From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Events

Seamus and Marie Heaney, October 4, 1996, during a visit to Kraków, Poland

• National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 as way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States.
• The movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody.

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

• Raewyn Alexander, Fat, Auckland: Penguin^[1]
• Robert Gray, Lineations
• Jennifer Harrison: Cabramatta/Cudmirrah (Black Pepper)
• Les Murray:
  • Late Summer Fires
  • Subhuman Redneck Poems, Carcanet and Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize^[2]
• Peter Porter, editor, The Oxford book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne: Oxford University Press^[3]
• Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3

Canada

• Roo Borson, Water Memory, ISBN 0-7710-1589-5 American-Canadian
• Sylvia Legris:
  • ash petals (chapbook)
  • Circuitry of Veins
• George McWhirter, A Staircase for All Souls
• Cyril Dabydeen, editor, Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States, Toronto: TSAR^[3]

India

• Rashmi Bajaj, Women Indo-Anglian Poets: A Critique, New Delhi: Asian, criticism
• Shirish Chindhade, editor, Five Indian English poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A. K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, R. Parthasarathy, New Delhi: Atlantic

Ireland

• Pat Boran, The Shape of Water (Dedalus), Ireland^[4]
• Ciaran Carson, Opera Et Cetera, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852351885
• Seán Dunne, Time and the Island, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852351816
• Thomas McCarthy, The Lost Province, Anvil Press, London^[5]

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter, posthumous, Cold Spring : Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited by Paul Millar, Auckland: Oxford University Press
• Alan Brunton, Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Bumper Books^[6]
• Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
• Bill Manhire:
  • My Sunshine
  • Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982

United Kingdom

• John Agard and Grace Nichols, A Caribbean Dozen: A Collection of Poems, London: Walker Books (children's book)^[3]
• James Berry, Playing a Dazzler^[7]
• Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Carol Ann Duffy:
  • Salmon - Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems, Salmon Poetry^[8]
  • Editor, with Trisha Rafferty, Stopping for Death, Viking (anthology)^[7][9]
• T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917, edited by Christopher Ricks, early unpublished verse (posthumous)^[7]
• Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level^[7] Faber & Faber
• John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad
• Tobias Hill, Midnight in the City of Clocks^[7]
• Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title),^[7] London: Virago Press
• Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5
• Craig Raine, Clay: Whereabouts Unknown^[7]
• Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1985–1996^[7]
• Peter Redgrove:
  • Assembling a Ghost
  • The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

• Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" for 1997, when it was published in the United States (Irish poet and scholar published in the United Kingdrom)

United States

• Elizabeth Alexander, Body of Life^[10]
• A.R. Ammons, Brink Road
• Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon
• Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[11] Russian-American
• Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems
• Juliana Chang, editor, Quiet Fire: A Historical Anthology of Asian American poetry, 1892-1970, New York: The Asian American Writers' Workshop
• Ed Dorn, High West Rendezvous^[12]
• Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7 ^[13]
• Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren
• Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
• Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)^[14]
• James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
• Patti Smith, The Coral Sea
• Brian Swann, editor, Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, New York: Random House

Poets in The Best American Poetry 1996

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich:

Other in English

• Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), a philosophical poetry book in Urdu; M.A.K. Khalil translation into English of the 1923 work

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:

Denmark

• Katrine Marie Guldager, Blank, publisher: Gyldendal^[15]
• Klaus Høeck, Skovene (døden), publisher: Gyldendal^[16]
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen; Denmark:
  • Det skabtes vaklen ("The Shaking of Creation"), poetry"^[17]
  • En dans på gloser, ("Dancing Attendance on the Word,"), critical essays^[17]

French language

France

• Esther Tellermann, Pangeia

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Reflexiones a medianoche ("Midnight thoughts")

Other

• Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati, "The Dragon", Iraq poet writing in Arabic
• Wisława Szymborska: Widok z ziarnkiem piasku ("View with a Grain of Sand"), Poland

Awards and honors

• Nobel prize: Wislawa Szymborska

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1996 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: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith
• Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinéad Morrissey, Kate Thomas
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
• Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Voiklis, "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately) Sarah Arvio, "Visits from the Seventh"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Koch, One Train
• National Book Award for poetry: Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern
• Wallace Stevens Award: Adrienne Rich
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jay Wright

Deaths

Brodsky's grave in San Michele

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

• January 28 — Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992), of a heart attack
• February 11 — Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
• March 18 — Odysseus Elytis, Greek
• April 13 — George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
• August 18 — Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet
• September 25 — Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor
• December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet
• Date not known:
  • Hermann Kesten (poet) (born 1900), German
  • Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
  • Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald Finkel^[18]

See also

Poetry portal

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

References

1. ^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
2. ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
3. ^ ^{a b c} "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
4. ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
5. ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
6. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
8. ^ 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.
9. ^ 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
10. ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
11. ^ [2] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
12. ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
13. ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
14. ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
15. ^ 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
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. ^ ^{a b} "", blog post, March 6, 2009, "CLA blog" ("College of Liberal Arts"), University of Minnesota website, retrieved January 1, 2009
18. ^ Fox, Margalit, "Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead", obituary, The New York Times, November 20, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008