2013 in poetry-Cedar Herald Index

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Events

June 4 – English publication of For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu, recounting Yiwu's time following the Tiananmen Square protests of June 4, 1989, and the four brutal years he spent in jail for writing the poem "Massacre". August 5 – PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) issues a call to action, demanding that the jailed 60-year-old Kazakh poet Aron Atabek be released from solitary confinement, where he has been since December 2012 and where he will continue to stay until the end of 2014. This is his punishment for writing The Heart of Eurasia, a blunt critique of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his government. Atabek is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for other alleged crimes against the state. September 13 – Australians Graham Nunn and Andrew Slattery are accused of plagiarism over separate works which they have published. September 21 – Ghanaian poet and diplomat Kofi Awoonor is among those who are killed in the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi, Kenya. September 22 – In the United Kingdom, poet C. J. Allen withdraws from the Forward Prize shortlist after admitting to plagiarism in some of his earlier work. He has been nominated in the category for "best single poem." Fellow poet Matthew Welton says he noticed last year that Allen had plagiarised some of his work.

2013 in poetry

Works published in English

Australia

Richard James Allen, Fixing the Broken Nightingale, Macau: ASM and Markwell: Cerberus Press – Flying Islands Books Peter Boyle, Towns in the Great Desert, Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann Maree Dawes, brb, Sydney: Spineless Wonders Diane Fahey, The Stone Garden: Poems from Clare, Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Luke Fischer, Paths of Flight, North Fitzroy: Black Pepper Alan Gould, Capital, Glebe: Puncher and Wattmann, 2013 Les Wicks, Sea of Heartbeak (Unexpected Resilience), Glebe: Puncher & Wattmann

2013 in poetry

Canada

Gwen Benaway, Ceremonies for the Dead

Jason Christie, Unknown Actor, Insomniac Press, London, ON

Barry Dempster, Invisible Dogs, Brick Books, London, ON

Adam Dickinson, The Polymers, Anansi, Toronto

Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper, Brick Books, London, ON

Catherine Greenwood, The Lost Letters, Brick Books, London, ON

Phil Hall, The Small Nouns Crying Faith, BookThug, Toronto

Danny Jacobs, Songs That Remind Us of Factories, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC

Niki Koulouris. The Sea with No One in it. Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill

Erín Moure, Pillage Laud: Cauterizations • Vocabularies • Cantigas • Topiary • Prose, BookThug, Toronto Sara Peters, 1996, Anansi, Toronto Shane Rhodes, X: Poems & Anti-Poems, Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, BC Jacob Scheier, Letter from Brooklyn, ECW Press, Toronto

2013 in poetry