- Source: 2020 in poetry
Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2020 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, India or France).
Events
January 27–February 1 – The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is organised by Western Folklife Center in Nevada with live musical performances.
Selection of works published in English
= Australia
=Clive James, The Fire of Joy
Ellen van Neerven, Throat
= Canada
=J.R. Carpenter, This is a Picture of Wind
= India
=Antony Theodore, I Am Your Baby, Mother
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Selected Poems
Ranjit Hoskote, Open Your Eyes
Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Kalahandi - The Untold Story
Tishani Doshi, Small Days and Nights
= Nigeria
=Caleb Femi, Poor
= United Kingdom
=Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
Caroline Bird, The Air Year
Eavan Boland, The Historians
Sean Hewitt, Tongues of Fire
Simon Armitage, Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems
= United States
=Amanda Lovelace, Break Your Glass Slippers
Claudia Rankine, Just Us
Eliza Griswold, If Men, Then
Lili Reinhart, Swimming Lessons
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
Anthologies in Canada
= New Zealand
=Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
= United Kingdom
=England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
= United States
=Alphabetical listing by author name
Anthologies in the United States
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
Robert Hass, Summer Snow: New Poems
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2018
Works published in other languages
Awards and honors by country
See also: List of poetry awards
Awards announced this year:
= International
=Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate : Amir Or
= Australia awards and honors
=Judith Wright Calanthe Award: П. O. for Heide
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Peter Boyle for Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness
Miles Franklin Award: Tara June Winch for The Yield
Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry: Charmaine Papertalk Green for Nganajungu Yagu
= Canada awards and honors
=Archibald Lampman Award: Ben Ladouceur for Mad Long Emotion
J. M. Abraham Poetry Award:
Governor General's Awards:
Griffin Poetry Prize : Kaie Kellough for Magnetic Equator
Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize:
Gerald Lampert Award:
Pat Lowther Award:
Prix Alain-Grandbois:
Raymond Souster Award:
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:
Prix Émile-Nelligan:
= France awards and honors
=Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:
= India awards and honors
=Sahitya Akademi Award : Arundhathi Subramaniam for When God is a Traveler (English) & Anamika for Tokri Mein Digant (Hindi)
= New Zealand awards and honors
=Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
Fiction: Tessa Duder
Nonfiction: Tīmoti Kāretu
Poetry: Jenny Bornholdt
Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry: Helen Rickerby for How to Live
= United Kingdom awards and honors
=Cholmondeley Award: Bhanu Kapil
Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Eavan Boland for The Historians
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: James Pollock
National Poet of Wales:
National Poetry Competition : Marvin Thompson for The Fruit of the Spirit is Love
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
T. S. Eliot Prize : Bhanu Kapil for How to Wash a Heart
= 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:
Jackson Poetry Prize:
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) : Jericho Brown for The Tradition
Wallace Stevens Award:
Whiting Awards:
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
PEN Center USA 2018 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:
Shelley Memorial Award:
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:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 4 – Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930), Caribbean poet
February 17 – Ror Wolf (b. 1932), German poet and writer
February 18 – Seda Vermisheva (b. 1932), Armenian-Russian poet, economist and activist
February 21 – Lisel Mueller (b. 1924), German-American poet and translator
April 1 – Bruce Dawe (b. 1930), Australian poet
April 27 – Eavan Boland (b. 1944), Irish poet and author
May 4 – Michael McClure (b. 1932), American poet, playwright and songwriter
June 12 – Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi (b. 1926), Indian Urdu poet
July 31 – ruth weiss (b. 1928), German-born American poet of the beat generation
August 11 – Rahat Indori (b. 1950), Indian Urdu poet and Bollywood lyricist, following Covid-19 infection
September 14 – Anne Stevenson (b. 1933), American-British poet
October 1 – Derek Mahon, (b. 1941), Irish poet
October 25 – Diane Di Prima (b. 1934), American poet of the beat generation
November 10 – Carlo Bordini (b. 1938), Italian poet
December 14 – Marvin Bell (b. 1937), American poet
December 23 – Sugathakumari (b. 1934), Indian Malayalam poet and activist
See also
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List of years in poetry
List of poetry awards
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