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[edit] Events
- Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
- My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography
[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:
[edit] Australia
- Robert Adamson The Clean Dark
- Les Murray, The Idyll Wheel
- Philip Salom: Barbecue of the Primitives. (University of Queensland) ISBN 978-0-7022-2221-4
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Sangue e l'acqua, translated and edited into Italian by Giovann Distefano, Abano Terme: Piovan Editore
[edit] Canada
- Margaret Avison, No Time (winner of the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 1990[1]
- C. Bayard, The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec (scholarship)[2]
- Roo Borson, Intent, or, The Weight of the World, ISBN 0-7710-1588-7 American-Canadian
- Tim Lilburn, Tourist To Ecstasy, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, Canada
- Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991[3]
- Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, editors, The Brick Anthology, illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press[3]
[edit] Ireland
- Sebastian Barry, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever
- Dermot Bolger, Leinster Street Ghosts
- Eavan Boland, Selected Poems, including "Listen. This is the Noise of Myth" and "Fond Memory", Carcanet Press[4]
- Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti, including "The Mouth" and "Hamlet", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,[4] ISBN 9781852350420
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Magdalene Sermon, shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland[5]
- Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, including "Ank'hor Vat", "Little Elegy", "Memoirs of a Turcoman Diplomat: Oteli Asia Palas, Inc.", (see also Collected Poems 1964), Dedalus Press[4]
- Thomas McCarthy, Seven Winters in Paris, Anvil Press, London, Ireland[6]
- John Montague, New Selected Poems, including "Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People", "The Trout", "A Chosen Light", The Same Gesture", "Last Journey", "Dowager" and "Herbert Street Revisited", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[4]
- Matthew Sweeney, Blue Shoes, including "to the Building Trade", and "Tube Ride to Martha's"[4]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Dannie Abse, White Coat, Purple Coat[7]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translator, Orient Express: Poems. Grete Tartler, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[8]
- Simon Armitage, Zoom![7]
- Dermot Bolger, Leinster Street Ghosts,[7] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Gillian Clarke, Letting in the Rumour[7]
- Donald Davie, To Scorch or Freeze[7]
- Gavin Ewart, Penultimate Poems[7]
- James Fenton, Manila Envelope, self-published book of poems[9][7]
- Roy Fuller, Available for Dreams[7]
- Alasdair Gray, Old Negatives[7]
- Gerald Hammond, Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660, scholarship[10]
- Selima Hill, The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness[7]
- Ted Hughes, Wolfwatching[7]
- Peter Levi, Shadow and Bone[7]
- George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958–1982[7]
- E. A. Markham, editor, Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
- Grace Nichols:
- Sean O'Brien, Boundary Beach (Ulsterman Publications)
- Fiona Pitt-Kethley, The Perfect Man[7]
- Peter Porter, Possible Worlds[7]
- J. H. Prynne, World Order[7]
- Peter Reading, Perduta Gente[7]
- Vernon Scannell, Soldiering On[7]
- Iain Crichton Smith, 'The Village, and Other Poems[7]
- Charles Tomlinson, Annunciations[7]
- Hugo Williams, Selected Poems, Oxford University Press
[edit] United States
- Raymond Carver, A New Path To The Waterfall
- Henri Cole, The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge
- Ed Dorn, Abhorrences, Black Sparrow Press[11]
- Rita Dove, Grace Notes
- Molly Peacock, Take Heart
- Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press)
- Michael Ryan, God Hunger, Viking Penguin
- Mary Jo Salter, Unfinished Painting, Knopf
[edit] Anthologies in the United States
- N. Baym, et all, editors, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, two volumes, third edition[10]
- M. Honey, editors, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance[10]
- M. Harris and K. Aguero, editors, An Ear to the Ground[10]
[edit] Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1989
Poems by these 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by David Lehman, with Donald Hall, guest editor:
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Frederick Feirstein, editor, Expansive Poetry, various essays on the New Formalism and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term "Expansive Poetry"
- Michele Leggott, Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (New Zealand writer; book published in the United States)
- A. Shucard, Modern American Poetry 1865-1950[12]
- M. Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance[12]
- W. Kalaidjian, Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry[12]
[edit] Other in English
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Temple, India[13]
- Norman Simms, Who's Writing and Why in the South Pacific, scholarship, New Zealand[14]
[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] Arabic language
- Nizar Qabbani, Syrian;
- A Match in My Hand
- Petty Paper Nations
- No Victor Other Than Love
[edit] Spain
- Matilde Camus:
- Santander en mi sentir ("Santander in my heart")
- Sin alcanzar la luz ("Without reaching the Light")
[edit] Other languages
- Inger Christensen, Denmark:
- Digt om døden ("Poem on Death")
- Lys og Græs[15] ("Light and Grass")
- Alexander Mezhirov, Russia, Soviet Union:
- Бормотуха ("Bormotuha")
- Стихотворения ("Poems")
- Wisława Szymborska: Poezje: Poems, bilingual Polish-English edition, Poland
- Yu Jian, Shi liushi shou China[16]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gwen Harwood, Bone Scan
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Under Berlin
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Alex Skovron, The Re-arrangement
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- Canadian Author's Association Canadian Author & Bookman Editors Prize Best Poet 1989: Wayne Ray
- See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
[edit] New Zealand
- Jenny Bornholdt, Moving House
- Lauris Edmond, Hot October, autobiography[17]
- Kendrick Smithyman, Selected Poems, edited by Peter Simpson, Auckland: Auckland University Press, New Zealand
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E.J. Scovell
- Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Nancy Vieira Couto, The Face in the Water
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Anthony Hecht
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"
- Frost Medal: Gwendolyn Brooks
- Lannan Literary Award for Poetry: Cid Corman, George Evans and Peter Levitt
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Mona Van Duyn
- William Carlos Williams Award: Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Howard
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 13 – Sterling Allen Brown, 87 (born 1901), poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
- February 28 – Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
- August 25 – Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
- September 15 – Robert Penn Warren (born 1905), poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- December 4 – May Swenson, American poet and playwright
- December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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 "History and Criticism" section, p 164
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ a b c d e Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ a b c d Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 353
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 66
- ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
- ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
- ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian", article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
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