2005 in poetry

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

List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008

Events

  • October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK. The British event, Howl for Now, was accompanied by a book of essays of the same name, edited by Simon Warner, reflecting on the piece's enduring power and influence.
  • Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living in London, named poetry editor of Poetry London

Works published in English

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

  • David Brooks, Walking to Point Clear. Blackheath: Brandl & Schlesinger
  • Pam Brown, Ken Bolton, and Laurie Duggan, Let's Get Lost, Sydney: Vagabond
  • Laurie Duggan, Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971–2003, Exeter: Shearsman
  • Alan Gould, The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973–2003
  • John Kinsella, The New Arcadia, winner of the 2006 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; W.W. Norton; Australian living in and published in the United States
  • Jennifer Maiden, Friendly Fire Giramondo, ISBN 1-920882-12-X
  • Chris Mansell, Mortifications & Lies (Kardoorair, Armidale) ISBN 0-908244-60-6
  • Les Murray:
    • Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia, Carcanet
    • Editor, Best Australian Poems 2004, Melbourne, Black Inc.
  • Philip Salom, The Well Mouth, Fremantle Arts Centre, ISBN 978-1-921064-24-1
  • Jaya Savige, Latecomers
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Universe Looks Down, Brandl & Schlesinger, ISBN 1-876040-74-2

Canada

  • Shannon Bramer, The Refrigerator Memory (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-154-0
  • Stephen Cain, American Standard/Canada Dry (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-152-6
  • Margaret Christakos:
    • Sooner (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-159-5
    • Retreat Diary (Toronto: Book Thug)
  • Brian Joseph Davis, Portable Altamont (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-161-8
  • George Elliott Clarke, Illuminated Verses. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, ISBN 1-55130-280-2
  • Anne Compton, Processional
  • Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall, winner of 2006 Pat Lowther Award, winner of the 2006 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Award (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-160-1
  • Michael Palmer, Company of Moths, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2006)
  • John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom ( ISBN 0-88982-201-8), Governor General's Award 2006.
  • James Reaney, 'Souwesto Home. Stan Dragland, ed. (Brick Books)
  • Sherwin Tija, The World is a Heartbreaker (Coach House Books), ISBN 978-1-55245-153-3

India, in English

  • Meena Alexander, editor, Indian Love Poems (poetry in English), Everyman's Library/Knopf, anthology, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States[1]
  • Dilip Chitre, Post Climactic Love Poem (poetry in English), a single, long poem; London and New Delhi: Aark Arts;[2]
  • Jayanta Mahapatra, Random Descent( Poetry in English ), Third Eye Communications,[3]
  • Jerry Pinto and Arundhathi Subramaniam, Confronting Love, contemporary Indian love poetry in English; Penguin India, ISBN 0-14-303264-X[4]
  • K. Siva Reddy, Mohana! Oh Mohana! and Other Poems, translated from the original Telugu by M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 81-260-2162-4.[5]
  • Melanie Silgardo and Eunice de Souza, editors, The Puffin Book of Poetry for Children, New Delhi: Puffin Books, ISBN 0-14-333596-0[6]
  • Eunice de Souza, editor, Early Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology: 1829–1947, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-565616-4.[6]
  • Arundhathi Subramaniam, Where I Live, Mumbai: Allied, ISBN 81-7764-738-5; Indian, English-language[7]
  • Arundhathi Subramaniam, co-editor, Confronting Love, Delhi: Penguin India, ISBN 0-14-303264-X; an anthology of contemporary love poetry[7]

Ireland

  • Sara Berkeley, Strawberry Thief, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-389-6
  • Ciaran Carson (translator), The Midnight Court (Cúirt An Mhéan Oíche), an 18th-century poem by Brian Merriman, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-386-5
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin:
    • Verbale by Michele Ranchetti, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and others, Dublin: Instituto Italiano di Cultura[8]
    • After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poems by Ileana Malancioiu, Cork: Southword Editions[8]
  • Seán Dunne, Collected, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-395-7
  • Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince, Anvil Press, London, Irish work published in the United Kingdom[9]
  • Immanuel Mifsud, translated by Maurice Riordan, Confidential Reports, Maltese poet published in Ireland, Southword Editions
  • Justin Quinn, American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry, University College of Dublin Press (scholarship)
  • Gabriel Rosenstock, I Met A Man ... Doghouse Books, ISBN 0-9546487-9-X

