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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Robert Bly photographed in June of this year

Seamus Heaney visiting Krakow, Poland in August of this year

• April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants. Naming names." Members and visitors contribute information which links judges and prize winners in various poetry contests in attempts to document whether some contests have been rigged.
• Samizdat poetry magazine, founded in 1998, ceases publication.
• David and Helen Constantine relaunch Modern Poetry in Translation, a British journal focusing on the art of translating poetry. The magazine was originally founded in 1966 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort.^[1]

Works published

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

See also: 2004 in Australian literature

• Robert Adamson Reading the River: Selected Poems
• Alison Croggon, November Burning, Vagabond
• M. T. C. Cronin, <More or Less Than> 1-100
• Luke Davies, Totem
• Sarah Day, The Ship
• Noel Rowe, Next to Nothing
• Dipti Saravanamuttu, The Colosseum
• Samuel Wagan Watson, Smoke Encrypted Whispers
• Les Wicks, Stories of the Feet, published by Five Islands

Anthologies in Australia

• Anthony Lawrence, editor, The Best Australian Poetry 2004, Publisher: UQP
• Les Murray, editor, The Best Australian Poems 2004, Publisher: Black Inc.

Canada

• Robert Archambeau, Home and Variations (Salt)
• Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award, the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2005 Pat Lowther Award, ISBN 0-7710-1591-7, American-Canadian
• John Paul Fiorentino, Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451366
• Don McKay, Camber, shortlisted for the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada)
• Michael Ondaatje, Vintage Ondaatje, Vintage, ISBN 978-1400077441^[2]
• Ian Samuels, The Ubiquitous Big (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451359
• Mark Truscott, Said Like Reeds or Things (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451458
• Julia Williams, The Sink House (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451465

Ireland

• Sebastian Barry, The Pinkening Boy: New Poems New Island New Poetry,
• Dermot Bolger, The Chosen Moment
• Ciarán Carson: The Midnight Court, (translation of Brian Merriman's Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche Gallery Press, 2005; Wake Forest University Press
• Peter Fallon, translator, The Georgics of Virgil, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852353650
• Vona Groarke, Flight and Earlier Poems, Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S.
• William Wall, Fahrenheit Says Nothing To Me, Dedalus Press, Dublin ISBN 1904556213

New Zealand

• Mark Pirie, Ron Riddell and Saray Torres, editors, The 2nd Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology, Wellington: HeadworX^[3]
• Kendrick Smithyman, Campana to Montale, Writers Group

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Robin Dudding for Best New Zealand Poems 2003, published online this year:

United Kingdom

• Carol Ann Duffy, New Selected Poems Picador^[4]
• Paul Henry, The Breath of Sleeping Boys & other poems, Carreg Gwalch
• Muriel Spark, All the Poems

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Carol Ann Duffy:
  • Out of Fashion: An Anthology of Poems, editor (contemporary poets select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, in connection with clothing), Faber and Faber
  • Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems (editor) (30 contemporary poets selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside one of their own poems; including contemporary poems by Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, and Wendy Cope, as well as classic poets such as Robert Burns, John Betjeman and Edward Lear) Macmillan
• Don Paterson and Charles Simic, editors, New British Poetry

United States

• Kim Addonizio, What is this Thing Called Love (Norton)
• John Ash, To the City (Talisman), ISBN 1584980370
• Wendell Berry, Given: Poems (Shoemaker & Hoard)
• Sophie Cabot Black, The Descent: poetry (Graywolf Press), ISBN 1-55597-406-6
• Charles Bukowski, Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems (Ecco)
• Tina Chang, Half-Lit Houses, Four Way Books
• Rita Dove, American Smooth: Poems (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Claudia Emerson, Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press)
• Alice Fulton, Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (Norton)
• Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Vona Groarke, Flight and Earlier Poems, Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S.
• Lee Harwood, Collected Poems
• Allison Hedge Coke - Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (memoir of poet's life)
• Fanny Howe, On the Ground
• Donald Justice, Collected Poems (Knopf); published posthumously; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Jane Kenyon, Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems (Graywolf Press), posthumous
• Ted Kooser, Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• W. S. Merwin:
  • Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
  • Present Company
• Mirabai, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems translated into English by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield
• Mary Oliver:
  • New and Selected Poems, volume two
  • Why I Wake Early: New Poems
  • Blue Iris: Poems and Essays
  • Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
• Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Kay Ryan, The Niagara River (Grove Press) ISBN 0-8021-4222-2
• Michael Ryan, New And Selected Poems
• Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
• Tony Tost, Invisible Bride (LSU) (selected by C.D. Wright for the 2003 Walt Whitman Award)
• Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight (New Directions)
• Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Knopf) (Pulitzer Prize in Poetry)
• Jesse Lee Kercheval, Dog Angel

