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2012 in poetry

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

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

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John Ashbery at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
 
Günter Grass in 2010

Works published in English

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Australia

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Canada

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  • Barry McKinnon, Into the Blind World, above/ground press,
  • rob mclennan, Sextet: six poems from Songs for little sleep, above/ground press,
  • Lisa Robertson, Nilling: Prose, Toronto: BookThug
  • Robert Bringhurst, Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press,

India, in English

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Ireland

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New Zealand

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Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

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Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Bernadette Hall for Best New Zealand Poems 2011, published online this year:

United Kingdom

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  • Sean Borodale, Bee Journal, Jonathan Cape
  • Basil Bunting, Bunting's Persia: Translations by Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share, Flood Editions
  • Ben Parker, The Escape Artists, Tall Lighthouse
  • Andy Croft, Nineteen Forty-Eight, Five Leaves
  • Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul, Scottish poet
  • Ralph Pordzik, Night Passage Across the Sea. A Dramatic Duologue, International Poetry Editions
  • Robert Sheppard, The Only Life, Knives Forks & Spoons, Le Willows
  • Dennis B. Wilson, Elegy of a Common Soldier, and Other Poems, Kultura

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

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Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

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United States

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  • Paige Ackerson-Kiely – My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer, 128 pages, Ahsahta Press, ISBN 9781934103272
  • John Allman, Algorithms, Clear Sound / Quale Press, Niantic, CT
  • Kris Bigalk – Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, NYQ Books,
  • Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel, University of Pittsburgh Press,
  • Marilyn Buck – Inside/Out: Selected Poems, foreword by David Meltzer, City Lights Books
  • Joseph Campana – Natural Selections, Iowa
  • Jared Carter – A Dance in the Street, 112 pages, Wind Publications, ISBN 9781936138272.
  • Heather Christle – What Is Amazing, Wesleyan,
  • Laura Cronk – Having Been an Accomplice: Poems, Persea Books
  • Michael Collier – An Individual History: Poems, W. W. Norton,
  • Martha Collins – White Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press,
  • CA Conrad – A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, 240 pages, Wave Press, ISBN 9781933517599
  • Eduardo C. Corral – Slow Lightning, Yale University Press,
  • Brent Cunningham – Journey to the Sun, 120 pages, Atelos, ISBN 9781891190353
  • Jazzy Danziger – Darkroom, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 9780299286842
  • Natalie Diaz – When My Brother Was an Aztec, Copper Canyon Press, ISBN 9781556593833
  • Matthew and Michael Dickman – 50 American plays: poems, Copper Canyon Press
  • Joseph Donahue – Dissolves (Terra Lucida IV-VIII), 160 pages, Talisman House Publishers, ISBN 9781584980780
  • Thom Donovan – The Hole, 163 pages, Displaced Press, ISBN 9780982212073
  • Norman Fischer – Conflict, 84 pages, Chax Press, ISBN 9780925904720
  • Jack Gilbert – Collected Poems, Knopf,
  • Nathalie Handal – Poet in Andalucía, University of Pittsburgh Press,
  • Lyn Hejinian – The Book of a Thousand Eyes, 350 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, ISBN 9781890650575
  • Sørina Higgins – Caduceus, 100 pages, Word Tech Communications / David Robert Books, ISBN 9781936370610
  • Cathy Park Hong – Engine Empire, Norton
  • Paul Hoover – Desolation: Souvenir, 96 pages, Omnidawn Publishing, ISBN 9781890650582
  • Mitch Cullin – The House of Special Purpose, illustrated by Peter I. Chang
  • Alice Jones – Plunge, Apogee Press
  • Lenore Kandel – Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel, North Atlantic Books
  • James Browning Kepple Thus Virginia Passes Pretend Genius Press ISBN 9780985213329
  • Rebecca Lindenberg – Love, An Index, McSweeney's
  • Liu Xiaobo – June Fourth Elegies; trans. from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang, Graywolf Press,
  • Magus Magnus - The Re-echoes, 99 pages, Furniture Press Books ISBN 9780982629970
  • Sean Labrador Y Manzano, The Gulag Arkipelago, Tinfish Press
  • Filip Marinovich, And if You Don’t Go Crazy, I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow, Ugly Duckling Press,
  • Campbell McGrath – In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems, Ecco
  • Joyelle McSweeney – Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays, 96 pages, Fence Books, ISBN 9781934200520
  • Rusty Morrison – After Urgency, 88 pages, Tupelo Press, ISBN 9781932195415
  • David Mutschlecner – Enigma and Light, Ahsahta Press,
  • Eileen Myles – Snowflake; Different Streets, Wave Press
 
