2017 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
[edit]- May 23 – English poet Tony Walsh reads his 2013 poem "This is the place" to the crowds gathered in Albert Square, Manchester for a public vigil following this week's Manchester Arena bombing.
- June 23 – English-resident writer Ben Okri publishes his poem "Grenfell Tower, June 2017" in the Financial Times following this month's Grenfell Tower fire in London.
Anniversaries
[edit]- March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell.
Selection of works published in English
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry
- Alan Wearne, These Things Are Real
- Fiona Wright, Domestic Interior
Canada
[edit]- Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
- Lorna Crozier, What the Soul Doesn't Want
- Nora Gould, Selah
- Aisha Sasha John, I have to live
- Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War
- Donato Mancini, Same Diff
- Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between
- Joshua Whitehead, Full-Metal Indigiqueer
Anthologies in Canada
[edit]New Zealand
[edit]- Airini Beautrais, Flow: Whanganui River Poems, Victoria University Press
- Kate Camp, The Internet of Things, Victoria University Press
- Paula Green, New York Pocket Book, Seraph Press
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
[edit]These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2016 (guest editor was Jenny Bornholdt), published this year:
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United Kingdom
[edit]England
[edit]- Megan Beech, You Sad Feminist
- Emily Berry, Stranger, Baby
- Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda
- Helen Dunmore (d. June 5), Inside the Wave
- Michael Longley, Angel Hill (Northern Irish poet published in England)
- Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words: A Spell Book (illustrated by Jackie Morris)
- Hollie McNish, Plum
- Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance (Northern Irish poet published in England)
- Richard Osmond, Useful Verses
Northern Ireland
[edit]Scotland
[edit]Anthologies in the United Kingdom
[edit]Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
[edit]United States
[edit]Alphabetical listing by author name
- Clark Coolidge, Selected Poems: 1962-1985, Station Hill Press
- Shara McCallum, Madwoman, Alice James Books
- Morgan Parker, There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé, Tin House Books
Anthologies in the United States
[edit]Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
[edit]Poets in The Best American Poetry 2017
[edit]Awards and honors by country
[edit]- See also: List of poetry awards
Awards announced this year:
International
[edit]Australia awards and honors
[edit]Canada awards and honors
[edit]- Archibald Lampman Award: Stephen Brockwell, All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
- Atlantic Poetry Prize: Jennifer Houle, The Back Channels
- 2017 Governor General's Awards: Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (English), Louise Dupré, La Main hantée (French)
- Griffin Poetry Prize:
- Canada: Jordan Abel, Injun
- International: Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
- Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees): Frank Bidart
- Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Louise Bernice Halfe
- Gerald Lampert Award: Ingrid Ruthig, This Being
- Pat Lowther Award: Sue Sinclair, Heaven's Thieves
- Prix Alain-Grandbois: Marie-Célie Agnant, Femmes des terres brûlées
- Raymond Souster Award: Louise Bernice Halfe, Burning in this Midnight Dream
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Guerrette, Constellation des grands brûlés
France awards and honors
[edit]New Zealand awards and honors
[edit]- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:[1]
- Fiction: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler
- Nonfiction: Peter Simpson
- Poetry: Paula Green
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):
United Kingdom awards and honors
[edit]- Cholmondeley Award: Caroline Bergvall, Sasha Dugdale, Philip Gross, Paula Meehan
- Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
- Shortlist: Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda; Helen Dunmore (d. June 5), Inside the Wave (also overall Book of the Year winner); Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance; Richard Osmond, Useful Verses
- English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
- Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):
- Forward Poetry Prize:
- Best Collection:
- Shortlist:
- Best First Collection:
- Shortlist:
- Best Poem:
- Shortlist:
- Best Collection:
- Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
- Shortlist:
- Manchester Poetry Prize:
- National Poet of Wales:
- National Poetry Competition 2017:
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Paul Muldoon
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):
- Shortlist (announced in November 2017): 2017 Short List
- The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors
[edit]- Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
- Honorable Mentions:
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
- Best Translated Book Award (BTBA):
- Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
- Bollingen Prize: to Jean Valentine
- Jackson Poetry Prize: to Patricia Spears Jones[2]
- Judges: Henri Cole, Kwame Dawes, and Mary Szybist[3]
- Lambda Literary Award:
- Gay Poetry:
- Lesbian Poetry:
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
- Finalists:
- National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
- NBA Finalists:
- NBA Longlist:
- NBA Judges:
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): to Tyehimba Jess for Olio
- Finalists: XX by Campbell McGrath; Collected Poems: 1950-2012, by Adrienne Rich[4]
- Wallace Stevens Award:
- Whiting Awards:
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
- PEN Center USA 2017 Poetry Award:
- PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
- Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
- Yale Younger Series:
From the Poetry Society of America
[edit]- Frost Medal: to Susan Howe[5]
- Shelley Memorial Award: to Gillian Conoley[6]
- Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
- Lyric Poetry Award:
- Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
- Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
- George Bogin Memorial Award:
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
- Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
- Norma Farber First Book Award:
- Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
- William Carlos Williams Award: (Judge: )
- Finalists for WCW Award:
Conferences and workshops by country
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[edit]New Zealand
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]United States
[edit]Deaths
[edit]January – June
[edit]Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – John Berger, 90, English novelist, painter and art critic, and poet (b. 1926)
- January 25 – Harry Mathews, 86, American novelist and poet (b. 1930)[7]
- February 5 – Thomas Lux, 70, American poet and teacher (b. 1946)
- February 8 – Tom Raworth, 78, British poet, visual artist, publisher, and teacher (b. 1938)
- March 10 – Mari Evans, 93, American poet.[8] (b. 1923)
- March 16 – Wojciech Młynarski, 75, Polish poet, singer and songwriter (born 1941)[9]
- March 17 – Derek Walcott, 87, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate in 1992 (b. 1930)[10]
- March 22 – Joanne Kyger, 82, American poet who had ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation, (b. 1934)[11]
- April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet, 84 (b. 1933)[12]
- May 24 – Denis Johnson, American poet (The Incognito Lounge), novelist (Tree of Smoke), and short story writer (Jesus' Son), 67 (b. 1947).
- June 5 – Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer, 64 (born 1952)
- June 8 - Shinichiro Hagihara, Japanese tanka poet
July – December
[edit]- November 15 – Michelle Boisseau, 62, American poet (b. 1955)[13]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "2017 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: winners announced". Creative NZ. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "PATRICIA SPEARS JONES WINS $50,000 JACKSON POETRY PRIZE | Poets & Writers". Archived from the original on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
- ^ "Jackson Poetry Prize – Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 12 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
- ^ "Olio, by Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books)". www.pulitzer.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-12. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Announcing the 2017 Frost Medalist, Susan Howe - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
- ^ "Gillian Conoley - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-07. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ^ Review, The Paris (26 January 2017). "Harry Mathews, 1930–2017". www.theparisreview.org. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
- ^ "Late Indianapolis poet Mari Evans leaves legacy of social justice". Archived from the original on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
- ^ Wojciech Młynarski nie żyje. Był legendą polskiej piosenki i kabaretu Archived 2017-03-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
- ^ Lea, Richard (17 March 2017). "Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dead, aged 87". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ "Joanne Kyger, trailblazing Beat poet, dies at 82". 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ "Acclaimed Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko Dead At 84". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. April 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-06-09. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
- ^ "Michelle Boisseau". Guggenheim Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.