Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and The Forward Book of Poetry, an associated annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication is selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected.
The first wall poems in Leiden are installed.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Chris Mansell, Shining Like a Jinx
Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World, winner of the 1993 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
A. B. Paterson, A. B. Paterson, Selected Poems, edited by Les Murray, Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1992, 1996, posthumous
Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award
Irving Layton, Fornalutx: Selected Poems, 1928-1990. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW Press
Jayanta Mahapatra, A Whiteness of Bone ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin Books
Rukmini Bhaya Nair, The Hyoid Bone ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin
Jeet Thayil and Vijay Nambisan, Gemini-2 ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin-Viking
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, editor, Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Arundhathi Subramaniam has called the volume a significant and influential work in Indian poetry
Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni, translators, A Terrorist of the Spirit, translation of Vasant Abaji Dahake's Yogabhrashta from the original Marathi into English; New Delhi: Harper Collins/Indus
Harry Clifton, The Desert Route, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Seán Dunne, The Sheltered Nest, including "Sydney Place", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Peter Fallon, Eye to Eye, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translation of Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Alistair Campbell, Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain, Auckland: Hazard Press
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translation of Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Simon Armitage:
Kid
Xanadu
George Mackay Brown:
Brodgar Poems
The Lost Village
Stewart Brown, Caribbean Poetry Now (2nd revised edition), London: Edward Arnold (anthology)
Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
Carol Ann Duffy:
William and the Ex-Prime Minister, Anvil Press Poetry, a 16-page pamphlet,
Editor, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine, Viking (anthology)
Douglas Dunn, editor, Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, London: Faber and Faber (anthology)
Gavin Ewart, Like It Or Not
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