January 19 – For the first time since 1949, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The absence of the man, who would toast Poe with Cognac and leave three red roses at the grave (along with the rest of the Cognac), disappointed more than 30 people who stayed up all night to be present at the appearance.
March 27 – The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, designed to become the largest database of women poets in the world, was launched in Washington, D.C. at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The database will feature biographical information about female poets, as well as photos of them and, when possible, reprints of their work.
April 12 – Rae Armantrout wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Versed. "Having also won the National Book Critics Circle Award, after being named a finalist for the National Book Award, Armantrout is only the third poet to win two out of the three awards in one year."
May 1 – David Biespiel, writing in Poetry, suggests (in an essay titled "This Land Is Our Land") that the insularity of America's poets has left them with a minimal presence in American civic discourse and a minuscule public role in the life of American democracy.
November 26 – Japanese government honors Canadian poet Joy Kogawa with the Order of the Rising Sun "for her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Adam Robertson, editor, Best Australian Poems 2010, Black Inc., anthology with works by
Grant Caldwell, glass clouds, Five Islands Press
Les Murray, Taller When Prone, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-470-9
Dorothy Porter, Love Poems, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-492-1
Ron Pretty, Postcards From the Centre
Thomas Shapcott, Parts of Us, University of Queensland Press
John Tranter, Starlight: 150 Poems, University of Queensland Press
Shane Book, Ceiling of Sticks
Anne Carson, Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101; Canadian published in the United States
Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-230-1
Joe Denham, Windstorm
Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Rhapsodomancy, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-231-8
Kenneth Leslie, The Essential Kenneth Leslie. [Ed. Zachariah Wells] Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2010. ISBN 0-88984-328-7, ISBN 978-0-88984-328-8
A. F. Moritz, editor, The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, work by the winners of the Griffin Poetry Prize, House of Anansi Press, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0-88784-955-8
Garry Thomas Morse, After Jack
James Reaney, A Suit of Nettles. Porcupine's Quill.
Lisa Robertson, R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the United States
Priscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998–2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian author published in the United Kingdom
Arun Kamal, Naye Ilake Mein, translated from the original Hindi into English by Giriraj Kiradoo, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, India 2010.
J. T. Jayasingh, editor, New Voices, anthology; Thiruvananthapuram: Roots and Wings
Tabish Khair, Man of Glass ( Poetry in English )., New Delhi: Harper Collins, India 2010. ISBN 81-7223-979-3
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Robin Ngangom, editors, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India
Srinivas Sistla, Amuktamalyada, translated from the original Telugu of Krishna Deva Raya's classic epic; Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh: Drusya Kala Deepika
Sharanya Haridas, "The Tramp Speaks" ( Poetry in English )., Cochin: DC Books, India 2010.
Meena Kandasamy, "Ms. Militancy", Chennai: Navayana, India 2010
Anindita Sengupta, "City of Water" ( Poetry in English )., Bangalore: Sahitya Akademi, India 2010.
