Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet's native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately:
Poems from these 25 poets, selected by Emma Neale were included in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, published online this year:
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The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 2005, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by Paul Muldoon:
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21: | Theun de Vries, 97 | born 1907 | Dutch writer and poet |
January 31: | Makarand Dave, 82 | born 1922 | Indian Gujarati-language poet, writer and editor |
February 25: | Phoebe Hesketh | born 1909 | British |
March 6: | Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子 |
born 1913 | Japanese poet who survived the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust there and became known for her poems about her city |
March 7: | Philip Lamantia | born 1927 | American |
March 29: | Miltos Sachtouris | born 1919 | Greek |
March 30: | Robert Creeley, 78 | born 1926 | American |
April 14 | Julia Darling, 48 | born 1956 | English poet, novelist and playwright, of breast cancer |
June 9: | Hovis Presley | born 1960 | English |
June 13: | Eugénio de Andrade | born 1923 | Portuguese lyric poet |
June 23: | Manolis Anagnostakis | born 1925 | Greek poet |
June 28: | Philip Hobsbaum, 72 | born 1932 | Scot poet and critic |
July 4: | Lorenzo Thomas | born 1944 | American poet, critic, essayist; Umbra Workshop founding member |
July 7: | Gustaf Sobin | born 1935 | American |
August 6: | Vizma Belsevica | born 1931 | leading post-war Latvian poet |
August 21: | Dahlia Ravikovitch | born 1936 | Israeli |
August 31: | Amrita Pritam | born 1919 | leading Punjab poet in India who wrote in Hindi |
September 16: | Stanley Burnshaw | born 1906 | American poet and novelist |
October 20: | Dane Zajc | born 1929 | Slovenian poet |
November 1: | Michael Thwaites | born 1915 | Australian |
Date not known: | Charles Naylor | not known | American, partner of novelist Thomas Disch[35] |