2021 in poetry

• January 5 – An anthology of poems by 157 blind poets from around the world titled Fountain of Light is released in a Braille version at Kolkata.^[1]

• Tony Birch, Whisper Songs
• Eileen Chong, A Thousand Crimson Blooms
• Erik Jensen, I Say the Sea Was Folded
• Bella Li, Theory of Colours
• Petra White, Cities

• Rupi Kaur, Home Body

• Ranjit Hoskote, Hunchprose, ISBN 978-06-700949-0-5
• Bibhu Padhi, A Friendship with Time, ISBN 978-93-87885806
• Antony Theodore, Psalms of Love, ISBN 978-81-952546-1-3

• Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell

• Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance
• Armando Iannucci, Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament
• Hannah Lowe, The Kids
• Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
• Joelle Taylor, C+nto: & Othered Poems

• Borys Kutoviy, The Deth of the Poet
• Ihor Astapenko, Trees are better than us
• Ihor Mitrov, Voice of Ukraine
• Kateryna Kalytko, Order of Silent Women
• Oleg Kotsarev, The contents of a man's pocket
• Serhiy Zhadan, Psalm of aviation

Alphabetical listing by author name

• Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
• Amanda Lovelace, Shine Your Icy Crown
• Arthur Sze, Glass Constellations
• Catherine Cohen, God I Feel Modern Tonight
• Daniel Borzutzky, Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018
• Donika Kelly, The Renunciations
• Douglas Kearney, Sho
• Kate Durbin, Hoarders
• Mary Oliver (died 2019), Devotions
• Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming
• Rosebud Ben-Oni, If This Is The Age We End Discovery
• Sonia Sanchez, Collected Poems
• Tongo Eisen-Martin, Blood on the Fog
• Tracy K. Smith, Such Color: New and Selected Poems

• Joy Harjo, Living Nations, Living Words – contains works by Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui
• Jan Heller Levi & Christoph Keller (eds), The Essential June Jordan
• Kimiko Hahn & Harold Schechter (eds), Buzz Words: Poems About Insects

Shav Vahini Ganga, poem by Parul Khakhar

• See also: List of poetry awards

Awards announced this year:

• Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate: Carol Ann Duffy
• Struga Poetry Evenings Bridges of Struga: Vladan Krečković

• Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry formerly known as C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry :
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Ellen van Neerven for Throat

• Archibald Lampman Award: '
• J. M. Abraham Poetry Award:
• Governor General's Awards:
• Griffin Poetry Prize: Valzhyna Mort, ‘’Music for the Dead and Resurrected’’
• Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize:
• Gerald Lampert Award:
• Pat Lowther Award:
• Prix Alain-Grandbois:
• Raymond Souster Award:
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:
• Prix Émile-Nelligan:

• Prix Goncourt de la Poésie:

• Sahitya Akademi Award : Namita Gokhale for "Things to Leave Behind"
• Jnanpith Award :- Nilamani Phookan
• Moortidevi Award :-
• Saraswati Samman :- Ram Darash Mishra

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
  • Poetry: 
• Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry :

• Cholmondeley Award: Kei Miller
• Costa Book Award for poetry: Hannah Lowe, The Kids (also awarded overall Book of the Year)^[2]
• English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
• Eric Gregory Award (for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30):
• Forward Poetry Prize:
  • Short List: Tishani Doshi, A God at the Door; Kayo Chingonyi, A Blood Condition; Selima Hill, Men Who Feed Pigeons; Luke Kennard, Notes on the Sonnets; Stephen Sexton, Cheryl's Destinies
  • Best Collection:
  • Best Poem:
• Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
• Manchester Poetry Prize:
• National Poet of Wales:
• National Poetry Competition: Eric Yip for "Fricatives"
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Grace Nichols
• Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize: Sumita Chakraborty, Arrow
• T. S. Eliot Prize: Joelle Taylor, C+nto: & Othered Poems

• Arab American Book Award (The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award):
  • Honorable Mentions:
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
• Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books:
• Bollingen Prize:
• Jackson Poetry Prize:
  • Gay Poetry:
  • Lesbian Poetry:
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize:
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize:
• National Book Award for Poetry (NBA):
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry:
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize:
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
• Wallace Stevens Award:
• Whiting Awards:
• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation:
• PEN Center USA 2021 Poetry Award:
• PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: (Judges: )
• Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award:
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize:
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
• Walt Whitman Prize – – Judge:
• Yale Younger Series:

• 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:

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 2 – Neelamperoor Madhusoodanan Nair (b. 1936), Indian Malayalam-language poet
• January 17 – Shankha Ghosh (b. 1932), Indian Bengali poet, COVID-19 complications^[3]
• January 23 – Martha Madrigal (b. 1929), Mexican poet and story writer
• February 3 – James Fenton (b. 1931), Northern Irish Ulster Scots dialect poet
• February 16 – Joan Margarit (b. 1938), Catalan Spanish poet and architect^[4]
• February 22 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), American poet, painter and social activist
• March 6 – N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat (b. 1936), Indian Kannada poet and Sahitya Akademi Award winner
• March 21 – Adam Zagajewski (b. 1919), Polish poet, novelist and translator (winner of Griffin Prize and the Neustadt Prize)
• April 11 – Justo Jorge Padrón (b. 1943) Canarian Spanish poet, translator and lawyer
• April 13 – Bernard Noel (b. 1930), French poet and writer
• April 17 – Al Young (b. 1939), American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and educator
• April 21 – Shankha Ghosh (b. 1932), Indian Bengali poet, winner of Padma Bhushan, Jnanpith Award and Sahitya Akdemi Award
• April 22 – Anthony Thwaite (b. 1930), English poet and editor
• May 2 – Jesús Hilario Tundidor (b. 1935), Spanish poet
• May 12 – Seamus Deane (b. 1940), Irish poet, novelist and academic
• June 7 – Moon In-soo (b. 1945), South Korean poet
• June 10 – Buddhadeb Dasgupta (b. 1944), Indian Bengali poet, lyricist and filmmaker^[5]
• June 18 – Lamia Abbas (b. 1929), Iraqi poet and Arabic literary figure
• June 22 – Giulia Niccolai (b. 1934), Italian poet, novelist and translator
• June 24 – Stephen Dunn (b. 1939), American poet, educator and Pulitzer Prize winner, of Parkinson's disease complications^[6]
• June 26 – Josip Osti (b. 1945), Slovenian poet, critic and translator
• June 27 – Kolbein Falkeid (b. 1933), Norwegian poet
• July 2 – Omar Lara (b. 1941), Chilean poet and translator
• July 7 – Michael Horovitz (b. 1935), German-born British poet, editor, visual artist and translator
• July 13 – Brother Resistance (b. 1954), Trinidadian poet and musician
• July 27 – LeRoy Clarke (b. 1938), Trinidadian visual artist, poet, lecturer and philosopher
• August 4 – Jean "Binta" Breeze (b. 1956), Jamaican dub poet
• August 9 – Aung Cheint (b. 1948), Burmese poet
• September 16 – Tim Thorne (b. 1944), Australian poet^[7]
• October 17 – Brendan Kennelly (b. 1936), Irish poet^[8]
• November 6 – Raúl Rivero (b. 1945), Cuban poet^[9]
• November 21 – Robert Bly (b. 1926), American poet and essayist

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