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Events

• December 9–10 — Professor John Basinger, 67, performed, from memory, John Milton's Paradise Lost at Three Rivers Community-Technical College in Norwich, Connecticut, a feat that took 18 hours.

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Works published

• Bei Dao, At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (New Directions) ISBN 0-8112-1495-8
• Eavan Boland, Against Love Poetry (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Joseph Brodsky, Nativity Poems

• Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

• Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (ISBN 0-375-50380-3)

• W.S. Di Piero, Skirts and Slacks: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

• Robert Hass edits The Best American Poetry 2001

• Seamus Heaney, Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

• James Merrill, Collected Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

• Paul Muldoon, Poems 1968-1998 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

• Amos Oz, The Same Sea (Harcourt); a novel about sexual hanky-panky involving a man, son and several women; most of the book is in verse; the author collaborated on the translation by Nicholas de Lange); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

• Keith Tuma, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press)

• Jay Wright, Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Louisiana State University Press); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

Bei Dao (Northern Island) is another name for Zhifu Island. ... Eavan Boland (born 1944) is an Irish poet and essayist. ... Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: ) was a poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992). ... Paul Celan Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (Celan is an anagram of the Romanian spelling of his surname, Ancel), one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. ... Image:Billycollins. ... Robert L. Hass (b. ... Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. ... poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language. ... J.D. McClatchy (called Sandy) is a poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review. ... Paul Muldoon (b. ... Amos Oz, November 7 2004 Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. ... Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Keith Tuma, and published in 2001 by Oxford University Press. ... Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... People named Jay Wright include: Jay Wright (poet) (b. ...

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Mateer, Barefoot Speech
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Ken Taylor, Africa
• Miles Franklin Award: Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace

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Canada

• Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada): Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
• Griffin Poetry Prize (International, in the English Language): Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan

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United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Ian Duhig, Paul Durcan, Kathleen Jamie, Grace Nichols
• Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick Mackie, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read
• Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection): Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador)
• Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection): John Stammers, The Panoramic Lounge Bar (Picador)
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Longley
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
• Whitbread Award for poetry: Selima Hill, Bunny

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United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for A Defense of Poetry
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Frederick Morgan
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Circus Fire, 1944”
• Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Louise Glück
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Robin Behn, Horizon Note
• Frost Medal: Sonia Sanchez
• National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Billy Collins appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Edward Weismiller
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Yusef Komunyakaa
• Wallace Stevens Award: John Ashbery
• William Carlos Williams Award: Ralph J. Mills, Grasses Standing: Selected Poems, Judge: Fanny Howe

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Deaths

• January 17 — Gregory Corso, American Beat Generation poet, 70, of prostate cancer
• February 14 — Alan Ross (born 1922), English poet
• February 22 — Leo Connellan (born 1928), American poet
• March 23 — Louis Dudek, Canadian poet
• October 16 — Anne Ridler (born 1912), British poet and Faber and Faber editor
• October 20 — Andrew Waterhouse
• October 26:
  • Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926), English poet
  • Pamela Gillilan
• November 25 — David Gascoyne (born 1915), British poet associated with the Surrealist movement
• December 20 — Léopold Senghor, first President of Senegal; a world-renowned poet and writer.
• December 27 — Ian Hamilton (born 1938), British poet, critic, magazine publisher
• date not known — Agha Shahid Ali, English language poet born and raised in Kashmir

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See also

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