Names Down from the Hill Prix Émile-Nelligan: Kim Doré, Le rayonnement des corps noirs New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards First-book award for poetry: Cliff Fell, The Adulterer's Bible, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House (Picador) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Leontia Flynn, These Days (Jonathan Cape) Scots Makar (equivalent of a poet laureate to represent and promote poetry in Scotland) named on February 16: Edwin Morgan Orange Prize for Fiction: Andrea Levy, Small Island Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Hugo Williams T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): George Szirtes, Reel Whitbread Award for poetry: Michael Symmons Roberts, "Corpus" United States Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Henry Taylor Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Aaron Smith for Blue on Blue Ground AML Award for poetry to John Talbot for The Well-Tempered Tantrum Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded to Sheryl Luna for Pity the Drowned Horses Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Jeremy Glazier, "Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, B.H. Fairchild for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest Brittingham Prize in Poetry, John Brehm, Sea of Faith Frost Medal: Richard Howard MacArthur Fellowship: C.D. Wright National Book Award for poetry: Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Ted Kooser appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia: Rita Dove, two year appointment 2004 to 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard () Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Timothy Steele Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Kay Ryan Wallace Stevens Award: Mark Strand Whiting Awards: Catherine Barnett, Dan Chiasson, A. Van Jordan William Carlos Williams Award: Anthony Butts, Little Low Heaven, Judge: Lucie Brock-Broido Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jane Hirshfield Awards and honors in other nations One of Pakistan's highest civilian honors, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, awarded to Ahmed Faraz, an Urdu-language poet, for his literary achievements Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 4 – Jeff Nuttall, 70 (born 1933), English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, and social commentator January 8 – Norman Talbot (born 1936), Australian January 29