Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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.
Anniversaries
March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell.
Selection of works published in English
Australia
Michael Farrell, I Love Poetry
Alan Wearne, These Things Are Real
Fiona Wright, Domestic Interior
Canada
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
Anthologies in Canada
New Zealand
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
Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2016 (guest editor was Jenny Bornholdt), published this year:
Nick Ascroft
Tusiata Avia
Airini Beautrais
Hera Lindsay Bird
James Brown
Rachel Bush
John Dennison
Ish Doney
Lynley Edmeades
Rata Gordon
Bernadette Hall
Scott Hamilton
Adrienne Jansen
Andrew Johnston
Anna Livesey
Bill Manhire
Leslie McKay
Bill Nelson
Claire Orchard
Vincent O’Sullivan
Kerrin P. Sharpe
Marty Smith
Oscar Upperton
Tim Upperton
Ashleigh Young
United Kingdom
England
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
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
United States
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
Anthologies in the United States
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2017
Awards and honors by country
See also: List of poetry awards
Awards announced this year:
International
Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate:
Australia awards and honors
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:
Canada awards and honors
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
France awards and honors
Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:
New Zealand awards and honors
Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Fiction: Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler Nonfiction: Peter Simpson Poetry: Paula Green Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry category):