2012 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
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

Events
John Ashbery at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Günter Grass in 2010

Works published in English

Australia

Canada
  • Barry McKinnon, Into the Blind World, above/ground press,
  • rob mclennan, Sextet: six poems from Songs for little sleep, above/ground press,
  • Lisa Robertson, Nilling: Prose, Toronto: BookThug
  • Robert Bringhurst, Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press,

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Bernadette Hall for Best New Zealand Poems 2011, published online this year:

United Kingdom
  • Sean Borodale, Bee Journal, Jonathan Cape
  • Basil Bunting, Bunting's Persia: Translations by Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share, Flood Editions
  • Ben Parker, The Escape Artists, Tall Lighthouse
  • Andy Croft, Nineteen Forty-Eight, Five Leaves
  • Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul, Scottish poet
  • Ralph Pordzik, Night Passage Across the Sea. A Dramatic Duologue, International Poetry Editions
  • Robert Sheppard, The Only Life, Knives Forks & Spoons, Le Willows
  • Dennis B. Wilson, Elegy of a Common Soldier, and Other Poems, Kultura

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Anthologies in the United States
  • Peter Cole and Aminadav Dykman, editors. Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition, Yale University Press,
  • Ryan G. Van Cleave, editor. City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Iowa, . Includes: Rane Arroyo, Marvin Bell, Allen Braden, John Bradley, Curtis L. Crisler, Mary Cross, James D’Agostino, Stuart Dybek, Susan Elbe, Dina Elenbogen, Martín Espada, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bob Hicok, Edward Hirsch, Philip Jenks & Simone Muench, Thomas L. Johnson, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Viola Lee, Francesco Levato, Campbell McGrath, Paul Martínez Pompa, Adrian Matejka, Erika Mikkalo, Julie Parson Nesbitt, Johanny Vázquez Paz, James Plath, Christina Pugh, Maya Quintero, Robyn Schiff, Patricia Smith, Tony Trigilio, Alpay Ulku, Judith Valente, Nicole Walker, Ellen Wehle, Brenda Yates
  • Cary Nelson, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Oxford University Press, . Includes essays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Dale Parker, Melissa Girard, John Marsh, Linda A. Kinnahan, Peter Nicholls, Charles Altieri, Edward Brunner, Tim Newcomb, Susan Rosenbaum, Mike Chasar, Philip Metres, Karen Jackson Ford, Josephine Park, Walter Kalaidjian, Jahan Ramazani, Michael Thurston, Al Filreis, Lytle Shaw, Mark W. Van Wienen, Michael Davidson, Lynn Keller, Timothy Yu, James Smethurst, Adalaide Morris
  • Charles Henry Rowell, editor. Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, W.W. Norton, .More than 70 poets are represented in this anthology of African-American poetry since the 1960s
  • Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, editors – The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Ahsahta Press. – Contributors: Emily Abendroth, Will Alexander, Rae Armantrout, Eric Baus, Dan Beachy-Quick, John Beer, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sherwin Bitsui, Kamau Brathwaite, Susan Briante, Oni Buchanan, Heather Christle, Stephen Collis, Jack Collom, Phil Cordelli, T. Zachary Cotler, Brent Cunningham, Christopher Dewdney, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Dumanis, Camille Dungy, Marcella Durand, Lisa Fishman, Rob Fitterman, Forrest Gander, Merrill Gilfillan, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Jody Gladding, Johannes Göransson, Chris Green, Arielle Greenberg, Richard Greenfield, Sarah Gridley, e. tracy grinnell, Gabriel Gudding, Joshua Harmon, Nathan Hauke, Lyn Hejinian, Mary Hickman, Brenda Hillman, Kevin Holden, Paul Hoover, Erika Howsare & Kate Schapira, Brenda Iijima, Sally Keith, Karla Kelsey, Amy King, Melissa Kwasny, Brian Laidlaw, Maryrose Larkin, Ann Lauterbach, Karen An-hwei Lee, Paul Legault, Sylvia Legris, Dana Levin, Eric Linsker, Alessandra Lynch, J. Michael Martinez, Nicole Mauro, Aaron McCollough, Joyelle McSweeney, K. Silem Mohammad, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Erin Mouré, Jennifer Moxley, Laura Mullen, Melanie Noel, Kathryn Nuernberger, Peter O'Leary, Patrick Pritchett, Bin Ramke, Stephen Ratcliffe, Matt Reeck, Marthe Reed, Evelyn Reilly, Karen Rigby, Ed Roberson, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, Leslie Scalapino, Standard Schaefer, Brandon Shimoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Gustaf Sobin, Juliana Spahr, Jane Sprague, Fenn Stewart, Adam Strauss, Mathias Svalina, Arthur Sze, John Taggart, Michelle Taransky, Brian Teare, Tony Tost, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cathy Wagner, Elizabeth Willis, Jane Wong, and C. D. Wright

