Poetry Reading List 2011

January

Tony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
Gillian Clarke, A Recipe for Water (reread)
Sinead Morrisey, The State of the Prisons (reread)
Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means To Me

February

Ian Hamilton, Collected Poems
Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability
Stevie Smith, Selected Poems (reread)
Jo Shapcott, Electroplating the Baby (reread)
Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema: New & Selected Poems
Adam Zagajewski, Mysticism for Beginners (reread)
Adam Zagajewski, Canvas (reread)
Robert Creeley, Collected Poems 1945-75

March

Robert Hass, The Apple Trees at Olema: New & Selected Poems (contd.)
Robert Creeley, Collected Poems 1945-75 (contd.)
Robert Wells, Lusus
Geoffrey Hill, Without Title (reread)
Adam Zagajewski, Eternal Enemies
Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New & Selected Poems
David Harsent, Night
Charles Simic, A Wedding in Hell

April

Christopher Reid, A Scattering (reread)
The Best American Poetry 1998, ed. John Hollander
Charles Boyle, House of Cards
Charles Simic, Selected Poems 1963-83
Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree
Alison Brackenbury, Breaking Ground
Cavafy, Collected Poems (reread)
Elaine Feinstein, Collected Poems and Translations (reread)

May

Oktay Rifat, Collected Poems
Charles Wright, Bye and Bye: Late Selected
Michael Longley, One Hundred Doors

June

Matthew Stewart, Inventing Truth
Leontia Flynn, Drives
Jean Sprackland, Tilt
Oktay Rifat, Collected Poems (contd.)
Jack Robinson, Days and Nights in W12
Michael Donaghy, Collected Poems
John Burnside, The Good Neighbour
Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead
Louise Gluck, Averno

July

Ten: New Poets Spread the Word, ed. Evaristo & Nagra
Tomas Transtromer, Collected Poems (reread)
Lavinia Greenlaw, Minsk (reread)
Louise Gluck, Village Life
Hilary Menos, Berg
Paul Henry, The Brittle Sea: New & Selected Poems
Charles Simic, Master of Disguises
Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End
Charles Wright, Bye and Bye: Late Selected (contd)
Charles Wright, Sestets (reread)

August

Basho, On Love and Barley (reread)
The Haiku Anthology, ed. Cor Van Den Heuvel
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (reread)
Stephen Dunn, New & Selected Poems 1974-1994
Stephen Dunn, Loosestrife
Anvil 3

September

The Haiku Anthology, ed. Cor Van Den Heuvel (contd;reread)
The Penguin Book of Japanese Poetry (reread)
Anvil 3 (contd)
Mary Oliver, Swan
Charles Simic, Night Picnic (reread)
Stephen Dunn, What Goes On Selected & New Poems 1995-2009
Deryn Rees-Jones, The Memory Tray (reread)
Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (reread)

October

The Best American Poetry 2006, ed. Billy Collins
John McCullough, The Frost Fairs
Mick Imlah, Selected Poems
The Best American Poetry 2007, ed. Heather McHugh
C.K.Williams, Collected Poems

November

C.K.Williams, Collected Poems (contd)
The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright
Leontia Flynn, Profit and Loss
Tomas Transtromer, New Collected Poems
The Best American Poetry 2003, ed. Yusef Komunyakaa

December

A.R. Ammons, Collected Poems 1951-71
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (reread)
Sam Willetts, New Light for the Old Dark
Lavinia Greenlaw, The Casual Perfect
Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees
The Haiku Anthology, ed. Cor Van Den Heuvel (reread)

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