Anne Kennedy Michele Leggott Emma Neale Bob Orr Chris Orsman Vincent O'Sullivan Bill Sewell Anna Smaill Kendrick Smithyman C. K. Stead Robert Sullivan Jo Thorpe Rae Varcoe Louise Wrightson Sonja Yelich United Kingdom Gerry Cambridge, Madame Fi Fi's Farewell and other poems, Luath Press, Vahni Capildeo, No Traveller Returns, Caribbean poet Ciarán Carson, Breaking News, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, awarded the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection Carol Ann Duffy, The Good Child's Guide to Rock N Roll, Faber and Faber (children's poetry) James Fenton, The Love Bomb, verse written as a libretto for a composer who rejected it; Penguin / Faber and Faber Lavinia Greenlaw, Minsk, Faber and Faber Peter Redgrove, Sheen Simawe, Saadi, editor, Iraqi Poetry Today, London: King's College, Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939, Oxford University Press Matthew Campbell, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry, Cambridge University Press United States Dick Allen, The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande Books) Mark Bibbins, Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press) Charles Bukowski, sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way (Ecco) Henri Cole, Middle Earth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Cid Corman, Now/Now Annie Finch, Calendars Richard Greenfield, A Carnage in the Lovetress (University of California Press) John Hollander, Picture Window William Logan, Macbeth in Venice Howard Nemerov, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov, edited by Daniel Anderson (Swallow/Ohio University) published posthumously); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays Willie Perdomo, Smoking Lovely James Reiss, Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems Kenneth Rexroth, Complete Poems (posthumous) Margaret Reynolds, The Sappho History (scholarship), Palgrave Macmillan, C. J. Sage, editor, And We The Creatures: Fifty-one Contemporary American Poets on Animal Rights and Appreciation (Dream Horse Press) Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 a.m.: Selected Late & New Poems (Harvest Books)(Harcourt); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Tracy K. Smith, The Body's Question won the 2002 Cave Canem Prize for best first book by an African American poet (Graywolf Press) Rosmarie Waldrop, Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn Publishing) William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky, The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams & Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Wesleyan University Press) Kirby Wright, Before the City (Lemon Shark Press); winner