1994 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1994 poetry literature Events May 23 — C. P. Cavafy's poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by her longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman. October 6 — First annual National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom, established by William Sieghart. October 31 (Halloween) — 15,000 copies of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" are distributed free at public libraries. In Austin, Texas, someone from the local coroner's office and someone from a local tax department gives a "death and taxes" reading of the poem. Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million. Wyn Cooper's "All I Wanna Do" is put to music by Sheryl Crow who makes it the United States' No. 1 hit rock tune. Welsh poet Tony Curtis becomes Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. Poetry Canada Review folds, the publication was founded in 1978 by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada.Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009 Poets depicted in the movies Dorothy Parker's poems are featured in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."Lehman, David, "Forward", The Best American Poetry 1995 Pablo Neruda's 1952 stay in a villa owned by Italian historian Edwin Cerio on the island of Capri is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film Il Postino ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film. 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 Waving to Hart Crane Jennifer Harrison: Michelangelo's Prisoners, winner of the 1995 Anne Elder Award for first book of poetry; North Fitzroy: Black Pepper Les Murray: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Translations from the Natural World David Rowthbaum, New and Selected Poems (1945–93) Canada Christian Bök, Crystallography 978-1-55245-119-9 Roo Borson, Night Walk, 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian Margaret Christakos, Other Words for Grace (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press) George Elliott Clarke, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978–1993. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, 0-919001-83-1 Canada Don Domanski, Stations of the Left Hand (nominated for a Governor General's Award) Cherie Geauvreau, Even the Fawn Has Wings, a first collection Gary Geddes, Girl by the Water Ralph Gustafson, Tracks in the Snow Evelyn Lau, In the House of Slaves Tim Lilburn, Moosewood Sandhills, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Canada A. F. Moritz: MahoningRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 Phantoms in the Ark Susan Musgrave, Forcing the Narcissus P. K. Page, Hologram: A Book of Glosas, poems in 14th-century Spanish stanzaic form John Pass, Radical Innocence (1-55017-107-0) Canadian Al Purdy, Naked with Summer in Your Mouth Linda Rogers, Hard Candy, including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award Joe Rosenblatt, Beds and Consenting Dreamers Stephen Scobie, Gospel Francis Sparshott, The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW PressWeb page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008 India, in English Imtiaz Dharker, Postcards from God ( Poetry in English ), Viking PenguinWeb page titled "Imtiaz Dharker" https://web.archive.org/web/20100528004956/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2720 2010-05-28 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Eunice de Souza, Selected and New Poems ( Poetry in English ), St Xavier's College, Department of English Publication, Mumbai.Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919131732/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16077 September 19, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 E.V. Ramakrishnan, A Python in A Snake Park, New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 81-7167-194-2Web page titled "E.V. Ramakrishnan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110411011844/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14027 2011-04-11 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Sudeep Sen: Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames, New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, 0-948833-91-2Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040921/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 2012-03-25 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 South African Woodcut, New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, 0-948833-90-4 C. P. Surendran, Gemini II, New Delhi: Penguin (Viking)Web page titled "C. P. Surendran" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234610/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11040 2012-04-06 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Robin Ngangom, Time's Crossroads, Hyderabad: Orient Longman Ltd, 0-86311-456-3Web page titled "Robin Ngangom" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131205434/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11771 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Ruth Vanita, A Play of Light: Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin IndiaWeb page titled "Ruth Vanita" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214220637/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11022 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Ireland Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence, including "Anna Liffey", "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me", "The Latin Lesson" and "Midnight Flowers", Carcanet PressCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Vona Groarke, Shale, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Michael Hartnett, Selected and New Poems, including "Bread", "I have exhausted the delighted range ...", "For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin", "A Farewell to English", "Lament for Tadhg Cronin's Children" and "The Man who Wrote Yeats, the Man who Wrote Mozart", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Medbh McGuckian: Venus and the Rain, revised edition (first edition 1984), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Captain