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Events
- March 1 – Dylan Thomas posthumously honoured by a floor plaque in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
- September – The New Criterion founded in New York City
- October – Canadian documentary film Poetry in Motion released
- Final edition of This magazine published in Canada
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
- M. Duwell, editor, A Possible Contemporary Poetry (scholarship)[1]
- Chris Mansell, Head, Heart & Stone (Fling Publishers)
- Les Murray:
- Equanimities
- The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988[2]
- A. Paolucci and L. Dobrez, editors, Review of National Literatures: Australia (scholarship)
Canada
- Margaret Atwood, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (anthology)[3]
- Margaret Avison, Winter Sun /The Dumbfounding: Poems 1940-66
- Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive
- Don Domanski, War in an Empty House
- Robert Finch, Twelve for Christmas.[4]
- Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers
- Irving Layton, A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945-82 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[5]
- Gwendolyn MacEwen:
- The Fire Eaters.[6]
- The T. E. Lawrence Poems[7]
- Earth-Light: Selected Poetry 1963-1982. Toronto: General Publishing. Template:ISBN
- Elizabeth Smart, Eleven Poems
- Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,[8] Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
- Wilfred Watson, Mass on Cowback.
- Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems[7]
India, in English
- Keki Daruwalla, The Keeper of the Dead ( Poetry in English ), winner of the Central Sahitya Academy Award in 1984;[9] Delhi: Oxford University Press[10]
- Nissim Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms ( Poetry in English ),[11]
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Distance in Statute Miles ( Poetry in English ),[12]
- Suniti Namjoshi, The Authentic Lie ( Poetry in English ), Fredericton, New Brunswick: Fiddlehead, Template:ISBN[13]
Ireland
- Dermot Bolger, No Waiting America
- Harry Clifton, Comparative Lives, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Template:ISBN
- Pearse Hutchinson, Selected Poems, including "Malaga" and "Gaeltacht", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[14]
- Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia,[15] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Derek Mahon:
- The Hunt by Night, including "Courtyards in Delft", "Rathlin" and "Tractatus", Oxford University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[14]
- Translator, The Chimeras, Gallery Press, translation from the French of Les Chimères by Nerval
- John Montague, Selected Poems, including "A Drink of Milk", "Family Conference" and "The Cave of Night"[14]
New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press[16]
- Allen Curnow, You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979–81[17]
- W. Ihimaera and D. S. Long, Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing[18]
- Bill Manhire, Good Looks, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Homing In,[19] winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1983 Jessie MacKay Award
- W. H. Oliver, Poor Richard: Poems, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, New Zealand
United Kingdom
- Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London[15]
- James Berry, Lucy's Letters and Loving[15]
- Sir John Betjeman, Uncollected Poems
- Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
- Patric Dickinson, A Rift in Time[15]
- Carol Ann Duffy, Fifth Last Song, Headland[20]
- Douglas Dunn, Europa's Lover[15]
- Gavin Ewart, More Little Ones (see All My Little Ones, 1978)[15]
- U. A. Fanthorpe, Standing To[15]
- James Fenton, The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982, Salamander Press,[21]
- Geoffrey Grigson:
- Thom Gunn, The Passages of Joy
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, editors, The Rattle Bag, Faber, anthology
- John Heath-Stubbs, Naming the Beasts
- Alan Hollinghurst, Confidential Chats with Boy[15]
- Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1981[15]
- Kathleen Jamie, Black Spiders[15]
- Roger McGough, Waving at Trains[15]
- Derek Mahon, The Hunt By Night. Oxford University Press
- Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia,[15] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Nerval, The Chimeras, a version of Les Chimères, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Gallery Press
- Norman Nicholson, Selected Poems 1940–82[15]
- Tom Rawling, Ghosts At My Back
- Jeremy Reed, A Man Afraid[15]
- E. J. Scovell, The Space Between[15]
- Muriel Spark, Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems[15]
United States
- A. R. Ammons, Worldly Hopes[22]
- Louise Simone Bennett, Selected Poems
- Hayden Carruth, The Sleeping Beauty[22]
- Nicholas Christopher, On Tour with Rita[22]
- Robert Creeley:
- James Dickey, Puella[22]
- Jack Gilbert, Monolithos
- Allen Ginsberg, Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977–1980[22]
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, died 1961), Notes on Thought and Vision (written in 1919)
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Jane Hirshfield, Alaya
- Phyllis Janowitz, Visiting Rites
- Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems[22]
- Denise Levertov, Candles in Babylon[22]
- William Logan, Sad-faced Men
- James Merrill:
- The Changing Light at Sandover,[22] an epic poem
- From the First Nine Poems[22]
- W. S. Merwin, Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press[24]
- Reynolds Price, Vital Provisions[22]
- Peter Seaton, The Son Master (New York: Roof Books, The Segue Foundation)[25]
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Portraits and Elegies
- Mona Van Duyn, Letters from a Father and Other Poems[22]
- Theodore Weiss, Recoveries[22]
- James Wright, This Journey[22]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- William Meredith, Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism
Other in English
- Edward Brathwaite, Sun Poem, Caribbean poet living and publishing in the United States[26]
- Mafika Gwala, No More Lullabies, South Africa
- Dennis Scott, Dreadwalk,[26] Jamaica
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:
France
- Aimé Césaire, Moi, laminaire, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil
- Odysseus Elytis, Marie de Brumes translated by Xavier Bordes into French from the original Greek[27]
- Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Rires de l'arbre à palabre from the original Arabic of Abdallah Zrika into French; Paris: L'Harmattan
India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sare Sukhan Hamare, Indian, Urdu-language[28]
- Gitaujali Badruddin, Poems of Gitaujali (posthumously published)
- Jayant Kaikini, Kotitirtha, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter[29]
- K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language:
- Rajendra Kishore Panda, Shailakalpa ("Mountainesque"), Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-language[32]
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Soch ka Safar (The Journey of Thought) - published by R.K.Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1982. Urdu
- Saroop Dhruv, Mara Hathni Vat, Ahmedabad: Nakshatra Trust, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-language[33]
Poland
- Ryszard Krynicki, Jeżeli w jakimś kraju ("If in Some Country). Underground publisher S.i.s.n.[34]
- Ewa Lipska, Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek ("Death Is Not at Stake, But the White Cord"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[35]