Ireland
Anthony Cronin, The Fall, 120 pages, New Island Press, ISBN 978-1-84840-068-9
Theo Dorgan, Greek, Dedalus Press, ISBN 978-1-906614-17-1
Seamus Heaney, Human Chain, 85 pages, Faber & Faber
Thomas Kilroy, Christ, Deliver Us, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
Alan Moore How Now! Anvil Press Poetry, ISBN 978-0-85646-432-4
Paul Muldoon, Maggot
Micheal O'Siadhail, Tongue, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books
Fleur Adcock, Dragon Talk, Bloodaxe Books
Jill Bialosky, The Skiers: Selected Poems, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-904614-93-7
Matthew Caley, Apparently, Bloodaxe Books
Stewart Conn, The Breakfast Room, Bloodaxe Books
Razmik Davoyan, Whispers and Breath of the Meadows, translated from the original Armenian by Armine Tamrazian, introduction by W. N. Herbert, 172 pages, ISBN 9781904614470
Katie Donovan, Rootling, Bloodaxe Books
Carol Ann Duffy, Love Poems, a selection, 84 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51271-8
Bernardine Evaristo & Daljit Nagra. editors, Ten: New poets from Spread the Word, an anthology, with work by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Rowyda Amin, Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Karen McCarthy, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul, Seni Seniviratne, Shazea Quraishi and Janet Kofi Tsekpo; Bloodaxe Books
Ruth Fainlight, New & Collected Poems, Bloodaxe Books
Sylva Fischerová, The Swing in the Middle of Chaos, translated by Stuart Friebert and Sylva Fischerova from the original Czech; Bloodaxe Books
Roy Fisher, Standard Midland, Bloodaxe Books
Cheryl Follon, Dirty Looks, Bloodaxe Books
Miriam Gamble, The Squirrels Are Dead, Bloodaxe Books
Bill Griffiths, Collected Earlier Poems (1966–80), Reality Street, Sussex
Seamus Heaney, Human Chain, Faber and Faber
Tony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Bloodaxe Books
Helen Ivory, The Breakfast Machine, Bloodaxe Books
Arun Kolatkar, Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Marathi- and English-language poet of India, published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books; posthumous (died 2004)
Gwyneth Lewis, A Hospital Odyssey, Bloodaxe Books
Kona Macphee, Perfect Blue, Bloodaxe Books
Harry Martinson, Chickweed Wintergreen,translated from the original Swedish by Robin Fulton, Bloodaxe Books
Grace Nichols, I Have Crossed an Ocean, Bloodaxe Books
Micheal O'Siadhail, Tongue, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books
Don Paterson, Rain, Faber & Faber
Mario Petrucci, i tulips, Enitharmon Press, 112, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-93-5
Ralph Pordzik, Hotel Salvador Dali and Other Poems, Lulu Press, 49 pages, ISBN 978-1-4457-2224-5
Peter Reading, Vendage Tardive, Bloodaxe Books
Robin Robertson, The Wrecking Light, 112 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51548-1
Anna Robinson, The Finders of London, Enitharmon Press, 64, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-94-2
Lawrence Sail, Waking Dreams, Bloodaxe Books
Penelope Shuttle, Sandgrain and Hourglass, Bloodaxe Books
Louis Simpson, Voices in the Distance, Bloodaxe Books
John Stammers, Interior Night, 64 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51338-8
Pia Tafdrup, Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems, translated by David McDuff from the original Danish; Bloodaxe Books
Marina Tsvetaeva, Art in the Light of Conscience, translated by Angela Livingstone from the original Russian; Bloodaxe Books
Brian Turner, Phantom Noise, Bloodaxe Books
Chase Twichell, Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, Bloodaxe Books
Priscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998–2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian author published in the United Kingdom
Anthony Astbury, editor, A Field of Large Desires: A Greville Press Anthology 1975–2010, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-050-9
Roddy Lumsden, editor, Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets, anthology; Bloodaxe Books
George Szirtes, New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, 300 pages, ISBN 978-1-906570-50-7
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
Ruth Padel, Silent Letters of the Alphabet, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books
George Szirtes, Fortinbras at the Fishhouses, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books
Renée Ashley, The Verbs of Desiring
Nicky Beer, The Diminishing House, 77 pages, Carnegie Mellon University Press, ISBN 978-0-88748-516-9
Millicent Borges Accardi, Injuring Eternity, 108 pages, World Nouveau Press, ISBN 978-0-9828865-4-0
Elizabeth Bradfield, Approaching Ice: Poems, 112 pages, Persea, ISBN 978-0-89255-355-6
Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6
