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[edit] Events
- The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year.
[edit] 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:
[edit] Australia
- Robert Gray, Piano
- Jennifer Maiden, The Trust, Black Lightning, Australia
- Chris Mansell, Redshift/Blueshift, Five Islands Press
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, I'm Deadly Serious, Oxford: Oxford University Press
[edit] Canada
- Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever
- Roy Miki, Tracing the Paths, about bp nichol, critical study;
[edit] Ireland
- Ciaran Carson, The New Estate and Other Poems, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350321
- Harry Clifton, The Liberal Cage, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350260
- Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela,[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Irish poet at this time living in the United States
- Valentin Iremonger, Sandymount, Dublin, including "This Houre Her Vigill", "Clear View in Summer" and "Icarus"[2]
- Thomas Kinsella:
- Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, Viking, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach[1] Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[3]
- Jenny Bornholdt, This Big Face
- Allen Curnow, Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972–1988[4]
- Lauris Edmond, Summer Near the Arctic Circle[5]
- Michele Leggott, Like This?: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Benzina[6] winner of the 1989 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- Ian Wedde, Tendering
- Lydia Wevers, editor, Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women, anthology[7]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[3]
- Patricia Beer, Collected Poems[1]
- Alison Brackenbury, Christmas Roses[1]
- Ciarán Carson: The New Estate and Other Poems, Gallery Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Charles Causley, A Field of Vision[1]
- Jack Clemo, Selected Poems[1]
- Wendy Cope:
- Helen Dunmore, The Raw Garden[1]
- Douglas Dunn, Northlight[1]
- Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela,[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson
- David Gascoyne, Collected Poems[1]
- Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems
- Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems[1]
- Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- John Heath-Stubbs:
- Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press
- A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas
- Time Pieces, Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
- Selima Hill, My Darling Camel[1]
- Libby Houston, Necessity[1]
- Ted Hughes:
- Moon-Whales, first British edition; published originally in the United States, 1976[1]
- Mick Imlah, Birthmarks (Chatto Windus, 1988), ISBN 978-0701133580
- Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking
- Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
- Alan Jenkins, In the Hot-House[1]
- Philip Larkin, Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite; posthumously published
- George MacBeth, Anatomy of a Divorce[1]
- Norman MacCaig, Voice-Over[1]
- Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach[1] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Edwin Morgan, Themes on a Variation[1]
- Grace Nichols, editor, Black Poetry, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Blackie (London, England), published as Poetry Jump-Up, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), in 1989
- Brian Patten, Storm Damage[1]
- Kathleen Raine, To the Sun[1]
- Peter Reading, Final Demands[1]
- Jeremy Reed, Engaging Form[1]
- Carol Rumens, The Greening of the Snow Beach[1]
- E. J. Scovell, Collected Poems[1]
- Peter Scupham, The Air Show[1]
- Jo Shapcott, Electroplating the Baby[1]
- R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow
- Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars
- Heathcote Williams, Whale Nation
[edit] Anthologies
- The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988
- Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet
[edit] United States
- Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight
- Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[8] Russian-American
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie
- Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems
- Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press)
- Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris
- Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels
- John Hollander:
- Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
- Harp Lake
- Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
- Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "A Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940)
- William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes
- James Merrill, The Inner Room
- Michael Palmer, Sun
- Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press)
[edit] Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 1988
The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:
[edit] Other works published in English
- Frank Birbalsingh, Jahaji Bhai: An Anthology of Indo–Caribbean Literature[9]
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden of Waves & Fruit, India[10]
[edit] 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:
[edit] Arabic language
- Nizar Qabbani, Syrian:
- Three Stone-throwing Children
- Secret Papers of a Karmathian Lover
- Biography of an Arab Executioner
[edit] Other languages
- Mario Benedetti, Yesterday y mañana ("Yesterday and Tomorrow"), Uruguay[11]
- Dieter Breuer, editor, Deutsche Lyrik nach 1945, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (scholarship) West Germany [12]
- Haim Gouri, Heshbon Over ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[13]
- Panna Nayak, ' 'Nisbat' '; Indian poet writing in Gujarati[14]
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Selected Poems: Rogha Danta, Gaelic-language, Ireland[2]
- Rami Saari, Hinne, Matzati Et Beyti ("Behold, I Found My Home"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[15]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
- Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: David Lehman, "Mythologies"
- Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Howard Nemerov (also served 1963-64 in the same position, then named "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress")
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Anthony Hecht
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Donald Justice
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, at 69 (born 1919), of a heart attack
- March 30 – John Clellon Holmes, 62 (born 1926), of cancer
- June 16 – Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
- October 1 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90
- Also:
- Léonie Fuller Adams
- Henry Coulette
- M. Govindan (born 1919), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[16]
- Premendra Mitra (born 1904) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
- Mairtin O Direain (born 1910), Irish
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 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 aa ab ac Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ "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, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
- ^ 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
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ 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, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
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