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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem". On April 3, Bök said that he "received confirmation from the laboratory at the University of Calgary that my poetic cipher, gene X-P13, has in fact caused E. coli to fluoresce red in our test-runs—meaning that, when implanted in the genome of this bacterium, my poem (which begins “any style of life/ is prim...”) does in fact cause the bacterium to write, in response, its own poem (which begins “the faery is rosy/ of glow...”)." June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights. Ayat was arrested on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, during the Bahraini uprising in Pearl Square, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February 2011. August 9 – Announcement that Philip Levine has been named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate). October 6 – Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature November 9 – The former United States Poet Laureate, Robert Hass, was participating in an Occupy movement demonstration at UC Berkeley called Occupy Cal, when he was hit in the ribs by a police officer wielding a baton. The incident occurred after his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, was shoved to the ground by a police officer, and Hass had tried to help her. He wrote about their experience in a November 19, 2011, The New York Times opinion piece entitled "Poet-Bashing Police." Also, poet Geoffrey G. O'Brien suffered broken ribs at the same demonstration. November 11 – Politician, academic and poet Michael D. Higgins takes office as President of Ireland. November 11 – The End Poem by Julian Gough is released in the Beta 1.9 version of Minecraft. December 6 – A memorial to Ted Hughes is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Seamus Heaney. December 7 – Two British poets, Alice Oswald and John Kinsella, have withdrawn from this year's T. S. Eliot Prize in protest over the prize's sponsorship by an investment company called Arum who focus on hedge funds. Works published in English Australia Canada Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic Phil Hall, Killdeer Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove India, in English Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach, 80 pages, ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni (SPD, dist.), ISBN 978-1-934639-10-8 Ireland New Zealand Airini Beautrais Western Line, Victoria University Press Poets in Best New Zealand Poems Poems from these 25 poets were selected by Chris Price for Best New Zealand Poems 2010, published online this year: South Africa Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You, 202 pages, Central Avenue Publishing, ISBN 978-1-92676-068-1 United Kingdom Hal Duncan, Songs for the Devil and Death, 172 pages, Papaverua Press, ISBN 978-1-907881-04-6 Salena Godden, Under The Pier, Nasty Little Press Ralph Pordzik, Pretending to See Elephants, 58 pages, Lulu Press, ISBN 978-1-4457-5568-7 William Walker (age 97), The Poetry of Flt Lt William Walker AE, The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust Eoghan Walls, The Salt Harvest, 64 pages, Seren Books, ISBN 978-1-85411-549-2 Carol Watts, Occasionals, Reality Street, 88 pp., ISBN 978-1-874400-52-3 Anthologies in the United Kingdom Being Human, edited by Neil Astley New Poetries V, edited by Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth, 264 pages, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-131-5 United States Seth Abramson, Northerners, 72 pages, New Issues Press, ISBN 978-1-930974-96-8 Ammiel Alcalay, “neither wit nor gold” (from them), 88 pp., Ugly Duckling Presse, ISBN 978-1-933254-84-5 Will Alexander, Compression & Purity, 100 pp., City Lights, ISBN 978-0-87286-541-9 Rae Armantrout, Money Shot, 80 pages, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-7130-4 Morris Berman, Counting Blessings, 44 pages, Cervena Barva Press, ISBN 978-0-5780-8091-8 Ernesto Cardenal, The Origin of the Species and Other Poems, translated & introduced by John Lyons, foreword by Anne Waldman, 168 pp., Texas Tech University Press, ISBN 978-0-89672-689-5 Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead, 128 pages, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6492-2 William Corbett, The Whalen Poem, 64 pages, Hanging Loose Press, ISBN 978-1-934909-13-3 Joshua Corey, Severance Songs, 84 pages, Tupelo Press, 978-1-932195-92-7 Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World, 96 pages, New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1887-0 Eloise Greenfield, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, 32 pages, Amistad, ISBN 978-0-06-125921-0 Jane Hirshfield, Come, Thief, 108 pages, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-59542-3 Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball, 104 pages, Fence Books, ISBN 978-1-934200-42-1 Susan Howe, That This, 112 pages, New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1918-1 David Meltzer, When I Was A Poet, 150 pages, City Lights, ISBN 978-0-87286-516-7 Anna Moschovakis, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, 132 pages, Coffee House Press, ISBN 978-1-56689-250-6 Alice Notley, Culture of One, 160 pages, Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-311893-0 Edward Nudelman, What Looks Like an Elephant, 116 pp., Lummox Press, ISBN 978-1-929878-91-8 Ovid, Love Poems, Letters and Remedies of Ovid, transl. by David R. Slavitt; introd. by Michael Dirda, 384 pp., Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-05904-7 Michael Palmer, Thread, 112 pages, New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1921-1 Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal, 62 pages, Greenhouse Review Press, ISBN 978-0-9655239-9-8 Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver, 96 pages, Wave, ISBN 978-1-933517-50-6 Rabindranath Tagore, The Essential Tagore, ed. by Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty, 864 pp., Belknap-Harvard, ISBN 978-0-674-05790-6 Tyrone Williams, Pink Tie, Hooke Press, Elizabeth Willis, Address, 80 pages, Wesleyan, ISBN 978-0-8195-7098-7 Dean Young, Fall Higher, Copper Canyon Press, ISBN 978-1-55659-311-6 Anthologies in the United States Tyler Chadwick (ed.); – Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets, 546 pages. Peculiar Pages, ISBN 978-0-9817696-6-0. Kenneth Goldsmith (ed.); Craig Dworkin (ed.) – Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, 656 pages. Northwestern University Press, ISBN 978-0-8101-2711-1 Sarah Palin; Michael Solomon (ed.) – I Hope Like Heck, 64 pages. Byliner, ISBN 978-1-61452-009-2 Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Charles Bernstein, Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Invention.... Discover the Carolyn Haines Dietmar Schmidt popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Carolyn Haines Dietmar Schmidt books.