature|Canada]] ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), ''Poems 1960-2000'', Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books<ref name=faua>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed [[April 26]], [[2008]]</ref> * [[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 (poet)|Andrew Johnston]], ''Birds of Europe'' * [[Cilla McQueen]], ''Markings'', poetry and drawings, Otago University Press<ref>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ====Anthologies in New Zealand==== * [[Jenny Bornholdt]] and [[Gregory O'Brien]], editors, ''My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems'', Random House New Zealand ISBN-10: 0908877811, ISBN-13: 978-0908877812 * [[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<ref name=leox>Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article</ref> ===[[English poetry|United Kindgom]]=== * [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), ''Poems 1960-2000'', Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books<ref name=faua>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed [[April 26]], [[2008]]</ref> * [[James Fenton]]: ''The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures''<ref name=jf>[http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed [[October 11]], [[2007]]</ref> * [[Elaine Feinstein]], ''Gold'', Carcanet * [[Thom Gunn]], ''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 * [[Sulpicia]], ''The Poems of Sulpicia'', ancient Roman poet translated by [[John Heath-Stubbs]] ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[John Ashbery]]: ** ''Your Name Here'' ** ''As Umbrellas Follow Rain'' * [[Bei Dao]], ''Unlock'', English translation by [[Eliot Weinberger]] & [[Iona Man-Cheong]] (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1447-8 * [[Joseph Brodsky]]: ''Collected Poems in English, 1972-1999'', edited by Ann Kjellberg, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref name=n>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-bibl.html] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed [[October 18]], [[2007]]</ref> [[Russian literature|Russian]]-[[American poetry|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]], ''[[Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan]]'' (Translated by [[Heather McHugh]] and [[Nikolai Popov]]) * [[Michael S. Harper]], ''Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems''<ref name=msaap>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/277 Web page titled "Michael S. Harper"] at the Academy of American poets website, accessed [[April 23]], [[2008]]</ref> * [[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]] (translator). [[Purgatorio]] by [[Dante Alighieri]], Knopf (a [[New York Times]] "notable book of the year") * [[Grazyna Miller]], ''[[Sull'onda del respiro]]'' (''[[On the Wave of Breath]]'') * [[Michael O'Brien (American poet)|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''<ref>McClatchy, J. D., editor, ''The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry'', second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003</ref> * [[Robert Pinsky]], ''Jersey Rain'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a [[New York Times]] "notable book of the year") * [[Michael Ryan (poet)|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'', ISBN 0-374-52754-7 * [[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) ISBN 9780674003156 ISBN 0674003152 * [[Helen Vendler]], ''[[Seamus Heaney]]'', ISBN 0674002059 ====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 =====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: {{col-start}} {{col-break}} *[[Kim Addonizio]] *[[Pamela Alexander]] *[[A. R. Ammons]] *[[Julianna Baggott]] *[[Erin Belieu]] *[[Richard Blanco]] *[[Janet Bowdan]] *[[Grace Butcher]] *[[Lucille Clifton]] *[[Billy Collins]] *[[Jim Daniels]] *[[Gregory Djanikian]] *[[Denise Duhamel]] *[[Christopher Edgar]] {{col-break}} *[[Karl Elder]] *[[Lynn Emanuel]] *[[B. H. Fairchild]] *[[Charles Fort]] *[[Frank X. Gaspar]] *[[Elton Glaser]] *[[Ray Gonzalez]] *[[Jennifer Grotz]] *[[Thom Gunn]] *[[Mark Halliday]] *[[Barbara Hamby]] *[[Forrest Hamer]] *[[Brenda Hillman]] *[[Marsha Janson]] *[[Mark Jarman]] {{col-break}} *[[Patricia Spears Jones]] *[[Rodney Jones]] *[[Donald Justice]] *[[Olena Kalytiak Davis]] *[[David Kirby]] *[[Carolyn Kizer]] *[[Lynne Knight]] *[[Yusef Komunyakaa]] *[[Thomas Lux]] *[[Lynne McMahon]] *[[W. S. Merwin]] *[[Susan