Nicole Brossard, Selections, introduction by Jennifer Moxley, translations by many hands, University of California Press, Berkeley
Julie Carr, 100 Notes on Violence, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID
Anne Carson, Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101; Canadian published in the United States
Billy Collins, Ballistics: Poems, 128 pages, Random House, ISBN 978-0-8129-7561-1
Bei Dao, author, and Eliot Weinberger, translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/Chinese edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1
Todd F. Davis, The Least of These: Poems, 140 pages, Michigan State University Press, ISBN 978-0-87013-875-1
Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow, 88 pages, Red Hen Press, ISBN 978-1-59709-468-9
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Pitch: Drafts 77 – 95, Salt Publishing, London
Larry Eigner, The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, edited by Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2010, (Vol. I: 1937–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1966; Vol. III: 1966–1978; Vol. IV: 1978–1995); ISBN 978-0-8047-5090-5
Aaron Fagan, Echo Train, Salt Publishing, London, ISBN 978-1-84471-749-1
Elyse Fenton, Clamor, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH
Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translator, Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems, translation from the original Urdu of Afzal Ahmed Syed, 120 pages, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6933-2
Nada Gordon, Scented Rushes, Roof Books,
Nathalie Handal, Love and Strange Horses, 91 pages; University of Pittsburgh Press
Megan Harlan, Mapmaking, BkMk Press, ISBN 978-1-886157-77-4
Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, Ecco Press, ISBN 0-06-192382-6
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead, Penguin, New York / London
Tony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems, the author's first collection in seven years, 100 pages, Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4
Brenda Iijima, If Not Metaphoric, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID
Carrie Jerrell, After the Revival, 80 pages, Waywiser Press, ISBN 978-1-904130-38-3
Andrew Joron, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, City Lights, San Francisco
Reb Livingston, God Damsel, No Tell Books, Reston VA
Ben Lerner, Mean Free Path, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA ISBN 978-1-55659-314-7
Shane McCrae, Mule, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH
Mark McMorris, Entrepôt, 90 pages, Coffee House Press, ISBN 978-1-56689-236-0
John McNeeley, 39, 260 pages, CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1-4499-9779-3
Deborah Meadows, Depleted Burden Down, Factory School, Queens, NY
Erika Meitner, Ideal Cities, 86 pages; Harper Perennial
Simone Muench, Orange Crush: Poems, 88 pages, Sarabande Books, ISBN 978-1-932511-79-6
Sawako Nakayasu, Texture Notes, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver
Travis Nichols, Iowa, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver
Tamae K. Prindle, translator, On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa Takuboku, translated from the original Japanese of the tanka poems written until the author's death in 1912 at age 26, 146 pages, Syllabic Press, ISBN 978-0-615-34562-8
Barbara Ras, The Last Skin, Penguin, New York / London
Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007–2010, ISBN 0-393-07967-8.
Atsuro Riley, Romey's Order, 54 pages; University of Chicago Press
Lisa Robertson, R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the United States
Marc Rosen, James P. Wagner, coeditors and compilers, Perspectives: Poetry Concerning Autism and Other Disabilities, 178 pages, Local Gems Poetry Press, ISBN 978-0-557-57112-3
R. M. Ryan, Vaudeville in the Dark, 68 pages; Louisiana State University Press
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Book of What Remains, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA
Sonia Sanchez, Morning Haiku, 144 pages, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-6910-3
Sherod Santos, The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, 164 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7
Leslie Scalapino, Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows, Starcherone Books, ISBN 978-0-9788811-9-1
Steven Seymour, translator, If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems, translated from the original Russian of his wife, Vera Pavlova, 128 pages, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-27225-6
Melissa Stein, Rough Honey, 98 pages; American Poetry Review
Edwin Torres, In the Function of Extreme Circumstances, Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NY