Nonfiction, criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2012

The following poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012. David Lehman, general editor, and Mark Doty, guest editor (who selected the poetry):[9]

Works published in other languages

Denmark

French language

France
Anthologies in France

Germany

Poland
  • Jerzy Jarniewicz – Na dzień dzisiejszy i chwilę obecną (Biuro Literackie)
  • Jerzy Kronhold – Epitafium dla Lucy (Zeszyty Literackie)
  • Piotr Matywiecki – Widownia (Wydawnictwo Literackie)
  • Anna Piwkowska – Lustrzanka (Zeszyty Literackie)
  • Krystyna Rodowska – Wiersze przesiane 1968–2011 (Podkarpacki Instytut Książki i Marketingu)

Other languages

Bengali :

  • Rahman Henry – Brojosundoeer Kotha (February 2012) Collection of Poems.
  • Rahman Henry – Kobitar Tribhuban (February 2012) a collection of Translated poems.×

Ukrainian :

Urdu

  • Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – The Qat'aat o Rubaiyat of Zia Fatehabadi (May 2012) with translation from Urdu to English in free verse.

Awards and honors by country

Awards announced this year:

International

Australia awards and honors

Canada awards and honors

France awards and honors
  • Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:

New Zealand awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors
  • Cholmondeley Award:
  • Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul
    • Shortlist: Sean Borodale, Bee Journal; *Julia Copus, The World's Two Smallest Humans; Selima Hill, People Who Like Meatballs
  • English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
  • Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): Sophie Baker, Joey Connolly, Holly Corfield Carr, Caleb Klaces, Rachael Nicholas, Phoebe Power, Jon Stone
  • Forward Poetry Prize:
  • Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
    • Shortlist:
  • Manchester Poetry Prize:
  • National Poet of Wales:
  • National Poetry Competition 2011:
  • T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap[10] She is the first American to win this award.[10]
  • The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

United States awards and honors

From the Poetry Society of America

Deaths
Adrienne Rich, one of the 20th-century's most celebrated poets, died in 2012. Here she is in 1980.

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

  • January 6 – Basil Payne, 88 (born 1923), Irish poet.[12]
  • January 31 – Stacy Doris, 48 (born 1962), U.S. poet and translator.[13][14][15]
  • February 1 – Wisława Szymborska, 88 (born 1923), Polish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).[16]
  • February 4 – Irene McKinney, 72 (born 1939), American poet who was the Poet Laureate of West Virginia since 1994[17]
  • February 6 – Colleen Thibaudeau, 86 (born 1925), a Canadian poet who published her first volume of poetry in 1965. The Canadian Encyclopedia praised her poetry for celebrating “the extraordinary nature of ordinary life by combining the everyday with the otherworldly.”[18][19]
  • February 13:
    • Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75 (born 1936), Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.[20]
    • Fred Moramarco, 73 (born 1938), U.S. poet and academic and founding editor, Poetry International, SDSU Press.[21][22]
  • February 21 – Barney Rosset, 89 (born 1922), American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.[23]
  • February 23 – Joydeb Basu, 49 (born 1929), Indian poet, heart attack.[24]
  • March 2 – James A. "Jim" Hazard, 76 (born ?), U.S. (Indiana-born) poet, journalist, teacher, and musician[25]
  • March 4 – Felícia Fuster, 91, Catalan painter and poet
  • March 8 – Elio Pagliarani, 84, Italian poet and literary critic
  • March 9 – Leonard Cirino (born 1943),[26] U.S. poet and the author of twenty other chapbooks and fourteen full-length collections of poetry since 1987 from numerous small presses[27][28][29]
  • March 16 – Takaaki Yoshimoto (吉本 隆明, Yoshimoto Takaaki), 87 (born 1924), also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, literary critic, and philosopher from Tokyo. He is the father of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto and of cartoonist Yoiko Haruno.
  • March 21:
  • March 26 – Sadaharu Motohashi, 91, Japanese haiku poet[30] (reference is in Japanese)
  • March 27 – Adrienne Rich, 82 (born 1929), National Book Award-winning poet
  • March 30 – Emrys Roberts, 82, Welsh poet and author
  • April 1 – Chūichi Mukawa, 92, Japanese tanka poet (Waseda University)[31] (reference is in Japanese)
  • April 6 – Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet
  • April 12:
  • April 17 – Nityananda Mohapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet and journalist
  • May 19 – Heiichi Sugiyama, 97 (born 1914), Japanese poet and film critic[32]
  • June 27:
  • October 29 – J. Bernlef, 75, Dutch poet, novelist and translator
  • November 4 – Anne-Marie Albiach, 75, French poet who influenced a generation of American poets that came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Acclaimed for her own poetry and translations of American poetry including Louis Zukofsky.
  • November 11 – Jack Gilbert, 87, American poet who received the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award.[33][34]
  • December 28 – Jayne Cortez, 78 (born 1934) African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist[35]

