2013 in poetry

Overview of the events of 2013 in poetry
Overview of the events of 2013 in poetry
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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 has been since December 2012 and where he will 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 are accused of plagiarism over separate works which they have 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 the United Kingdom, poet C. J. Allen withdraws from the Forward Prize shortlist after admitting to plagiarism in some of his earlier work. He has been nominated in the category for "best single poem." Fellow poet Matthew Welton says 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

  • Gwen Benaway, Ceremonies for the Dead
  • 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

New Zealand

  • Paula Green, The Baker's Thumbprint, Seraph Press
  • Kate Camp, Snow White’s Coffin, Victoria University Press

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Ian Wedde for Best New Zealand Poems 2012, published online this year:

  • Sarah Jane Barnett
  • Tony Beyer
  • James Brown
  • Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
  • Kate Camp

United Kingdom

  • Dannie Abse, Speak, Old Parrot, Hutchinson.
  • John Agard, Travel Light Travel Dark, Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, England.
  • Megan Beech, When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard, Burning Eye Books.
  • 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]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

  • Carrie Olivia Adams, Forty-One Jane Doe's, Ahsahta Press, Boise (includes DVD w/three short films by Adams)
  • Rae Armantrout, Just Saying, Wesleyan University Press
  • Jennifer Atkinson, Canticle of the Night Path, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina
  • Elizabeth Bachinsky, The Hottest Summer in Recorded History, Nightwood Editions.
  • Joshua Beckman, The Inside of an Apple, Wave Books, New York & Seattle
  • Dodie Bellamy, Cunt Norton, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
  • Edmund Berrigan, Can It!, Letter Machine Editions
  • David Biespiel, Charming Gardeners, University of Washington Press
  • Robert Bly, Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950 – 2013, Norton, New York / London
  • Charlie Bondhus, All the Heat We Could Carry, Main Street Rag
  • Ana Božičević, Rise in the Fall, Birds, LLC.
  • Joseph Ceravolo, Collected Poems, Wesleyan UP (Rosemary Ceravolo & Parker Smathers, editors)
  • Joel Chace, Kansoz, Knives Forks & Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, UK
  • Dan Chelotti, X, McSweeney's, San Francisco
  • Clark Coolidge, Book Beginning What and Ending Away, Fence Books
  • Brad Cran, Ink on Paper, Nightwood Editions.
  • Michael Davidson, Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems, Coffee House Books
  • Tishani Doshi, Everything Begins Elsewhere, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend
  • Marc DuCharme, The Unfinished: Books I-VI, BlazeVOX, Buffalo
  • Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Surge: Drafts 96 -114, Salt Publishing
  • Craig Dworkin Remotes, Little Red Leaves, Houston
  • Joshua Edwards, Imperial N, Canarium Books.
  • Robert Fernandez, Pink Reef, Canarium Books.
  • Adam Fitzgerald, The Late Parade, WW Norton/Liveright
  • Nada Gordon, Vile Lilt, Roof, NYC
  • Noah Eli Gordon, The Year of the Rooster, Ahsahta Press
  • Michael Gottlieb, Dear All, Roof, NYC
  • Brian Henry, Brother No One, Salt Publishing
  • H. R. Hegnauer, Sir, Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, Brooklyn
  • Bob Hicok, Elegy Owed, Copper Canyon Press
  • Ernest Hilbert, All of You on the Good Earth Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA
  • Nathan Hoks, The Narrow Circle, Penguin, NYC / London
  • Paul Killebrew, Ethical Consciousness, Canarium Books
  • Paul Klinger, Rubble Paper, Paper Rubble, Further Other BookWorks, Austin, Texas
  • Christopher Kondrich, Contrapuntal, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina
  • Aaron Kunin, Grace Period: Notebooks, 1998–2007, Letter Machine Editions
  • Doug Lang, Dérangé, Primary Writing, Washington, D.C.
  • J. Vera Lee, Diary of Use, TinFish, Kane’ohe, HI
  • Paul Legault, The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems, McSweeney's
  • Philip Levine, Sweet Will, Prairie Lights Books
  • Kimberly Lyons, The Practice of Residue, Subpress
  • Adrian Matejka -The Big Smoke, Penguin Books USA
  • Mary Meriam, Word Hot, Headmistress Press
  • W. S. Merwin, Selected Translations, Copper Canyon Press
  • Jay MillAr, Timely Irreverence, Nightwood Editions
  • Jane Miller, Thunderbird, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
  • Geoffrey G. O'Brien, People on Sunday, Wave Books, Seattle & New York
  • Lisa Olstein, Little Stranger, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend
  • Rochelle Owens, Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems, 1961 – 2012, Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK
  • George Quasha, Scorned Beauty Comes Up from Behind (preverbs), Between Editions, Barrytown, New York
  • Shin Yu Pai, Aux Arx, La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Holly Pester, Bark Leather, Veer Books, London
  • Ethel Rackin, The Forever Notes, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina
  • Ray Ragota, A Motive for Disappearance, Burning Deck, Providence
  • Sandra Ridley, The Counting House, BookThug, Toronto
  • Jaime Robles, Hoard, Shearsman, Bristol, UK
  • Jerome Rothenberg, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, edited with Heriberto Yépez, Black Widow Press, Boston
  • Claude Royet-Journoud, Four Elemental Bodies, translated from the French by Keith Waldrop, Burning Deck Press
  • Aidan Semmens, The Book of Isaac, Parlor Press, Anderson, South Carolina
  • Steve Shrader, The Arc of the Day / The Imperfectionist, TinFish, Kane’ohe, HI
  • Ron Silliman, Revelator, BookThug, Toronto, Canada
  • Ed Skoog, Rough Day, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend
  • Sampson Starkweather, The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather, Birds, LLC
  • Ed Steck, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn,
  • Sarah Pemberton Strong, Tour of the Breath Gallery, introduction by Robert A Fink, Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas
  • Mark Tardi, Airport Music, Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Habib Tengour, Crossings, Post-Apollo Press, translated by Marilyn Hacker, Sausalito, California
  • Nayyirah Waheed, salt, self-published
  • Alli Warren, Here Come The Warm Jets, City Lights, San Francisco
  • Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Swamp Isthmus, Black Ocean
  • Kirby Wright, The Widow from Lake Bled, Moon Pie Press, Westbrook, Maine
  • Lynn Xu, Debts & Lessons, Omnidawn Publishing
  • David Yezzi, Birds of the Air, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Andrew Zawacki, Videotape, Counterpath, Denver

