for poetry: Stephanie de Montalk, Animals Indoors, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Ian Duhig, Paul Durcan, Kathleen Jamie, Grace Nichols Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick Mackie, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection): Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador) Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection): John Stammers, The Panoramic Lounge Bar (Picador) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Longley T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband Whitbread Award for poetry: Selima Hill, Bunny United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for A Defense of Poetry Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Frederick Morgan American Book Award, Janet McAdams, for "The Island of Lost Luggage" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, for "Circus Fire, 1944" Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Louise Glück Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Robin Behn, Horizon Note Frost Medal: Sonia Sanchez National Book Award for Poetry: Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Billy Collins appointed Poets' Prize: Philip Booth, Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950–1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Edward Weismiller Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Yusef Komunyakaa Wallace Stevens Award: John Ashbery Whiting Awards: Joel Brouwer, Jason Sommer William Carlos Williams Award: Ralph J. Mills, Grasses Standing: Selected Poems, Judge: Fanny Howe Other France: Prix Goncourt for poetry: Claude Esteban, for his oeuvre as a whole Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 17 – Gregory Corso (born 1930), American Beat Generation poet, of prostate cancer February 25 – A. R. Ammons (born 1926), American author and poet February 14 – Alan Ross (born 1922), British writer and poet February 22 – Leo Connellan (born 1928), American poet March 23 – Louis Dudek (born 1918), Canadian poet, academic critic and publisher August 28 – Sansei Yamao (born 1938), Japanese poet and friend of the American poet Gary Snyder September 23 – Allen Curnow (born 1911), New Zealand poet and journalist October 16 – Anne Ridler (born 1912), English poet and Faber and Faber editor October 20 – Andrew Waterhouse (born 1958), English poet and environmentalist, suicide October 26: Pamela Gillilan (born 1918), English poet Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926), English poet November 18 – R. N. Currey (born 1907), English poet November 25 – David