1992 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1992 poetry literature Events The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and The Forward Book of Poetry, an associated annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication is selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011000/http://www.pw.org/mag/0303/newssofer.htm 2007-09-28 Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007 The first wall poems in Leiden are installed. 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 Chris Mansell, Shining Like a Jinx Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World, 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 winner of the 1993 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry A. B. Paterson, A. B. Paterson, Selected Poems, edited by Les Murray, Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1992, 1996, posthumous Canada Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award Irving Layton, Fornalutx: Selected Poems, 1928-1990. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press."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. 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 Jayanta Mahapatra, A Whiteness of Bone ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin BooksPurnima 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 Rukmini Bhaya Nair, The Hyoid Bone ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: PenguinWeb 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 Jeet Thayil and Vijay Nambisan, Gemini-2 ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin-VikingWeb page titled "Jeet Thayil" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052446/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11882 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, editor, Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets, Arundhathi Subramaniam has called the volume a significant and influential work in Indian poetryWeb 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 Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni, translators, A Terrorist of the Spirit, translation of Vasant Abaji Dahake's Yogabhrashta from the original Marathi into English; New Delhi: Harper Collins/IndusWeb 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 Ireland Harry Clifton, The Desert Route, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-092-5 Seán Dunne, The Sheltered Nest, including "Sydney Place", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 978-1-85235-084-0 Peter Fallon, Eye to Eye, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-100-7 New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translation of Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford 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 Alistair Campbell, Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain, Auckland: Hazard Press United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translation of Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press Simon Armitage: KidCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Xanadu George Mackay Brown: Brodgar Poems The Lost Village Stewart Brown, Caribbean Poetry Now (2nd revised edition), London: Edward Arnold (anthology)"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 Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns Carol Ann Duffy: William and the Ex-Prime Minister, Anvil Press Poetry, a 16-page pamphlet, 978-0-85646-253-5Amazon.co web page, retrieved May 4, 2009 Editor, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine, Viking (anthology)Griffin, 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 Douglas Dunn, editor, Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, London: Faber and Faber (anthology) Gavin Ewart, Like It Or Not U. A. Fanthorpe, Neck-Verse Thom Gunn: The Man With Night Sweats Old Stories Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon Seamus Heaney: The Golden Bough, Bonnefant Press Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer), Faber & Faber Adrian Henri, The Cerise Swimsuit Ted Hughes, Rain-Charm for the Duchy Elizabeth Jennings, Times and Seasons P. J. Kavanagh, Collected Poems James Kirkup, Shooting Stars Derek Mahon, The Yaddo Letter, Gallery Press George MacBeth, The Patient Roger McGough, Defying Gravity David Owen, editor, Seven Ages: poetry for a lifetime, anthology Peter Porter, The Chair of Babel Kathleen Raine, Living With Mystery Peter Reading: Evagatory 3 in 1 Peter Redgrove, Under the Reservoir Jeremy Reed, Black Sugar, illustrated by Jean Cocteau William Scammell, Bleeding Heart Yard Jo Shapcott, Phrase Book Penelope Shuttle, Taxing the Rain Jon Silkin, The Lens-Breakers David Storey, Storey's Lives: 1951-1991 R.S. Thomas, Mass for Hard Times Charles Tomlinson, The Door in the Wall Benjamin Zephaniah, City Psalms United States Sherman Alexie, The Business of Fancy DancingPorter, 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, Hotel Lautréamont Renée Ashley, Salt Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires Anthony Kellman, editor, Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the English-Speaking Caribbean, Greenfield Center, New York: Greenfield Review Press (anthology) Zoe Leonard, I want a president N. Scott Momaday, In the Presence of the Sun, combination of poetry and nonfiction Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems Simon Ortiz, Woven Stone, combination of poetry and nonfiction Grace Paley, New and Collected Poems Carl Phillips, In the BloodMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 Gjertrud Schnackenberg, A Gilded Lapse of Time Lloyd Schwartz, Goodnight, Gracie http://www.umb.edu/cla/english/lloyd_schwartz/538/February 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Patti Smith, Woolgathering James Wright, Above the River: Complete Poems, introduction by Donald Hall (posthumous) Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1992 These 75 poets are included in The Best American Poetry 1992 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Charles Simic: Jonathan Aaron Agha Shahid Ali John Ash John Ashbery Robin Behn Charles Bernstein George Bilgere Elizabeth Bishop Robert Bly Lucie Brock-Broido Joseph Brodsky Hayden Carruth Billy Collins Robert Creeley Kathleen de Azevedo Carl Dennis Deborah Digges Stephen Dunn Susan Firer Alice Fulton Tess Gallagher Amy Gerstler Jack Gilbert Louise Glück Jill Gonet Jorie Graham Allen Grossman Marilyn Hacker Donald Hall Daniel Halpern Robert Hass Vickie Hearne Juan Felipe Herrera Edward Hirsch Daniel Hoffman John Hollander Richard Howard Lynda Hull Lawrence Joseph Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Phyllis Koestenbaum Sharon Krinsky Maxine Kumin Evelyn Lao Li-Young Lee Dionisio D. Martínez Mekeel McBride James McCorkle Jerry McGuire Sandra McPherson Robert Morgan