Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events - January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
- T. S. Eliot Prize created.
- March 31–April 3 — Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of o•blék magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference.
- Bound by Honor, a film directed by Taylor Hackford, based on the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who co-wrote the screenplay, is released.
- Poetic Justice, a film directed by John Singleton, features Maya Angelou's poetry, and she appears as Aunt June.
- Poesia sempre, is created by the National Library of Brazil to promote poetry both from that nation and from beyond its borders and provide a forum for debate on poetry
- A new Yiddish monthly journal, Di yidishe gas ("The Jewish Street"), edited by Aron Vergelis, appears in Moscow. It is the first since the Sovetish heymland ("Soviet Homeland") became defunct.
- December 8 — Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the POETICS list, one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the contents of list postings or the list itself with "outsiders." People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved.
- American literary magazine o•blék (pronounced "oblique"), founded in 1987 by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath, stopped publishing.
[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: - George Bowering:
- The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe
- George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992
- Marilyn Bowering, Love as It Is
- Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, selected from works written between 1956 and 1992
- Sheree Fitch, In This House Are Many Women
- Judith Fitzgerald:
- Walkin' Wounded, including a cycle of baseball poems
- "Habit of Blues," a prose poem meditating on the fate of the late novelist Juan Butler.
- Bryan Gooch and Maureen Niwa, editors, The Emergence of the Muse: Major Canadian Poets from Crawford to Pratt, Toronto: Oxford University Press (scholarship)[1]
- Irving Layton, Fornalutx
- Dennis Lee, Riffs
- A. F. Moritz, The Ruined Cottage[2]
- bp Nichol:
- Truth: A Book of Fictions
- First Screening
- Raymond Souster, in Old Bank Notes
- Fergus Allen, The Brown Parrots of Providencia, including "Elegy for Faustina" and "The Fall", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[3]
- Pat Boran, Familiar Things, publisher: Dedalus[4]
- Ciaran Carson, First Language, including "Ovid: Metamorphoses, V, 529–550" and "Bagpipe Music", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,[3] ISBN 9781852351281
- Medbh McGuckian, The Flower Master and Other Poems, including "The Seed-picture", "Gateposts" and "The Flower Master", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[3]
- Martin Mooney, Grub, including "Anna Akhmatova's Funeral", Belfast: The Blackstaff Press[3]
- W. R. Rodgers, Poems, including "Lent", "The Net" and "Stormy Night", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[3]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press[5]
- Andrew Johnston, Sol How to Talk, winner of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award
- Cilla McQueen, Crïk´ey: New and Selected Poems
- W. H. Oliver, Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings, co-author: Anne Munz; Wellington: BlackBerry Press, New Zealand
- Keith Sinclair, Moontalk
- Ian Wedde, The Drummer
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press[5]
- Fergus Allen, The Brown Parrots of Providencia, including "Elegy for Faustina" and "The Fall", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[3]
- Moniza Alvi, The Country at my Shoulder[6]
- Simon Armitage, Book of Matches[6]
- Barbara Bleiman editor, Five Modern Poets: Fleur Adcock, U.A. Fanthorpe, Tony Harrison, Anne Stevenson, Derek Walcott, Harlow, England: Longman[5]
- Ciarán Carson: First Language: Poems, Gallery Books, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Gillian Clarke, The King of Britain's Daughter[6]
- Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, The Last Rock Eagle, a translation of several of her poems
- Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time,[6] Anvil Press Poetry[7]
- Douglas Dunn, Dante's Drum-Kit[6]
- Paul Durcan, A Snail in my Prime[6]
- D. J. Enright, Old Men and Comets[6]
- James Fenton, Out of Danger[6]
- Roy Fuller, Last Poems[6]
- Thom Gunn, Collected Poems[6]
- Tony Harrison, Black Daisies for the Bride[6]
- Seamus Heaney:
- Keeping Going, Bow and Arrow Press
- Translator: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press
- John Heath-Stubbs, Sweet-Apple Earth
- Jackie Kay, Other Lovers[6]
- James Kirkup, Blue Bamboo[6]
- Jamie McKendrick, The Kiosk on the Brink[6]
- E. A. Markham, Letter from Ulster and the Hugo Poems[6]
- Sean O'Brien, A Rarity (Carnivorous Arpeggio)
- Carol Rumens, Thinking of Skins[6]
- Labi Siffre, Nigger
- R. S. Thomas, Collected Poems, 1945–1990[6]
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom - Ai, Greed
- A.R. Ammons, Garbage, a book-length poem about American trash and its implications, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry this year and the 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Geoffrey Dearmer, A Pilgrim's Song: Selected Poems
- Mark Doty, My Alexandria
- Petya Dubarova, Here I Am, in Perfect Leaf Today (posthumous), translated from Bulgarian to English by Don D. Wilson
- Margaret Gibson, The Vigil
- Donald Hall, Life Work, memoir
- John Hollander:
- Selected Poetry
- Tesserae and Other Poems
- Daniel Halpern, editor, The Inferno by Dante, 21 living American poets wrote their versions of the cantos
- Meto Jovanovski, Faceless Men and Other Macedonian Stories, translated from Macedonian to English by Charles Simic in collaboration with Milne Holton and Jeffrey Folks.
