2004 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants. Naming names." Members and visitors contribute information which links judges and prize winners in various poetry contests in attempts to document whether some contests have been rigged.
• Samizdat poetry magazine, founded in 1998, ceases publication.
• David and Helen Constantine relaunch Modern Poetry in Translation, a British journal focusing on the art of translating poetry. The magazine was originally founded in 1966 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort.

Works published

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

• Robert Adamson Reading the River: Selected Poems
• Alison Croggon, November Burning, Vagabond
• M. T. C. Cronin, <More or Less Than> 1-100
• Luke Davies, Totem
• Sarah Day, The Ship, winner of the 2005 Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award; Blackheath, N.S.W.: Brandl & Schlesinger
• Noel Rowe, Next to Nothing
• Dipti Saravanamuttu, The Colosseum
• Samuel Wagan Watson, Smoke Encrypted Whispers
• Les...... ...
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