Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
- August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog, , which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.).
- August 27 in the United States; December 8 in Europe — Avril Lavigne's pop song Sk8er Boi comes out — about the award-winning Irish performance poet Gerard McKeown, whom she had not met, but had seen performing in Belfast, Northern Ireland while on tour there. The single reached number ten on the United States Billboard Hot 100, number eight in the United Kingdom, number three in Australia, number thirteen in Canada and number one in Spain. Lavigne confirmed the connection in a 2008 interview.
- Influential Chinese literary magazine Tamen ("They/Them") revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net.
Works publishedListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - * Stalking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002)
- * Fickle Brat (IP Digital, Brisbane, 2002)
- * Poems the Size of Photographs, Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet
[Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007]
- * New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003
- Michael Boughn, Dislocations in Crystal (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451113
- Louis Cabri, The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552450956
- Lise Downe, Disturbances of Progress (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451120
- Rob Fitterman, Metropolis (Book 2) (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451045
- * The First Day of Winter: Poetry, Vancouver: Ronsdale Press
- * Going to the Zoo, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press
- Don McKay, Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness
- Jay Millar, Mycological Studies (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552451038
- P. K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New, edited and with an introduction by Eric Ormsby, Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill
- * Fuselage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
- * Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism)
- James K. Baxter, The Tree House: James K. Baxter's Poems for Children (posthumous), the first illustrated edition of his work for children
- Janet Charman, Snowing Down South, Auckland: Auckland University Press
- Alan Brunton, Fq, a sequence of 144 poems (posthumous)
[Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
- * Last Poems, Auckland: Holloway Press, designed by Tara hir poi a pek fhj nbb a: Auckland University Press
Poets in Best New Zealand PoemsBest New Zealand Poems series, an annual online anthology, is started this year with Iain Sharp as the first annual editor. Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year. The first selection is called Best New Zealand Poetry 2001. Unlike The Best American Poetry series, the year named in each edition refers to the year the poems were originally published, not the following year, when the collection is put together and made public. Sharp chose poems published in 2001 from these poets: - Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels Picador
[O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08.]
- James Fenton: An Introduction to English Poetry
[Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
- Ted Hughes, Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Glyn Maxwell, The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of The New Republic magazine)
- *Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976-2001 (Picador)
- * Dart, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21410-X
- Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (ISBN 0-375-50381-1)
- Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Michael S. Harper, Selected Poems, ARC Publications
[ at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008]
- *Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954, New York: Knopf
[Web page titled at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008]
- *A Possible World, New York: Knopf
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- Abba Kovner, Sloan-Kettering: Poems (Schocken); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Brad Leithauser, Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a 5,700-line verse novel in 10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Glyn Maxwell, The Nerve (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" (British poet living in America, poetry editor of The New Republic magazine)
- J.D. McClatchy, Hazmat: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Czesław Miłosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 (Ecco/HarperCollins); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Lorine Niedecker, Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy (University of California Press), posthumous
- Marie Ponsot, Springing: New and Selected Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Margaret Reynolds, editor, The Sappho Companion (scholarship) Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780312295103 ISBN 0312295103
- W. G. Sebald, After Nature (Random House); a book-length poem; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2002Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 2002, David Lehman, editor; Robert Creeley, guest editor:
Works published in other languagesKamma, Kamma milxama ("So Much, So Much War"), IsraelChwila ("Moment"), PolandLa Poésie Australienne , Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires, (with Simone Kadi), French translation of the work of this Australian poetBaba zai tianshang kan wo ("Daddy's Watching Me in Heaven"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubanshe,[Simon Patten, , article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009]Jiaocha paodong ("Running Criss-cross"), Dunhuang: wenyi chubanshe6 ge dongci, huo pingguo ("6 Verbs, or Apples"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubansheJingqiaoqiao de zuolun ("The silent revolver"), Hebei: jiaoyu chubansheAwards and honorsAfterimages After Images by Robert GrayThe Lovemakers Duty Eunoia; International, in the English Language: Alice Notley, Disobedience - Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
Husk , Auckland University PressMax is Missing (Picador); Best First Collection: Tom French, Touching the Bones (The Gallery Press) Dart Pulling a Dragon's Teeth Felt Acts of Contortion In the Next Galaxy Practical Gods Book of My Nights'' (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn KizerOtherBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - October 21 – Harbhajan Singh (born 1920), Punjabi poet, critic, cultural commentator, and translator
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