Eileen Myles reading in NYC, September 2006

Anthologies in the United States

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  • Peter Cole and Aminadav Dykman, editors. Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition, Yale University Press,
  • Ryan G. Van Cleave, editor. City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Iowa, . Includes: Rane Arroyo, Marvin Bell, Allen Braden, John Bradley, Curtis L. Crisler, Mary Cross, James D’Agostino, Stuart Dybek, Susan Elbe, Dina Elenbogen, Martín Espada, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bob Hicok, Edward Hirsch, Philip Jenks & Simone Muench, Thomas L. Johnson, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Viola Lee, Francesco Levato, Campbell McGrath, Paul Martínez Pompa, Adrian Matejka, Erika Mikkalo, Julie Parson Nesbitt, Johanny Vázquez Paz, James Plath, Christina Pugh, Maya Quintero, Robyn Schiff, Patricia Smith, Tony Trigilio, Alpay Ulku, Judith Valente, Nicole Walker, Ellen Wehle, Brenda Yates
  • Cary Nelson, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Oxford University Press, . Includes essays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Dale Parker, Melissa Girard, John Marsh, Linda A. Kinnahan, Peter Nicholls, Charles Altieri, Edward Brunner, Tim Newcomb, Susan Rosenbaum, Mike Chasar, Philip Metres, Karen Jackson Ford, Josephine Park, Walter Kalaidjian, Jahan Ramazani, Michael Thurston, Al Filreis, Lytle Shaw, Mark W. Van Wienen, Michael Davidson, Lynn Keller, Timothy Yu, James Smethurst, Adalaide Morris
  • Charles Henry Rowell, editor. Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, W.W. Norton, .More than 70 poets are represented in this anthology of African-American poetry since the 1960s
  • Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, editors – The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Ahsahta Press. – Contributors: Emily Abendroth, Will Alexander, Rae Armantrout, Eric Baus, Dan Beachy-Quick, John Beer, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sherwin Bitsui, Kamau Brathwaite, Susan Briante, Oni Buchanan, Heather Christle, Stephen Collis, Jack Collom, Phil Cordelli, T. Zachary Cotler, Brent Cunningham, Christopher Dewdney, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Dumanis, Camille Dungy, Marcella Durand, Lisa Fishman, Rob Fitterman, Forrest Gander, Merrill Gilfillan, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Jody Gladding, Johannes Göransson, Chris Green, Arielle Greenberg, Richard Greenfield, Sarah Gridley, e. tracy grinnell, Gabriel Gudding, Joshua Harmon, Nathan Hauke, Lyn Hejinian, Mary Hickman, Brenda Hillman, Kevin Holden, Paul Hoover, Erika Howsare & Kate Schapira, Brenda Iijima, Sally Keith, Karla Kelsey, Amy King, Melissa Kwasny, Brian Laidlaw, Maryrose Larkin, Ann Lauterbach, Karen An-hwei Lee, Paul Legault, Sylvia Legris, Dana Levin, Eric Linsker, Alessandra Lynch, J. Michael Martinez, Nicole Mauro, Aaron McCollough, Joyelle McSweeney, K. Silem Mohammad, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Erin Mouré, Jennifer Moxley, Laura Mullen, Melanie Noel, Kathryn Nuernberger, Peter O'Leary, Patrick Pritchett, Bin Ramke, Stephen Ratcliffe, Matt Reeck, Marthe Reed, Evelyn Reilly, Karen Rigby, Ed Roberson, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, Leslie Scalapino, Standard Schaefer, Brandon Shimoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Gustaf Sobin, Juliana Spahr, Jane Sprague, Fenn Stewart, Adam Strauss, Mathias Svalina, Arthur Sze, John Taggart, Michelle Taransky, Brian Teare, Tony Tost, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cathy Wagner, Elizabeth Willis, Jane Wong, and C. D. Wright

Nonfiction, criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

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Poets in The Best American Poetry 2012

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The following poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012. David Lehman, general editor, and Mark Doty, guest editor (who selected the poetry):[9]

Works published in other languages

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Denmark

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French language

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France

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Anthologies in France
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Germany

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Poland

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  • Jerzy Jarniewicz – Na dzień dzisiejszy i chwilę obecną (Biuro Literackie)
  • Jerzy Kronhold – Epitafium dla Lucy (Zeszyty Literackie)
  • Piotr Matywiecki – Widownia (Wydawnictwo Literackie)
  • Anna Piwkowska – Lustrzanka (Zeszyty Literackie)
  • Krystyna Rodowska – Wiersze przesiane 1968–2011 (Podkarpacki Instytut Książki i Marketingu)