See also

Notes
  1. Reuters in Beijing (2012-02-10). "China jails dissident Zhu Yufu over poem sent on Skype | World news". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  2. "Coldfront » Obama honors Ashbery and Dove, quotes Dickinson and Whitman". Coldfrontmag.com. 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  3. Bar-Zohar, Ophir; Ravid, Barak (8 April 2012). "Interior Minister declares Gunter Grass persona non grata in Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  4. Sherwood, Harriet (8 April 2012). "Günter Grass barred from Israel over poem: Nobel laureate, who says he had not meant to criticise Israel but Netanyahu government, declared persona non grata". The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  5. McGrath, Charles (2012-06-06). "Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate". The New York Times.
  6. Little, Lyneka (June 7, 2012). "Natasha Trethewey Named New U.S. Poet Laureate". The Wall Street Journal.
  7. Qatari poet jailed for life to appeal - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
  8. Qatar sentences poet to 15 years in jail for verse about freedom | Twitchy
  9. The Best American Poetry 2012, Guest Edited by Mark Doty
  10. Clark, Nick (2013-01-14). "Poet Sharon Olds scoops TS Eliot Prize for 'confessional' work about her husband's affair". The Independent. London.
  11. D.A. Powell, Ben Fountain Win National Book Critics Circle Awards | Poets and Writers
  12. CM Payne (2012-02-05). "Basil Payne obituary | Books". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  13. Tremblay, Robin (2004-02-26). "X Poetics: In Memory of Stacy Doris". Xpoetics.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  14. "PennSound: Stacy Doris". Writing.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  15. "Stacy Doris- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  16. "Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88". Reuters. 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  17. "W.Va. poet laureate Irene McKinney dies at 72". Charleston, West Virginia: Charleston Gazette-Mail. February 4, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-17. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  18. sandra martin. "Poet found magic and mystery in the everyday". Toronto: The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  19. Colleen Thibaudeau - The Canadian Encyclopedia
  20. "Noted poet Shahryar passes away – Times Of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  21. "Dr. Fred Moramarco, Professor Emeritus". Rohan.sdsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  22. Link (2012-02-17). "Silliman's Blog". Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  23. Woo, Elaine (2012-02-23). "Barney Rosset obituary: Publisher who challenged censorship while championing writers was 89". Los Angeles Times. Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  24. "Joydeb Basu passes away – Times Of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  25. "James A. "Jim" Hazard Obituary: View James Hazard's Obituary by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel". Legacy.com. 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  26. Issa's Untidy Hut (2012-03-14). "Issa's Untidy Hut: Leonard J. Cirino: 1943–2012". Lilliputreview.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  27. Leonard. "Pygmy Forest Press". Pygmyforestpress.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  28. "The Bucket is Suddenly Empty | Lummox Press Writers Clubhouse". Writers.lummoxpress.com. 2012-03-10. Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  29. Link (2012-03-15). "Silliman's Blog". Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  30. http://www04.mai.vip.ogk.yahoo.co.jp/select/person/news/20120331k0000m060024000c.html%5B%5D
  31. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2012-04-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  32. "（おくやみ）杉山平一氏が死去 詩人、映画評論なども". Nihon Keizai Shinbun (in Japanese). 19 May 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  33. Haglund, David (13 November 2012). "Jack Gilbert, American Poet, Dies at 87". Slate. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  34. "Jack Gilbert- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. 2012-11-11. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  35. "Jayne Cortez," poets.org
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