2020 in poetry

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Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2020 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[]

  • January 27–February 1 – The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is organised by Western Folklife Center in Nevada with live musical performances.[1]

Selection of works published in English[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

India[]

  • Antony Theodore, I Am Your Baby, Mother
  • Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Selected Poems
  • Ranjit Hoskote, Open Your Eyes
  • Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Kalahandi - The Untold Story
  • Tishani Doshi, Small Days and Nights

Nigeria[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
  • Caroline Bird, The Air Year
  • Eavan Boland, The Historians
  • , Tongues of Fire
  • Simon Armitage, Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems

United States[]

  • Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers
  • Claudia Rankine, Just Us
  • Eliza Griswold, If Men, Then
  • Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons
  • Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

Anthologies in Canada[]

New Zealand[]

Poets in Best New Zealand Poems[]

United Kingdom[]

England[]

Northern Ireland[]

Scotland[]

Anthologies in the United Kingdom[]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Alphabetical listing by author name


Anthologies in the United States[]

  • Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
  • Robert Hass, Summer Snow: New Poems

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States[]

Poets in The Best American Poetry 2018[]

Works published in other languages[]

Awards and honors by country[]

  • See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

International[]

  • Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate : Amir Or

Australia awards and honors[]

Canada awards and honors[]

France awards and honors[]

India awards and honors[]

  • Sahitya Akademi Award : Arundhathi Subramaniam for When God is a Traveler (English) & Anamika for Tokri Mein Digant (Hindi)

New Zealand awards and honors[]

United Kingdom awards and honors[]

  • Cholmondeley Award: Bhanu Kapil
  • Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Eavan Boland for The Historians
  • 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: James Pollock
  • National Poet of Wales:
  • National Poetry Competition : Marvin Thompson for The Fruit of the Spirit is Love
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
  • T. S. Eliot Prize : Bhanu Kapil for How to Wash a Heart

United States awards and honors[]

From the Poetry Society of America[]

Deaths[]

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

  • February 4 – Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930), Caribbean poet
  • February 17 – Ror Wolf (b. 1932), German poet and writer
  • February 18 – Seda Vermisheva (b. 1932), Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist
  • February 21 – Lisel Mueller (b. 1924), German-American poet and translator
  • April 1 – Bruce Dawe (b. 1930), Australian poet
  • April 27 – Eavan Boland (b. 1944), Irish poet and author
  • May 4 – Michael McClure (b. 1932), American poet, playwright and songwriter
  • June 12 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (b. 1926), Indian Urdu poet
  • July 31 – ruth weiss (b. 1928), German-born American poet of the beat generation
  • August 11 – Rahat Indori (b. 1950), Indian Urdu poet and Bollywood lyricist, following Covid-19 infection[2]
  • September 14 – Anne Stevenson (b. 1933), American-British poet
  • October 1 – Derek Mahon, (b. 1941), Irish poet[3]
  • October 25 – Diane Di Prima (b. 1934), American poet of the beat generation
  • November 10 – Carlo Bordini (b. 1938), Italian poet
  • December 14 – Marvin Bell (b. 1937), American poet
  • December 23 – Sugathakumari (b. 1934), Indian Malayalam poet and activist[4]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Vaughan, Carson (2020-01-27). "Real Cowboys Write Poems". National Geographic. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
  2. ^ Khurana, Suanshu (2020-08-12). "Urdu Poet and Lyricist Rahat Indori Dies at 70". The Indian Express. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
  3. ^ Cain, Sian (2020-10-02). "Derek Mahon, Giant of Irish Poetry Dies Aged 78". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
  4. ^ TOI, Agency (2020-12-23). "Malayalam Poet and Activist Sugathakumari Passes Away". The Times of India. Thiruvananthapuram. Archived from the original on 2021-07-10. Retrieved 2021-07-03.


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