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

Events

• Forward Poetry Prize created
• Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings.^[1]
• Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in The New Republic that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.^[1]

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

• Les Murray, The Rabbiter's Bounty

Anthologies in Australia

• Philip Mead and John Tranter, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry a major anthology of Twentieth century poetry from that nation
• Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (editor), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986 and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, 1999

Canada

• Margaret Avison, Selected Poems Canada
• Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Jeffery Donaldson, Once out of Nature^[2], McClelland & Stewart
• Laura Lush, Hometown, Montreal: Vehicle Press
• Don McKay, Night Field (Canada)^[3]
• Roy Miki, In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988, Canada
• P. K. Page, The Glass Air: Selected Poems (an expanded edition; original edition published in 1985)^[2]
• John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis, shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, ISBN 1-55017-043-0 (Canada)
• George Woodcock, Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems, Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada^[4]

Ireland

• Brian Coffey, Poems and Versions 1929–1990, including "Death of Hektor" and "For What for Whom Unwanted"^[5]
• Gerald Dawe, Sunday School, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350635
• Paul Durcan, Crazy About Women, including "The Levite and His Concubine at Gibeah"^[5]
• Eamon Grennan, As If It Matters, including "Breaking Points", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[5]
• John Hewitt, Collected Poems, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press^[5]
• Michael Longley:
  • Gorse Fires, including "Between Hovers", "Laertes", "Argos" and "The Butchers"^[5]
  • Poems 1963–1983, including "In memoriam", "Caravan", "Wounds", "Ghost Town", "Man Lying on a Wall", "Wreaths", "Mayo Monologues" and "The Linen Industry"^[5]
• Thomas McGreevy, Collected Poems, including "Homage to Hieronymous Bosch" and "Recessional"^[5]
• Medbh McGuckian, Marconi's Cottage, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[5]
• Paula Meehan, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter, "The Pattern" and "Child Burial", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[5]
• Bernard O'Donoghue, The Weakness, including "A Nun Takes the Veil" and "The Weakness", Chatto and Windus^[5]
• Peter Sirr, Ways of Falling, including "A Few Helpful Hints", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[5]

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
  • Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[6]
  • Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[6]
• Jenny Bornholdt, Waiting Shelter, New Zealand
• Alan Brunton, Slow Passes 1978–1988^[7]
• Lauris Edmond, New and Selected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press^[8]
• Michele Leggott, Swimmers, Dancers, Auckland : Auckland University Press
• Bill Manhire, Milky Way Bar, New Zealand
• Bob Orr, Breeze^[9]

United Kingdom

• Dannie Abse, There Was a Young Man From Cardiff, autobiography^[10]
• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
  • Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[6]
  • Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[6]
• W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
• George Mackay Brown, Selected Poems 1954–1983^[10]
• Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
• Paul Durcan, Crazy About Women^[10]
• Gavin Ewart, Collected Poems 1980–1991^[10]
• John Fuller, The Mechanical Body^[10]
• Lavinia Greenlaw, The Cost of Getting Lost in Space^[10]
• Philip Gross, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere^[10]
• Michael Hamburger, Roots in the Air^[10]
• Tony Harrison, A Cold Coming^[10]
• Seamus Heaney:
  • Seeing Things, Faber & Faber
  • Squarings, Hieroglyph Editions
• Paul Henry, Time Pieces, Seren
• Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tings an' Times^[10]
• P. J. Kavanagh, An Enchantment^[10]
• Jackie Kay, The Adoption Papers^[10]
• Thomas Kinsella, Madonna, and Other Poems^[10]
• Kenneth Koch, Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet, American poet's book published in the United Kingdom^[11]
• Liz Lochhead, Bagpipe Muzak^[10]
• Michael Longley, Gorse Fires^[10]
• George MacBeth, Trespassing^[10]
• Medbh McGukian, Marconi's Cottage^[10]
• Jamie McKendrick, The Sirocco Room^[10]
• Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Viking
• Edwin Morgan, Hold Hands Among the Atoms^[10]
• Andrew Motion, Love in a Life^[10]
• Sean O'Brien, HMS Glasshouse,^[10] Oxford University Press
• Christopher Reid, In the Echoey Tunnel^[10]
• C. H. Sisson, Antidotes^[10]

United States

• John Ashbery, Flow Chart
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Children Coming Home
• Robert Creeley, Selected Poems 1945-90^[12]
• Billy Collins, Questions About Angels (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993
• Paul Hoover, The Novel: A Poem (New Directions)
• Howard Nemerov, Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (University of Chicago Press)
• Grace Paley, Long Walks and Intimate Talks (stories and poems)
• Kenneth Rexroth, Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems

Poets represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 anthology

These 75 poets were represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Mark Strand:

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• William Meredith, Poems Are Hard to Read, criticism
• Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Part of the Climate: American Cubist Poetry, University of California Press, scholarship^[13]
• M.L. Rosenthal, Our Life in Poetry, collection of literary criticism, including the influential "Poetry as Confession", an article appearing in 1959 in which Rosenthall coined the term "confessional" as used in Confessional poetry^[14]

Works published in other languages

Denmark

• Inger Christensen, Sommerfugledalen, ("Butterfly Valley: A Requiem"), poems (later translated into English by Susanna Nied)^[15]
• Klaus Høeck, Salme, publisher: Brøndum^[16]
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Hjemfalden

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Tierra de mi Cantabria ("Cantabria, my land")

Other languages

• Mario Benedetti, Las soledades de Babel ("The Loneliness of Babel"), Uruguay^[17]
• Yves Bonnefoy, France:
  • Début et fin de neige
  • Là où retombe la flèche
• Odysseus Elytis, The Elegies of Oxopetras (Τα Ελεγεία της Οξώπετρας)
• Alexander Mezhirov, Избранное ("Favorite"), Russia
• Nizar Qabbani, Syrian, Arabic-language poet:
  • Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness?
  • Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat
• Rami Saari, Gvarim Ba-tzomet ("Men at the Crossroad"), Israeli writing in Hebrew^[18]

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - Verandahs

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1991 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: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
• Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
• Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Michael Longley, Gorse Fires

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, Sleeping Preacher
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, "Museum of Clear Ideas"
• Bollingen Prize: Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice
• Frost Medal: Donald Hall
• National Book Award for poetry: Philip Levine, What Work Is
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Joseph Brodsky
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: David Wagoner
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. D. McClatchy

Deaths

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

• January 22 – Robert Choquette (born 1905), Canadian novelist and poet
• March 10 – Etheridge Knight (born 1931), American poet
• April 12 – James Schuyler, at 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke
• July 5 – Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
• September 2 – Laura Riding Jackson, at 90, of a heart attack
• September 24 – Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse
• September 27 – Roy Fuller, English poet and writer
• October 11 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
• October 27 – George Barker, poet

• Also:
  • George Thaniel, Canadian poet
  • R. F. Brissenden
  • Paul Engle, American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
  • John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist

See also

Poetry portal

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

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Lehman, David, preface, The Best American Poetry 1992, 1992
2. ^ ^{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
3. ^ [1]Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
4. ^ Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
7. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
8. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
9. ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
10. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
11. ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
12. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
13. ^ 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
14. ^ Rosenthal, Our Life in Poetry pages 109 – 112
15. ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
16. ^ Web page titled [stage=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
17. ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
18. ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007