Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: - Jennifer Maiden:
- Bastille Day, NLA
- Selected Poems of Jennifer Maiden, Penguin
- The Winter Baby, Angus & Robertson
- Les Murray, Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
- For Crying Out Loud, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Poetry and Belief (scholarship), Hobart: University of Tasmania
- George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 0-919591-57-4 (revised edition, 2000 ISBN 1-896095-50-X) Canada
- A. E. Davidson, Studies on Canadian Literature (scholarship), Canada[2]
- George Johnston, Endeared by Dark: The Collected Poems[3]
- Michael Redhill, Impromptu Feats of Balance, Don Mills, Ontario: Wolsak & Wynn
- Ricardo Sternberg, Invention of Honey, Montreal: Signal Editions
- Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire[3]
- Eavan Boland, Outside History, including "The Latin Lesson" and "Midnight Flowers", Carcanet Press[4]
- Pat Boran:
- History and Promise (IUP)[5]
- The Unwound Clock (Dedalus)[5]
- Ciarán Carson, Belfast Confetti, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Durcan, Daddy, Daddy[6]
- Padraic Fallon, Collected Poems, introduction by Seamus Heaney, [6], Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350529 published posthumously
- Seamus Heaney:
- Paul Muldoon, Madoc, including "Cauliflowers", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[4]
- Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, The Magdalene Sermon, including "The Informant", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[4]
- Dannie Abse, Rememberance of Crimes Past[6]
- Eavan Boland, Outside History[6]
- Ciarán Carson: Belfast Confetti, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Donald Davie, Collected Poems[6]
- Paul Durcan, Daddy, Daddy[6]
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Other Country, Anvil Press Poetry (poetry)[10]
- Padraic Fallon, Collected Poems, introduction by Seamus Heaney, published posthumously[6]
- Elaine Feinstein, City Music, Hutchinson
- Tony Harrison, Losing Touch[6]
- Seamus Heaney:
- John Heath-Stubbs:
- The Game of Love and Death[6]
- Selected Poems
- Adrian Henri, Box, and Other Poems[6]
- Alan Jenkins, Greenheart[6]
- Derek Mahon, The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush: Selected Poems. Gallery Press
- Glyn Maxwell, Tale of the Mayor's Son[6]
- Edwin Morgan, Collected Poems[6]
- Brian Patten, Collected Poems[6]
- Ruth Pitter, Collected Poems, introduction by Elizabeth Jennings[6]
- Peter Redgrove, Dressed as for a Tarot Pack
- Peter Scupham, Watching the Perseids[6]
- R.S. Thomas, Counterpoint[6]
- Hugo Williams, Self-Portrait with a Slide[6]
- Elizabeth Alexander, The Venus Hottentot[11]
- Maya Angelou, I Shall Not be Moved
- Frank Bidart, In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Philip Booth, Selves, Viking Penguin
- George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, ninth and last volume published this year (first volume published in 1980), Santa Barbara, California, biography and criticism[12]
- Maxine Chernoff, Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems (Another Chicago Press)
- Alice Fulton, Powers of Congress
- David Graham, Second Wind, Texas Tech University Press
- David Lehman, Operation Memory, Princeton University Press
- Thomas Lux, The Drowned River, Houghton Mifflin
- Mary Oliver, House of Light
- Peter Oresick, Definitions (West End Press) and Working Classics (University of Illinois Press)
- Mark Strand, The Continuous Life, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Derek Walcott, Omeros
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Peculiar Motions (Kelsey St. Press)
- Reed Whittemore, The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New
These 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1990, edited by David Lehman with Jorie Graham, guest editor: [edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: [edit] Spanish language - Matilde Camus, El color de mi cristal ("The colour of my glasses")
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - March 13 – Teiko Tomita (born 1894), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese[15]
- May 14 – Mary Oppen, 82 (born 1908), American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife of George Oppen
- October 12 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (born 1904), Japanese, Showa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
- November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, 78 (born 1912), English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- November 11 – Yannis Ritsos, Greek
[edit] See also [edit] References - ^ Fox, Margalit, "Jason Shinder, 52, Poet and Founder of Arts Program, Dies", obituary, May 3, 2008, The New York Times, retrieved December 11, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
- ^ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ a b c d Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ a b "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ [1]Web psge titled "James K. Baxter" at "Best of New Zealand Poetry 2001" Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
- ^ O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-08.
- ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ "Teiko Tomita" entry, p 640 in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, edited by Susan Ware, Stacy Lorraine Braukman; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Press, 2004, ISBN 9780674014886, retrieved January 29, 2009
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