Nguyen Trai, Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems, edited & translated by Nguyen Do & Paul Hoover, Counterpath, Denver, 2010
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Selected Poems, edited by Ben Mazer with an introduction by Stephen Burt, Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MA
Rosmarie Waldrop, Driven to Abstraction, New Directions, NY
Connie Wanek, On Speaking Terms, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA
Karen Weiser, To Light Out, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn
C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon Press)
Matthew Zapruder, Come On All You Ghosts, 111 pages; Copper Canyon Press
David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, editors and translators, Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, 240 pages, New World Library, ISBN 978-1-57731-890-3
David Groff and Philip Clark, Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS, 240 pages, Alyson Books, ISBN 978-1-59350-153-2
Naomi Shihab Nye, Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25, for "young adults", 256 pages, Greenwillow Books, ISBN 978-0-06-189637-8
Kevin Young, editor, The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, 150 poems arranged to correspond with the grieving process, grouped by: Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery and Redemption; 336 pages, Bloomsbury USA, ISBN 978-1-60819-033-1
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Robert Archambeau, Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press) ISBN 978-0-268-02036-1
David Biespiel, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces (Kelson Books)
Norma Cole, To Be At Music: Essays & Talks (Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing) ISBN 978-1-890650-44-5
Stephen Ratcliffe, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2010)
These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010, with David Lehman, general editor, and Amy Gerstler, guest editor (who selected the poetry):
Jöannes Nielsen, Broer af sultne ord ("Bridges of Hungry Words"), translated from the Faeroese by Erik Skyum-Nielsen, ISBN 978-87-92286-17-8, 52 pages
Andrea Petri, Kulørte balletfantasier ("Colored Ballet Fantasies"), ISBN 978-87-92467-65-2, 41 pages
Allan Strandby Nielsen, Hvis der ikke er sandstorme, så er der nok noget andet ("If There Are Sandstorms, Then There Is Probably Something Else"), ISBN 978-87-02-09049-9, 88 pages
Marc Alyn, Anthologie poétique amoureuse, 330 pages, Ecriture, ISBN 978-2-909240-98-5
Luc Bérimont, Poésies Complètes, publisher: Presses Universitaires d'Angers
Abdellatif Laabi, Oeuvre poétique II, publisher: La Différence
Yvon Le Men, Le Tour du monde en 80 poèmes, publisher: Flammarion
Bernard Noël, Les Plumes d'éros ("The Feathers of Eros"), Works, Volume 1, poetry and prose, 448 pages, Galimard, ISBN 978-2-84682-349-4
Sergio Badilla Castillo Ville Asiégée. Al Manar. Voix Vives de Méditerraée. Juillet 2010
Anthologies in France
Marie-Claire Bancquart, editor, Couleurs femmes: Poèmes de 57 femmes, Le Castor Astral
Christine Planté, editor, Femmes poètes du XIXe siècle: Une anthologie, PUL
Erhan Turgut, editor, Voix de femmes. Anthologie de femmes poètes et photographes du monde, Turquoise Editions
John Ashbery, Ein weltgewandtes Land: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("A Worldly Country: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Gerhard Falkner, Jan Wagner, Ron Winkler, Uljana Wolf et. a. 340 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-26-5
Tadeusz Dabrowski, Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund. Zweisprachig a bilingual Polish/German edition; translated into German by Andre Rudolph, Monika Rinck, 140 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-94-4
Rolf Haufs, Tanzstunde auf See: Gedichte, 128 pages, Hanser, ISBN 978-3-446-20678-6
Martina Hefter, Nach den Diskotheken: Gedichte, 80 pages, Kookbooks, ISBN 978-3-937445-41-0
Gert Jonke, Alle Gedichte: Gedichte ("Complete Poems"), 160 pages, Jung und Jung, ISBN 978-3-902497-65-9
Nadja Küchenmeister, Alle Geister: Gedichte, 104 pages, Schöffling, ISBN 978-3-89561-225-1
Ben Lerner, Die Lichtenbergfiguren: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("The Lichtenberg Figures: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Steffen Popp, 70 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5
Gwendolyn McEwen Die T. E. Lawrence Gedichte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Christine Koschel, 160 pages, Edition Rugerup, ISBN 978-91-89034-26-6
Benard Noel, Körperextrakte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual French/German edition; translated into German by Angela Sanmann, 106 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-349-8
