2019 in poetry

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Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2019 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, India or France).

Events

October 25 – The 2019 Princeton poetry Festival is inaugurated at Lewis Center of Arts by Pulitzer prize winning poet Paul Muldoon.^[1]

Selection of works published in English

Australia

Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu
Gerald Murnane, Green Shadows and Other Poems

Canada

Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild

India

Antony Theodore, Jesus Christ in Love
Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses : Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
Tapan Kumar Pradhan, I, She and the Sea
Tishani Doshi, Small Days and Nights

New Zealand

Pakistan

Fatimah Asghar, If They Come For Us

Palestine

Hala Alyan, The Twenty-ninth Year

Portugal

Ana Luisa Amaral, What’s in a Name

Puerto Rico

Raquel Salas Rivera, While They Sleep (under the bed is another country)

United Kingdom

England

Anthony Anaxagorou, After the Formalities
Deryn Rees-Jones, Erato

Northern Ireland

Rachel Allen, Kingdomland

Scotland

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

Ukraine

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

United States

Hanif Aburraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster
Sarah Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff
Franny Choi, Soft Science
Andrea Cohen, Nightshade
Michael Dickman, Days and Days
Eve Ewing, 1919
Camoghne Felix, Build Yourself a Boat
Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
Campbell McGrath, Nouns and Verbs
Jane Mead, To the Wren
Fred Moten, All That Beauty
Jana Prikryl, No Matter

Anthologies in the United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2019

Works published in other languages

French

Stephane Bouquet, Les Amours Suivants (The Next Loves)

German

Awards and honors by country

See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

New Zealand awards and honors

United Kingdom awards and honors

Cholmondeley Award : Malika Booker
Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry : Mary Jean Chan for ‘’Fleche’’
English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):
Forward Poetry Prize: Fiona Benson for ‘’Vertigo and Ghost’’
- Best Collection:
- Best Poem:
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
Manchester Poetry Prize : Momtaza Mehri for ‘’Amniotica’’
National Poet of Wales:
National Poetry Competition : Susannah Hart for ‘’Reading the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy’’
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
T. S. Eliot Prize : Roger Robinson for ‘’A Portable Paradise’’

United States awards and honors

Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
- Honorable Mentions:
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
Bollingen Prize:
Jackson Poetry Prize:
- Gay Poetry:
- Lesbian Poetry:
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States) : Forrest Gander for ‘’Be With’’
Wallace Stevens Award:
Whiting Awards:
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
PEN Center USA 2019 Poetry Award:
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
Yale Younger Series:

From the Poetry Society of America

Frost Medal:
Shelley Memorial Award:
Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
Lyric Poetry Award:
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
George Bogin Memorial Award:
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
Norma Farber First Book Award:
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
William Carlos Williams Award:

Deaths

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

January 17 – Mary Oliver (b. 1935), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner^[2]
January 25 – Krishna Sobti (b. 1925), Indian Hindi poet
March 15 – W. S. Merwin (b. 1927), American poet and translator
March 20 – Linda Gregg (b. 1942), American poet
April 29 – Les Murray (b. 1938), Australian poet and critic
July 05 – Marie Ponsot (b. 1921), American poet, critic and essayist
September 23 – Al Alvarez (b. 1929), British poet
October 12 – Kate Braverman (b. 1949), American poet and novelist
October 15 – Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (b. 1926), Indian Malayalam poet and essayist, in Thrissur^[3]
November 7 – Nabaneeta Dev Sen (b. 1938), Indian Bengali poet and writer
November 24 – Clive James (b. 1939), Australian-born poet, critic and journalist

References

^ Lewis, Center (2020-10-25). "Princeton Poetry Festival Opens". Princeton University. Princeton. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
^ Associated, Press (2019-01-17). "Poet Mary Oliver Dies". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
^ Grover, Nishitha (2020-10-15). "Malayalam poet Akkitham dies aged 83". India Today. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-05.

[1] Lewis, Center (2020-10-25). "Princeton Poetry Festival Opens". Princeton University. Princeton. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-04.

[2] Associated, Press (2019-01-17). "Poet Mary Oliver Dies". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-04.

[3] Grover, Nishitha (2020-10-15). "Malayalam poet Akkitham dies aged 83". India Today. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-05.

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