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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). ==Events== *January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus. This news is being reported by multiple news sources by the end of the month. *January 7 – Michel Pleau is named Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (or Canada's new poet laureate), beginning a two-year mandate to “draw Canadians’ attention to the reading and writing of poetry.” *January 29 – Hashem Shaabani, an Arab–Iranian poet,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iranian Execution of Poet Further Darkens Iran’s Human Rights Record )〕 was executed by hanging in an unidentified Iranian prison after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani approved the sentences. *March 7 - For the first time ever, all five poet laureates of the United Kingdom are women and for the first time all five perform together at the Women of the World festival in London on the eve of International Women's Day. The poets are: Carol Ann Duffy (England), Liz Lochhead (Scotland), Gillian Clarke (Wales), Paula Meehan (Ireland), and Sinéad Morrissey (Northern Ireland). *March 19 - PEN International comes out with an action appeal protesting the two-year prison sentence handed down to Egyptian poet Omar Hazek. PEN states that this poet has been "imprisoned for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and assembly." Hazek, who has won several poetry awards and is a former employee of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has been held in custody since early December 2013. *April 22 - The Writers' Trust of Canada announces the new Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize, a new Canadian literary award to honour the body of work of a Canadian poet who has published at least three volumes of poetry.〔("New prize to award $25,000 annually to Canadian poets" ). ''National Post'', April 22, 2014.〕 The award is slated to be presented for the first time in November.〔 *May 22 - The translation of ''Beowulf'' by J. R. R. Tolkien, which he had first completed in 1926, is published in England (after nearly 90 years) as ''Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary'' (his essay ''On Translating Beowulf'' had been published in 1940). *June 12 - The Library of Congress selects Charles Wright as the new United States Poet Laureate, succeeding Natasha Tretheway.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/books/charles-wright-named-americas-poet-laureate.html?_r=0〕 *August 22 - New Zealand celebrates its own National Poetry Day, now in its 17th year, with more than 60 events held around the country. Included among the various readings and contests are events sponsoring the current New Zealand Poet Laureate, Vincent O’Sullivan, who reads poetry in Dunedin, and 2007-2009 Poet Laureate, Michele Leggott, who MCs the annual Auckland Library event.〔http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1408/S00143/nz-celebrates-poetry-with-national-poetry-day-on-22-august.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2014 in poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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