2018 in poetry

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Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2018 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[]

  • August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, is read Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" by newspaper editor Geordie Greig.[1]

Anniversaries[]

Selection of works published in English[]

Australia[]

  • Jordie Albiston, Warlines
  • Judith Beveridge, Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
  • Ken Bolton, Starting at Basheer's
  • Sarah Day, Towards Light & Other Poems
  • Paul Hetherington, Moonlight on Oleander
  • John Mateer, João
  • Tim Metcalf, The Underwritten Plain
  • Tracy Ryan, The Water Bearer

Canada[]

  • Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
  • Leonard Cohen (d. 2016), The Flame

Anthologies in Canada[]

New Zealand[]

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems[]

United Kingdom[]

England[]

  • Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance
  • Jay Bernard, Surge
  • John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive
  • Salena Godden, Pessimism is for Lightweights: 13 pieces of courage and resistance
  • Susannah Hart, Out of True
  • Zaffar Kunial, Us
  • Andrew McMillan, playtime
  • J. O. Morgan, Assurances (Scottish poet published in England)
  • Robin Robertson, The Long Take (novel partly in verse; Scottish poet published in England)
  • Richard Scott, Soho
  • Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems

Northern Ireland[]

Scotland[]

Anthologies in the United Kingdom[]

  • Fiona Waters, I am the Seed that Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Alphabetical listing by author name

  • Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X (young adult verse novel)
  • , Poems of People
  • Jos Charles, feeld (Milkweed Editions)
  • Jason Reynolds, For Every One

Anthologies in the United States[]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States[]

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2018[]

Works published in other languages[]

Italian[]

  • AA.VV., Paragrafi. Antologia di poesia in prosa (edited by , Coll. Candide, Pasturana, puntoacapo editrice)[1], poets: Antonella Anedda, , , , Franco Buffoni, , Luigi Fontanella, , , , , , , , , , Giampiero Neri, , , , Fabio Pusterla, , , , , Marco Vitale
  • AA.VV., Non era soltanto passione. Generazione degli anni 80 (edited by , preface by , Viganello [Lugano], alla chiara fonte)[2]; poets: , , , , , , , , , , Marko Miladinovic, ,
  • , Solo vorrei ammirare lungamente (Viganello [Lugano], alla chiara fonte)[3]

Nepali[]

Awards and honors by country[]

  • See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

International[]

  • Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate:

Australia awards and honors[]

Canada awards and honors[]

France awards and honors[]

New Zealand awards and honors[]

United Kingdom awards and honors[]

  • Cholmondeley Award: Vahni Capildeo, Kate Clanchy, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Daljit Nagra, Zoë Skoulding
  • Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
    • Shortlist: Zaffar Kunial, Us; J. O. Morgan, Assurances; Richard Scott, Soho; Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems
  • 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:
    • Best First Collection:
      • Shortlist:
    • Best Poem:
      • Shortlist:
  • Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
    • Shortlist:
  • Manchester Poetry Prize:
  • National Poet of Wales: Ifor ap Glyn
  • National Poetry Competition 2018:
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Simon Armitage
  • T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems
    • Shortlist (announced in November 2018): 2018 Short List
  • The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

United States awards and honors[]

From the Poetry Society of America[]

Deaths[]

January – June[]

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

  • January 3 – Keorapetse Kgositsile (b. 1938), South African Poet Laureate

July – December[]

  • August 5 – Matthew Sweeney (b. 1952), Irish poet
  • October 22 – Anne Fairbairn, (b. 1928), Australian poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture
  • October 27 – Ntozake Shange (b. 1948), American playwright and poet
  • November 22 – Judith Rodriguez, (b. 1936), Australian poet and academic

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Lea, Richard (2018-08-11). "V. S. Naipaul, Nobel prize-winning British author, dies aged 85". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  2. ^ "Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on April 22, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  3. ^ "Frost Medal". Britannica. Archived from the original on May 1, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  4. ^ "Announcing the winner of the 2018 Shelley Memorial Award, Ntozake Shange". Poetry Society of America. April 18, 2018. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  5. ^ "Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award - 2018". Poetry Society of America. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  6. ^ "Norma Farber First Book Award - 2018". Poetry Society of America. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  7. ^ "William Carlos Williams Award - 2018". Poetry Society of America. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved May 3, 2021.


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