Lavender, including "Porcelain Bells", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Paula Meehan, Pillow Talk, including "Laburnum", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, including "The Real Thing" and "Saint Margaret of Cortona", Oldcastle: The Gallery PressWeb page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" https://web.archive.org/web/20080519111654/http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11162&x=1 2008-05-19 at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008 Tom Paulin, Walking a Line, including "The Lonely Tower", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, 1975-1994, Wellington: Bridget Williams BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Michele Leggott, DIA, Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry Hone Tuwhare, Deep River Talk, 140 poems from 10 previous collections United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press Eavan Boland, In a Time of ViolenceCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Alan Brownjohn, In the Cruel Arcade Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Gift and Other Poems, St. Inan's Press (16 pages; "I used to produce this tiny pamphlet from my breast pocket at poetry readings, and announce I would read from my complete and unexpurgated works", Cambridge wrote on his website.)"Publications" page https://web.archive.org/web/20081119155651/http://www.gerrycambridge.com./publications.html 2008-11-19 , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008 William Cookson, editor, Agenda – An Anthology 1959-1993, Carcanet Press, 978-1-85754-069-7 Carol Ann Duffy: Editor, Anvil New Poets Volume 2 Penguin (anthology), sources also give 1995Forbes, Peter, "Winning Lines", August 31, 2002, The Guardian, retrieved May 4, 2009 and 1996Griffin, Gabriele, editor, "Duffy, Carol Ann", article, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge, 2002, 978-0-415-15984-5, retrieved via Google Books, May 4, 2009 as publication year Selected Poems PenguinO’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. 2009-05-08. Helen Dunmore, Recovering a Body Paul Durcan Give Me Your Head James Fenton, Out of Danger, Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Elaine Feinstein, Selected Poems, Carcanet Roy Fisher, Birmingham River Philip Gross, I.D. Adrian Henri, Not Fade Away Selma Hill, Trembling Hearts in the Bodies of Dogs Kathleen Jamie, The Queen of Sheba Alan Jenkins, Harm Elizabeth Jennings, Familiar Spirits Thomas Kinsella, From Centre City Peter Levi, The Rags of Time Medbh McGuckian, Captain Lavender Derek Mahon, The Yaddo Letter Glyn Maxwell, Mick Imlah and Peter Reading, Penguin New Poets 3, 978-0-14-058742-5 Andrew Motion, The Price of Everything Paul Muldoon: The Annals of Chile The Prince of Quotidian Tom Paulin, Walking a Line Peter Porter, Millennial Fables Craig Raine, History: The Home Movie Peter Redgrove, My Father's Trapdoors Peter Scupham, The Ark Jon Silkin, Watersmeet C. H. Sisson, What and Who Sir Stephen Spender, Dolphins Anthony Thwaite, The Dust of the World Hugo Williams, Dock Leaves, Faber and Faber Gerard Woodward, After The Deafening Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom John Heath-Stubbs, Hindsights : An Autobiography United States Kim Addonizio, The Philosopher's Club (BOA Editions) A. R. Ammons, The North Carolina Poems Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining Ted Berrigan, Selected Poems Sophie Cabot Black, The Misunderstanding of Nature, (Graywolf Press) received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award, 1-55597-190-3 Rosellen Brown, Cora Fry's Pillow Book Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson Jane Hirshfield, The October Palace Edward Hirsch, Earthly Measures John Hollander, Animal Poems Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer Galway Kinnell, Imperfect Thirst (Houghton Mifflin) Kenneth Koch: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 One Train: Poems, New York: Knopf James McMichael, Each in a Place Apart Robert Pinsky, translation of Dante's Inferno Wendy Rose, Bone DancePorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009 Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters Patti Smith, Early Work Rosmarie Waldrop, A Key Into the Language of America (New Directions Publishers) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories, with pieces on George Oppen, John Berryman, Robinson Jeffers, and Stanley Kunitz Ian Hamilton, editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English, New York: Oxford University PressEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705161256/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm 2008-07-05 at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman, a study of Sylvia Plath Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook Carl Woodring, editor, Columbia History of British Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press"Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024118/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/bibliography_2001.html 2008-12-28 web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009 Anthologies in the United States Douglas Messerli, editor, From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990, including American and Canadian poets; Sun and Moon Press (Messerli's own imprint) 978-1-55713-131-7 Carolyn Forché, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness Jane Hirshfield, editor, Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women Paul Hoover, editor, Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945; about 20 short essays on poetics also included E. Ethelbert Miller, In Search of Color Everywhere,Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 including almost 150 African-American poets Poets in The Best American Poetry 1994 anthology Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by David Lehman, guest editor A. R. Ammons: Dick Allen Tom Andrews John Ashbery Burlin Barr Cynthia Bond Catherine Bowman George Bradley Charles Bukowski Rebecca Byrkit Amy Clampitt Michelle T. Clinton James Cummins Ramola Dharmaraj Thomas