2024 in poetry

This article covers 2024 in poetry.

Events

Ellie Brooks reading poetry on 28 July 2024

• March 21 – World Poetry Day events
  • in Edinburgh, Scotland (at Craigmillar Library, Stockbridge Library, and Napier University)^[1]
  • in Granada, Spain^[2]
• June 6–16 – The 2024 Genoa International Poetry Festival took place in Genoa, Italy.^[3]
• September 23–29 – The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival took place at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.^[4]
• November 14–17 – The Ars Poetica festival took place in Bratislava, Slovakia; poems read there were also anthologized.^[5]

Selection of works published in English

United Kingdom

• Rachael Allen, God Complex
• Isabel Galleymore, Baby Schema
• Alistair McGowan, Not What We Were Expecting^[6]
• Rachel Mann, Eleanor Among the Saints

United States

• Victoria Chang, With My Back to the World

Other in English

• Victoria Kennefick, Egg/Shell, Irish poet published in England

Works published in other languages

Awards

Deaths

Margot Lemire in 2017

• January 4 – Fred Chappell, American author and poet^[7]
• January 5 – Jorge Aguilar Mora, Mexican poet and critic^[8]
• January 5 – Catrìona NicGumaraid, Scottish poet^[9]
• February 4 – N. K. Desam, Indian poet^[10]
• February 5 – Jimi Solanke, Nigerian actor, poet, and playwright^[11]
• March 10 – Alta, American feminist^[12]
• March 10 – Margot Lemire, Canadian poet and dramatist^[13]
• October 10 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet^[14]

See also

• Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards