Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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[edit] Events
- January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration.
- Regeneration (titled Behind the Lines in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It was based on the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker.
- Jacket online literary magazine founded.
[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] Canada
- Michael Barnholden, On the Ropes (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552450024
- Clint Burnham, Be Labour Reading (ECW Press) ISBN 9781550223446
- Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane
- Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
- Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki
- Laura Lush:
- Darkening In, Montreal: Vehicule Press
- Fault Line, Montreal: Vehicule Press
- Don McKay, Apparatus[1]
- John Reibetanz:
[edit] Ireland
- Moya Cannon, The Parchment Boat, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352011
- Michael Coady, All Souls (peoms and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352127
- Aidan Murphy, Stark Naked Blues, New Island Books, ISBN 9781874597674
- William Wall, Mathematics And Other Poems, Collins Press, Cork ISBN 1898256268
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[3]
- Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, and Mark Williams, editors, An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Auckland: Oxford University Press New Zealand (anthology)
- Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems
- Alan Brunton, Years Ago Today, documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper Books[4]
- Allen Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997
- Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous
[edit] United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[3]
- Gillian Clarke, Collected Poems, Carcanet Press, ISBN 1-85754-335-1
- Elaine Feinstein, Daylight, Carcanet
- Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly, Faber and Faber
- Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book. Gallery Press
- Sean O'Brien, The Ideology (Smith/Doorstep)
- Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
- Peter Redgrove:
- Orchard End
- What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry
- Robin Robertson, A Painted Field
- Labi Siffre, Monument
[edit] Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Thomas Rain Crowe with Gwendal Denez and Tom Hubbard, Writing the Wind: A Celtic resurgence: The New Celtic Poetry: Welsh, Breton, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press
- Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin
- Iona Opie and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Oxford: Oxford University Press
[edit] Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom
- R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, Oxford University Press ISBN 0192880853
[edit] United States
- Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita (BOA Editions) 1997
- Dick Allen, Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande)
- A.R. Ammons, Glare
- Frank Bidart, Desire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
- Angela Y. Davis, "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday", 1997 American Book Award
- Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", 1997 Coffee House Press "American Book Award"
- Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls
- Paul Hoover, Viridian, (University of Georgia Press)
- Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out
- Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
- Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize)
- Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
- Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite 1997
- Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems Talisman House
[edit] Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States
- Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
- Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
- Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
- Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
- John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism)
- Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship)
- Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
- Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
[edit] Anthologies in the United States
- Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
- Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)
[edit] The Best American Poetry 1997
Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:
[edit] Other in English
- Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still, Australia
- Svami Bhumananda Sarasvati, editor and translator, Anthology of Vedic Hymns: Being a Collection of Hymns from the Four Vedas, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad: Kusum Lat Arya Pratishthan, India
[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] Spain
- Matilde Camus, Mundo interior ("Inner World")
[edit] Hebrew
- Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
- Rami Saari, Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az ("The Route of the Bold Pain")[5]
[edit] Other
- Wisława Szymborska: Sto wierszy - sto pociech ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses"), Poland
- Chen Kehua, Bie ai moshengren ("Don’t Make Love to Strangers") Chinese (Taiwan)[6]
- Wang Xiaoni, Wode zhili baozhe wo de huo ("My paper wraps my fire"), China[7]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
- Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Joint winners
- Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter
- The Wild Reply by Emma Lew
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
- Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
- Whitbread Award for poetry and book of the year: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
[edit] United States
- Bollingen Prize: Gary Snyder
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Drury, "Burning the Aspern Papers"
- National Book Award for poetry: William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky appointed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Live Together: New and Selected Poems
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: William Matthews
- Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Haines
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 - James Dickey, 73 (born 1923), American
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, 70 (born 1926), of liver cancer, American
- May 15 - Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
- August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish
- November 12 -
- James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
- William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
- November 17 - David Ignatow, 83, American poet
- December 20 - Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b 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, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Web page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008