1987 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1987 poetry literature Events April – First issue of o•blék: a journal of language arts (pronounced "oblique") is published in the United States, founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edits it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stops publishing in 1993. August 30 – Poets Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz marry.https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/31/style/jean-korelitz-is-wed-to-paul-muldoon.html Jean Korelitz Is Wed to Paul Muldoon 31 August 1987 The New York Times October 16 – Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke released today. October – Tony Harrison's poem "V" is broadcast in a filmed version on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom. Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who has become a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man". Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, an elegy about suffering of Soviet people under the Great Purge, composed 1935–61 and first published in the West in 1963, is first openly published complete in book form in the Soviet Union. In his 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia writes: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."The Hudson Review (40, 3, 1987) The Dolmen Press in Portlaoise, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller. Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007 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: Canada Patrick Lane, Selected Poems Irving Layton, Fortunate Exile. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. 0-7710-4947-1. Irving Layton, Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982-1986. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press. Dennis Lee, The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan."Dennis Lee: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110409172935/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/lee/pub.htm 2011-04-09 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. 978-0-7710-5428-0 Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night Raymond Souster, The Eyes of Love. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. George Woodcock: Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography, Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, CanadaWeb 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 Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarshipPreminger, 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 "Anthologies" section, p 164 India, in English Keki Daruwalla, Landscapes ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University PressWeb page titled "Keki Daruwalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131210510/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2725 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Dom Moraes, Collected Poems 1957-1987 ( Poetry in English )Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 250, Columbia University Press, 2003, 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010 Jayanta Mahapatra, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University PressPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Bruce King, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English - Historical Perspective (first edition), Delhi: Oxford University Press (anthology) Ireland Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, including "Cocktails",Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States Michael Coady, Oven Lane, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-020-8 Paul Durcan, Going Home to Russia, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press Eamon Grennan, What Light There Is, including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Michael Hartnett, A Necklace of Wrens, including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Niall Montgomery, terminal 1: Arrivals, edited by Joseph LaBine, Flat Singles Press, posthumous Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and FaberWeb 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 Janet Charman, 2 deaths in 1 night: poems, Auckland: New Women's PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticismAllen Curnow Web page https://web.archive.org/web/20080417205209/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html 2008-04-17 at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures? Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand Anthologies in New Zealand Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, The New PoetsRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article V. O'Sullivan, editor, Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry, anthology, third editionPreminger, 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837 Mark Williams, Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry United Kingdom Peter Ackroyd, The Diversions of Purley, and Other PoemsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber Alan Brownjohn, The Old Flea-Pit Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom David Constantine, Madder Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan Gavin Ewart, Late Pickings U. A. Fanthorpe, A Watching Brief James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems, Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson Philip Gross, Cat's Whisker Tony Harrison, Anno Forty-Two Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press, 1-870841-00-X Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live P. J. Kavanagh, Presence Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper Andrew Motion, Natural Causes Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe) Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Private Parts Ruth Pitter, A Heaven to Find Peter Porter, The Automatic Oracle Peter Redgrove: In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987 The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987 Carol Rumens, Plato Park C. H. Sisson, God Bless Karl Marx R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs Anthony Thwaite, Letter from Tokyo Charles Tomlinson, The Return John Wain, Open Country Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Elaine Feinstein, A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva, Hutchinson United States A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysisPorter, 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 John Ashbery, April Galleons Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Roald Hoffmann, The Metamict State Paul Hoover, The Figures Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum) 0-689-11923-2 Harry Mathews, a collection Robert McDowell, Quiet Money