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Events

  • January – Five fragments of nine poems, some previously unknown, by Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus, including the Brothers Poem.[1] This news is being reported by multiple news sources by the end of the month.[2][3][4]
  • January 7 – Michel Pleau is named Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (or Canada's new poet laureate), beginning a two-year mandate to "draw Canadians’ attention to the reading and writing of poetry."[5][6]
  • January 29 – Hashem Shabani, an Arab–Iranian poet,[7] was executed by hanging in an unidentified Iranian prison[8] after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani approved the sentences.[9][10]
  • March 7 – For the first time ever, all five poets laureate of the British Isles are women and for the first time all five perform together at the Women of the World festival in London on the eve of International Women's Day.[11][12] The poets are: Carol Ann Duffy (England), Liz Lochhead (Scotland), Gillian Clarke (Wales), Paula Meehan (Ireland), and Sinéad Morrissey (Northern Ireland).[13]
  • March 19 – PEN International comes out with an action appeal protesting the two-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian poet Omar Hazek. PEN states that this poet has been "imprisoned for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and assembly." Hazek, who has won several poetry awards and is a former employee of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has been held in custody since early December 2013.[14][15]
  • April 22 – The Writers' Trust of Canada announces the new Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, a new Canadian literary award to honour the body of work of a Canadian poet who has published at least three volumes of poetry.[16] The award is slated to be presented for the first time in November.[16]
  • May 22 – The translation of Beowulf by J. R. R. Tolkien, which he had first completed in 1926, is published in England (after nearly 90 years) as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary[17] (his essay "On Translating Beowulf" had been published in 1940).
  • June 12 – The Library of Congress selects Charles Wright as the new United States Poet Laureate, succeeding Natasha Trethewey.[18]
  • August 22 – New Zealand celebrates its own National Poetry Day, now in its 17th year, with more than 60 events held around the country. Included among the various readings and contests are events sponsoring the current New Zealand Poet Laureate, Vincent O’Sullivan, who reads poetry in Dunedin, and 2007–2009 Poet Laureate, Michele Leggott, who MCs the annual Auckland Library event.[19]

Anniversaries

  • January 28 – On this day 75 years ago, W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France.[20]
  • February 21 – Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday).[20]
  • March 9 – On this day 20 years ago, Charles Bukowski died (1994).[21]
  • March 31 – On this day 100 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz was born (1914).[22][23]
  • April 23 – It is assumed that William Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on April 26).[20]
  • May – The 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.[24][25]
  • September 4 – On this day 100 years ago, French poet and essayist Charles Péguy, 41 (born 1873) was killed in action near Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, in the early months of World War I
  • October 10 – On this day 100 years ago, German poet Ernst Stadler, 31 (born 1883) was killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres.
  • October 15 [O.S. October 3] 1814 – On this day 200 years ago Mikhail Lermontov was born; he is sometimes referred to as "Russia's second-greatest poet."[26]
  • October 25 – On this day 100 years ago, American poet John Berryman (given name:John Allyn Smith) was born.
  • October 27 – On this day 100 years ago, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea.[20]
  • October 30 – On this day 100 years ago, American poet and publisher James Laughlin, founder of New Directions Publishers, was born.
  • November 3 – On this day 100 years ago, Austrian poet Georg Trakl, 27, committed suicide.

Works published in English

Australia

  • Benedict Andrews. Lens Flare. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry
  • Louis Armand. Indirect Objects. Sydney: Vagabond Press
  • Judith Beveridge. Devadatta's Poems. Artarmon: Giramondo Publishing Company
  • a.j. carruthers. AXIS Book 1: Areal. Tokyo: Vagabond Press
  • Paul Carter. Ecstacies and Elegies. Perth: UWAP
  • Melinda Bufton. Girlery. Hobart: Inken Publisch
  • Nandi Chinna. Swamp. Fremantle: Fremantle Press
  • Eileen Chong. Peony. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry
  • Dan Disney. Mannequin’s Guide to Utopias. Macau: ASM,
  • Benjamin Dodds. Regulator. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann
  • Laurie Duggan. Allotments. Bristol: Shearsman Books
  • Anne Elvey. Kin. Parkville: Five Islands Press
  • Geoff Goodfellow. Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze. Kent Town: Wakefield Press
  • Libby Hart. Wild. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry
  • Vrasidas Karalis and Helen Nickas, editors. Antigone Kefala: a writer’s journey. Brighton: Owl Publishing
  • Jacinta Le Plastrier. The Book of Skins. St Kilda: John Leonard Press
  • Alan Loney. eMailing flowers to Mondrian. Malvern East: Hawk Press
  • Kent MacCarter. Sputnik’s Cousin. Yarraville: Transit Lounge Publishing
  • John Mateer. Emptiness: Asian Poems, 1998 – 2012. Fremantle: Fremantle Press
  • Paul Scully. An Existential Grammar. North Hobart: Walleah Press
  • Marie Slaight & Terrence Tasker. The Antigone Poems. Potts Point: Altaire Publications
  • Maria Takolander. The End of the World. Artarmon: Giramondo Publishing Company
  • Tim Thorne. The Unspeak Poems and Other Verses. North Hobart: Walleah Press
  • Ann Vickery & John Hawke, editors. Poetry and The Trace. Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe. My Feet Are Hungry. Sydney: Pitt Street Poetry
  • Lucy Williams. Internal Weather. North Hobart: Walleah Press

Canada

Anthologies in Canada

  • Why Poetry Sucks: Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry, Jonathan Ball & Ryan Fitzpatrick, editors. (Insomniac Press) ISBN 9781554831227
  • Under the Mulberry Tree: poems for & about Raymond Souster, James Deahl, editor. (Quattro Books) ISBN 9781927443637[27]

India

New Zealand

  • Airini Beautrais, Dear Neil Roberts, Victoria University Press
  • Kay McKenzie Cooke, Born to a Red-Headed Woman, Otago University Press
  • Chris Tse, How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Auckland University Press

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Mark Williams and Jane Stafford for Best New Zealand Poems 2013, published online this year:

United Kingdom

England

Ireland

  • Harry Clifton, The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974–2004 (BloodAxe Books)

Scotland

  • Stewart Conn, The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems (BloodAxe Books)

Wales

  • Jonathan Edwards, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren)

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

  • Laura Jansen – The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers. (Cambridge University Press) ISBN 978-1107024366

United States

Anthologies in the United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • John Drury – Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert. (University of Chicago Press)
  • Tom Hawkins – Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press)
  • Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry (Counterpath Press)

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2014

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Works published in other languages

French

German

  • Antony Theodore, Gottliche Augenblicke : Eine Reise durch das Jahr, ISBN 978-39-408532-5-7

Awards and honors by country

Awards announced this year:

International

Australia awards and honors

Canada awards and honors

France awards and honors

New Zealand awards and honors

India awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors

United States awards and honors

From the Poetry Society of America

Deaths

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

See also

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References

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  90. ^ Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Went His Own Way, Dies at 87
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  93. ^ Morre o poeta mato-grossense Manoel de Barros, aos 97 anos (in Portuguese)
  94. ^ Wolfson College, Oxford: Professor Jon Stallworthy
  95. ^ Pulitzer-winning poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 years old
  96. ^ "Silliman's Blog".
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