Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter's Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942–1946 Michael O'Leary, He Waiatanui Kia Aroha Hone Tuwhare, Piggyback Moon Ian Wedde, The Commonplace Odes Kate Camp, Realia, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Eavan Boland, Code Ciarán Carson: The Twelfth of Never, Picador, Wake Forest University Press Kate Clanchy, Slattern Carol Ann Duffy, editor, Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems, Picador (anthology); 36 poets from around the world were each invited to select a love poem written by someone of the opposite sex and appearing opposite the selecting poet's own love poem James Fenton: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed, Viking / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Seamus Heaney, Electric Light, Faber & Faber; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Geoffrey Hill, Speech! Speech! Selima Huill, Bunny Elizabeth Jennings, Timely Issues Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Penguin Andrew Motion, Here to Eternity Paul Muldoon, Vera of Las Vegas; Irish poet living in the United States and published in the United Kingdom Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador) Craig Raine, Collected Poems 1978–1999 Peter Reading, [untitled] W.G. Sebald For Years Now. Short Books. Jo Shapcott, Tender Taxes Hugo Williams, Curtain Call: 101 Portraits in Verse, (editor) Faber and Faber Benjamin Zephaniah, Too Black, Too Strong Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Stephen Wade, editor, Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and Its Social Context in Liverpool Since the 1960s, Liverpool University Press, Anthologies in the United Kingdom Keith Tuma, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press) Elaine Feinstein, Ted Hughes – The Life of a Poet, Weidenfeld & Nicolson United States Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream Book Ralph Angel, Twice Removed (Sarabande) Renée Ashley, The Revisionist's Dream Bei Dao, At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991–1996 (New Directions) Eavan Boland, Against Love Poetry (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Edward Brathwaite, Ancestors, Barbadian poet living in the United States Joseph Brodsky: Nativity Poems, translated by Melissa Green; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Russian-American Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Maxine Chernoff, World: Poems 1991–2001 (Salt Publications) Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" () W.S. Di Piero, Skirts and Slacks: Poems (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Ed