2018 in poetry

Events

• August 11 - Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, is read Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" by newspaper editor Geordie Greig.

  Anniversaries

Selection of works published in English

Australia

• Jordie Albiston, Warlines
• Judith Beveridge, Sun Music: New and Selected Poems
• Ken Bolton, Starting at Basheer's
• Sarah Day, Towards Light & Other Poems
• Paul Hetherington, Moonlight on Oleander
• John Mateer, João
• Tim Metcalf, The Underwritten Plain
• Tracy Ryan, The Water Bearer

  Canada

• Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild
• Leonard Cohen, The Flame

  Anthologies in Canada

New Zealand

Poets in ''Best New Zealand Poems''

United Kingdom

England

• Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance
• Jay Bernard, Surge
• John Cooper Clarke, The Luckiest Guy Alive
• Susannah Hart, Out of True
• Zaffar Kunial, Us
• J. O. Morgan, Assurances
• Richard Scott, Soho
• Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems

  Northern Ireland

Scotland

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Fiona Waters, I am the Seed that Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year

  Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

• Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
• Ace Allen, Poems of People
• Jos Charles, feeld
• Jason Reynolds, For Every One

  Anthologies in the United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Poets in ''The Best American Poetry 2018''

Works published in other languages

Italian

• AA.VV., Paragrafi. Antologia di poesia in prosa , poets: Antonella Anedda, Marta Arnaldi, Daniela Attanasio, Alberto Bertoni, Franco Buffoni, Pietro De Marchi, Luigi Fontanella, Marco Furia, Vito Giuliana, Andrea Inglese, Gilberto Isella, Fabio Jermini, Marica Larocchi, Franca Mancinelli, Massimiliano Mandorlo, Matteo Munaretto, Giampiero Neri, Alberto Nessi, Enzo Pelli, Giancarlo Pontiggia, Fabio Pusterla, Jacopo Ramonda, Roberto Rossi Precerutti, Marco Sonzogni, Andrea Temporelli, Marco Vitale
• AA.VV., Non era soltanto passione. Generazione degli anni 80 ; poets: Noé Albergati, Daniele Bernardi, Yari Bernasconi, Andrea Bianchetti, Margherita Coldesina, Laura Di Corcia, Lia Galli, Andrea Grassi, Fabio Jermini, Jonathan Lupi, Mercure Martini, Marko Miladinovic, Pietro Montorfani, Carlotta Silini
• Linda Baranzini, Solo vorrei ammirare lungamente

  Nepali

Awards and honors by country

• See also: List of poetry awards

International

• Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate:

  Australia awards and honors

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:

  Canada awards and honors

• Archibald Lampman Award: Christine McNair, Charm
• J. M. Abraham Poetry Award: Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between
• Governor General's Awards: Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang ; Michaël Trahan, La raison des fleurs
• Griffin Poetry Prize:
• *Canada: Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
• *International: Susan Howe, Debths
• *Lifetime Recognition Award : Ana Blandiana
• Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize: Jordan Scott
• Gerald Lampert Award: Emily Nilsen, Otolith
• Pat Lowther Award: Lesley Belleau, Indianland
• Prix Alain-Grandbois: Catherine Lalonde, La dévoration des fées
• Raymond Souster Award: Karen Enns, Cloud Physics
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Mercedes Eng, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes
• Prix Émile-Nelligan:

  France awards and honors

• Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:

  New Zealand awards and honors

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
• * Fiction:
• * Nonfiction:
• * Poetry:
• Montana New Zealand Book Awards :

  United Kingdom awards and honors

• Cholmondeley Award:
• Costa Award for poetry:
• * Shortlist: Zaffar Kunial, Us; J. O. Morgan, Assurances; Richard Scott, Soho; Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems
• English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
• Eric Gregory Award :
• Forward Poetry Prize:
• *Best Collection:
• **Shortlist:
• *Best First Collection:
• **Shortlist:
• *Best Poem:
• **Shortlist:
• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
• *Shortlist:
• Manchester Poetry Prize:
• National Poet of Wales:
• National Poetry Competition 2018:
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
• T. S. Eliot Prize : Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems
• *Shortlist : 2018 Short List
• The Times / Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:

  United States awards and honors

• Arab American Book Award :
• *Honorable Mentions:
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
• Best Translated Book Award :
• Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
• Bollingen Prize:
• Jackson Poetry Prize:
• Lambda Literary Award:
• * Gay Poetry:
• * Lesbian Poetry:
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
• *Finalists:
• National Book Award for Poetry :
• *NBA Finalists:
• *NBA Longlist:
• *NBA Judges:
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
• Wallace Stevens Award:
• Whiting Awards:
• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
• PEN Center USA 2018 Poetry Award:
• PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry:
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
• Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
• Yale Younger Series:

  From the Poetry Society of America

• Frost Medal:
• Shelley Memorial Award:
• Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award:
• Lyric Poetry Award:
• Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award:
• Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award:
• George Bogin Memorial Award:
• Robert H. Winner Memorial Award:
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award:
• Norma Farber First Book Award:
• Lucille Medwick Memorial Award:
• William Carlos Williams Award:
• *Finalists for WCW Award:

  Conferences and workshops by country

Australia

Canada

Mexico

New Zealand

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

January – June

• January 3 - Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet Laureate

  July – December

• August 5 - Matthew Sweeney, Irish poet
• October 22 – Anne Fairbairn,, Australian poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture
• October 27 - Ntozake Shange, American playwright and poet
• November 22 – Judith Rodriguez,, Australian poet and academic