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

Events

• Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
• My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography

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 The Clean Dark
• Les Murray, The Idyll Wheel
• Philip Salom: Barbecue of the Primitives. (University of Queensland) ISBN 978-0-7022-2221-4
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Sangue e l'acqua, translated and edited into Italian by Giovann Distefano, Abano Terme: Piovan Editore

Canada

• Margaret Avison, No Time
• C. Bayard, The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec (scholarship)¹
• Roo Borson, Intent, or, The Weight of the World, ISBN 0-7710-1588-7 American-Canadian
• Tim Lilburn, Tourist To Ecstasy, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, Canada
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991²
• Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, editors, The Brick Anthology, illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press²

Ireland

• Sebastian Barry, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever
• Dermot Bolger, Leinster Street Ghosts
• Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350420
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Magdalene Sermon, shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland³
• Thomas McCarthy, Seven Winters in Paris, Anvil Press, London, Ireland⁴

United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translator, Orient Express: Poems. Grete Tartler, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press⁵
• James Fenton, Manila Envelope, self-published book of poems⁶
• Gerald Hammond, Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660, scholarship⁷
• E. A. Markham, editor, Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
• Grace Nichols:
  • Editor, Poetry Jump-Up, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England); had been published as Black Poetry in 1988 by Blackie (London, England)
  • Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems, Virago Press (London, England); published in 1990 by Random House (New York)
• Sean O'Brien, Boundary Beach (Ulsterman Publications)
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991²
• Hugo Williams, Selected Poems, Oxford University Press

United States

• Raymond Carver, A New Path To The Waterfall
• Henri Cole, The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge
• Ed Dorn, Abhorrences, Black Sparrow Press⁸
• Rita Dove, Grace Notes
• Molly Peacock, Take Heart
• Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press)
• Michael Ryan, God Hunger, Viking Penguin
• Mary Jo Salter, Unfinished Painting, Knopf

Anthologies in the United States

• N. Baym, et all, editors, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, two volumes, third edition⁷
• M. Honey, editors, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance⁷
• M. Harris and K. Aguero, editors, An Ear to the Ground⁷

Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1989

Poems by these 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by David Lehman, with Donald Hall, guest editor:

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Frederick Feirstein, editor, Expansive Poetry, various essays on the New Formalism and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term "Expansive Poetry"
• Michele Leggott, Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (New Zealand writer; book published in the United States)
• A. Shucard, Modern American Poetry 1865-1950⁹
• M. Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance⁹
• W. Kalaidjian, Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry⁹

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:

Spain

• Matilde Camus:
  • Santander en mi sentir ("Santander in my heart")
  • Sin alcanzar la luz ("Without reaching the Light")

Other

• Jayanta Mahapatra, Temple, India¹⁰
• Norman Simms, Who's Writing and Why in the South Pacific, scholarship, New Zealand¹¹
• Wisława Szymborska: Poezje: Poems, bilingual Polish-English edition, Poland
• Yu Jian, Shi liushi shou China¹²

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gwen Harwood, Bone Scan
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Under Berlin
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Alex Skovron, The Re-arrangement

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• Canadian Author's Association Canadian Author & Bookman Editors Prize Best Poet 1989: Wayne Ray
• See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois

New Zealand

• Jenny Bornholdt, Moving House
• Lauris Edmond, Hot October, autobiography¹³
• Kendrick Smithyman, Selected Poems, edited by Peter Simpson, Auckland: Auckland University Press, New Zealand

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E.J. Scovell
• Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Nancy Vieira Couto, The Face in the Water
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Anthony Hecht
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"
• Frost Medal: Gwendolyn Brooks
• Lannan Literary Award for Poetry: Cid Corman, George Evans and Peter Levitt
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Mona Van Duyn
• William Carlos Williams Award: Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Howard

Deaths

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

• January 13 — Sterling Allen Brown, 87 (born 1901), poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
• February 28 — Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
• August 25 — Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
• September 15 — Robert Penn Warren (born 1905), poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
• December 4 — May Swenson, American poet and playwright
• December 22 — Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969

See also

Poetry portal

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

References

1. ^ 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 "History and Criticism" section, p 164
2. ^ ^{a b c} Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
3. ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
4. ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
5. ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
6. ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
7. ^ ^{a b c d} Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 353
8. ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
9. ^ ^{a b c} Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 66
10. ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
11. ^ 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, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
12. ^ Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian", article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
13. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article