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

Events

• The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year.

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:

Australia

• Robert Gray, Piano
• Jennifer Maiden, The Trust, Black Lightning, Australia
• Chris Mansell, Redshift/Blueshift, Five Islands Press
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, I'm Deadly Serious, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Canada

• Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever
• Roy Miki, Tracing the Paths, about bp nichol, critical study;

Ireland

• Ciaran Carson, The New Estate and Other Poems, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350321
• Harry Clifton, The Liberal Cage, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350260
• Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela,^[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Irish poet at this time living in the United States
• Valentin Iremonger, Sandymount, Dublin, including "This Houre Her Vigill", "Clear View in Summer" and "Icarus"^[2]
• Thomas Kinsella:
  • Blood and Family, including "The Messenger" and "Out of Ireland"^[2]
  • One Fond Embrace: Peppercanister 13^[2]
• Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, Viking, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach^[1] Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)^[3]
• Jenny Bornholdt, This Big Face
• Allen Curnow, Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972–1988^[4]
• Lauris Edmond, Summer Near the Arctic Circle^[5]
• Michele Leggott, Like This?: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand
• Cilla McQueen, Benzina^[6] winner of the 1989 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
• Ian Wedde, Tendering
• Lydia Wevers, editor, Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women, anthology^[7]

United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)^[3]
• Patricia Beer, Collected Poems^[1]
• Alison Brackenbury, Christmas Roses^[1]
• Ciarán Carson: The New Estate and Other Poems, Gallery Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Charles Causley, A Field of Vision^[1]
• Jack Clemo, Selected Poems^[1]
• Wendy Cope:
  • Does She Like Word-Games?^[1]
  • Men and their Boring Arguments^[1]
• Helen Dunmore, The Raw Garden^[1]
• Douglas Dunn, Northlight^[1]
• Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela,^[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson
• David Gascoyne, Collected Poems^[1]
• Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems
• Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems^[1]
• Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• John Heath-Stubbs:
  • Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press
  • A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Time Pieces, Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
• Selima Hill, My Darling Camel^[1]
• Libby Houston, Necessity^[1]
• Ted Hughes:
  • Moon-Whales, first British edition; published originally in the United States, 1976^[1]
• Mick Imlah, Birthmarks (Chatto Windus, 1988), ISBN 978-0701133580
• Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking
• Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
• Alan Jenkins, In the Hot-House^[1]
• Philip Larkin, Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite; posthumously published
• George MacBeth, Anatomy of a Divorce^[1]
• Norman MacCaig, Voice-Over^[1]
• Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach^[1] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Edwin Morgan, Themes on a Variation^[1]
• Grace Nichols, editor, Black Poetry, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Blackie (London, England), published as Poetry Jump-Up, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), in 1989
• Brian Patten, Storm Damage^[1]
• Kathleen Raine, To the Sun^[1]
• Peter Reading, Final Demands^[1]
• Jeremy Reed, Engaging Form^[1]
• Carol Rumens, The Greening of the Snow Beach^[1]
• E. J. Scovell, Collected Poems^[1]
• Peter Scupham, The Air Show^[1]
• Jo Shapcott, Electroplating the Baby^[1]
• R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow
• Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars
• Heathcote Williams, Whale Nation

Anthologies

• The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988
• Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet

United States

• Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight
• Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[8] Russian-American
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie
• Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems
• Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press)
• Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris
• Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels
• John Hollander:
  • Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
  • Harp Lake
• Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
• Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "A Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940)
• William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes
• James Merrill, The Inner Room
• Michael Palmer, Sun
• Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press)

Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 1988

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:

Other works published in English

• Frank Birbalsingh, Jahaji Bhai: An Anthology of Indo–Caribbean Literature^[9]
• Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden of Waves & Fruit, India^[10]

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:

Arabic language

• Nizar Qabbani, Syrian:
  • Three Stone-throwing Children
  • Secret Papers of a Karmathian Lover
  • Biography of an Arab Executioner

Other languages

• Mario Benedetti, Yesterday y mañana ("Yesterday and Tomorrow"), Uruguay^[11]
• Dieter Breuer, editor, Deutsche Lyrik nach 1945, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (scholarship) West Germany ^[12]
• Niels Frank, Genfortryllelsen, Denmark^[13]
• Haim Gouri, Heshbon Over ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), Israeli writing in Hebrew^[14]
• Klaus Høeck, Lukas O'Kech, publisher: Brøndum; Denmark^[15]
• Panna Nayak, ' 'Nisbat' '; Indian poet writing in Gujarati^[16]
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Selected Poems: Rogha Danta, Gaelic-language, Ireland^[2]
• Rami Saari, Hinne, Matzati Et Beyti ("Behold, I Found My Home"), Israeli writing in Hebrew^[17]

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
• Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: David Lehman, "Mythologies"
• Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Howard Nemerov (also served 1963-64 in the same position, then named "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress")
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Anthony Hecht
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Donald Justice

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 3 – Rose Ausländer, at 86 (born 1901)
• February 3 – Robert Duncan, at 69 (born 1919), of a heart attack
• March 30 – John Clellon Holmes, 62 (born 1926), of cancer
• June 16 – Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
• October 1 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90

• Also:
  • Léonie Fuller Adams
  • Henry Coulette
  • M. Govindan (born 1919), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[18]
  • Premendra Mitra (born 1904) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
  • Mairtin O Direain (born 1910), Irish

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

References

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2. ^ ^{a b c d} Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
3. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
4. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
5. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
6. ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
7. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
8. ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
9. ^ "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
10. ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
11. ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
12. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
13. ^ Andersen, Jørn Erslev, translated by: David McDuff, [uid=111&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Author Profile: Niels Frank"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
14. ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
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16. ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
17. ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
18. ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009