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This is part of the List of years in poetry
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Robert Penn Warren commemorative postage stamp released this year

Robert Penn Warren commemorative postage stamp released this year

Contents

Events

  • October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg\'s poem Howl were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK. The British event, Howl for Now, was accompanied by a book of essays of the same name, edited by Simon Warner, reflecting on the piece\'s enduring power and influence.

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet\'s native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

Canada

New Zealand


Poets in Best New Zealand Poems

Poems from these 25 poets, selected by Emma Neale were included in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, published online this year:

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Poets whose works appeared in The Best American Poetry 2005

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2005, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Paul Muldoon:

Other in English

Works published in other languages


Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

January 21: Theun de Vries born 1907 Dutch writer and poet
February 25: Phoebe Hesketh born 1909 British
March 7: Philip Lamantia born 1927 American
March 29: Miltos Sachtouris born 1919 Greek
March 30: Robert Creeley born 1926 American
April 14 Julia Darling, 48 born 1956 British
June 9: Hovis Presley born 1960 English
June 13: Eugénio de Andrade born 1923 Portuguese lyric poet
June 23: Manolis Anagnostakis born 1925 Greek poet
June 28: Philip Hobsbaum born 1932 Scot poet and critic
July 4: Lorenzo Thomas born 1944 American poet, critic, essayist,
Umbra Workshop founding member
July 7: Gustaf Sobin born 1935 American
August 6: Vizma Belsevica born 1931 leading post-war Latvian poet
August 21: Dahlia Ravikovitch born 1936 Israeli
August 31: Amrita Pritam born 1919leading Punjab poet in India who wrote in Hindi
September 16: Stanley Burnshaw born 1906 American poet and novelist
November 1: Michael Thwaitesborn 1915Australian

See also

Poetry Portal

Notes and references

  • [3] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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