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets, selected by Emma Neale were included in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, published online this year:

United Kingdom

  • Carol Ann Duffy:
    • Another Night Before Christmas (illustrated by Marc Boutavant), John Murray (children's poetry).[12]
    • Rapture, Picador[13]
  • John Heath-Stubbs, Pigs Might Fly
  • Jackie Kay, Life Mask
  • Tim Kendall, Strange Land
  • José Letria The Moon Has Written You a Poem, children's poetry translated and adapted by Irish expatriate poet Maurice Riordan from the original Portuguese and published in the UK, WingedChariot Press, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  • Derek Mahon, Harbour Lights. Gallery Press
  • Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince, London; Anvil Press, Irish work published in the United Kingdom[9]
  • Brian Merriman: The Midnight Court (translation by Ciarán Carson of Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche), Gallery Press; Wake Forest University Press, 2006, posthumous
  • Pete Morgan, August Light[14] ISBN 1-904614-23-X
  • Alice Oswald, Woods etc., Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21852-0

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

  • Alice Oswald, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet (editor), Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21854-7
  • Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Kadija Sesay, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa (flipped eye), anthology with a foreword by Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa, including poems by Mutabaruka, Sharan Strange, Chris Abani, Jayne Cortez, Kwame Dawes, Amiri Baraka, Kamau Braithwaite; and poems in Catalan, Scots, Creole, Castilian paying tribute to Khana, Saro-Wiwa's mother tongue.

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

  • Elaine Feinstein, Anna of all the Russias: A life of Anna Akhmatova, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005 ( ISBN 0-297-64309-6); N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 ( ISBN 1-4000-4089-2)

United States

  • Elizabeth Alexander, American Sublime[15]
  • Meena Alexander, editor, Indian Love Poems, Everyman's Library/Knopf, anthology, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States[1]
  • John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander
  • Bei Dao, Midnight's Gate translation by Matthew Fryslie, edited by Christopher Mattison (New Directions), ISBN 0-8112-1584-9
  • Ted Berrigan, Collected Poems (University of California Press), edited by his widow Alice Notley and sons Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, posthumous
  • Frank Bidart, Star Dust, one of The New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year"[16]
  • Oscar Brown Jr., What It Is: Poems and Opinions of Oscar Brown Jr. (Oyster Knife Publishing)
  • Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (Ecco)
  • Ana Castillo, Watercolor Women/Opaque Men in Verse (Curbstone Press)
  • Adrian Castro, Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time (Coffee House Press)
  • Dan Chiasson, Natural History: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"[16]
  • Henri Cole, Vingt-Deux Poèmes(Yvon Lambert, Paris)
  • Billy Collins, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems ( ISBN 0-375-50382-X)
  • Mark Doty, School of the Arts, HarperCollins
  • Forrest Gander, Eye Against Eye (New Directions)
  • Jorie Graham, Overlord: Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"[16]
  • Suheir Hammad, ZaatarDiva[17]
  • Allison Hedge Coke, Off-Season City Pipe Coffee House Press
  • Michael Hofmann, translator, Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grünbein, German, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • John Hollander, editor, Poems Bewitched and Haunted
  • Paul Hoover, Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn Publishing)
  • June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press), posthumous
  • Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows (Copper Canyon Press)
  • Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems (W. W. Norton)
  • Laurie Lamon, The Fork Without Hunger, CavanKerry Press
  • James McMichael, Capacity, a book-length poem and finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry
  • W. S. Merwin:
  • W. K. Lawrence, State of Love and Trust
  • David Lehman, editor, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner), an anthology
  • William Logan, The Whispering Gallery
  • Richard Loranger, Poems for Teeth (We Press)
  • Claire Lux and John Most, Atelier (AQP Collective)
  • W. S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems, one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"[16]
  • Ange Mlinko, Starred Wire (Coffee House Press, 2005), winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series
  • Rusty Morrison, Whethering, University Press of Colorado, January, ISBN 978-1-885635-07-5
  • Sharon Olds, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980–2002 (Knopf)
  • Jason Shinder, editor, The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later, essays on the impact of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on American literature and culture; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Patti Smith, Auguries of Innocence
  • Tony Tost, World Jelly
  • Brian Turner, Here, Bullet (Alice James Books), war poetry
  • Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (Harvest Books), one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year"[16]
  • Marvin X, Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995–2005 (Black Bird Press)
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval, Chartreuse (Hollyridge Press)