Other languages

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Bengali :

  • Rahman Henry – Brojosundoeer Kotha (February 2012) Collection of Poems.
  • Rahman Henry – Kobitar Tribhuban (February 2012) a collection of Translated poems.×

Ukrainian :

Urdu

Awards and honors by country

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Awards announced this year:

International

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Australia awards and honors

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Canada awards and honors

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France awards and honors

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New Zealand awards and honors

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United Kingdom awards and honors

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United States awards and honors

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From the Poetry Society of America

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Deaths

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Adrienne Rich, one of the 20th-century's most celebrated poets, died in 2012. Here she is in 1980.

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

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "China jails dissident Zhu Yufu over poem sent on Skype | World news". The Guardian. London. Reuters in Beijing. 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  2. ^ "Coldfront » Obama honors Ashbery and Dove, quotes Dickinson and Whitman". Coldfrontmag.com. 2012-02-13. Archived from the original on 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  3. ^ Bar-Zohar, Ophir; Ravid, Barak (8 April 2012). "Interior Minister declares Gunter Grass persona non grata in Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  4. ^ Sherwood, Harriet (8 April 2012). "Günter Grass barred from Israel over poem: Nobel laureate, who says he had not meant to criticise Israel but Netanyahu government, declared persona non grata". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  5. ^ McGrath, Charles (2012-06-06). "Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Little, Lyneka (June 7, 2012). "Natasha Trethewey Named New U.S. Poet Laureate". The Wall Street Journal.
  7. ^ Qatari poet jailed for life to appeal – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
  8. ^ Qatar sentences poet to 15 years in jail for verse about freedom | Twitchy
  9. ^ The Best American Poetry 2012, Guest Edited by Mark Doty
  10. ^ a b Clark, Nick (2013-01-14). "Poet Sharon Olds scoops TS Eliot Prize for 'confessional' work about her husband's affair". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01.
  11. ^ D.A. Powell, Ben Fountain Win National Book Critics Circle Awards | Poets and Writers
  12. ^ CM Payne (2012-02-05). "Basil Payne obituary | Books". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  13. ^ Tremblay, Robin (2004-02-26). "X Poetics: In Memory of Stacy Doris". Xpoetics.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  14. ^ "PennSound: Stacy Doris". Writing.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  15. ^ "Stacy Doris- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  16. ^ "Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88". Reuters. 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  17. ^ "W.Va. poet laureate Irene McKinney dies at 72". Charleston, West Virginia: Charleston Gazette-Mail. February 4, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-17. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  18. ^ sandra martin. "Poet found magic and mystery in the everyday". Toronto: The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  19. ^ Colleen Thibaudeau – The Canadian Encyclopedia
  20. ^ "Noted poet Shahryar passes away – Times Of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  21. ^ "Dr. Fred Moramarco, Professor Emeritus". Rohan.sdsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  22. ^ Link (2012-02-17). "Silliman's Blog". Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  23. ^ Woo, Elaine (2012-02-23). "Barney Rosset obituary: Publisher who challenged censorship while championing writers was 89". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 25, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  24. ^ "Joydeb Basu passes away". The Times of India. 2012-02-24. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  25. ^ "James A. "Jim" Hazard Obituary: View James Hazard's Obituary by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel". Legacy.com. 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  26. ^ Issa's Untidy Hut (2012-03-14). "Issa's Untidy Hut: Leonard J. Cirino: 1943–2012". Lilliputreview.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  27. ^ Leonard. "Pygmy Forest Press". Pygmyforestpress.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  28. ^ "The Bucket is Suddenly Empty | Lummox Press Writers Clubhouse". Writers.lummoxpress.com. 2012-03-10. Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  29. ^ Link (2012-03-15). "Silliman's Blog". Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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  31. ^ "毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)". Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  32. ^ "（おくやみ）杉山平一氏が死去 詩人、映画評論なども". Nihon Keizai Shinbun (in Japanese). 19 May 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  33. ^ Haglund, David (13 November 2012). "Jack Gilbert, American Poet, Dies at 87". Slate. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  34. ^ "Jack Gilbert- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More". Poets.org. 2012-11-11. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
  35. ^ Hozhabr Kalali, Pourandokht (2013). Yadegarnameh Seyyed Amir Mahmoud Anwar یادگارنامه دکتر سید امیر محمود انوار (in Persian) (first ed.). Tehran: Baz. p. 13-30. Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  36. ^ "Jayne Cortez," poets.org
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