2013 in poetry

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

Events

June 4 – English publication of For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu, recounting Yiwu's time following the Tiananmen Square protests of June 4, 1989, and the four brutal years he spent in jail for writing the poem "Massacre."^[1][2]

August 5 – PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) issues a call to action, demanding that the jailed 60-year-old Kazakh poet Aron Atabek be released from solitary confinement, where he's been since December 2012 and where he'll continue to stay until the end of 2014. This is his punishment for writing The Heart of Eurasia, a blunt critique of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his government.^[3] Atabek is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for other alleged crimes against the state.^[4]

September 13 – Australians Graham Nunn and Andrew Slattery were accused of plagiarism over separate works which they had published.^[5]

September 21 – Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor is among those who are killed in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi, Kenya.^[6][7][8]

September 22 – In Great Britain, CJ Allen withdraws from the Forward Prize shortlist after admitting to plagiarism in some of his earlier work. He had been nominated in the category for "best single poem." Fellow poet Matthew Welton said he noticed last year that Allen had plagiarised some of his work.^[9][10]

Works published in English

Australia

• Richard James Allen. Fixing the Broken Nightingale. Macau: ASM and Markwell: Cerberus Press – Flying Islands Books
• Peter Boyle. Towns in the Great Desert. Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann
• Maree Dawes. brb. Sydney: Spineless Wonders
• Diane Fahey. The Stone Garden: Poems from Clare. Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan
• Luke Fischer. Paths of Flight. North Fitzroy: Black Pepper
• Alan Gould. Capital. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann, 2013
• Les Wicks Sea of Heartbeak (Unexpected Resilience) Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann

Canada

• Jason Christie, Unknown Actor, Insomniac Press, London, ON
• Barry Dempster, Invisible Dogs, Brick Books, London, ON
• Adam Dickinson, The Polymers, Anansi, Toronto
• Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper, Brick Books, London, ON
• Catherine Greenwood, The Lost Letters, Brick Books, London, ON
• Phil Hall, The Small Nouns Crying Faith, BookThug, Toronto
• Danny Jacobs, Songs That Remind Us of Factories, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC
• Niki Koulouris. The Sea with No One in it. Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill
• Erín Moure, Pillage Laud: Cauterizations • Vocabularies • Cantigas • Topiary • Prose,^[11] BookThug, Toronto
• Sara Peters, 1996, Anansi, Toronto
• Shane Rhodes, X: Poems & Anti-Poems, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC
• Jacob Scheier, Letter from Brooklyn, ECW Press, Toronto

United Kingdom

• Dannie Abse, Speak, Old Parrot, Hutchinson.
• John Agard, Travel Light Travel Dark, Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, England.
• Emily Berry, Dear Boy, Faber.
• Julia Bird, Twenty-Four Seven Blossom, Salt.
• Rhian Edwards, Clueless Dogs, Welsh.
• Amy Key, Luxe, Salt Publishing, Cromer, England.
• Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax, Carcanet Press.
• Helen Mort, Division Street, Chatto & Windus, London, England.
• Heather Phillipson, Instant-Flex 718, Bloodaxe.
• David Nickle Read, Vespertine's Wander.
• Christopher Reid, Six Bad Poets, Faber.
• Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter, Jonathan Cape.
• Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors, Picador.
• Susanna Roxman, Crossing the North Sea, Dionysia Press, Edinburgh. This poetry collection is supported by Creative Scotland, formerly the Scottish Arts Council.
• Miles Salter, Animals, Valley Press, Scarborough, England.
• Claire Trévien, The Shipwrecked House, Penned in the Margins, London, England.

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Carol Ann Duffy – 1914: Poetry Remembers (Faber & Faber) ISBN 978-0571302147
• Nathan Hamilton, editor. Dear World & Everyone In It (Bloodaxe Books) ISBN 9781852249496.^[12]