William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize) George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor) Gregory Orr, a collection Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957–1987, English translation from Spanish Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber) Mark Rudman, By Contraries and other poems W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987 Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions) Theodore Weiss, a collection C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood Jay Wright, Selected Poems Stephen Yenser, The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, criticism, scholarship Other in English Edward Brathwaite, X/Self, Jamaica"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 Les Murray, The Daylight Moon, 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 Works published in other languages Denmark Klaus Høeck, Blackberry Winter, with Asger Schnack; publisher: Gyldendal; DenmarkWeb 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 Klaus Rifbjerg, Byens tvelys ("Twilight of the City"), Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Søren Ulrik Thomsen, New Poems French language Canada, in French Jean Royer: Depuis l'amour: Poème, Montréal: l'Hexagone / Paris: La Table raseWeb page titled "Jean Royer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164236/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jean_royer.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Le Québec en poésie, Saint-Laurent: Lacombe La poésie québécoise contemporaine (anthologie), Montréal: l'Hexagone/Paris: La Découverte; anthology France Yves Bonnefoy: Ce qui fut sans lumière Récits en rêve Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Autobiographie du voleur de feu, translated from the original Arabic of Abdelwahab al-Bayati into French; Paris: Unesco/Actes Sud India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Chandrakanta Murasingh, Haping Garingo Chibuksa Ringo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-languageWeb page titled "Chandrakant Shah" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040435/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2716 2012-03-25 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Jayant Kaikini, Shravana Madhyahna, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-languageWeb page titled "Jayant Kaikini" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919130847/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2721 2011-09-19 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Ivanekkoodi, ("Him, too"); Malayalam-languageWeb 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 Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghumiye Porar Aage, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; 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 Rituraj, Surat Nirat, Jaipur: Panchscheel Prakashan; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Rituraj" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234851/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12940 2012-04-06 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shubha-vartaman; Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Vasant Abaji Dahake" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050049/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2740 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Other languages Alberto Bernabé Pajares, editor, Poetae Epici Graeci, vol. 1, fragments of Ancient Greek epic poetry Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Miniatury; PolandWeb 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 Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Jürgen Becker, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1987/88 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1987/88"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology; GermanyWeb 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 Odysseus Elytis, Κριναγόρας ("Krinagoras"), Greece Ndoc Gjetja, Poezi ("Poetry"); Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010 Hamid Ismailov, Сад ("Garden") Uzbek language Czesław Miłosz, Kroniki ("Chronicles"); Paris: Instytut Literacki; PolandWeb 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 Nizar Qabbani, Love Shall Remain, Sir, Syrian, Arabic-language M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in GermanPreminger, 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, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474 Maire Mhac an tSaoi, An Cion go Dti Seo, including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain", Gaelic-language, Ireland Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Rosemary Sullivan, The Space a Name Makes Archibald Lampman Award: Christopher Levenson, Arriving at Night 1987 Governor General's Awards: Gwendolyn MacEwan, Afterworlds (English); Fernand Ouellette, Les Heures Pat Lowther Award: Heather Spears, How to Read Faces Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers Prix Émile-Nelligan: Michael Delisle, Fontainebleau and Élise Turcotte, La voix de Carla United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes Commonwealth Prize for Poetry: Edward Brathwaite of Jamaica Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, Torque Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov AML Award for poetry to Robert A. Christmas for "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young" Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine Whiting Awards: Mark Cox, Michael Ryan William Carlos Williams Award: Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn Births Penny Boxall, British poet Deaths 150px|thumb|Grave of Czech poet Ladislav Stehlík. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 14 – Ewart Milne, 83 (born 1903), Irish poet and radical February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), American novelist and poet, from a stroke March 11 – Niall Montgomery, 71 (born 1915), Irish architect, artist, writer, translator and poet June 22 – John Hewitt, 79 (born 1907), Irish poet August 23 – Samar Sen, 70 (born 1916), Bengali poet and journalist September 11 – Ladislav Stehlík (born 1908), Czech poet, writer and painter September 16 – Howard Moss, 65 (born 1922), poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack November 6 – John Logan (born 1923), American poet November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46 (born 1941) Canadian poet and novelist, alcohol-related December 29 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa, 88 (born 1899), Japanese, Shōwa period modernist author, translator and literary critic Also – Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand shepherd-poet See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Category:20th-century poetry Category:1987 poems