2000 in poetry

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 — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate
* October 3 — 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'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 Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem
* Spike Milligan made an honorary knight
* In the film "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

=Australia=

* 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 [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007]
** "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow"
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "The Poems", Brunswick: Gungurru

=Canada=

* Roo Borson, "Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei", ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian
* George Elliott Clarke, "Whylah Falls", Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, ISBN 1-896095-50-X (revised edition number) Canada
* Don McKay, "Another Gravity" (Canada) [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]
* John Pass, "Water Stair" (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) Canada
* Anne Simpson, "Light Falls Through You", winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize) ISBN 0-7710-8077-8, Canada

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "Poems 1960-2000", Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books [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]
* 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, "Birds of Europe"
* Cilla McQueen, "Markings", poetry and drawings, Otago University Press [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library ] ]

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", posthumousRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article]

=United Kindgom=

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "Poems 1960-2000", Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books [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]
* James Fenton: "The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures" [http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
* 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

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 [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] Russian-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, "" (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
* Michael S. Harper, "Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems" [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]
* 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, "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" [McClatchy, J. D., editor, "The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry", second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003]
* Robert Pinsky, "Jersey Rain" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (a New York Times "notable book of the year")
* 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:
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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

Works published in other languages

French language

=Canada=

*Pierre Labrie, "À tout hasard"

=France=

*Jean-Claude Pinson, "Fado (avec fantomes et flacons)"
*Jacqueline Risset, "Les instants"
*Andre du Bouchet, "L'emportement du muet"

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "Prisma de emociones" ("Prism of emotions")

Awards and honors

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"

=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

* 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

=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, "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 Award for poetry: John Burnside, "The Asylum Dance"

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 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

=Deaths=

*January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
*April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
*April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
*May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
*September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
* June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
*June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
*July 13 – 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), Israeli poet
** Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
** John Bruce (poet), Canada
** Lauris Edmond (born 1924), New Zealand
** Libby Scheier, Canada

References

Notes

* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/ "A Timeline of English Poetry"] at the Representative Poetry Online website, University of Toronto

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of poetry awards