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

Events

• Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million.^[1]
• C. P. Cavafy's poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by her longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman.^[1]
• October 31 (Halloween) — 15,000 copies of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" are distributed free at public libraries. In Austin, Texas, someone from the local coroner's office and someone from a local tax department gave a "death and taxes" reading of the poem.^[1]
• Wyn Cooper's "All I Wanna Do" is put to music by Sheryl Crow who makes it the nation's No. 1 hit rock tune.^[1]
• Tony Curtis becomes Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan.
• Poetry Canada Review folds, the publication was founded in 1978 by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada.^[2]

Poets depicted in the movies

• Dorothy Parker's poems are featured in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
• In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."^[1]
• Pablo Neruda's 1952 stay in a villa owned by Italian historian Edwin Cerio on the island of Capri is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film Il Postino ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film.

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 Adamson Waving to Hart Crane
• Jennifer Harrison: Michelangelo’s Prisoners (Black Pepper)
• Les Murray:
  • Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia^[3]
  • Translations from the Natural World^[3]
• David Rowthbaum, New and Selected Poems (1945-93)

Canada

• Christian Bök, Crystallography ISBN 978-1-55245-119-9
• Roo Borson, Night Walk, ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian
• Margaret Christakos, Other Words for Grace (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press)
• George Elliott Clarke, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978–1993. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-83-1 Canada
• Don Domanski, Stations of the Left Hand (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Cherie Geauvreau, Even the Fawn Has Wings, a first collection
• Gary Geddes, Girl by the Water
• Ralph Gustafson, Tracks in the Snow
• Evelyn Lau, In the House of Slaves
• Tim Lilburn, Moosewood Sandhills, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Canada
• A. F. Moritz:
  • Mahoning^[4]
  • Phantoms in the Ark^[4]
• Susan Musgrave, Forcing the Narcissus
• P. K. Page, Hologram: A Book of Glosas, poems in 14th century Spanish stanzaic form^[4]
• John Pass, Radical Innocence (ISBN 1-55017-107-0) Canadian
• Al Purdy, Naked with Summer in Your Mouth
• Linda Rogers, Hard Candy, including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award
• Joe Rosenblatt, Beds and Consenting Dreamers
• Stephen Scobie, Gospel
• Francis Sparshott, The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke
• George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW Press^[5]

Ireland

• Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence, including "Anna Liffey", "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me", "The Latin Lesson" and "Midnight Flowers", Carcanet Press^[6]
• Vona Groarke, Shale, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
• Michael Hartnett, Selected and New Poems, including "Bread", "I have exhausted the delighted range ...", "For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin", "A Farewell to English", "Lament for Tadgh Cronin's Children" and "The Man who Wrote Yeats, the Man who Wrote Mozart", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[6]
• Medbh McGuckian:
  • Venus and the Rain, revised edition (first edition 1984), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[6]
  • Captain Lavender, including "Porcelain Bells", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[6]
• Paula Meehan, Pillow Talk, including "Laburnum", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[6]
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, including "The Real Thing" and "Saint Margaret of Cortona",^[6] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[7]
• Tom Paulin, Walking a Line, including "The Lonely Tower", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[6]

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press^[8]
• Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, 1975-1994, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books^[9]
• Michele Leggott, DIA, Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
• Hone Tuwhare, Deep River Talk, 140 poems from 10 previous collections

