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