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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".[http://whyalmost50.blogspot.com/2013/07/prison-of-mind-chinese-poets-memoir-of.html "Almost 50: Prison Of The Mind – A Chinese poet's memoir of incarceration".][http://www.zyzzyva.org/2013/06/26/a-poet-survives-chinas-prison-liao-yiwus-for-a-song-and-a-hundred-songs/ "A Poet Survives China's Prison: Liao Yiwu's 'For a Song and a Hundred Songs'". ZYZZYVA.]
  • 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.[http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/call-to-action-kazakh-poet-aron-atabek-a-prison-within-a-prison/ "Call to Action – Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek: A Prison Within a Prison". PEN International.] Atabek is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for other alleged crimes against the state.Sheerin, Cathal. "[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/cathal-sheerin/a-prison-within-a-prison_b_3491209.html A Prison within a Prison: the Solitary Confinement of Kazakh Poet Aron Atabek]"
  • September 13 – Australians Graham Nunn and Andrew Slattery are accused of plagiarism over separate works which they have published.Fitch, Toby. (2013-09-23). "[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/23/australian-poetry-plagiarism Plagiarism scandal has revealed an ugly side of Australian poetry]". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  • September 21 – Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor is among those who are killed in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi, Kenya.{{cite web|title=Prof. Awoonor dies in Al-Shabab attack in Kenyan Mall|url=http://www.citifmonline.com/index.php?id=1.1540045|publisher=citifmonline.com|accessdate=2013-09-22}}{{cite news|title=Nairobi shopping mall attacks: Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet, killed in Westgate Attack|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10326144/Nairobi-shopping-mall-attacks-Kofi-Awoonor-Ghanaian-poet-killed-in-Westgate-Attack.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923130321/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10326144/Nairobi-shopping-mall-attacks-Kofi-Awoonor-Ghanaian-poet-killed-in-Westgate-Attack.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-09-23|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=2013-09-22|location=London|first=Alice|last=Vincent|date=2013-09-22}}{{cite news|title=Somalia's al-Shabab claims Nairobi Westgate Kenya attack|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24191606|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2013-09-22|date=2013-09-22}}
  • 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.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/24/cj-allen-poem-forward-prize-plagiarism "Poem pulled from Forward prize shortlist after plagiarism row" (Books)]. The Guardian.{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24195602| work=BBC News|title=Poet withdraws from Forward Prize over plagiarism|date=2013-09-22}}

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,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 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:

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=United Kingdom=

==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}}.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/07/best-poetry-2013 The best poetry of 2013 | Books | The Guardian]

==Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom==

=United States=

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  • 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

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  • 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

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==Anthologies in the United States==

==Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States==

  • Robert Archambeau. The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World [http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/12/underrated_books_overlooked_fiction_and_nonfiction_of_2013.html Underrated books: Overlooked fiction and nonfiction of 2013]

==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):[http://bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=27 The Best American Poetry 2013, Guest Edited by Denise Duhamel]

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=Works published in English in other countries=

=Works published in other languages=

Awards and honors by country

{{see also|List of poetry awards}}

Awards announced this year:

=Canada awards and honours=

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=New Zealand awards and honors=

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=United States awards and honors=

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sarah Rose Nordgren for Best Bones {{cite web |url=http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles/starrett.htm#6 |title=browse |publisher=Upress.pitt.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925192309/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles%2Fstarrett.htm#6 |archive-date=2017-09-25 |url-status=dead }}
  • * AML Award for Poetry awarded Alex Caldiero for sonosuono (with recognition also to Susan Elizabeth Howe's collection Salt and Lance Larsen's collection Genius Loci
  • Best Translated Book Award (BTBA){{cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?s=btb |title=Best Translated Book Award 2013 |publisher=Rochester.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}} – Poetry Finalists for 2013 BTBA (see note)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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==From the Poetry Society of America==

