Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go Prix Émile-Nelligan: Tania Langlais, Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme India Sahitya Akademi Award : Manglesh Dabral for Hum Jo Dekhte Hain Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Shahnaz Habib for Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones & Revathy Gopal for I Would Know You Anywhere New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry winner this year): First-book award for poetry: Glenn Colquhoun, The Art of Walking Upright, Steele Roberts A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award: Allen Curnow United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto) Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan Whitbread Award for poetry: John Burnside, The Asylum Dance National Poetry Competition : Ian Duhig for The Lammas Hireling United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Rudy Delgado Jr., A Path Between Houses Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht National Book Award for poetry: Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Stanley Kunitz appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia: Grace Simpson, two year appointment 2000 to 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: T. V. F. Brogan Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Carl Dennis Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart Whiting Awards: Albert Mobilio, James Thomas Stevens, Claude Wilkinson William Carlos Williams Award: Kathleen Peirce, The Oval Hour (Iowa Poetry Prize), Judge: Jean Valentine Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Lyn Hejinian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – Roland Flint, 66 (born 1934), American, of cancer January 22 – Anne Hébert, 83 (born 1916), Canadian, French language January 28 – Lauris Edmond, 75 (born 1924), New Zealand February 4 –