Jörn Pfennig, Grondlos Zärtlich: Gedichte ("Unwarranted Tenderness: Poems"), 116 pages, Talberg, ISBN 978-3-9813473-0-2
Marion Poschmann, Geistersehen: Gedichte ("Seeing Ghosts"), 126 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42129-1
Marcus Roloff, Im toten Winkel des goldenen Schnitts, 72 pages, Gutleut, ISBN 978-3-936826-49-4
Doris Runge, Was da auftaucht: Gedichte, 84 pages, dtv, ISBN 978-3-421-04485-3
Lutz Seiler, Felderlatein: Gedichte, 102 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42169-7
Ernest Wichner Bin ganz wie aufgesperrt, 47 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-352-8
Ron Winkler, Frenetische Stille: Gedichte ("Frenetic Silence: Poems"), 96 pages, Berlin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8270-0920-3
Poland
Jacek Gutorow, Na brzegu rzeki; publisher: Biuro Literackie
Jiří Kolář, Sposób użycia i inne wiersze, selected, translated from the original Czech and annotated by Leszek Engelking; publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT
Urszula Kozioł, Horrendum; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie
Ewa Lipska, Pogłos; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie
Andrzej Sosnowski, Poems (untranslated title); publisher: Biuro Literackie
Bohdan Zadura, Węgierskie lato. Przekłady z poetów węgierskich, translated from the original Hungarian; publisher: Biuro Literacke
Adam Zagajewski, Wiersze wybrane (Selected Poems), publisher: Wydawnictwp a5
Elvis Dino Esquivel, Llantos del silencio, Solar Empire Publishing, ISBN 978-0-61559-440-8
Sergio Badilla Castillo Ok Atacama. Pentagrama edicions. Julio 2010, Santiago de Chile,
Bei Dao, author, and Eliot Weinberger, translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/Chinese edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1; published in the United States
János Háy, Egy szerelmes vers története ("The Story of a Love Poem"), Palatinus; Hungary
Awards and Honors
Awards announced this year:
Golden Wreath of Poetry: Lyubomir Levchev (Bulgaria)
Australia awards and honors
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:
Canada awards and honors
Archibald Lampman Award: Craig Poile, True Concessions
Atlantic Poetry Prize: Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Lean-To
2010 Governor General's Awards: Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (English); Danielle Fournier, effleurés de lumière (French)
Griffin Poetry Prize:
Canadian: Karen Solie, Pigeon
International, in the English Language: Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, The Sun-fish
Lifetime Recognition Award: Adrienne Rich
Gerald Lampert Award: James Langer, Gun Dogs
Pat Lowther Award: Karen Solie, Pigeon
Prix Alain-Grandbois: Paul Bélanger, Répit
New Zealand awards and honors
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):
United Kingdom awards and honors
Cholmondeley Award:
Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Christopher Reid A Scattering
Shortlist:
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:
Best Collection:
Shortlist: Seamus Heaney (for Human Chain), Lachlan Mackinnon (for Small Hours), Sinéad Morrissey (for Through the Square Window), and Fiona Sampson (for Rough Music), Robin Robertson (for The Wrecking Light), Jo Shapcott (for Of Mutability)
Best First Collection:
Shortlist: Christian Campbell (for Running the Dusk), Hilary Menos (for Berg), Abegail Morley (for How to Pour Madness into a Teacup), Helen Oswald (for Learning Gravity), Steve Spence (for A Curious Shipwreck), and Sam Willetts (for New Light for the Old Dark)
Best Poem:
Shortlist: Kate Bingham (for On Highgate Hill), Julia Copus (for An Easy Passage), Lydia Fulleylove (for Night Drive), Chris Jones (for Sentences), Ian Pindar (for Mrs Beltinska in the Bath), and Lee Sands (for The Reach)
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
Shortlist:
Manchester Poetry Prize:
Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet of the Year: "Advice On Wearing Animal Prints" Selima Hill (Flarestack Poets)
National Poet of Wales:
National Poetry Competition 2010:
T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Derek Walcott, White Egrets
Shortlist (announced in November 2010): 2010 Short List
The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Glenn Shaheen for Predatory
AML Award for Poetry awarded to Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for Her Side of It: Poems
Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded to Emma Trelles for Tropicalia
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: D. A. Powell for Chronic
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: John Koethe, Ninety-fifth Street
National Book Award for Poetry: "Lighthead" by Terrance Hayes
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: to C.D. Wright for One With Others
North Carolina Poet Laureate: Cathy Smith Bowers appointed.