  • Frost Medal: Robert Bly{{cite web|author=02/12/13 by PSA |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/announcing_the_2013_frost_medali/ |title=Announcing the 2013 Frost Medalist, Robert Bly – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Shelley Memorial Award: Lucia Perillo / Martín Espada – Judges: Amy Gerstler & Marilyn Nelson{{cite web|author=03/29/13 by PSA |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/announcing_the_2013_shelley_memo/ |title=Announcing the 2013 Shelley Memorial Award, Martín Espada and Lucia Perillo – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award: Greg Wrenn; Finalists: Heather Cousins / Jacquelyn Pope – Judge: Brian Teare{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_1/ |title=Greg Wrenn – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Lyric Poetry Award: Micah Bateman; Finalists: Bruce Bond / Andrea Carter Brown – Judge: Carolyne Wright{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_5/ |title=Micah Bateman – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Gary Young; Finalists: Bruce Bond / Diana Khoi Nguyen – Judge: Patricia Smith{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_7/ |title=Gary Young – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Elyse Fenton; Finalists: Meena Alexander / Lia Purpura – Judge: Kevin Prufer{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_8/ |title=Elyse Fenton – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Lizza Rodriguez; Finalists: Sarah George / Jack Hunt – Judge: Gabrielle Calvocoressi{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_4/ |title=Lizza Rodriguez – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • George Bogin Memorial Award: Paula Bohince; Finalists: Jamaal May / Lucy Ricciardi – Judge: Cate Marvin{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_6/ |title=Paula Bohince – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Carol Light Finalist: C. E. Perry – Judge: David Wagoner{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_3/ |title=Carol Light – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Ted Mathys – Judge: Alice Notley{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_2/ |title=Ted Mathys – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • Norma Farber First Book Award: Nick Twemlow for Palm Trees (Green Lantern Press, 2012); – Judge: Timothy Liu{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award_9/ |title=Nick Twemlow – Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=2013-04-20}}
  • 'Finalist: Robert Ostrom for The Youngest Butcher in Illinois (YesYes Books, 2012)
  • William Carlos Williams Award: Naomi Replansky for Collected Poems (Black Sparrow|David R. Godine) – Judge: B. H. Fairchild{{Cite web |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award/ |title=Naomi Replansky – Poetry Society of America |access-date=2013-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921093444/http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2013/award/ |archive-date=2013-09-21 |url-status=dead }}
  • Finalists for WCW Award: Kathleen Flenniken for Plume; Lucia Perillo for On The Spectrum of Possible Deaths; and Patrica Smith for Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Deaths

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

  • January 10 – Evan S. Connell, Jr., 88 (born 1924) American novelist, poet and short-story writer.
  • January 20 – Toyo Shibata, 101 (born 1911), female Japanese poet.
  • January 29 – Anselm Hollo, 78 (born 1934), Finnish poet resident in the U.S. since 1967.[http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2013/02/in-memoriam-anselm-hollo-1934-2013/ In memoriam Anselm Hollo 1934–2013 | Books from Finland]
  • January 24 – Lucien Stryk, 88 (born 1924) American poet, Zen scholar and translator.[http://www.niutoday.info/2013/01/29/niu-mourns-death-of-famed-poet-lucien-stryk/#Northern NIU mourns death of famed poet Lucien Stryk | NIU Today]
  • March 2 – Thomas McEvilley, 73 (born 1939), American art critic, poet and novelist.
  • March 21 – Chinua Achebe, 82 (born 1930), Nigerian writer, perhaps best known for Things Fall Apart, also published many volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems in 2005.
  • March 30 – Daniel Hoffman, 89 (born 1923), Poet Laureate of the U.S. in 1973 and 1974.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/books/daniel-hoffman-former-us-poet-laureate-dies-at-89.html | work=The New York Times | first=Bruce | last=Weber | title=Daniel Hoffman, Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Dies at 89 | date=2013-04-04}}
  • May 5 – Sarah Kirsch, 78 (born 1935), East German poet.
  • August 17 – John Hollander, 83 (born 1929), American poet and literary critic.
  • August 30 – Seamus Heaney, 74 (born 1939), Irish poet, playwright, translator and critic, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • September 23 – Álvaro Mutis, 90 (born 1923), Colombian poet, novelist and essayist.[http://entretenimiento.terra.com.co/cultura/alvaro-mutis-muere-a-la-edad-de-90-anos-en-mexico,4f8b6392e5841410VgnVCM10000098cceb0aRCRD.html Álvaro Mutis muere a la edad de 90 años en México] {{in lang|es}}

See also

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References

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