Virk Trials 1998-2000 Prix Alain-Grandbois: Michel Beaulieu, Trivialités Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine Prix Émile-Nelligan: Benoît Jutras, Nous serons sans voix New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry category winner this year) First-book award for poetry: Chris Price, Husk, Auckland University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Moniza Alvi, David Constantine, Liz Lochhead, Brian Patten Eric Gregory Award: Caroline Bird, Christopher James, Jacob Polley, Luke Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection): Peter Porter, Max is Missing (Picador); Best First Collection: Tom French, Touching the Bones (The Gallery Press) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Porter T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Alice Oswald, Dart Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Shao Wei for Pulling a Dragon's Teeth Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Grace Schulman AML Awards for poetry to Kimberly Johnson for Leviathan with a Hook Arthur Rense Prize for poetry awarded to B.H. Fairchild by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Timothy Donnelly, "His Long Imprison'd Thought" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Alice Fulton for Felt Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Anna George Meek, Acts of Contortion Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell National Book Award for poetry (United States): Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy Poet Laureate of Virginia: George Garrett, two year appointment 2002 to 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Dennis, Practical Gods Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award: Paul Fussell Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Lisel Mueller Wallace Stevens Award: Ruth Stone Whiting Awards: Elizabeth Arnold, David Gewanter, Joshua Weiner William Carlos Williams Award: Li-Young Lee, Book of My Nights (American Poets Continuum), Judge: Carolyn Kizer Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Sharon Olds Other Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (2001 prize given this year): Gert Jonke Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 9 – Ale Ahmad Suroor, 90 (born 1911), Indian Urdu-language poet March 9 – Hamish Henderson, 81 (born 1919), Scottish poet, folk song collector and soldier May 1 – Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh (إبراهيم العريّض) (born 1908), Bahraini poet June 14 – June Jordan, 65 (born 1936), Jamaican American poet, of breast cancer June 27 – Alan Brunton, 55 (born 1946), New Zealand poet and scriptwriter, died on visit to Amsterdam July