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==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 — [[Janice Mirikitani]] succeeds [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] as San Francisco's Poet Laureate
* [[October 3]] — [[Edward Lear|Edward Lear's]] "[[The Owl and the Pussycat]]" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll
* [[October 3]] — 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]] — 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:
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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==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]] – [[Roland Flint]], [[American poetry|United States]], at 66, of cancer
*[[April 21]] – [[Al Purdy]], [[Canadian poetry|Canada]], at 81, of lung cancer
*[[April 21]] – [[Douglas Oliver]], [[English poetry|United Kingdom]]
*[[May 14]] – [[Karl Shapiro]], at 86
*[[September 25]] – [[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R.S. Thomas]], 87, [[English poetry|Anglo]]-[[Anglo-Welsh poetry|Welsh]] poet
* [[June 9]] – [[Ernst Jandl]] (born [[1925 in poetry|1925]]), [[Austrian literature|Austrian]] poet, author and translator
*[[June 26]] – [[Judith Wright]], [[American poetry|United States]], 85, of a heart attack
*[[July 13]] – [[A. D. Hope|Alex Derwent Hope]], 92, poet
*[[November 29]] – [[William Scammell]]
*[[December 3]] – [[Gwendolyn Brooks]], 83, of cancer
*[[December 20]] – [[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==
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==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]]