- Czesław Miłosz, Hymn o Perle ("The Poem of the Pearl"); Paris: Instytut Literacki[36]
- Tadeusz Różewicz, Pułapka ("The Trap"), Warszawa: Czytelnik[37]
- Adam Zagajewski, List - Oda do wielosci ("Letter - An Ode to Quantity"), Kraków: Pólka Poetów, (republished in 1983, Paris: Instytut literacki)[38]
Spain
- Matilde Camus:
- Testimonio ("Testimony")
- La preocupación de Miguel Ángel ("The concern of Miguel Angel")
Other
- Arturo Corcuera, Puente de los Suspiros, Peru
- Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας), Greece
- Ndoc Gjetja, E përditshme ("The Daily"), Albania[39]
- Klaus Høeck, Eno Zebra, with Asger Schnack, Denmark[40]
- Alexander Mezhirov, Проза в стихах ("Prose in Verse") (winner of the USSR State Prize, 1986), Russia, Soviet Union[41]
- Nizar Qabbani, A Poem For Balqis, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
- Rajendra Shah, Prasang-Spatak, Indian, writing in Gujarati[42]
- Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Ukendt under den samme måne ("Unknown Under the Same Moon"), Denmark
- Marie Uguay, Autoportraits, French-Canadian (posthumous)
- Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik (scholarship), West Germany[43]
Awards and honors
Australia
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems
Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award: Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber and Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams
- 1982 Governor General's Awards: Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (English); Michel Savard, Forages (French)
- Pat Lowther Award: Rona Murray, Journey
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jocelyne Felx, Orpailleuse and Philippe Haeck - La Parole verte
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell
- Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O'Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun
United States
- Academy of American Poets Fellowship: John Ashbery and John Frederick Nims
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One
- National Book Award: William Bronk for Life Supports (April 27)
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman"
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Anthony Hecht appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery
- North Carolina Poet Laureate: Sam Ragan appointed.
Births
- January 14
- Joe Dunthorne, Welsh novelist and poet
- Luke Wright, English performance poet
- April 27 – Patricia Lockwood, American poet
- Paul-Henri Campbell, German American poet
- Roger Robinson, British dub poet
- Chris Tse, New Zealand poet, short story writer and editor
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 – Marya Zaturenska, 80 (born 1902), American lyric poet, of heart failure
- March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83 (born 1898), American poet
- March 15 – Edgell Rickword, 83 (born 1898), English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor, a leading communist intellectual active in the 1930s
- March 18 – Yao Kitabatake 北畠 八穂, 78 (born 1903), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
- April 20
- Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892), American poet
- Aco Šopov, 59 (born 1923), Macedonian poet
- June 5 – Junzaburō Nishiwaki 西脇順三郎, 88 (born 1894), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905), American poet, of a heart ailment
- June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90 (born 1892), American writer and poet
- July 20 – Okot p'Bitek, 51 (born 1931), Ugandan poet
- October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58 (born 1923), American poet, of leukemia
- November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87 (born 1895), American poet
- December 3 – Bishnu Dey, 73 (born 1909), Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic
See also
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Notes
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ↑ [1] Template:Webarchive Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
- ↑ "Robert Finch". Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Irving Layton: Publications Template:Webarchive," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ "Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
- ↑ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ↑ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ↑ J. G. Bhuva, "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla", p 196, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla" Template:Webarchive, Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ↑ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 247, Columbia University Press, 2003, Template:ISBN, retrieved July 18, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra" Template:Webarchive, Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" Template:Webarchive, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
- ↑ a b c Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Template:ISBN
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" Template:Webarchive at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ↑ Allen Curnow Web page Template:Webarchive at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ↑ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Michelis, Angelica, "Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)", article in The Literary Encyclopedia website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-07.
- ↑ [2] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ↑ a b Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" Template:Webarchive at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ↑ Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
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- ↑ a b "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, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009.
- ↑ Web page titled "Archival collections" from the website of the American Classical School in Athens, retrieved November 23, 2012
- ↑ Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ↑ Web page titled "Jayant Kaikini" Template:Webarchive at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
- ↑ Resume for K. Satchidanandan titled "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights" at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Template:Webarchive, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Rajendra Kishore Panda" Template:Webarchive at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Saroop Dhruv" Template:Webarchive at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version Template:Webarchive and Polish version Template:Webarchive), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English Template:Webarchive and Polish Template:Webarchive), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version Template:Webarchive [for translated titles] and Polish version Template:Webarchive [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English Template:Webarchive and Polish Template:Webarchive), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Some information about Adam Zagajewski" [3] Template:Webarchive, cached page from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts website, cached on February 24, 2005 by the "Info-Poland" website, retrieved February 25, 2010
- ↑ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
- ↑ Shrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
- ↑ 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, Template:ISBN, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ↑ 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
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