United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press^[8]
• Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence^[10]
• Alan Brownjohn, In the Cruel Arcade^[10]
• Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Gift and Other Poems, St. Inan's Press (16 pages; "I used to produce this tiny pamphlet from my breast pocket at poetry readings, and announce I would read from my complete and unexpurgated works", Cambridge wrote on his website.)^[11]
• William Cookson, editor, Agenda – An Anthology 1959-1993, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1857540697
• Carol Ann Duffy:
  • Editor, Anvil New Poets Volume 2 Penguin (anthology),^[12] sources also give 1995^[13] and 1996^[14] as publication year
  • Selected Poems Penguin^[12]
• Helen Dunmore, Recovering a Body^[10]
• Paul Durcan Give Me Your Head^[10]
• James Fenton, Out of Danger, Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry ^[15]
• Elaine Feinstein, Selected Poems, Carcanet
• Roy Fisher, Birmingham River^[10]
• Philip Gross, I.D.^[10]
• Adrian Henri, Not Fade Away^[10]
• Selma Hill, Trembling Hearts in the Bodies of Dogs^[10]
• Kathleen Jamie, The Queen of Sheba^[10]
• Alan Jenkins, Harm
• Elizabeth Jennings, Familiar Spirits^[10]
• Thomas Kinsella, From Centre City^[10]
• Peter Levi, The Rags of Time^[10]
• Medbh McGuckian, Captain Lavender^[10]
• Derek Mahon, The Yaddo Letter^[10]
• Glyn Maxwell, Mick Imlah and Peter Reading, Penguin New Poets 3, ISBN 978-0140587425
• Andrew Motion, The Price of Everything^[10]
• Paul Muldoon:
  • The Annals of Chile^[10]
  • The Prince of Quotidian^[10]
• Tom Paulin, Walking a Line^[10]
• Peter Porter, Millennial Fables^[10]
• Craig Raine, History: The Home Movie^[10]
• Peter Redgrove, My Father's Trapdoors^[10]
• Peter Scupham, The Ark^[10]
• Jon Silkin, Watersmeet^[10]
• C. H. Sisson, What and Who^[10]
• Sir Stephen Spender, Dolphins^[10]
• Anthony Thwaite, The Dust of the World^[10]
• Hugo Williams, Dock Leaves, Faber and Faber

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

• John Heath-Stubbs, Hindsights : An Autobiography

United States

• Kim Addonizio, The Philosopher's Club (BOA Editions)
• A. R. Ammons, The North Carolina Poems
• John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining
• Ted Berrigan, Selected Poems
• Sophie Cabot Black, The Misunderstanding of Nature, (Graywolf Press) received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award, ISBN 1-55597-190-3
• Rosellen Brown, Cora Fry's Pillow Book
• Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson
• Jane Hirshfield, The October Palace
• Edward Hirsch, Earthly Measures
• John Hollander, Animal Poems
• Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer
• Galway Kinnell, Imperfect Thirst (Houghton Mifflin)
• Kenneth Koch:
  • On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988, New York: Knopf^[16]
  • One Train: Poems, New York: Knopf^[16]
• James McMichael, Each in a Place Apart
• Robert Pinsky, translation of Dante's Inferno
• Wendy Rose, Bone Dance^[17]
• Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters
• Patti Smith, Early Work
• Rosmarie Waldrop, A Key Into the Language of America (New Directions Publishers)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories, with pieces on George Oppen, John Berryman, Robinson Jeffers, and Stanley Kunitz
• Ian Hamilton, editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English, New York: Oxford University Press^[18]
• Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman, a study of Sylvia Plath
• Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
• Carl Woodring, editor, Columbia History of British Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press^[19]

Anthologies in the United States

• Douglas Messerli, editor, From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990, including American and Canadian poets; Sun and Moon Press (Messerli's own imprint) ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7
• Carolyn Forché, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
• Jane Hirshfield, editor, Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
• Paul Hoover, editor, Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945; about 20 short essays on poetics also included
• E. Ethelbert Miller, In Search of Color Everywhere,^[20] including almost 150 African-American poets

Poets in The Best American Poetry 1994 anthology

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by David Lehman, guest editor A. R. Ammons:

Other in English

• Vinay Dharwadker and A. K. Ramanujan, editors, The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, Delhi: Oxford University Press

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:

Danish

• Benny Andersen, Denne kommen og gåen
• Katrine Marie Guldager, Dagene skifter hænder, ("The Days Change Hands"); Denmark

^[21]

• Lundbye, Lundbyes dyrefabler
• Pia Tafdrup, Territorialsang
• Ole Wivel, Iris

Dutch

• Bernlef, Vreemde wil
• Toon Tellegen, Tijger onder de slakken
• Leonard Nolens, Honing en As

