Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, New Zealand Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: Penguin Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper Books Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press Carol Ann Duffy, The Pamphlet, Anvil Press Poetry Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You Salena Godden, The Fire People Seamus Heaney: Audenesque, Maeght Translator, Beowulf Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999 Paul Henry, The Milk Thief, Seren Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a verse chronicle of the author's relationship with Sylvia Plath, his late wife; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Translator, Phedre Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom Peter Levi, Reed Music Kevin MacNeil, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish poet published in Scotland Andrew Motion, Selected Poems 1976–1997 Paul Muldoon, Hay Carol Rumens, Holding Pattern Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep Jon Stallworthy, Rounding the HornAnthologies in the United Kingdom Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, editors, Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945, Viking, Sean O'Brien, editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology Lloyd Searwar, editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry,Leeds: Peepal Tree Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Sean O'Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson United States John Ashbery: The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Wakefulness Renée Ashley, The Various Reasons of Light Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair Henri Cole, The Visible Man Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning () Fanny Howe, Q Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems, (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Lee Harwood, Morning Light Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems,