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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate April 17 - New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman appoints poet Gerald Stern to be the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perform Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinness World Record for simultaneous mass performance of a poem Spike Milligan made an honorary knight In the film Pandaemonium, released this year, the lives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads," are discussed. Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Les Murray: Learning Human: Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux, also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Poems, Brunswick: Gungurru Les Wicks, The Ways of Waves, Sidewalk Roo Borson, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, (by Pain Not Bread) American-Canadian Clint Burnham, Buddyland (Coach House Books) Margaret Christakos: Wipe Under A Love (Toronto: The Mansfield Press) Charisma (Toronto: Pedlar Press) George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, revised edition of book which originally appeared in 1990, (revised edition number) Canada Louis Dudek, The Surface of Time.