1998 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1998 poetry literature Events May 12 — John Montague is named as first holder of The Ireland Chair of Poetry. August — English poet and playwright Tony Harrison's film-poem Prometheus is first shown. Fall — Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas. Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004). 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 Gray, New Selected Poems Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper) Frieda Hughes, Wooroloo, English-born Australian poet, originally published in United States by Harper Flamingo John Leonard, editor, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, Melbourne: Oxford University Press (anthology) Philip Salom, New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre) 978-1-86368-218-3 John Tranter, Late Night Radio, Polygon Press Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press Canada Gary Barwin, Outside the Hat, (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-030-7 Stephen Cain, dislexicon (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-027-7 Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Margaret Christakos, The Moment Coming (Oakville: ECW) Don Domanski, Parish of the Psychic Moon Louis Dudek, The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Ottawa: The Golden Dog."Louis Dudek: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063957/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dudek/pub.htm 2011-05-23 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Paul Dutton, Aurealities, (Coach House Books) 978-0-88910-414-3 Michael Holmes, Satellite Dishes from the Future Bakery, (Coach House Books) 978-1-55245-004-8 Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds Dorothy Livesay, Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay, Irvine Dean ed. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008; also Roberts, 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 0-375-40559-3 E. J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Sandra Djwa, W.J. Keith, and Zailig Pollock ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press."The Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt https://web.archive.org/web/20101202082207/http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/pratt/selected/ 2010-12-02 : A Hypertext Edition," TrentU.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Canadian anthologies Allan Forrie, Patrick O'Rourke, and Glen Sorestad, editors, In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology, Saskatoon: Thistledown Press Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane India, in English Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Transfiguring Places ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, 81-7530-019-1Web page titled "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052941/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15316 2011-07-21 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, How to go to the Tao Temple, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi.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 Dilip Chitre, The Mountain, Pune: Vijaya ChitreWeb page titled "Dilip Chitre" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213612/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13518 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Ireland Dermot Bolger, Taking my Letters Back: New and Selected Poems, Dublin: New Island BooksWeb page titled "Dermot Bolger" https://web.archive.org/web/20100217002251/http://www.newisland.ie/node/82 2010-02-17 , at the New Island Books website, retrieved February 1, 2010 Ciaran Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-218-9 The Twelfth of Never, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-235-6 Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-214-1 New Zealand Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: PenguinWeb page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20040811073753/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/alexander.htm 2004-08-11 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press Carol Ann Duffy, The Pamphlet,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Anvil Press PoetryO’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. Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You Salena Godden, The Fire People Seamus Heaney: Audenesque, Maeght Translator, Beowulf Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999 Paul Henry, The Milk Thief, Seren Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a verse chronicle of the author's relationship with Sylvia Plath, his late wife; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Translator, Phedre Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom Peter Levi, Reed Music Kevin MacNeil, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish poet published in Scotland Andrew Motion, Selected Poems 1976–1997 Paul Muldoon, Hay Carol Rumens, Holding Pattern Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep Jon Stallworthy, Rounding the Horn Anthologies in the United Kingdom Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, editors, Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945, Viking, 978-0-670-86829-2 Sean O'Brien, editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology Lloyd Searwar, editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry, Leeds: Peepal Tree Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Sean O'Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson United States John Ashbery: The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Wakefulness Renée Ashley, The Various Reasons of Light Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair Henri Cole, The Visible Man Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning (0-8229-4066-3) Fanny Howe, Q Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems, (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Lee Harwood, Morning Light Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems, New York: Knopf Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year" W. S. Merwin: Translator, East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: KnopfAmazon.com Web page titled "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)", with reprinted review "From Publishers Weekly" ("His sprawling new novel-in-verse [...]"), retrieved June 8, 2010 Michael Palmer, The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print Carl Phillips, From the DevotionsMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Frederick Seidel Going Fast: Poems, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Mark Strand, Blizzard of One: Poems, (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Richard Tayson, The Apprentice of Fever, winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Laurence Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, scholarship"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, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner Eric L. Haralson, editor, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse Anthologies in the United States Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi, editors, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop Poets in The Best American Poetry 1998 Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander: Jonathan Aaron Agha Shahid Ali Dick Allen A. R. Ammons Daniel Anderson James Applewhite Craig Arnold Sarah Arvio John Ashbery Frank Bidart Robert Bly George Bradley John Bricuth Anne Carson Turner Cassity Henri Cole Billy Collins Alfred Corn James Cummins Thomas M. Disch Denise Duhamel Lynn Emanuel Irving Feldman Emily Fragos Debora Greger Allen Grossman Thom Gunn Marilyn Hacker Rachel Hadas Donald Hall Joseph Harrison Anthony Hecht Daryl Hine Edward Hirsch Richard Howard Andrew Hudgins Mark Jarman Donald Justice Brigit Pegeen Kelly Karl Kirchwey Carolyn Kizer Kenneth Koch John Koethe Rika Lesser Phillis Levin Philip Levine Rebecca McClanahan J. D. McClatchy Heather McHugh Sandra McPherson W. S. Merwin Robert Mezey A. F. Moritz Thylias Moss William Mullen Eric Ormsby Jacqueline Osherow Robert Pinsky Reynolds Price Wyatt Prunty Stephen Sandy Alan Shapiro Robert B. Shaw Charles Simic Mark Strand James Tate Sidney Wade Derek Walcott Rosanna Warren Rachel Wetzsteon Susan Wheeler Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams Greg Williamson Charles Wright 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: Denmark Klaus Høeck; Denmark: Hjem, publisher: GyldendalWeb page titled [stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" https://web.archive.org/web/20250826151839/http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Bstage%5D=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Buid%5D=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Blang%5D=_eng&id=2092&no_cache=1 2025-08-26 , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Honeymoon, publisher: Gyldendal Inger Christensen, Samlede digte ("Collected Poems")http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm Inger Christensen Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) Petri Liukkonen Kuusankoski Public Library Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20090123041708/http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm 23 January 2009 dead French language France Olivier Barbarant, Odes dérisoires et quelques autres un peu moins, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, 978-2-87673-272-8 Salah Stetie, Fievre et guerison de l'icone Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Domaine public India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Amarjit Chandan, Chhanna, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled "Amarjit Chandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050623/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10489 July 21, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Anamika, Anushtup, Delhi: Kitab Ghar; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Anamika" https://web.archive.org/web/20100929001554/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6772&x=1 2010-09-29 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Gagan Gill, Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1998, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Gagan Gill" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919091229/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11061 September 19, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Apoornam, ("Imperfect"); Malayalam-language Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, Ban Sngewthuh ia ka Poitri ("Understanding Poetry"), Shillong: Gautam Brothers; Khasi-languageWeb page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" https://web.archive.org/web/20090625050942/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6289 2009-06-25 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Mallika Sengupta; Hindi-language: Meyeder Aa Aaa Ka Kha, Kolkata: Prativas PublicationWeb page title "Mallika Sengupta" https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092657/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 2012-02-25 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Translator, Akaler Madhye Saras, translation from the original Hindi of Kedarnath Singh, Kolkata: Sahitya Akademi Manushya Puthiran, Itamum Iruppum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathipagam, Tamil languageWeb page titled "Manushya Puthiran" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050744/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2729 2011-07-21 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Prathibha Nandakumar, Kavadeyata ("Game of Cowry"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ CollegeWeb page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" https://web.archive.org/web/20120310083134/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2734 2012-03-10 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Raghavan Atholi, Mozhimattam, Kottayam: Sahitya Pravarthaka Cooperative Society (SPCS)Web page titled "Raghavan Atholi" https://web.archive.org/web/20090204003235/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13537&x=1 February 4, 2009 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Rajendra Bhandari, Kshar/Akshar ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan; Nepali-languageWeb page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" https://web.archive.org/web/20130530191831/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 2013-05-30 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Aa Rojulu ("Those Days"), Hyderabad: Akruti Printershttp://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15346 Varavara Rao Poetry International August 2, 2010 February 14, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214322/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15346 dead Gopal Venu http://www.varavararao.org/en/about/venu_sketch.html Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal December 15, 2005 Venu Gopal website, varavararao.org August 2, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100420032608/http://www.varavararao.org/en/about/venu_sketch.html 2010-04-20 