2017 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• 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.

• March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell.

• Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry
• Alan Wearne, These Things Are Real
• Fiona Wright, Domestic Interior

• 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

• 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

These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2016 (guest editor was Jenny Bornholdt), published this year:

• 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

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

• See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

• Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate:

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:

• 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

• Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:^[1]
  • Fiction: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler
  • Nonfiction: Peter Simpson
  • Poetry: Paula Green
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):

• 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:
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  • Best First Collection:
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• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
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• 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:

• 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^[2]
  • Judges: Henri Cole, Kwame Dawes, and Mary Szybist^[3]
• Lambda Literary Award:
  • Gay Poetry:
  • Lesbian Poetry:
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
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• National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
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• 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^[4]
• 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:

• Frost Medal: to Susan Howe^[5]
• Shelley Memorial Award: to Gillian Conoley^[6]
• 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:

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)^[7]
• 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.^[8] (b. 1923)
• March 16 – Wojciech Młynarski, 75, Polish poet, singer and songwriter (born 1941)^[9]
• March 17 – Derek Walcott, 87, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate in 1992 (b. 1930)^[10]
• 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)^[11]
• April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet, 84 (b. 1933)^[12]
• 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

• November 15 – Michelle Boisseau, 62, American poet (b. 1955)^[13]

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