M. Disch Mark Doty Denise Duhamel Tony Esolen Richard Foerster Alice Fulton Allison Funk Jorie Graham Debora Greger Donald Hall Forrest Hamer Lyn Hejinian Roald Hoffmann John Hollander Janet Holmes Paul Hoover Richard Howard Phyllis Janowitz Mark Jarman Alice Jones Rodney Jones Brigit Pegeen Kelly Caroline Knox Kenneth Koch Dionisio D. Martínez J. D. McClatchy Jeffrey McDaniel James McManus James Merrill W. S. Merwin Stephen Paul Miller Jenny Mueller Harryette Mullen Brighde Mullins Fred Muratori Sharon Olds Maureen Owen Kathleen Peirce Carl Phillips Lloyd Schwartz Frederick Seidel Alan Shapiro Angela Shaw Charles Simic William De Witt Snodgrass Elizabeth Spires A. E. Stallings Mark Strand Sharan Strange May Swenson Janet Sylvester James Tate Patricia Traxler William Wadsworth Kevin Walker Rosanne Wasserman Bruce Weigl Joshua Weiner Henry Weinfield Michael White Richard Wilbur Dean Young Other in English Vinay Dharwadker and A. K. Ramanujan, editors, The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, Delhi: Oxford University Press 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: Danish Naja Marie Aidt, Det tredje landskap ("The Third Landscape"), third volume of a poetic trilogy which started with Sålænge jeg er ung ("As Long as I'm Young") 1991, and included Et Vanskeligt mode ("A Difficult Encounter") 1992 Benny Andersen, Denne kommen og gåen Katrine Marie Guldager, Dagene skifter hænder, ("The Days Change Hands"); DenmarkLundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010 Vagn Lundbye, Lundbyes dyrefabler Pia Tafdrup, Territorialsang Ole Wivel, Iris Dutch Bernlef, Vreemde wil Toon Tellegen, Tijger onder de slakken Leonard Nolens, Honing en As French language Canada Robert Melançon, L'Avant-printemps à Montréal France Édouard Glissant, fr Poèmes complets German Durs Grünbein, Falten und Fallen Jürgen Kolbe, a book of poetry Robert Gernhardt, a book of poetry Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Germany Erich Mühsam, Tagebücher, 1910-1924 (posthumous) Hebrew Haim Gouri, Ha-Ba Aharai ("Poems"), Israelhttp://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 Archived copy 2007-10-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024232/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 2007-09-30 Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Jiban Narah, O’ Mor Dhuniya Kapou Phul, Guwahati, Assam: Students’ Store; Assamese-languageWeb page titled "Jiban Narah" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090041/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14751 2011-09-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Joy Goswami Pagli Tomar Songe, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2000; Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, 81-7756-148-0; Bangladeshi-languageWeb page title "Joy Goswami" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090841/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2722 2011-09-19 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language: Desatanam, ("Going Places")Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Kochiyile Vrikshangal, Kozhikode, Kerala: Mulberry Publications; Malayalam-language poet, critic and academicWeb page titled "K. G. Sankara Pillai" https://web.archive.org/web/20100822170722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8636 2010-08-22 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 K. Siva Reddy, Ajeyam, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-languageWeb page titled "K. Siva Reddy" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919122233/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 September 19, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Nilmani Phookan, Sagartalir Sankha, Selected Poems edited by Hiren Gohain, Guwahati, Assam: Lawyers’ Book Stall; Assamese-languageWeb page titled "Nilmani Phookan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052731/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 2011-07-21 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Nirendranath Chakravarti, Chollisher Dinguli, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Rajendra Kishore Panda, Bodhinabha ("The Bodhi-Sky"), Cuttack: Bharat Bharati; in Oraya and in EnglishWeb page titled "Rajendra Kishore Panda" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919085035/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9302 2011-09-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010 Teji Grover, Lo Kaha Sanbari, New Delhi: National Publishing House, 81-214-0537-8; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Teji Grover" https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011224/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17742 2012-04-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, Bhoot Amasung Maikhum ("The Ghost and Mask"), Imphal: Writer's Forum; Meitei languageWeb page titled "Thangjam Ibopishak Singh" https://web.archive.org/web/20110920032931/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6290 2011-09-20 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 29, 2010 Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Podroz zimowa ("Journey in Winter"), Poznan: a5Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Serce błyskawicyWeb page titled "Juliusz Erazm Bolek był gościem wczorajszego Wieczoru w "Arce" (zdjęcia)" (in Polish; Google translation: "Julius Erasmus Bolek was a guest last night in the "Ark" (photos)") at the "moja-ostroleka" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Ewa Lipska, Stypendisci czasu, ("Time's Scholarship Winners"); Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo DolnoslaskieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php 2011-09-16 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 Bronisław Maj, Światło ("Light"); Cracow: ZnakWeb pages titled "Maj Bronisław" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20110911011122/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,113.php 2011-09-11 and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062910/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,13.