usurped Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Chirurgiczna precyzja ("Surgical Precision"), Krakow: 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 Zbigniew Herbert: 89 wierszy, ("89 Poems"), Kraków: a5Web page titled "Herbert Zbigniew" https://web.archive.org/web/20090418181922/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,193.php 2009-04-18 , at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, retrieved February 27, 2010 Epilog burzy ("Epilogue to a Storm"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie Ewa Lipska: Godziny poza godzinami ("Hours Beyond Hours"), selected poems, Warsaw: PIWWeb 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 Życie zastępcze, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie Jan Twardowski: Bóg prosi o miłość - Gott fleht um Liebe, Krakow, Poland: Wydawnictwo LiterackieWeb page titled "Jan Twardowski" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063117/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php 2011-07-18 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Niebo w dobrym humorze, Warsaw: PIW Adam Zagajewski, Trzej aniołowie, Three Angels (sic) Kraków: Wydawnictwo LiterackieWeb page titled Zagajewski Adam" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062356/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,2.php 2011-07-18 , at the Instytut Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010 Serbia Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling),Web page titled Krugovanje, Drugo izdanje (Second edition) by Dejan Stojanović at the Open Library Second Edition, Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd Spain Matilde Camus, Fuerza creativa ("Creative strength") Other languages Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Marcel Beyer, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1998/99 ("Poetry Yearbook 1998/99"), publisher: Beck; anthologyWeb page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf 2011-07-17 at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010 Ndoc Gjetja, Dhjata ime ("My Testament"); Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010 Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrewhttp://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 Chen Kehua, Yinwei siwang er jingying de fanfu shipian ("Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death ") Chinese (Taiwan)Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008 Maria Luisa Spaziani, La traversata dell'oasi, Italy Rahman Henry, Banbhojoner Moto Aundhokar ( Darkness as Picnic is), Bengali Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, Broken Land Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell Canada Archibald Lampman Award: Sandra Nicholls, Woman of Sticks, Woman of Stones Atlantic Poetry Prize: Carmelita McGrath, To the New World Gerald Lampert Award: Mark Sinnett, The Landing 1998 Governor General's Awards: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (English); Suzanne Jacob, La Part de feu / Le Deuil de la rancune (French) Pat Lowther Award: Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies Prix Alain-Grandbois: Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth Prix Émile-Nelligan: Tony Tremblay, Rue Pétrole-Océan India Sahitya Akademi Award : Arun Kamal for Naye Ilake Mein Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : K. Srilata for In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no award given in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea, Auckland University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (Picador) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber) Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber) National Poetry Competition : Caroline Carver for Horse Underwater United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote American Academy of Arts and Letters: Robert Fagles elected a member of the Literature Department American Book Award: Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday American Book Award: Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman, Coffee House Press "American Book Award 1998" AML Award for poetry to Alex Caldiero for Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, Desire National Book Award for poetry: Gerald Stern, This Time: New and Selected Poems Poet Laureate of Virginia: Joseph Awad, two year appointment 1998 to 2000https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: W.S. Merwin Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons William Carlos Williams Award: John Balaban, Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, Judge: Robert Phillips Whiting Awards: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Charles Simic Births Amanda Gorman, American poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 23 — John Forbes, 47 (born 1915), Australian poet February 8 Enoch Powell, 85 (born 1912), British MP from 1950 to 1987, classicist and poet Niall Sheridan, 85 (born 1912), Irish poet, fiction writer and broadcaster March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81 (born 1916), American poet, after a fall April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84 (born 1914), Mexican writer, poet, diplomat and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature April 21 — Ivan Chtcheglov, 65 (born 1933), French political theorist, activist and poet April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75 (born 1923), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher of Arabic poetry May 29 — Philip O'Connor, 81 (born 1916), English writer and surrealist poet June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, 81 (born 1916), American poet and critic July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, 70 (born 1928), English poet, critic and biographer July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75 (born 1923), Czech poet and immunologist July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, 73 (born 1924), influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist August 26 — Ryūichi Tamura 田村隆, 75 (born 1923), Japanese Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry October 25 – Dick Higgins, 60 (born 1938), English-born poet, composer and early Fluxus artist with ties to the Language poets October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68 (born 1930), English poet, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom since 1984 Date not known Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, American poet, of cancer Michalis Katsaros (born 1919), Greek poet See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes 30em Category:20th-century poetry *