Poets whose works appeared in The Best American Poetry 2005

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2005, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Paul Muldoon:

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Works published in other languages

Brazil

  • Ricardo Domeneck, Carta aos anfíbios, Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi
  • Miguel Sanches Neto, Venho de um país obscuro e outros poemas[17]
  • Marco Vasques, Sístole, Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi

Chile

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

  • Anamika, Khurduri Hatheliyan, Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan; Hindi-language[19]
  • Basudev Sunani, Karadi Haata, Nuapada: Eeshan-Ankit Prakashani; Oraya-language[20]
  • Debashis Chanda, editor, Visual Rhapsody, an anthology including poems by Mithu Sen, New Delhi: Niyogi Offset; Bengali-language[21]
  • K. Satchidanandan, Ghazalukal, Geetangal ("Ghazals and Geets"); Malayalam-language[22]
  • K. Siva Reddy, Atanu-Charitra, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-language[5]
  • Mallika Sengupta, Shreshtha Kabita, Dey's Publishers; Bengali-language[23]
  • Namdeo Dhasal, Mee Marale Sooryachya Rathache Ghode Saat, Marathi-language[24]
  • S. Joseph, Identity Card, Kottayam: DC Books, ISBN 81-264-1125-2; Malayalam-language[25]
  • Tarannum Riyaz, Purani Kitabon ki Khushboo, New Delhi: Modern Publishing House; Urdu-language[26]
  • Udaya Narayana Singh, Madhyampurush Ekvachan, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan; Maithili-language[27]

Bangladesh

  • Rahman Henry, Tomake Basona Kori, A Book of Poetry in Bengali, BALAKA, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
  • Rahman Henry, Khunjhara Nodi ("The River that Bleeds"), A Book of Poetry in Bengali, BALAKA, Chittagong, Bangladesh.[28]

Poland

Other languages

  • Nicole Brossard, editor, Anthologie: De la poésie des femmes au Québec des origines à nos jours, Rémue-Ménage, France
  • Dmitry Bykov, Boris Pasternak, published by Molodaya Gvardiya, received the "National Bestseller Prize", biography, Russia[17]
  • Abdellatif Laabi, Écris la vie, La Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, Prix Alain Bosquet 2006, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France
  • Pavel Nastin, Yazyk Zhestov ("Sign Language"); Russia[32]
  • Rami Saari, Ha-shogun Ha-xamishi ("The Fifth Shogun"), Israel[33]

Awards and honors

International

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

Dane Zajc, Slovenian poet

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

January 21:Theun de Vriesborn 1907Dutch writer and poet
February 25:Phoebe Heskethborn 1909British
March 6:Sadako Kurihara
栗原貞子		born 1913Japanese poet who survived the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust there and became known for her poems about her city
March 7:Philip Lamantiaborn 1927American
March 29:Miltos Sachtourisborn 1919Greek
March 30:Robert Creeley, 78born 1926American
April 14Julia Darling, 48born 1956English poet, novelist and playwright, of breast cancer
June 9:Hovis Presleyborn 1960English
June 13:Eugénio de Andradeborn 1923Portuguese lyric poet
June 23:Manolis Anagnostakisborn 1925Greek poet
June 28:Philip Hobsbaum, 72born 1932Scot poet and critic
July 4:Lorenzo Thomasborn 1944American poet, critic, essayist; Umbra Workshop founding member
July 7:Gustaf Sobinborn 1935American
August 6:Vizma Belsevicaborn 1931leading post-war Latvian poet
August 21:Dahlia Ravikovitchborn 1936Israeli
August 31:Amrita Pritamborn 1919leading Punjab poet in India who wrote in Hindi
September 16:Stanley Burnshawborn 1906American poet and novelist
October 20:Dane Zajcborn 1929Slovenian poet
November 1:Michael Thwaitesborn 1915Australian
Date not known:Charles Naylor (poet)not knownAmerican, partner of novelist Thomas Disch[35]

See also

References

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  22. ↑ Resume for K. Satchidanandan titled "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights", National Translation Mission, retrieved July 11, 2010.
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