Atlantic Poetry Prize: Anne Compton, Processional Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate: John Steffler (until December 3, 2008) Governor General's Literary Awards: John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (English); Hélène Dorion, Ravir: les lieux (French) Gerald Lampert Award: Suzanne Buffam, Past Imperfect Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada): Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall Griffin Poetry Prize (International, in the English Language): Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses Pat Lowther Award: Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall Prix Alain-Grandbois: Fernand Ouellette, L'Inoubliable Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking Prix Émile-Nelligan: Maude Smith Gagnon, Une tonne d'air New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry: Bill Manhire, Lifted, Victoria University Press NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry: Karlo Mila, Dream Fish Floating. Huia Publishers United Kingdom Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Robin Robertson for Swithering. Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Tishani Doshi, for Countries of the Body. Forward Poetry Prize Best Single Poem: Sean O'Brien, for "Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright". T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbread Award) for poetry: John Haynes for Letter to Patience Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Fleur Adcock United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Nancy Krygowski for Velocity American Academy of Arts and Letters: poets Paul Auster and Frank Bidart elected to the Literature Department Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gomez for The Outer Bands Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Donald Hall appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia: Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, two year appointment 2006 to 2008 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards: Moira Linehan, If No Moon James Laughlin Award for poetry: Tracy K. Smith National Book Award for poetry: Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem, New Directions Finalists: Louise Glück, Averno, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; H.L. Hix, Chromatic, Etruscan Press; Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw, Copper Canyon Press; James McMichael, Capacity, Farrar, Straus & Giroux National Poetry Review Book Prize: Bryan Penberthy, Lucktown. Poets' Prize: Catherine Tufariello, Keeping My Name Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (United States): Claudia Emerson, Late Wife; and Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008 to 2010 Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: John Hollander Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Richard Wilbur Whiting Awards: Sherwin Bitsui, Tyehimba Jess, Suji Kwock Kim Wallace Stevens Award: Michael Palmer Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition: Jessica Fisher, Frail-Craft; Judge: Louise Glück Fellowship