United States

Anthologies in the United States

• Lyn Hejinian & Barrett Watten, editors. A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982 – 1998. (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut). Includes: Steve Benson, Charles Bernstein, Beverly Dahlen, Alan Davies, Robert Glück, Susan Howe, George Lakoff, Jackson Mac Low, Viktor Shklovsky, Ron Silliman, Kathy Acker, Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Michael Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Carla Harryman, George Hartley, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Nick Robinson, Leslie Scalapino, Peter Seaton, Warren Sonbert, Pierre Alferi, Dodie Bellamy, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Jerry Estrin, Harryette Mullen, Ted Pearson, Andrew Ross, Lorenzo Thomas, Reva Wolf, John Zorn
• Pierre Joris (Editor), Habib Tengour (Editor) – Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature
• Glenn O'Brien, editor. The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground, Library of America. – Includes: Mezz Mezzerow, Miles Davis, Henry Miller, Babs Gonzales, Art Pepper, Neil Cassady, Delmore Schwartz, Terry Southern, Annie Ross, Lord Buckley, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, LeRoi Jones, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, William S Burroughs, Ishmael Reed, Andy Warhol, Nick Tosches, Hunter S Thompson, Iris Owens, Lester Bangs, Gary Indiana, Richard Prince, Emily XYZ, Eric Bogosian, George Carlin
• George Quasha & Jerome Rothenberg, (eds.) America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (Station Hill Archive Editions)
• TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, editors. Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Nightboat Books. Poets include Samuel Ace, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Micha Cárdenas, kari edwards, Duriel Harris, Joy Ladin, Dawn Lundy Martin, Eileen Myles, Trish Salah, Max Wolf Valerio, John Wieners, Kit Yan, Zoe Tuck
• Susan M. Schultz, editor – Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai'i (and Some Stories), Tinfish Press.-Contributors: Scott Abels, Diana Aehegma, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jim Chapson, M. Thomas Gammarino, Shantel Grace, Jaimie Gusman, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Anne Kennedy, Tyler McMahon, Evan Nagle, Janna Plant, Susan M. Schultz, Eric Paul Schaffer, Julia Wieting, Rob Wilson, and Meg Withers

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Robert Archambeau. The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World ^[13]

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2013

The following poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013. David Lehman, general editor, and Denise Duhamel, guest editor (who selected the poetry:^[14]

Awards and honors by Country

• See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

Canada awards and honours

• Archibald Lampman Award: Nina Berkhout, Elseworlds
• Atlantic Poetry Prize: Lesley Choyce, I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything
• 2013 Governor General's Awards: Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (English); René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement (French)
• Griffin Poetry Prize:
  • Canadian: David McFadden, What's the Score?
  • International, in the English Language: Ghassan Zaqtan translated by Fady Joudah, The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems
• Gerald Lampert Award: Gillian Savigny, Notebook M
• Pat Lowther Award: Rachel Rose, Song and Spectacle
• Prix Alain-Grandbois: René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement

France awards and honors

• Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:

United Kingdom awards and honors

• Cholmondeley Award:
• Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
  • Shortlist:
• 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: Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter (Cape Poetry)^[15]
    • Shortlist:
  • Best First Collection:
    • Shortlist:
  • Best Poem:
    • Shortlist:
• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
  • Shortlist:
• Manchester Poetry Prize:
• National Poet of Wales:
• National Poetry Competition 2013:
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):
  • Shortlist (announced in November 2013): 2013 Short List
• The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

United States awards and honors

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:^[16] Sarah Rose Nordgren
• * AML Award for Poetry awarded Alex Caldiero for sonosuono (with recognition also to Susan Elizabeth Howe's collection Salt and Lance Larsen's collection Genius Loci
• Best Translated Book Award (BTBA)^[17] – Poetry Finalists for 2013 BTBA (see note)^[18]

This year's Bollingen Prize winner Charles Wright, reading at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University 2013