- Susan Ludvigson, Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming
- Jack Marshall, Sesame
- Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky, Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970, edited by Jenny Penberthy (Cambridge University Press)
- Ed Ochester & Peter Oresick, Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Jim Powell, translator, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments of the 6th-century BC poet
- Lawrence Raab, What We Don't Know About Each Other
- Adrienne Rich, Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970
- David Rosenberg, translator, The Lost Book of Paradise, a verse translation of Genesis
- Sherod Santos, The City of Women, a sequence of poems and prose
- Sappho, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments, translated by Jim Powell
- James Schuyler, Collected Poems
- Frederick Seidel, My Tokyo
- Charles Simic, translator, The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, from Serbian into English, including Serbian poets Ivan V. Lalic, Vasko Popa, Momcilo Nastasijevic, and Nina Zivancevic.
- Sande Stojcevski, A Gate in the Cloud, translated by David Bowen and others from Macedonian to English, with more than 50 of the poet's lyrics.
- Mark Strand, Dark Harbor, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Lucy Tapahonso, Saanii Dahataal[8]
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of the Excluded Middle (Tender Buttons)
- Rosanna Warren, Stained Glass
- Eliot Weinberger, editor, American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Marsilio Publishers)
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States - Donald Hall, Life Work, a memoir
- Jay Parini, editor, The Columbia History of American Poetry[1]
- Alex Preminger, and T. V. F. Brogan, editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press[1]
- Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
- Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin, Selected Letters, correspondence between the poet and his publisher
[edit] Anthologies in the United States - Don Burness, editor, Echoes of the Sunbird: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies[1]
- John Hollander, editor, American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century, two volumes (Library of America)[1]
- Garrett Hongo, editor, The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America, New York: Doubleday[1]
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1993, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Louise Glück: [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] French language [edit] Portuguese language - Novica Tadic, Night Mail: Selected Poems (Macedonia)
- Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, Noshten dnevnik (“Night Diary”), 70 poems written from 1989-1992
- Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Hidden Title Poems, Chinese (Taiwan) [9]
- Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Homecoming/An Bealach 'na Bhaile, including "Bo Bhradach", "Na Piopai Creafoige", and "Caoineadh", Gaelic-language, Ireland[3]
- Wisława Szymborska: Koniec i początek ("The End and the Beginning"), Poland
- Yu Jian, Dui yi zhi wuya de mingming, Chinese[10]
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, 89 (born 1914), Dutch poet
- June 19 – William Golding, 82 (born 1919), English novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
- August 28 – William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford
- September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 71, Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
- September 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (born 1901), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic who lived in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
- October 27 – Peter Quennell, 88, English biographer, historian and poet
- October (exact date not known) – Gu Cheng, Chinese poet, by suicide
[edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f g "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
- ^ 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 e f g Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
- ^ a b c Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page), "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-08.
- ^ Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521822831, retrieved February 9, 2009
- ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian", article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
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