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Anne Carson for translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides. Judge: Richard Sieburth
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: Marilyn Hacker
Poet Laureate of Virginia: Kelly Cherry, two-year appointment 2010 to 2012
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Rae Armantrout, VersedFinalists: Tryst by Angie Estes and Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perillo
Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Paul Vangelisti
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize : Eleanor Ross Taylor
Wallace Stevens Award: Galway Kinnell
Whiting Awards: Matt Donovan, Jane Springer, L.B. Thompson
Frost Medal: Lucille Clifton
Shelley Memorial Award: Kenneth Irby / Eileen Myles Judges:
Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Marlene Rosen Fine Judge: Marie Ponsot
Lyric Poetry Award: Ira Sadoff Judge: Megan O'Rourke
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Sandra Stone Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera; finalist:
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rebecca Morgan Frank Judge: Marilyn Hacker; finalists:
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Liya Person-Rechtman Judge: Arda Collins; finalists:
George Bogin Memorial Award: Sawnie Morris Judge:Hettie Jones
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Leslie Williams Judge: David St. John ; finalists:
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Karla Kelsey Judge: Forrest Gander
Norma Farber First Book Award: Scott Coffel Judge: Edward Hirsch
William Carlos Williams Award: Eleanor Ross Taylor Judge: Lynn Emanuel; finalists:
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize
1st place Catherine Ray, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Where Poems Hide For Me"
2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Alter Ego"
3rd place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “What's in My Journal”
1st Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem "Wabanaki"
2nd Honorable Mention Hari Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA for the poem “Non-Entity”
3rd Honorable Mention Sophie Bell, Pound Ridge, NY for the poem "The Calming Book"
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize
1st place Edyt Dickstein, Livingston, NJ for the poem "Promises"
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize
1st place Lauren Rae (Wren) Brown, Springfield, VA for the poem “Truly (Louis XVI's monologue)”
2nd place Meredith Makhoul, Richmond VA for the poem "Intersection of Patterson and Chopt"
3rd place Taylor Knight, Richmond, VA for the poem "Father"
1st Honorable Mention Audrey Crothers, Virginia Beach, VA for the poem "Odysseus Returns"
2nd Honorable Mention James Ruml, Richmond, VA for the poem "I Wanted"
3rd Honorable Mention Hunter Johnson, Richmond, VA for the poem "English Class"
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College
1st place Chelsea Henderson, Charlottesville, VA for the poem "Indignities"
2nd place Stephanie Wang, Roslyn, NY for the poem "He Wrote My Name In Snow"
3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, VA for the poem “My Sister, January 1989”
1st Honoralbe Mention Liam Kane-Grade, Prairie du Sac, WI for the poem "Ants in the Rain"
2nd Honorable Mention Nathan W. Friedman, Richmond, VA for the poem, “Re-enactors”
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10
1st place Amber Brown, Oak Park, IL for the poem "Moon"
2nd place Alexis Mia Phillips, Oak Park IL for the poem “Case# 07CR0304”
3rd place Damiano R. Girona, Newport News, VA for the poem "Natural Love"
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8
1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem "Sentences"
2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem "Just Because"
3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat”
1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem "The Bus"
2nd Honorable Mention Abby Williams, Richmond, VA for the poem "Devotion"
3rd Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins for the poem "Together"
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car
January 8 – Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet
January 11 – Fina de Calderón, 82, Spanish
January 14 – P. K. Page, 93 (born 1916), Canadian poet
January 20:
Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born British poet and painter
Avrom Sutzkever, 96 (born 1913), Israeli, Yiddish-language poet
February 6 – Robert Dana, 80 (born 1929), American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of Iowa from 2004–2008, pancreatic cancer.
February 13 – Lucille Clifton, 73 (born 1936), American poet and former Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).
March 12 – Todd Moore, 72 (born 1937), American poet
March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, 91 (born 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet and writer, after short illness. [3]
March 20 – Ai, 62 (born 1947), American poet whose book Vice (1999) won the National Book Award for Poetry. Born Florence Anthony, she legally changed her name to Ai.
April 2 – Carolyn Rodgers, 69 (born 1940), American poet based in Chicago, participated in Gwendolyn Brooks's Writers Workshops and gained prominence as part of the Black Arts Movement.
April 5 – William Neill, 88 (born 1922), Scottish poet.
April 23 – Peter Porter, 81 (born 1929), Australian-born British poet. Associated with referred to in Britain as The Group, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia.
