title: 2017 in poetry
text: # 2017 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * May 23 – English poet Tony Walsh reads his 2013 poem "This is the place" to the crowds gathered in Albert Square, Manchester for a public vigil following this week's Manchester Arena bombing.
  * June 23 – English-resident writer Ben Okri publishes his poem "Grenfell Tower, June 2017" in the Financial Times following this month's Grenfell Tower fire in London.
  
  ## Anniversaries
  
  * March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell.
  
  ## Selection of works published in English
  
  ### Australia
  
  * Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry
  * Alan Wearne, These Things Are Real
  * Fiona Wright, Domestic Interior
  
  ### Canada
  
  * Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
  * Lorna Crozier, What the Soul Doesn't Want
  * Nora Gould, Selah
  * Aisha Sasha John, I have to live
  * Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War
  * Donato Mancini, Same Diff
  * Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between
  * Joshua Whitehead, Full-Metal Indigiqueer
  
  ### New Zealand
  
  * Airini Beautrais, Flow: Whanganui River Poems, Victoria University Press
  * Kate Camp, The Internet of Things, Victoria University Press
  * Paula Green, New York Pocket Book, Seraph Press
  
  **Poets in Best New Zealand Poems**
  
  These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2016 (guest editor was Jenny Bornholdt), published this year:
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  **England**
  
  * Megan Beech, You Sad Feminist
  * Emily Berry, Stranger, Baby
  * Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda
  * Helen Dunmore (d. June 5), Inside the Wave
  * Michael Longley, Angel Hill (Northern Irish poet published in England)
  * Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Words: A Spell Book (illustrated by Jackie Morris)
  * Hollie McNish, Plum
  * Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance (Northern Irish poet published in England)
  * Richard Osmond, Useful Verses
  
  ### United States
  
  Alphabetical listing by author name
  
  * Clark Coolidge, Selected Poems: 1962-1985, Station Hill Press
  * Shara McCallum, Madwoman, Alice James Books
  * Morgan Parker, There are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé, Tin House Books
  
  ## 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
  
  * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:
  * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:
  
  ### Canada awards and honors
  
  * Archibald Lampman Award: Stephen Brockwell, All of Us Reticent, Here, Together
  * Atlantic Poetry Prize: Jennifer Houle, The Back Channels
  * 2017 Governor General's Awards: Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (English), Louise Dupré, La Main hantée (French)
  * Griffin Poetry Prize:
     * Canada: Jordan Abel, Injun
     * International: Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
     * Lifetime Recognition Award (presented by the Griffin trustees): Frank Bidart
  * Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Louise Bernice Halfe
  * Gerald Lampert Award: Ingrid Ruthig, This Being
  * Pat Lowther Award: Sue Sinclair, Heaven's Thieves
  * Prix Alain-Grandbois: Marie-Célie Agnant, Femmes des terres brûlées
  * Raymond Souster Award: Louise Bernice Halfe, Burning in this Midnight Dream
  * Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You
  * Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Guerrette, Constellation des grands brûlés
  
  ### France awards and honors
  
  * Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:
  
  ### New Zealand awards and honors
  
  * Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
     * Fiction: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler
     * Nonfiction: Peter Simpson
     * Poetry: Paula Green
  * Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):
  
  ### United Kingdom awards and honors
  
  * Cholmondeley Award: Caroline Bergvall, Sasha Dugdale, Philip Gross, Paula Meehan
  * Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry:
     * Shortlist: Kayo Chingonyi, Kumukanda; Helen Dunmore (d. June 5), Inside the Wave (also overall Book of the Year winner); Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance; Richard Osmond, Useful Verses
  * 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:
  * National Poetry Competition 2017:
  * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Paul Muldoon
  * T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland):
     * Shortlist (announced in November 2017): 2017 Short List
  * The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
  
  ### United States awards and honors
  
  * Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
     * Honorable Mentions:
  * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
  * Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
  * Best Translated Book Award (BTBA):
  * Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
  * Bollingen Prize: to Jean Valentine
  * Jackson Poetry Prize: to Patricia Spears Jones
     * Judges: Henri Cole, Kwame Dawes, and Mary Szybist
  * Lambda Literary Award:
     * Gay Poetry:
     * Lesbian Poetry:
  * Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
  * Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
     * Finalists:
  * National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
     * NBA Finalists:
     * NBA Longlist:
     * NBA Judges:
  * National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
  * The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
  * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): to Tyehimba Jess for Olio
     * Finalists: XX by Campbell McGrath; Collected Poems: 1950-2012, by Adrienne Rich
  * Wallace Stevens Award:
  * Whiting Awards:
  * PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
  * PEN Center USA 2017 Poetry Award:
  * PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
  * Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
  * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
  * Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
  * Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
  * Yale Younger Series:
  
  **From the Poetry Society of America**
  
  * Frost Medal: to Susan Howe
  * Shelley Memorial Award: to Gillian Conoley
  * Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
  * Lyric Poetry Award:
  * Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
  * Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
  * George Bogin Memorial Award:
  * Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
  * Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
  * Norma Farber First Book Award:
  * Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
  * William Carlos Williams Award: (Judge: )
     * Finalists for WCW Award:
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### January – June
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January 2 – John Berger, 90, English novelist, painter and art critic, and poet (b. 1926)
  * January 25 – Harry Mathews, 86, American novelist and poet (b. 1930)
  * February 5 – Thomas Lux, 70, American poet and teacher (b. 1946)
  * February 8 – Tom Raworth, 78, British poet, visual artist, publisher, and teacher (b. 1938)
  * March 10 – Mari Evans, 93, American poet. (b. 1923)
  * March 16 – Wojciech Młynarski, 75, Polish poet, singer and songwriter (born 1941)
  * March 17 – Derek Walcott, 87, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate in 1992 (b. 1930)
  * March 22 – Joanne Kyger, 82, American poet who had ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation, (b. 1934)
  * April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet, 84 (b. 1933)
  * May 24 – Denis Johnson, American poet (The Incognito Lounge), novelist (Tree of Smoke), and short story writer (Jesus' Son), 67 (b. 1947).
  * June 5 – Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer, 64 (born 1952)
  * June 8 - Shinichiro Hagihara, Japanese tanka poet
  
  ### July – December
  
  * November 15 – Michelle Boisseau, 62, American poet (b. 1955)
  