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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 Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British
poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust.
By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year.
Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected.[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:
- Chris
Mansell, Shining Like a Jinx
- Les
Murray, Translations from the Natural World[2],
winner of the 1993 Kenneth Slessor
Prize for Poetry
- A. B. Paterson, A. B. Paterson,
Selected Poems, edited by Les Murray, Collins/Angus &
Robertson, 1992, 1996, posthumous[2]
- Douglas Barbour, Inscriptions: A Prairie Poetry
Anthology (Turnstone Press)[3]
- Elisabeth
Harvor, Fortress of Chairs, winner of the Gerald
Lampert Award
- Laura Lush, Softly in German, Ottawa: National Library
of Canada
- George
Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian
Poetry, Toronto: ECW Press[4]
- Harry
Clifton, The Desert Route, Oldcastle: The Gallery
Press, ISBN 9781852350925
- Sean Dunne, The Sheltered Nest,
including "Sydney Place", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,[5]
ISBN 9781852350840
- Peter Fallon, Eye to Eye, Oldcastle: The Gallery
Press, ISBN 9781852351007
- Fleur Adcock
(New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translation of Letters from
Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford
University Press[6]
- Alistair Campbell, Stone
Rain: The Polynesian Strain, Aukland: Hazard Press
- Janet Charman, red letter, Auckland: Auckland
University Press[7]
- Fleur Adcock
(New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translation of Letters from
Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford
University Press[6]
- Simon
Armitage:
- George Mackay Brown:
- Brodgar Poems[8]
- The Lost Village[8]
- Stewart
Brown, Caribbean Poetry Now, London: Edward Arnold
(anthology)[9]
- Wendy Cope,
Serious Concerns[8]
- Carol Ann
Duffy:
- William and the Ex-Prime Minister, Anvil Press Poetry,
a 16-page pamphlet, ISBN 978-0856462535[10]
- Editor, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine, Viking
(anthology)[11]
- Douglas Dunn,
editor, Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry,
London: Faber and Faber (anthology)[9]
- Gavin Ewart,
Like It Or Not[8]
- U. A.
Fanthorpe, Neck-Verse[8]
- Thom Gunn:
- The Man With Night Sweats[8]
- Old Stories[8]
- Tony
Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon[8]
- Seamus
Heaney:
- The Golden Bough, Bonnefant Press
- Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel
Giese, photographer), Faber & Faber
- Adrian Henri,
The Cerise Swimsuit[8]
- Ted Hughes,
Rain-Charm for the Duchy[8]
- Elizabeth Jennings, Times and
Seasons[8]
- P. J.
Kavanagh, Collected Poems[8]
- James Kirkup,
Shooting Stars[8]
- Derek Mahon,
The Yaddo Letter. Gallery Press
- George
MacBeth, The Patient[8]
- Roger
McGough, Defying Gravity[8]
- Kenneth Millard, Edwardian Poetry, scholarship[12]
- Peter Porter,
The Chair of Babel[8]
- Kathleen
Raine, Living With Mystery[8]
- Peter
Reading:
- Peter
Redgrove, Under the Reservoir[8]
- Jeremy Reed,
Black Sugar, illustrated by Jean Cocteau[8]
- William
Scammell, Bleeding Heart Yard[8]
- Jo Shapcott,
Phrase Book[8]
- Penelope
Shuttle, Taxing the Rain[8]
- Jon Silkin,
The Lens-Breakers[8]
- Michael Spiller (academic), The Development of the Sonnet:
an Introduction, London: Routledge (scholarship)[9]
- David Storey,
Stoey's Lives[8]
- R.S. Thomas, Mass for Hard
Times[8]
- Charles
Tomlinson, The Door in the Wall[8]
- Benjamin Zephaniah, City
Psalms[8]
- Sherman
Alexie, The Business of Fancy Dancing[13]
- John Ashbery,
Hotel Lautréamont
- Jack Gilbert,
The Great Fires
- Anthony Kellman, editor, Crossing Water: Contemporary
Poetry of the English-Speaking Caribbean, Greenfield Center,
New York: Greenfield Review Press (anthology)[9]
- N. Scott
Momaday, In the Presence of the Sun, combination of
poetry and nonfiction[13]
- Mary Oliver,
New and Selected Poems
- Simon Ortiz, Woven Stone,
combination of poetry and nonfiction[13]
- Grace Paley,
New and Collected Poems
- Carl
Phillips, In the Blood[14]
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, A
Gilded Lapse of Time
- Patti Smith,
Woolgathering
- James Wright, Above the River:
Complete Poems, introduction by Donald Hall (posthumous)
- Michelle Yeh, editor and translator, Anthology of Modern
Chinese Poetry, Yale University Press
Poets included
in The Best American Poetry 1992
These 75 poets are included in The Best American Poetry
1992 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Charles Simic:
Other
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra,
editor, The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian
Poets, Delhi: Oxford University Press, India
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The
Astrakhan Cloak, including "Caitlin", Oldcastle: The Gallery
Press[5]
- Andries Walter Oliphant, editor, Essential Things: An
Anthology of New South African Poetry, Johannesburg, South
Africa: Congress of South African Writers [9]
ISBN 9781874879084, South Africa
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:
Awards and
honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann
Duffy, Roger
Woddis
- Eric
Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher
Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford
- Forward Poetry Prize Best
Collection: Thom Gunn,
The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First
Collection: Simon
Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber)
- Queen's Gold Medal for
Poetry: Kathleen Raine
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Tony Harrison,
The Gaze of the Gorgon
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry"
article:
- February 16 – George MacBeth, 60 (born 1932), Scottish poet and novelist, of
motor neuron disease
- February 18 – Robert Gittings, 81 (born 1911), English poet and
biographer
- April 11 – Eve
Merriam, (née Moskowitz), 75, American poet, playwright and teacher,
of cancer
- May 12 – Nikos
Gatsos, Greek
- November 17 – Audre
Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58, a writer, poet and political
activist, of liver cancer
- November 19 – Kenneth Burke, a major American literary
theorist and philosopher
See also
References
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[1]Sofer, Dalia,
""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets &
Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007
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[2]Les Murray Web
page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^
"Douglas Barbour" web
page at the "writing canada into the millennium project"
website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^
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
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b
Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology,
Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
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Web page titled "Fleur
Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of
Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^
Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New
Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman"
article
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McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary
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