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 arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth" which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing 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 Silliman's Blog 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.).In his blog entry for Saturday, November 04, 2006 link here Silliman takes note of the following statistics: "In 2002–03, it took 50 weeks to get the first 50,000 visits. The last 100,000 came in just 14 (weeks)". September — Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a public reading of "Somebody Blew Up America" at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival near Stanhope, New Jersey. Baraka's poem discusses the September 11 attacks in a way that is highly critical of racism in America, includes angry depictions of public figures such as Rudolph Giuliani, Trent Lott, Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Ward Connerly, accuses Israel of involvement in the World Trade Center attacks, and supports the theory that the United States government knew about the attacks in advance. Amid public outrage and pressure from state leaders, Baraka is asked to resign as the Poet Laureate by New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey who had appointed him to the post two months earlier. Baraka refuses and, because there is no legal mechanism provided in the law to remove him as poet laureate, the state legislature and governor abolishes the position to remove him effective 2 July 2003.New Jersey State Legislature. "An Act concerning the State poet laureate and repealing P.L.1999, c.228." from Laws of the State of New Jersey (P.L.2003, c.123). Approved 2 July 2003. Retrieved 26 June 2013. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket, the ambassador is recalled home., August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010 The office of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is instituted (see "Awards and honors" section below). The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted in Scotland, with Stewart Conn as first incumbent. Bowery Poetry Club, a New York City poetry performance space, is founded by Bob Holman. Fulcrum, An annual of poetry and aesthetics is founded in the United States. Influential Chinese literary magazine Tamen ("They/Them") is revived as a webzine at www.tamen.net.
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 Alison Croggon, Attempts at Being, Salt Publishing, . Robert Gray, Afterimages Emma Lew, Anything the Landlord Touches, won the 2003 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and was short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry that same year Chris Mansell: Stalking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002) Fickle Brat (IP Digital, Brisbane, 2002) Les Murray: 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
Canada Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot Christian Bök, ’Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science Dionne Brand, thirsty Michael Boughn, Dislocations in Crystal (Coach House Books) Louis Cabri, The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books) Margaret Christakos, Excessive Love Prostheses (Coach House Books) Lise Downe, Disturbances of Progress (Coach House Books) Rob Fitterman, Metropolis (Book 2) (Coach House Books) Laura Lush: 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 George McWhirter, The Book of Contradictions Jay Millar, Mycological Studies (Coach House Books) P. K. Page, Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New, edited and with an introduction by Eric Ormsby, Erin, ON: Porcupine's QuillWeb page titled "Canadian Poets / P.K. Page, Published Works" , at the University of Toronto Library website, retrieved January 3, 2009 Joe Rosenblatt, Parrot fever. collages by Michel Christensen. Toronto: Exile."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Raymond Souster, Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
India, in English Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart ( Poetry in English ), Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing, living, and publishing in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Smita Agarwal, Wish-granting Words,(Poetry in English) New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2002. Sujata Bhatt, A Colour for Solitude ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet PressWeb page titled "Sujata Bhatt" , Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Keki Daruwalla, The Map-maker ( Poetry in English ), Ravi DayalWeb page titled "Keki Daruwalla" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Ranjit Hoskote, editor, Reasons for Belonging, Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Viking/Penguin Books India; anthology including work from: Jerry Pinto, Vijay Nambisan, C. P. Surendran, Smita Agarwal, Arundhati Subramaniam, Jeet Thayil, Tabish Khair, Ranjit Hoskote and Rukhmini Bhaya Nair, Vivek Narayanan, Gavin Barrett, Anjum Hasan and H. Masud TajNayar, Rana, "Enigma of 'Elphinstonian' arrival!", book review, March 24, 2004, The Tribune of Chandigarh, India, retrieved July 11, 2010 Sudeep Sen, Monsoon, re-issued in 2005 as Rain ( Poetry in English ); London: Aark Arts, Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 C. P. Surendran, Canaries on the Moon ( Poetry in English ), Kozhikode: Yeti, Chennai.Web page titled "C. P. Surendran" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Mallika Sengupta, Carriers Of Fire, (translated from the original Bengali, Kolkata: BhashanagarWeb page title "Mallika Sengupta" , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
Ireland Vona Groarke, Flight, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland Justin Quinn: Fuselage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, University College of Dublin Press, 2002 (criticism)
New Zealand 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 PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article 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 Cilla McQueen, Soundings, Otago University PressCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Mike Minehan, O Jerusalem: James K. Baxter an Intimate Memoir Kendrick Smithyman, posthumous: Last Poems, Auckland: Holloway Press, designed by Tara hir poi a pek fhj nbb a: Auckland University Press Stephanie de Montalk, The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang, Victoria University Press Kay McKenzie Cooke, Feeding the Dogs, Otago University Press)
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Best 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:
James K. Baxter Jenny Bornholdt Bernard Brown James Brown Alan Brunton
Kate Camp Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Allen Curnow Leigh Davis Chloe Gordon
Bernadette Hall Dinah Hawken Anna Jackson Jan Kemp (writer) James Naughton
Gregory O'Brien Peter Olds Bob Orr Vincent O'Sullivan Chris Price
Richard Reeve Elizabeth Smither Brian Turner Ian Wedde Nick Williamson
United Kingdom Neil Astley, editor, Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (anthology) Anthony Burgess, Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems, edited by Kevin Jackson Ciarán Carson: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (translator), Granta, awarded the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Carol Ann Duffy, Feminine Gospels PicadorO’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. Elaine Feinstein, Collected Poems and Translations, Carcanet James Fenton: An Introduction to English Poetry Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Paul Henry, The Slipped Leash, Seren 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) Sean O'Brien: Cousin Coat: Selected Poems 1976–2001 (Picador) With John Kinsella and Peter Porter, Rivers (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Australia) Alice Oswald: Dart, Faber and Faber, Co-editor, with Peter Oswald and Robert Woof), Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's "Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge" Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, John Heath-Stubbs, The Return of the Cranes Peter Redgrove, From the Virgil Caverns R.S. Thomas, Residues (posthumous) Hugo Williams, Collected Poems, Faber and Faber
United States Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States John Ashbery, Chinese Whispers Frank Bidart, Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize Billy Collins, Nine Horses: Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" () Robert Creeley, guest editor, The Best American Poetry 2002 Jim Dodge – Rain on the River 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 PublicationsWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 Paul Hoover, Winter Mirror, (Flood Editions) Kenneth Koch: Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952–1954, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 A Possible World, New York: Knopf Abba Kovner, Sloan-Kettering: Poems (Schocken); a New York Times "notable book of the year"