Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events 1 May 1999 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years 1 July 1999 — Scotland's Parliament opens with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That", instead of "God Save The Queen" 4 October 1999 — In the United States, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman signs into law Assembly Bill No. 2714 (P.L. 1999, c. 228) sent to her from the state legislature and creates the New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit—effectively, Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Whitman subsequently selected poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925), then a resident of Lambertville, New Jersey as the first appointed to the post in the following April. The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is established at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Derek Attridge is the first winner Carl Rakosi's 99th birthday celebrated at the Kelly Writers House with a live audiocast A new grave slab is installed at the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh over the final resting place of William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1904), comically renowned as the worst poet in the English language; the slab is inscribed: William McGonagall Poet and Tragedian "I am your gracious Majesty ever faithful to Thee, William McGonagall, the Poor Poet, That lives in Dundee." Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia Robert Adamson, Black Water: Approaching Zukofsky Jennifer Maiden, Mines, Paper Bark, Les Murray: Fredy Neptune, verse novel, winner of the 2005 Premio Mondello (in Italy) New Selected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove Conscious and Verbal, Carcanet, Duffy & Snellgrove Canada Ken Babstock, Mean, his first book of poetry, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award (Canada) Afua Cooper, editor, Utterances and Incantations: Women, Poetry and Dub, Toronto: Sister Vision Press (scholarship) Jeffery Donaldson, Waterglass, McGill-Queen's University Press George Elliott Clarke, Gold Indigoes. Durham: Carolina Wren, Susan Holbrook, misled Tim Lilburn, To the River, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year A. F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu, editors,