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2000 in poetry
| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 |
| Years in literature: | 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 20th century 21st century 22nd century |
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s |
| Years: | 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 |
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[1]
- 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)[2]
- 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
- Nick Ascroft, From the Author Of
- Jenny Bornholdt, These Days
- Paula Green, Chrome
- Murray Edmond, Laminations
- Andrew Johnston, Birds of Europe
- Cilla McQueen, Markings, poetry and drawings
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
United Kindgom
- James Fenton: The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures[3]
- 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[4] 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)
- 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)
- Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud (prose poem)
- Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
- 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
- Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0-674-00205-9
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:
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
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, American poet, at 66, of cancer
- April 21 — Al Purdy, Canadian poet, at 81, of lung cancer
- April 21 — Douglas Oliver, British poet
- May 14 — Karl Shapiro, at 86
- September 25 — R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
- June 26 — Judith Wright, American poet, 85, of a heart attack
- July 13 — Alex Derwent Hope
- 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), Canadian poet
- Libby Scheier, Canadian poet
Notes
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- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
See also
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