2007 IN POETRY

Contents

Events

Works published

Anthologies

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

Awards and honors

Deaths

Notes

See also

Events

★ Southword Editions in 2006 was preparing to start an annual anthology of Irish poetry, ''The Best of Irish Poetry 2007'' to be the first volume. The project is under the direction of Patrick Cotter, with Colm Breathnach as Irish-language editor and Maurice Riordan as English-language (or Hiberno-English) editor. The series is expected to have 40 to 50 works published over 12-month periods in Gaelic and English. "Quite often readers abroad are presented with a selection of Irish poets restricted to those who are first published in the USA or the UK," Cotter wrote. "This annual series will present a more general selection generated by more informed pundits."^[1]

★ Bangladeshi Poet Taslima Nasreen was attacked in Andhra Pradesh, India by a crowd of protesters who shouted for her death.^[2] The attackers were comprised of lawmakers and members of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party who objected to her writings on religion and oppression of women. After the attack, India criminally charged Nasreen with "hurting Muslim feelings" punishable by up to three years in jail.^[3]

Works published

★ Rae Armantrout, ''Next Life'' (Wesleyan University Press) 92 pages, ISBN 0-8195-6820-1

★ John Ash, ''The Parthian Stations'' (Carcanet), ISBN 1857548728

★ John Ashbery, ''A Worldly Country''

★ W. H. Auden, ''Collected Poems'', edited by Edward Mendelson (Modern Library)

★ Roger Bonair-Agard, ''Tarnish and Masquerade'' (Cypher Books, Rattapallax Press)

★ Charles Bukowski, ''The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems''

★ Henri Cole, ''Blackbird and Wolf'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

★ Jim Daniels, ''Now Showing'' (Ahadada Books)

★ Edward Dorn, ''Way More West: New and Selected Poems'' (Penguin)

★ Mark Doty, ''Dog Years'' (HarperCollins)

★ Michael Dumanis, ''My Soviet Union'', (University of Massachusetts Press, Juniper Prize for Poetry)

★ Jessica Fisher, ''Frail-Craft'', foreword by Louise Glück (Yale UP)

★ Linda Gregerson, ''Magnetic North'' (Houghton Mifflin)

★ Zbigniew Herbert, ''The Collected Poems: 1956-1998'' (Ecco)

★ Eugen Jebeleanu, translated from Romanian by Matthew Zapruder, ''Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu'' (Coffee House)

★ Dimitris P. Kraniotis, ''Dunes''

★ James Longenbach, ''Draft of a Letter'' (Spring)

★ Michael Meyerhofer ''Leaving Iowa'' (Briery Creek Press)

★ Jennifer Moxley ''The Line'' (The Post-Apollo Press)

★ Terry Philips, ''Oulipoems'' (Ahadada Books)

★ Carl Phillips, ''Quiver of Arrows: Selected poems'' (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

★ J. E. Pitts ''The Weather of Dreams '' (David Robert Books)

★ Meghan O'Rourke, ''Halflife'' (Norton)

★ Adrienne Rich, ''Poetry and Commitment'' (Norton)

★ J. Allyn Rosser, ''Foiled Again'', (Fall) Ivan R. Dee

★ Jerome Rothenberg, ''China Notes & The Treasures of DunHuang'' (Ahadada Books)

★ Leslie Scalapino, ''Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999-2006'' (Green Integer)

★ David Shapiro, ''New and Selected Poems, 1965-2006'' (Overlook Press)

★ Ron Silliman, ''The Age of Huts (compleat)'' (UC Press)

★ Tony Tost, ''Complex Sleep'' (Iowa UP)

★ Derek Walcott, ''Selected Poems'', edited by Edward Baugh (Faber)

★ C. Dale Young, ''The Second Person'' (Four Way Books)

★ Kevin Young, ''For the Confederate Dead'', (Knopf)

Anthologies

★ David Lehman, general editor, Heather McHugh, 2007 editor, ''The Best American Poetry 2007'' Scribner ISBN 0743299736

★ Patrick Cotter general editor, Colm Breathnach and Maurice Riordan 2007 editors, ''The Best of Irish Poetry 2007'' designed to be the first of an annual series.

★ Julia Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell, editors, ''Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn'', anthology (New York University)

★ Natasha Trethewey, editor, Jeb Livingood, series editor, ''Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers'' (Samovar Press)

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for ''Best New Zealand Poems 2006'':

★ Hinemoana Baker

★ Cherie Barford

★ Jenny Bornholdt

★ James Brown

★ Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

★ Geoff Cochrane

★ Murray Edmond

★ David Eggleton

★ Cliff Fell

★ Brian Flaherty

★ Paula Green

★ Bernadette Hall

★ Anna Jackson

★ Andrew Johnston

★ Michele Leggott

★ Selina Tusitala Marsh

★ Karlo Mila

★ Gregory O'Brien

★ Brian Potiki

★ Chris Price

★ Elizabeth Smither

★ C.K. Stead

★ JC Sturm

★ Richard von Sturmer

★ Alison Wong

Awards and honors

===Canada===

★ Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada): Don McKay, ''Strike/Slip''

★ Griffin Poetry Prize (International, in the English Language): Charles Wright, ''Scar Tissue''; and
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★ "Lifetime Recognition Award" (presented by the Griffin trustees) to Tomas Tranströmer
===United Kingdom

United States===

★ ''The New Criterion'' Poetry Prize: J. Allyn Rosser, for ''Foiled Again''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Natasha Trethewey, for ''Native Guard''

★ Wallace Stevens Award: Charles Simic ^[4]

Deaths

★ February 14 — Emmett Williams, 81, American

★ March 19:

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★ Shimon Tzabar, 80, Israeli artist, author, poet and former Haaretz columnist, pneumonia^[5]

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★ Robert Dickson, 62, Canadian professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian writer and poet, cancer^[6]

★ March 20 — Rita Joe, 75, Canadian Mi'kmaq poet, of Parkinson's disease.^[7]

★ May 25 — Len Roberts, 60, American poet, professor ^[8]

★ May 30 — William M. Meredith, 88, American, poet, professor ^[9]

★ May 31 — Sarah Hannah, 40, American poet, professor ^[10]

★ June 7 — Michael Hamburger, 83, German poet, translator ^[11]

★ June 20 — Nazik al-Malaika, 85, Iraqi poet ^[12]

★ June 21 — Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet, critic ^[13]

★ June 25 — Rahim al-Maliki, 39, Iraqi poet ^[14]

★ June 27 — Dragutin Tadijanovic, 102, Croatian poet ^[15]

★ July 1 — Mong Tuyet, 93, Vietnamese poet ^[16]

★ July 2

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★ Philip Booth, 81, American poet, professor, ^[17]

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★ Sandy Crimmins, 55, American poet, performance artist,^[18]

★ July 7 — Dmitri Prigov, 66, Russian poet, artist, ^[19]

★ July 18 —Sekou Sundiata, 58, American poet, performance artist, ^[20]

★ July 31 —Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet ^[21]

★ August 15:

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★ Liam Rector, 57, American poet, professor, critic, ^[22]

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★ Khalid Alig, 82, Indian poet, journalist, ^[23]

★ August 22 — Grace Paley, 84, American poet, short story writer, activist ^[24]

Notes

1. [1] "New Irish Anthology Series Launched", post dated December 1, 2006 at the Poetry International Web site, accessed December 18, 2006
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4. CHARLES SIMIC RECEIVES THE WALLACE STEVENS AWARD Press release from Academy of American Poets (August 2, 2007)
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See also

★ Poetry

★ List of poetry awards