Mitchell]] *[[Jean Nordhaus]] *[[Mary Oliver]] *[[Michael Palmer]] {{col-break}} *[[Paul Perry]] *[[Carl Phillips]] *[[Robert Pinsky]] *[[Donald Platt]] *[[Stanley Plumly]] *[[Lawrence Raab]] *[[Thomas Rabbitt]] *[[Mary Jo Salter]] *[[Rebecca Seiferle]] *[[Brenda Shaughnessy]] *[[Laurie Sheck]] *[[Reginald Shepherd]] *[[Rudy Delgado Jr.]] *[[Cathy Song]] *[[Gary Soto]] {{col-break}} *[[Gabriel Spera]] *[[A. E. Stallings]] *[[Susan Stewart]] *[[Adrienne Su]] *[[Pamela Sutton]] *[[Dorothea Tanning]] *[[Natasha Trethewey]] *[[Quincy Troupe]] *[[Reetika Vazirani]] *[[Paul Violi]] *[[Derek Walcott]] *[[Richard Wilbur]] *Susan Wood *[[John Yau]] *[[Dean Young (poet)|Dean Young]] {{col-end}} ==Works published in other languages== ===French language=== ====[[Canadian literature|Canada]]==== *[[Pierre Labrie]], ''À tout hasard'' ====[[French poetry|France]]==== *[[Jean-Claude Pinson]], ''Fado (avec fantomes et flacons)'' *[[Jacqueline Risset]], ''Les instants'' *[[Andre du Bouchet]], ''L'emportement du muet'' ===[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]=== * [[Matilde Camus]], ''Prisma de emociones'' ("Prism of emotions") ==Awards and honors== ===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]=== * [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[John Millett]], ''Iceman'' * [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Jennifer Maiden]], ''Mines'' * [[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Lucy Dougan]], ''Memory Shell'' ===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=== * [[Gerald Lampert Award]] * [[Archibald Lampman Award]] * [[Atlantic Poetry Prize]] * See [[2000 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. * [[Pat Lowther Award]] * [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]] * [[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award]] ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: * [[Montana New Zealand Book Awards]] (no poetry winner this year): ** First-book award for poetry: [[Glenn Colquhoun]], ''The Art of Walking Upright'', Steele Roberts ** A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award: [[Allen Curnow]] ===[[English poetry|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 (writer)|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 Awards|Whitbread Award]] for poetry: [[John Burnside]], ''The Asylum Dance'' ===[[American poetry|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 Awards#Poetry|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 * [[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]] * [[William Carlos Williams Award]]: [[Kathleen Peirce]], ''The Oval Hour'' (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: [[Jean Valentine]] * [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Lyn Hejinian]] ==[[2000|Deaths]]== *[[January 2]] &ndash; [[Roland Flint]], [[American poetry|United States]], at 66, of cancer *[[April 21]] &ndash; [[Al Purdy]], [[Canadian poetry|Canada]], at 81, of lung cancer *[[April 21]] &ndash; [[Douglas Oliver]], [[English poetry|United Kingdom]] *[[May 14]] &ndash; [[Karl Shapiro]], at 86 *[[September 25]] &ndash; [[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R.S. Thomas]], 87, [[English poetry|Anglo]]-[[Anglo-Welsh poetry|Welsh]] poet * [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Ernst Jandl]] (born [[1925 in poetry|1925]]), [[Austrian literature|Austrian]] poet, author and translator *[[June 26]] &ndash; [[Judith Wright]], [[American poetry|United States]], 85, of a heart attack *[[July 13]] &ndash; [[A. D. Hope|Alex Derwent Hope]], 92, poet *[[November 29]] &ndash; [[William Scammell]] *[[December 3]] &ndash; [[Gwendolyn Brooks]], 83, of cancer *[[December 20]] &ndash; [[Adrian Henry]] *Date not known: ** [[Yehuda Amichai]] (born [[1924 in poetry|1924]]), [[Israeli literature|Israeli]] poet ** [[Edgar Bowers]], at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma ** [[John Bruce (poet)]], [[Canadian poetry|Canada]] ** [[Lauris Edmond]] (born [[1924 in poetry|1924]]), [[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]] ** [[Libby Scheier]], [[Canadian poetry|Canada]] ==References== <references /> ==Notes== *[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry"] at the Representative Poetry Online website, [[University of Toronto]] ==See also== {{portal|Poetry}} *[[Poetry]] *[[List of years in poetry]] *[[List of poetry awards]] {{Schools of poetry}} [[Category:Years in poetry]] [[Category:2000 works|Poetry]]