May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, 88 (born 1922), Vietnamese poet and playwright
May 7 – Rane Arroyo, 55, (born 1954), American poet and playwright.
May 10 – David Chaloner, 65 (born 1944), English designer (of interior public spaces) and poet
May 17:
Mukhran Machavariani (Georgian: მუხრან მაჭავარიანი), 81 (born 1929), Georgian poet, died while delivering a speech on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre on the occasion of the 85th birthday of a fellow poet, Pridon Khalvashi
Judson Crews, 92, (born 1917), American poet, small press publisher, and bookseller.
May 18:
Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, (born 1930), Italian poet, playwright, critic and winner of the Bagutta Prize.
Peter Seaton, 67, (born 1942), American poet associated with the Language poetry movement, of an apparent heart attack.
May 20 – Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, Peruvian In a tribute to Valcarcel organized by Argentine poet Gabriel Impaglione, 30 poets recited free-verse poems on May 31.
May 21 – Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage
May 22 – Veturi Sundararama Murthy (Telugu: వేటూరి సుందరరామమూర్తి), 74, Telugu-language Indian poet, journalist, writer and lyricist in the Indian cinema, cardiac arrest.
May 28 – Leslie Scalapino, 65, (born 1944), American poet, playwright, and editor, winner of the American Book Award.
May 30 – Peter Orlovsky, 76, (born 1933), American poet and lifelong companion of Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg.
June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, 77 (born 1933), Russian poet
June 7:
José Albi, 88 (born 1922), Spanish poet, literary critic and translator
Ndoc Gjetja, 66 (born 1944), Albanian poet and magazine editor, after long illness
June 16 – Allen Hoey, 57 (born 1952), American poet who received a Pulitzer prize nomination for his 2008 collection Country Music,, of a heart attack.
June 18 – Jose Saramago, 87 (born 1922), Portuguese novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, communist political commentator and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature
July 2 – Tommy Tabermann, 62 (born 1947), Finnish poet and politician
July 3 – Roberto Piva, 72 (born 1937), Brazilian poet and writer
July 5 – Pete Morgan, 71 (born 1939), English
July 12 – Tuli Kupferberg, 86, American Beat poet and singer
August 3 – Marilyn Buck, 62 (born 1947), radical American left-wing terrorist and poet
August 15 – Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, 70, (born 1940), Saudi Arabian statesman, writer, novelist and poet
August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve (Devanagari: नारायण गंगाराम सुर्वे), 83 (born 1926), Indian, Marathi-language poet
August 17:
Ludvik Kundera, 90 (born 1920), Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian; a cousin of Milan Kundera
Edwin Morgan, 90 (born 1920), Scottish poet in English and Scots, appointed first "Scottish Makar" (national poet of Scotland) in 2004, an honor which he held the rest of his life
August 27:
George Hitchcock, 96 (born 1914), American poet; editor and publisher of Kayak magazine and books.
Ravindra Kelekar, 85 (born 1925), Indian author, poet and activist, after short illness.
September 3:
Micky Burn, 97 (born 1912), English writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poet
Carmelo Arden Quin, 97 (born 1913), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi”
September 27:
Michael Gizzi, 61 (born 1949), American poet and editor, author of more than 10 books of poetry
Carmelo Arden Quin, 97 (born 1913), Uruguayan poet, painter and sculptor
October 21:
A. Ayyappan, 61 (born 1949), Indian poet
Kjell Landmark, 80 (born 1930), Norwegian poet and politician
October 22 – Alí Chumacero, 92 (born 1918), Mexican writer and poet
November 4:
Viola Fischerová, 75 (born 1935), Czech poet
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, 76 (born 1934), Filipino poet
November 5 – Adrian Păunescu, 67 (born 1943), Romanian author, poet and politician.
November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos, 90 (born 1920), Greek poet, pen name of Yorgis Kontoyorgis.
November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory, 87 (born 1923), Spanish poet, leukemia.
November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, 73, (born 1937), Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer and translator.
December 23 – Janine Pommy Vega, 68, (born 1942) American Beat Generation poet.