Anthologies in the United States

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]

Works published in English in other countries

  • Myint Myint Khin, Poetry for Me, Burmese medical consultant writing in English

Works published in other languages

Awards and honors by country

Awards announced this year:

Canada awards and honours

France awards and honors

India

New Zealand awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors

United States awards and honors

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

From the Poetry Society of America

Deaths

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

See also

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References

  1. ^ "Almost 50: Prison Of The Mind – A Chinese poet's memoir of incarceration".
  2. ^ "A Poet Survives China's Prison: Liao Yiwu's 'For a Song and a Hundred Songs'". ZYZZYVA.
  3. ^ "Call to Action – Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek: A Prison Within a Prison". PEN International.
  4. ^ Sheerin, Cathal. "A Prison within a Prison: the Solitary Confinement of Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek"
  5. ^ Fitch, Toby. (2013-09-23). "Plagiarism scandal has revealed an ugly side of Australian poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  6. ^ "Prof. Awoonor dies in Al-Shabab attack in Kenyan Mall". citifmonline.com. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
  7. ^ Vincent, Alice (2013-09-22). "Nairobi shopping mall attacks: Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet, killed in Westgate Attack". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
  8. ^ "Somalia's al-Shabab claims Nairobi Westgate Kenya attack". BBC. 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
  9. ^ "Poem pulled from Forward prize shortlist after plagiarism row" (Books). The Guardian.
  10. ^ "Poet withdraws from Forward Prize over plagiarism". BBC News. 2013-09-22.
  11. ^ reprint of Pillage Laud which was first published in 1999 in an edition of 300 perfectbound copies and 26 spiralbound copies lettered A-Z and signed
  12. ^ The best poetry of 2013 | Books | The Guardian
  13. ^ Underrated books: Overlooked fiction and nonfiction of 2013
  14. ^ The Best American Poetry 2013, Guest Edited by Denise Duhamel
  15. ^ Book News: Forward Prize For Poetry Goes To Michael Symmons Roberts : The Two-Way : NPR
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  18. ^ Transfer Fat by Aase Berg, translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson (Ugly Duckling Press; Sweden); pH Neutral History by Lidija Dimkovska, translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid (Copper Canyon Press; Macedonia); The Invention of Glass by Emmanuel Hocquard, translated from the French by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith (Canarium Books; France); Wheel with a Single Spoke by Nichita Stanescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter (Archipelago Books; Romania); Notes on the Mosquito by Xi Chuan, translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein (New Directions; China); Almost 1 Book / Almost 1 Life by Elfriede Czurda, translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop (Burning Deck; Austria)
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  24. ^ 2013 National Book Award
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  42. ^ a b "Naomi Replansky – Poetry Society of America". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  43. ^ In memoriam Anselm Hollo 1934–2013 | Books from Finland
  44. ^ NIU mourns death of famed poet Lucien Stryk | NIU Today
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  46. ^ Álvaro Mutis muere a la edad de 90 años en México (in Spanish)
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