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman, editors, Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, essays (Coffee House Press)

Anthologies in the United States

• Mary Ann Caws, editor, Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, (Yale University Press), Apollinaire and more than 100 other poets, bi-lingual

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2004

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2004, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Lyn Hejinian:

Elsewhere

• Stratis Haviaras translator into English from the original Modern Greek, C.P. Cavafy, The Canon, (Athens: Hermes Publishing; reprinted by Harvard University Press in 2007), published in Greece

Works published in other languages

• Klaus Høeck, Hsieh, publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark^[5]

Awards and honors

Australia

• ALS Gold Medal: Laurie Duggan, Mangroves, University of Queensland Press
• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, Wolf Notes
• Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Totem by Luke Davies
• Grace Leven Prize for Poetry: Luke Davies, Totem, Allen & Unwin
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Pam Brown, Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems
• Mary Gilmore Prize: David McCooey, Blister Pack; Michael Brennan, Imageless World

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• Atlantic Poetry Prize
• Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate: Pauline Michel (until 2006)
• Governor General's Awards: See 2004 Governor General's Awards
• Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian: Anne Simpson, Loop
• Griffin Poetry Prize International, in the English Language: August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

New Zealand

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards First-book award for poetry: Cliff Fell, The Adulterer's Bible, Victoria University Press

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman
• Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House (Picador)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Leontia Flynn, These Days (Jonathan Cape)
• Scots Makar (equivalent of a poet laureate to represent and promote poetry in Scotland) named on February 16: Edwin Morgan
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Andrea Levy, Small Island
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Hugo Williams
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): George Szirtes, Reel
• Whitbread Award for poetry:

United States

• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Henry Taylor
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Aaron Smith for Blue on Blue Ground
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Jeremy Glazier, "Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, B.H. Fairchild for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
• Brittingham Prize in Poetry, John Brehm, Sea of Faith
• Frost Medal: Richard Howard
• MacArthur Fellowship: C.D. Wright
• National Book Award for poetry: Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Ted Kooser appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard (ISBN 0-375-41518-1)
• Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Timothy Steele
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Kay Ryan
• Wallace Stevens Award: Mark Strand
• William Carlos Williams Award: Anthony Butts, Little Low Heaven, Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jane Hirshfield

Awards and honors in other nations

• One of Pakistan's highest civilian honors, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, awarded to Ahmed Faraz, an Urdu-language poet, for his literary achievements^[6]

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 4 – Jeff Nuttall, 70 (born 1933), English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, and social commentator
• January 8 – Norman Talbot (born 1936), Australian
• January 29 – Janet Frame, 79, English novelist who wrote poetry all her life; she published one collection, The Pocket Mirror, in 1967.
• February 17 – Bruce Beaver (born 1928), Australian
• March 3 – Pedro Pietri 59, Puerto Rican/American poet
• March 12 – Cid Corman, 79, American poet, translator and editor
• August 29 – Donald Allen, influential editor, publisher, and translator of contemporary American literature who edited The New American Poetry 1945-1960, an influential book republished in 1990.
• September 16 – Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
• October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet
• December 2 – Mona Van Duyn (born 1921), American poet
• December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet
• December 26 – Ishigaki Rin 石垣りん (born 1920), Japanese poet, employee of the Industrial Bank of Japan, sometimes called "the bank teller poet"
• date not known – Mary Elizabeth Frye (born 1905), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"

References

Notes

• "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards