January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nâzım Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet Union.[1]
March 16 – Nicholas Hughes, 47, the son of the poets Ted Hughes (British poet laureate 1984–98) and Sylvia Plath, who famously committed suicide in 1963 when her son was a year old, hangs himself in his home in Alaska. He had suffered from depression.[3]
Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse, editors, Motherlode: Australian Women's Poetry 1986 – 2008, 120 poets represented, 342 pp, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, ISBN 978-1-921450-16-7, anthology
Emma Jones, The Striped World, winner of the 2009 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; Faber and Faber
Martin Langford:
editor, Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788–2008, Glebe, New South Wales: Puncher and Wattmann, ISBN 978-1-921450-17-4, anthology
Anju Makhija, E V Ramakrishan, editors, We Speak in Changing Languages: Indian Women Poets 1990–2007, anthology, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi[14]
Anthony Theodore, The Song of My Dance and Dance of My Dreams, ISBN 978-14-389511-9-5
Arundhathi Subramaniam, editor, Hot is the Moon: Poems and Stories of Women in Kannada, Tamil, Konkani And Tulu, anthology in various languages, with translations into English; Mumbai: Sparrow[15]
Uddipana Goswami, We Called the River Red ( Poetry in English ), Authorspress[17]
Yash Sharma, Tale of a Virgin River, translated into English by Anil Sehgal from the original Dogri; released with a CD of six songs composed and sung by the poet's daughter, Seema Anil Sehgal, a prominent singer; published in Singapore[18]
Irelandedit
Michael Coady, Going by Water, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
Ray Givans, Tolstoy in Love, 82 pages, ISBN 978-1-906614-08-9
Kerry Hardie, Only This Room, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press
Ron Houchin, Museum Crows, 84 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-17-8
Dorothy Molloy, Long-distance Swimmer, 60 pages, Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Press, ISBN 978-1-907056-21-5, posthumously published (died 2004)
Paul Muldoon, Wayside Shrines, 40 pages, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-479-4
Caroline Grigson, editor, The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's Tuneful Voice (Hunter, 1742–1821, wrote lyrics to much of Haydn's music) Liverpool University Press (Liverpool English Texts and Studies) ISBN 978-1-84631-191-8
Luke Kennard, The Migraine Hotel, Salt, 96 pages, ISBN 978-1-84471-555-8
Herbert Lomas, A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems, contains all nine of the author's previous poetry books and one previously unpublished book of poems; 428 pages, ISBN 978-1-906570-41-5
Sean O'Brien, Night Train (with artist Birtley Aris), Flambard Press
Ruth Padel, Darwin: A Life in Poems, the author is his great-granddaughter[19]
Collected Poems, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-375-40096-4[23]
The Unfinished Poems, C.P. Cavafy, 30 poems, left in various stages of completion by Cavafy when he died in 1933, discovered in the Cavafy Archive in the 1960s by George Savidis, the poet's editor, and published in a scholarly Greek edition by Renata Lavagnini in 1994; Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-26546-3[23]
Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), Victi Resurgunt. Published posthumously. A 26-page pamphlet of fifteen "fugitive" patriotic and war poems written by Mrs. Coates. The poems were originally published in various periodicals and texts between the years 1915 and 1922, and have been compiled and organized into pamphlet format.[24]ISBN 978-0-615-30926-2[23]
Arda Collins, It Is Daylight, Louise Glück's sixth pick as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition; Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-14888-6 (April)[23]
Fred Wah, The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah, selected with an introduction by Louis Cabri; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Anne Waldman, Manatee/ Humanity, Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-311521-2 book-length poem taking its form and concerns from a Tibetan Buddhist ritual and from the poet's close encounter with a Manatee[23]
Translator from the original French of Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose, Wesleyan University Press (May)[21]
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-25878-5 Waldrop has long been a major force in American avant-garde poetics, and this substantial new volume is big news indeed. Comprising three sequences—each almost a book in itself—plus an epilogue,[23] and received the National Book Award (see below)
Peter Waterhouse, Language Death Night Outside: Poem / Novel, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop; Burning Deck, Providence, Rhode Island
Emily Wilson, Micrographia, title from Robert Hooke's 1665 scientific study of the natural world through a microscope; University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-58729-801-1[23]
Anthologies in the United Statesedit
David Lehman, general editor, David Wagoner, editor, The Best American Poetry 2009ISBN 978-0-7432-9976-3 (September 2009)
David Yezzi, editor, Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, (University of Ohio Press, 2009), ISBN 0-8040-1121-4
Honor Moore, Poems from the Women's Movement (April), work from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Library of America
Miekal And, editor, "Anthology Spidertangle", representative work of more than 50 visual poets, ISBN 978-1-4382-5818-8, Xexoxial Editions
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Statesedit
International Who's Who in Poetry 2009, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-85743-483-5
Pierre Joris, Justifying the Margins, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK; essays, criticism via poetics
Joshua Weiner, ed. (2009). At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-89043-2.
Emily Dickinson, Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Françoise Delphy; Flammarion
Patrice Delbourg, editor, L'année poétique 2009 ("Poetry Year 2000"), French-language poetry published in the past 12 months, Publisher: Seghers; ISBN 978-2-232-12308-5. an anthology
Jean Max Tixier, Chants de l'évidence, publisher: Autres Temps, ISBN 978-2-84521-338-8
French poetry in Canadaedit
Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom, Publisher: Éditions du Noroît; ISBN 978-2-89018-655-2; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry[28]
René Lapierre, Traité de physique, Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; ISBN 978-2-89419-280-1; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry[28]
Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre, Publisher: Les Éditions du Boréal; ISBN 978-2-7646-0625-4; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry[28]
Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait, Publisher: Poètes de brousse; ISBN 978-2-923338-20-0; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry[28]
André Roy, Montreal, Les espions de Dieu, Publisher: Les Herbes rouges; ISBN 978-2-89419-282-5; a finalist for the Governor General's Awards in French poetry[28]
French poetry in Switzerlandedit
Markus Hediger, En deçà de la lumière, Publisher: Éditions de l'Aire; ISBN 2-88108-886-4
Germanedit
Christoph Buchwald, series editor, and Uljana Wolf, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009 ("Yearbook of Poetry 2009"), including poems by Christian Ide Hintze, Herta Müller, Harald Hartung, Marcel Beyer; Frankfurt: Fischer (S.), 254 pages, ISBN 978-3-10-009655-5, an anthology
Christoph Janacs, Die Zärtlichkeit von Stacheln; Salzburg: Tandem Edition
Daniel Falb, Bancor, Kookbooks, 64 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-39-7
Monika Rinck (author, illustrator) and Andreas Töpfer (illustrator), Helle Verwirrung/Rincks Ding- und Tierleben: Gedichte & Zeichnungen ("Bright confusion/Rinck thing and animal life: Poems & Drawings"), Kookbooks, 200 pages, ISBN 978-3-937445-37-3
Andre Rudolph (author) and Annette Kühn (illustrator), Fluglärm über den Palästen unsrer Restinnerlichkeit, Luxbooks, 130 pages, ISBN 978-3-939557-90-6
Christoph Janacs, Zärtlichkeit mit Stacheln. Gedichte zu Adalbert Stifter ("The Tenderness of Quills: Poems by Adalbert Stifter"), Salzburg: Edition Tandem, 88 pages, ISBN 978-3-902606-17-4[30]
Giorgos Lillis, Bounds of the Labyrinth, publisher: Kedros Editions[29]
Yiannis Stigas, Isopalo Travma ("An Even Wound"), publisher: Kedros Editions[29][31]
Noveltly Within or Beyond Language, an anthology of young Greek poets, Athens: Gavriilidis Editions[29][32]
Christos Chrysoopoulos (Χρήστος Χρυσόοπουλος), Η άλλη Λώρα ("Another Laura"), criticism; Athens: Kastaniotis
Indiaedit
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Bharat Majhi, Dho, Bhubaneswar: Timepass, India, Oriya-language[33]
Pratyush Guleri, editor and translator, Urvar Pradesh, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, ISBN 978-81-267-1812-2, anthology of poems translated from the original Himachali into Hindi[35]
S. Joseph, Uppante Kooval Varakkunnu, winner of a Thiruvananthapuram Book Fair award for one of the ten best books of this year; Kottayam: DC Books, ISBN 978-81-264-2447-4; Malayalam-language[36]
Teji Grover and Rustam Singh, Teji aur Rustam Ki Kavitaen, selected poems of both poets, New Delhi: Harper Collins, ISBN 81-7223-879-7, Hindi-language[37]
Venkatapu Satyam, translator, Antarjanam, translated into Kannada from the original Telugu of K. Siva Reddy; Bangalore: Kannada Prakashana[34]
Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Czarny kwadrat, winner of the 2009 Koscielski Foundation Prize (popularly known in Poland as the nagrodą Kościelskich, or "Koscielski award") for works by Polish writers under 40 years old
Books of poetry were published this year by Igor Bulatovsky, Ilya Kucherov, Dmitry Grigoryev, Natalya Chernykh, Aleksey Porvin, Boris Khersonsky, Aleksandr Mironov, Gali-Dana Singer and Vadim Mesyats[45]
Other languagesedit
Antonio Gamoneda, Extravío en la luz ("Lost in the light"), Madrid: Casariego, six previously unpublished poems, ISBN 978-84-86760-84-7, Spain
January 4 – Gert Jonke, 62, (born 1946), Austrian poet, novelist playwright and screenwriter, of cancer[61]
January 10 – Mario Augusto Rodriguez Velez, 92 (born 1917), Panamanian journalist, essayist, dramatist, poet and storyteller, of a heart ailment (surname: Rodriguez Velez)[62]
January 18 – Grigore Vieru, 73 (born 1935), a Moldovan poet writing in Romanian, strong promoter of the Romanian language in Moldova; died from a car accident[67]
January 27 – John Updike, 76 (born 1932), American novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet and writer[68]
January 30 – James Schevill, 88 (born 1920), American poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State and Brown University[69]
April 29, but date uncertain – Craig Arnold (born 1967), 41, American poet, fell climbing a volcano in Japan while collecting material for his next book.
May 1 –3 – Bantu Mwaura, 40, Kenyan human-rights activist, actor, director, poet and storyteller who wrote poetry in English, Swahili and Gikuyu[85]
August 6 – Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, born Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, popularly known as W. S. Rendra and also known as "Si Burung Merak" and "The Peacock", 74 (born 1935[93]), Indonesian poet[94]
September 27 – Gaya Prasad Tiwari, 89, Hindi poet in India and twice winner of the Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award, died after being hit by a train as he was crossing the tracks (hard of hearing, he apparently did not hear the train coming)[105]
December 10 – Dilip Chitre, 71 (born 1938), Indian writer who wrote in Marathi and English. He was also a painter and filmmaker. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the 1990s. His most famous translation is of the celebrated 17th century Marathi bhakti poet Tukaram.[111]
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