appear alongside one of their own poems; including contemporary poems by Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, and Wendy Cope, as well as classic poets such as Robert Burns, John Betjeman and Edward Lear) Macmillan Don Paterson and Charles Simic, editors, New British Poetry United States Kim Addonizio, What is this Thing Called Love (Norton) Meena Alexander, Raw Silk, Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States John Ash, To the City (Talisman), Wendell Berry, Given: Poems (Shoemaker & Hoard) Sophie Cabot Black, The Descent: poetry (Graywolf Press), Charles Bukowski, Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems (Ecco) Tina Chang, Half-Lit Houses, Four Way Books Billy Corgan, Blinking with Fists, Faber and Faber Rita Dove, American Smooth: Poems (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Claudia Emerson, Late Wife (Louisiana State University Press) Alice Fulton, Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (Norton) Sarah Gambito, Matadora (Alice James Book), Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (Alfred A. Knopf) Vona Groarke, Flight and Earlier Poems, Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem Irish poet published in the U.S. Beth Gylys, Spot in the Dark (Ohio State University Press), winner of The OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry Lee Harwood, Collected Poems Allison Hedge Coke – Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (memoir of poet's life) Fanny Howe, On the Ground Donald Justice, Collected Poems (Knopf); published posthumously; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Jane Kenyon, Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems (Graywolf Press), posthumous Ted Kooser, Flying At Night: Poems 1965–1985 (University of Pittsburgh Press) W. S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) Present Company Mirabai, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems translated into English by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield Eugenio Montale, Selected Poems, translated by Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, and David Young from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, Mary Oliver: New and Selected Poems, volume two Why I Wake Early: New Poems Blue Iris: Poems and Essays Long Life: Essays and Other Writings Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Kay Ryan, The Niagara River (Grove Press) Michael Ryan, New And Selected Poems Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole, by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Tony Tost, Invisible Bride (LSU) (selected by C.D. Wright for the 2003 Walt Whitman Award) Derek Walcott, The Prodigal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book