2005 in poetry


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Contents

Events

  • October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK. The British event, Howl for Now, was accompanied by a book of essays of the same name, edited by Simon Warner, reflecting on the piece's enduring power and influence.
  • Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living in London, named poetry editor of Poetry London

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

See also 2005 in Australian literature

  • Alan Gould, The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003
  • John Kinsella, The New Arcadia
  • Jennifer Maiden, Friendly Fire Giramondo, ISBN 1-920882-12-X
  • Chris Mansell, Mortifications & Lies (Kardoorair, Armidale)) ISBN 0-908244-60-6
  • Les Murray:
    • Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia, Carcanet
    • Editor, Best Australian Poems 2004, Melbourne, Black Inc.
  • Philip Salom, The Well Mouth, Fremantle Arts Centre, ISBN 978-1-921064-24-1
  • Jaya Savige, Latecomers
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Universe Looks Down, Brandl & Schlesinger, ISBN 1-876040-74-2

Canada

Ireland

  • Sara Berkeley, Strawberry Thief, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852353896
  • Ciaran Carson (translator), The Midnight Court (Cúirt An Mhéan Oíche), an 18th century poem by Brian Merriman, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852353865
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin:
    • Verbale by Michele Ranchetti, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and others, Dublin: Instituto Italiano di Cultura[1]
    • After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poems by Ileana Malancioiu, Cork: Southword Editions[1]
  • Seán Dunne, Collected, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852353957
  • Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince, Anvil Press, London, Irish work published in the United Kingdom[2]
  • Immanuel Mifsud, translated by Maurice Riordan, Confidential Reports, Maltese poet published in Ireland, Southword Editions
  • Justin Quinn, American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry, University College of Dublin Press (scholarship)
  • Gabriel Rosenstock, I Met A Man ... Doghouse Books, ISBN 095464879X

New Zealand

  • Raewyn Alexander:
    • It's a Secret: Selected Poems (Auckland: Brightsparkbooks)[3]
    • Writing Poetry: Fireworks, Clay & Architecture (Auckland: Brightsparkbooks)[3]
  • Stu Bagby, As it was in the beginning (Steele Roberts Publications Ltd.)
  • Wystan Curnow, Modern Colours (Jack Books)
  • Stephanie de Montalk, Cover Stories (Victoria University Press)
  • Anne Kennedy, Time of the Giants (Auckland University Press)
  • Michele Leggott, Milk & Honey, Auckland: Auckland University Press
  • Bill Manhire, Lifted, New Zealand
  • Cilla McQueen, Fire-penny, Otago University Press[4]
  • Karlo Mila, Dream Fish Floating (Huia Publishers)
  • James Norcliffe, Along Blueskin Road (Canterbury University Press)
  • Gregory O’Brien, Afternoon of An Evening Train (Victoria University Press)
  • Vivienne Plumb, Scarab: A Poetic Documentary (Seraph Press)
  • Anna Smaill, The Violinist in Spring (Victoria University Press)
  • Robert Sullivan, Voice Carried My Family (Auckland University Press)
  • Ian Wedde, Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty (Auckland University Press)


Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets, selected by Emma Neale were included in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, published online this year:

  • Tusiata Avia
  • Hinemoana Baker
  • Diane Brown
  • James Brown
  • Geoff Cochrane
  • Linda Connell
  • Wystan Curnow
  • Anne French
  • Paula Green
  • David Howard
  • Andrew Johnston
  • Tim Jones
  • Anne Kennedy
  • Tze Ming Mok
  • Peter Olds

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

  • Elaine Feinstein, Anna of all the Russias: A life of Anna Akhmatova, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005 (ISBN 0-297-64309-6); N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 (ISBN 1-4000-4089-2)

United States

Poets whose works appeared in The Best American Poetry 2005

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2005, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Paul Muldoon:

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Other in English

Works published in other languages

Brazil

  • Ricardo Domeneck, Carta aos anfíbios, Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi
  • Miguel Sanches Neto, Venho de um país obscuro e outros poemas[9]
  • Marco Vasques, Sístole, Rio de Janeiro: Bem-Te-Vi

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

New Zealand

  • Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
  • Montana New Zealand Book Awards First-book award for poetry: Sonja Yelich, Clung, Auckland University Press

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

Dane Zajc, Slovenian poet

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

January 21: Theun de Vries born 1907 Dutch writer and poet
February 25: Phoebe Hesketh born 1909 British
March 6: Sadako Kurihara
栗原貞子		 born 1913 Japanese poet who survived the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust there and became known for her poems about her city
March 7: Philip Lamantia born 1927 American
March 29: Miltos Sachtouris born 1919 Greek
March 30: Robert Creeley, 78 born 1926 American
April 14 Julia Darling, 48 born 1956 English poet, novelist and playwright, of breast cancer
June 9: Hovis Presley born 1960 English
June 13: Eugénio de Andrade born 1923 Portuguese lyric poet
June 23: Manolis Anagnostakis born 1925 Greek poet
June 28: Philip Hobsbaum, 72 born 1932 Scot poet and critic
July 4: Lorenzo Thomas born 1944 American poet, critic, essayist; Umbra Workshop founding member
July 7: Gustaf Sobin born 1935 American
August 6: Vizma Belsevica born 1931 leading post-war Latvian poet
August 21: Dahlia Ravikovitch born 1936 Israeli
August 31: Amrita Pritam born 1919 leading Punjab poet in India who wrote in Hindi
September 16: Stanley Burnshaw born 1906 American poet and novelist
October 20: Dane Zajc born 1929 Slovenian poet
November 1: Michael Thwaites born 1915 Australian
Date not known: Charles Naylor (poet) not known American, partner of novelist Thomas Disch[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
  2. ^ a b Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
  3. ^ a b Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
  4. ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
  5. ^ Amazon.co web page, retrieved May 4, 2009
  6. ^ O’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
  7. ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
  8. ^ a b c d e [1]"100 Notable Books of the Year", New York Times Book Review, December 4, 2005
  9. ^ a b c d "Literature" article, with numerous pages by different authors on literature in various nations and languages, Britannica Book of the Year 2006, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2008, online version retrieved January 15, 2009
  10. ^ [2]Ramnarayan, Gowri, "In Conversation: Brutal landscape" in the Sunday "Literary review" section of The Hindu, dated October 2, 2005, accessed October 16, 2007
  11. ^ [Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon], 2007
  12. ^ Martin, Douglas, "Thomas Disch, Novelist, Dies at 68", obituary, The New York Times, July 8, 2008, retrieved December 11, 2008
  • [3] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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