French language

Canada

• Robert Mélançon, L'Avant-printemps à Montréal

France

• Édouard Glissant, Poèmes complets

German

• Durs Grünbein, Falten und Fallen
• Jürgen Kolbe, a book of poetry
• Robert Gernhardt, a book of poetry

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Germany

• Erich Mühsam, Tagebücher, 1910-1924 (posthumous)

Hebrew

• Haim Gouri, Ha-Ba Aharai ("Poems"), Israel^[22]

Spanish language

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Ronda de azules ("Blue avenue")

Latin America

• Mario Benedetti, Inventario dos (1985-1994) ("Inventory Two (1985-1994)"), published in Madrid, Uruguay^[23]
• José Emilio Pacheco, El silencio de la luna, Mexico
• Francisco Hernández, El infierno es un decir, Mexico
• Octavio Paz. Obras completas, Mexico

Sweden

• Katarina Frostenson, Tankarna
• Ann Jäderlund, Mörker mörka mörkt kristaller
• Arne Johnsson, Faglarnas eldhuvuden

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Sweden

• Lars Huldén, Carl Michael Bellman, on the 18th-century poet
• Olof Lagercrantz, In Jag bor i en annan värld men du bor ju i samma, about the author's friendship with poet Gunnar Ekelöf
• Lars Gustafsson, Ett minnespalats. Vertikala memoarer., a memoir
• Ylva Eggehorn, Kvarteret Radiomottagaren, a memoir of her childhood

Other languages

• Hugo Claus, Gedichten 1948-1993, Flemish
• Wang Xiaoni, Fangzhu Shenzhen ("Exile in Shenzhen"), China^[24]
• Yi Sha, Esi de shiren ("Poets Starved to Death"), China^[25]

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Certain Things
• Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Barry Hill, Ghosting William Buckley
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Aileen Kelly - Coming Up for Light

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1994 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: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole
• Eric Gregory Award: Julia Copus, Alice Oswald, Steven Blyth, Kate Clanchy, Giles Goodland
• Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best Collection): Alan Jenkins, Harm (Chatto & Windus)
• Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree)
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile
• Whitbread Award for poetry: James Fenton, Out of Danger

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, "Vanessa", and (separately) Marilyn Hacker, "Cancer Winter"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Garbage
• National Book Award for poetry (United States): James Tate, A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Donald Hall
• Wallace Stevens Award inaugurated with first award this year: W. S. Merwin
• William Carlos Williams Award: Cyrus Cassells, The Mud Actor
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: David Ferry

New Zealand

• Montana Book Award for Poetry: Bill Manhire, ed., 100 New Zealand Poems
• New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Andrew Johnston, How to Talk

Other

• Norway: Brague Prize: Sigmund Mjelve for Omrade aldri fastlagt

Deaths

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

• January 1 – Chaganti Somayajulu (born 1915), Indian, Tegulu-language short-story writer and poet
• March 9 — Charles Bukowski, 73 (born 1920), American poet and novelist, of leukemia
• March 29 — Lynda Hull, 49 (born 1955), American poet, in an automobile accident;
• May 24 — John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke
• September 10 — Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet, of ovarian cancer
• date not known:
  • Rolf Jacobsen

See also

Poetry portal

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

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Lehman, David, "Forward", The Best American Poetry 1995
2. ^ Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009
3. ^ ^{a b} [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
4. ^ ^{a b c} 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
5. ^ 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
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
7. ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
8. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
9. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
10. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
11. ^ "Publications" page, Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
12. ^ ^{a b} O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-08.
13. ^ Forbes, Peter, "Winning Lines", August 31, 2002, The Guardian, retrieved May 4, 2009
14. ^ Griffin, Gabriele, editor, "Duffy, Carol Ann", article, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 9780415159845, retrieved via Google Books, May 4, 2009
15. ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
16. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
17. ^ 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
18. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
19. ^ "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
20. ^ Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 9780345423276, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
21. ^ Lundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, [uid=98&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010
22. ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
23. ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
24. ^ Web page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
25. ^ Web page/article titled "Yi Sha" at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008