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography" section, retrieved March 2, 2010 Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Młodzieniec o wzorowych obyczajachWeb page titled "Eugene Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (1962)" https://web.archive.org/web/20091008102449/http://www.biuroliterackie.pl/autorzy/autorzy.php?site=700&kto=tkaczyszyn-dycki 2009-10-08 , at the Biuro Literackie literary agency website, retrieved February 25, 2010 Czesław Miłosz, Na brzegu rzeki ("Facing the River"); Kraków: ZnakWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20110916020740/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,115.php 2011-09-16 [for translated titles] and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062428/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl%2Cik%2Csite%2C8%2C5%2C15.php 2011-07-18 [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 Adam Zagajewski, Ziemia ognista ("Land in Flames"), Poznañ: A5Web page titled "Some information about Adam Zagajewski" https://web.archive.org/web/20100625081739/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/arts_culture/literature/poetry/zagajewski/bio/adzag.htm 2010-06-25 , 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 Spanish language Spain Matilde Camus, Ronda de azules ("Blue avenue") Latin America Mario Benedetti, Inventario dos (1985–1994) ("Inventory Two (1985–1994)"), published in Madrid, UruguayWeb page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor"(in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30. José Emilio Pacheco, El silencio de la luna, Mexico Francisco Hernández, El infierno es un decir, Mexico Octavio Paz. Obras completas, Mexico Sweden Katarina Frostenson, Tankarna Ann Jäderlund, Mörker mörka mörkt kristaller Arne Johnsson, Faglarnas eldhuvuden Criticism, scholarship and biography in Sweden Lars Huldén, Carl Michael Bellman, on the 18th-century poet Olof Lagercrantz, In Jag bor i en annan värld men du bor ju i samma, about the author's friendship with poet Gunnar Ekelöf Lars Gustafsson, Ett minnespalats. Vertikala memoarer., a memoir Ylva Eggehorn, Kvarteret Radiomottagaren, a memoir of her childhood Other languages Hugo Claus, Gedichten 1948-1993, Flemish Wang Xiaoni, Fangzhu Shenzhen ("Exile in Shenzhen"), ChinaWeb page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" https://web.archive.org/web/20110725132120/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=974 2011-07-25 at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008 Yi Sha, Esi de shiren ("Poets Starved to Death"), ChinaWeb page/article titled "Yi Sha" https://web.archive.org/web/20080603004522/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=976 2008-06-03 at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008 Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Certain Things Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Barry Hill, Ghosting William Buckley Mary Gilmore Prize: Aileen Kelly - Coming Up for Light Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Barbara Klar, The Night You Called Me a Shadow and Ilya Tourtidis, Mad Magellan's Tale Archibald Lampman Award: John Newlove, Apology for Absence: Selected Poems 1962–1992 1994 Governor General's Awards: Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (English); Fulvio Caccia, Aknos (French) Pat Lowther Award: Diana Brebner, The Golden Lotus Prix Alain-Grandbois: Gilbert Langevin, Le Cercle ouvert Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel Prix Émile-Nelligan: Monique Deland, Géants dans l’île India Sahitya Akademi Award : Ashok Vajpayee for Kahin Nahin Wohoin Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Anju Makhija for A Farmer's Ghost United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole Eric Gregory Award: Julia Copus, Alice Oswald, Steven Blyth, Kate Clanchy, Giles Goodland Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best Collection): Alan Jenkins, Harm (Chatto & Windus) Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree) T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile Whitbread Award for poetry: James Fenton, Out of Danger National Poetry Competition : David Hart for The Silkies United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry AML Award for poetry to Pamela Porter Hamblin for "Magi" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, "Vanessa", and (separately) Marilyn Hacker, "Cancer Winter" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Garbage National Book Award for poetry (United States): James Tate, A Worshipful Company of Fletchers Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Donald Hall Wallace Stevens Award inaugurated with first award this year: W. S. Merwin Whiting Awards: Mark Doty, Wayne Koestenbaum, Mary Swander William Carlos Williams Award: Cyrus Cassells, The Mud Actor Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: David Ferry New Zealand Montana Book Award for Poetry: Bill Manhire, ed., 100 New Zealand Poems New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Andrew Johnston, How to Talk Other Norway: Brague Prize: Sigmund Mjelve for Omrade aldri fastlagt Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Chaganti Somayajulu (born 1915), Indian, Telugu-language short-story writer and poet February 6 — D.I. Antoniou (born in 1906), Greek poet February 20 — Rolf Jacobsen, 86 (born 1907), Norwegian modernist poet March 9 — Charles Bukowski, 73 (born 1920), American poet and novelist, of leukemia March 29 — Lynda Hull, 49 (born 1955), American poet, in an automobile accident May 24 — John Wain, 69 (born 1925), English poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke July 5 — Jack Clemo, 78 (born 1916), English poet of Cornwall August 28 — David Wright, 74 (born 1920), English poet, of cancer September 10 — Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet, of ovarian cancer November 28 — Ian Serraillier, 82 (born 1912), English children's writer December 12 — Donna J. Stone, 61 (born 1933), American poet and philanthropist, of heart failure date not known — Rhoda Bulter (born 1929), Scottish poet of Shetland See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Category:20th-century poetry *