• Bollingen Prize: Charles Wright – Judges: Susan Howe; Geoffrey O'Brien; Joan Richardson^[19]
• Jackson Poetry Prize: – Arthur Sze^[20]
• Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books: Cecily Parks for O’Nights
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: Marianne Boruch of West Lafayette, Indiana, for her collection The Book of Hours^[21]
• The Kundiman Poetry Prize from Alice James Books and Kundiman: Lo Kwa Mei-en for Yearling
• Lambda Literary Award:
  • Gay Poetry: Stephen S. Mills, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices
  • Lesbian Poetry: Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
• National Book Award for Poetry: Mary Szybist for Incarnadine (Graywolf Press)^[22][23]
  • Finalists: Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf); Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets/Penguin Group USA); Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture (Louisiana State University Press)
  • Longlist: – Roger Bonair-Agard, Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books) ; – Andrei Codrescu, So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968–2012 (Coffee House Press); – Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan University Press) ; – Diane Raptosh, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) ; – Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities (Omnidawn Publishing)
  • Judges: Nikky Finney, Ada Limón, D. A. Powell, Jahan Ramazani, Craig Morgan Teicher^[24]
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: Frank Bidart for Metaphysical Dog
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize: Dick Allen for This Shadowy Place;^[25] Judges: Debora Greger, David Yezzi, Roger Kimball
• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Molly Weigel for The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik
• Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry: R. A. Villanueva for Reliquaria
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Sharon Olds for "Stag's Leap";^[26][27] Jury: Carl Phillips, Maurice Manning, C.D. Wright.
  • Finalists: Jack Gilbert for Collected Poems and Bruce Weigl for "The Abundance of Nothing".
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: John Taylor for Selected Poems by Lorenzo Calogero
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize : Marie Ponsot^[28]
• Wallace Stevens Award: Philip Levine ^[29]
• Walt Whitman Prize – Chris Hosea for Put Your Hands In ; – Judge: John Ashbery
• Whiting Awards: Ishion Hutchinson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips
• Yale Younger Series: Eryn Green for his collection, Eruv – Judge: Carl Phillips^[30]

From the Poetry Society of America

• Frost Medal: Robert Bly^[31]
• Shelley Memorial Award: Lucia Perillo / Martín Espada – Judges: Amy Gerstler & Marilyn Nelson^[32]
• Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Greg Wrenn; Finalists: Heather Cousins / Jacquelyn Pope – Judge: Brian Teare^[33]
• Lyric Poetry Award: Micah Bateman; Finalists: Bruce Bond / Andrea Carter Brown – Judge: Carolyne Wright^[34]
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Gary Young; Finalists: Bruce Bond / Diana Khoi Nguyen – Judge: Patricia Smith^[35]
• Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Elyse Fenton; Finalists: Meena Alexander / Lia Purpura – Judge: Kevin Prufer^[36]
• Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Lizza Rodriguez; Finalists: Sarah George / Jack Hunt – Judge: Gabrielle Calvocoressi^[37]
• George Bogin Memorial Award: Paula Bohince; Finalists: Jamaal May / Lucy Ricciardi – Judge: Cate Marvin^[38]
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Carol Light Finalist: C. E. Perry – Judge: David Wagoner^[39]
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Ted Mathys – Judge: Alice Notley^[40]
• Norma Farber First Book Award: Nick Twemlow for Palm Trees (Green Lantern Press, 2012); – Judge: Timothy Liu^[41]
  • 'Finalist: Robert Ostrom for The Youngest Butcher in Illinois (YesYes Books, 2012)^[41]
• William Carlos Williams Award: Naomi Replansky for Collected Poems (Black Sparrow|David R. Godine) – Judge: B. H. Fairchild^[42]
  • Finalists for WCW Award: Kathleen Flenniken for Plume; Lucia Perillo for On The Spectrum of Possible Deaths; and Patrica Smith for Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah^[42]

Deaths

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

• January 10 – Evan S. Connell, Jr., 88 (born 1924) American novelist, poet, and short story-writer.
• January 20 – Toyo Shibata, 101, Japanese poet
• January 29 – Anselm Hollo, 78 (born 1934), a Finnish poet who resided in the U.S. since 1967^[43]
• January 24 – Lucien Stryk, 88 (born 1924) American poet, Zen scholar and translator^[44]
• March 2 – Thomas McEvilley, 73 (born 1939), an American art critic, poet, novelist
• March 21 – Chinua Achebe, 82 (born 1930), Nigerian writer, perhaps best known for Things Fall Apart, also published many volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems in 2005
• March 30 – Daniel Hoffman, 89 (born 1923), past Poet Laureate of the U.S. in 1973 and 1974.^[45]
• August 17 – John Hollander, 83 (born 1929), American poet and literary critic.
• August 30 – Seamus Heaney, 74 (born 1939), Irish poet, playwright, translator, critic, and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• September 23 – Álvaro Mutis, 90, (born 1923), Colombian poet, novelist and essayist.^[46]

See also

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards

References