Thylias Moss Carol Muske Mary Oliver Michael Palmer Robert Pinsky Lawrence Raab Liam Rector Donald Revell Adrienne Rich Len Roberts Lynda Schraufnagel Elizabeth Spires Rachel Srubas David St. John Richard Tillinghast Lewis Turco Chase Twichell Rosanna Warren Ioanna-Veronika Warwick C. K. Williams Charles Wright Franz Wright Stephen Yenser Other Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Astrakhan Cloak, including "Caitlin", Oldcastle: The Gallery 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, Et Vanskeligt mode ("A Difficult Encounter"), second volume of a poetic trilogy which started with Sålænge jeg er ung ("As Long as I’m Young") 1991, and ended with Det tredje landskap ("The Third Landscape") 1994 French language Canada, in French Denise Desautels, Le saut de l'ange, autour de quelques objets de Martha Townsend, Montréal/Amay, Le Noroît /L'Arbre à parolesWeb page titled "Denise Desautels" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164219/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/denise_desautels.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Jean Royer, Le lien de la terre, Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges / Paris: Europe poésieWeb 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 France Olivier Barbarant, Les parquets du ciel, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, 978-2-87673-140-0 Michel Houellebecq, La Poursuite du bonheur, poèmes, La Différence Abdellatif Laabi, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France: Le soleil se meurt; Paris: La Différence translator, La Joie n'est pas mon métier, translated from the original Arabic of Mohammed Al-Maghout; Paris: Éditions de la Différence, coll. Orphée Hungary György Petri, Sár Sándor Tóth, Belül ragyoghatsz India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Chandrakant Shah, also known as Chandu Shah, Ane Thoda Sapna ("And Some Dreams"), received the award for "Best Collection of New Gujarati Poems" published in 1992-1993 by the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad; Mumbai: SNDT University; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled [ "Chandrakant Shah"] at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Dilip Chitre, Ekoon Kavita – 1, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan; Marathi-languageWeb 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 K. Satchidanandan, Kavibuddhan, ("The Poet as Buddha"); 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 Mamta Sagar, Kaada Navilina Hejje, Heggodu: Akshara Prakashana, Kannada-languageWeb page titled "Mamta Sagar" https://web.archive.org/web/20100202031626/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13507&x=1 2010-02-02 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Vinod Kumar Shukla, Sab Kuch Hona Bacha Rahega, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Vinod Kumar Shukla" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234836/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12941 2012-04-06 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Ocalone w tlumaczeniu. Szkice o warsztacie tlumaczenia poezji ("Saved in Translation: Sketches on the Craft of Translating Poetry"), criticism; 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 Zbigniew Herbert, Rovigo, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb 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 Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, PeregrynarzWeb 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 Tadeusz Różewicz, Nasz starszy brat ("Our Elder Brother")Web pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20120303165053/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,182.php 2012-03-03 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062455/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,84.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010 Wisława Szymborska: Lektury nadobowiązkowe ("Non-required Reading") Adam Zagajewski, Dzikie czeresnie, wybór wierszy ("Wild Cherries, a Selection of Poetry"), Kraków: ZnakWeb 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 Other languages Han Dong, Baise de shitou ("The White Stone"), Shanghai: wenyi chubansheSimon Patten, "Han Dong" https://web.archive.org/web/20110725131810/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8357 2011-07-25 , article, Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2009 China Gabriela Mistral, Lagar II, published posthumously, Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca NacionalHoran, Elizabeth, "Gabriela Mistral" article, "Selected Works" section, p 557, in Smith, Verity, editor, Encyclopedia of Latin American literature, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, retrieved via Google Books, September 22, 2010 Maria Luisa Spaziani, Torri di vedata, Italy Awards and honors Nobel prize: Derek Walcott Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Harris, Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems Mary Gilmore Prize: Alison Croggon - This is the Stone Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood Archibald Lampman Award: Blaine Marchand, A Garden Enclosed 1992 Governor General's Awards: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (English); Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra Pat Lowther Award: Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground Prix Alain-Grandbois: Monique Bosco, Miserere Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Barry McKinnon, Pulplog Prix Émile-Nelligan: Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de Prague United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine Whitbread Award for poetry: Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Hunt Hawkins, The Domestic Life Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks AML Award for poetry to Kathy Evans for "Wednesday Morning"; "Midweek"; "Eight Windows"; "Vows"; "Love to the Second Power" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Tony Sanders, "The Warning Track" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life Frost Medal: Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow National Book Award for poetry: Mary Oliver, New & Selected Poems Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Mona Van Duyn Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: John Ashbery Whiting Awards: Roger Fanning, Jane Mead, Katha Pollitt William Carlos Williams Award: Louise Glück, The Wild Iris Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Adrienne Rich Births October 5 – Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet and illustrator Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 14 – Irakli Abashidze, 82 (born 1909), Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician February 16 Angela Carter, 51 (born 1940), English novelist and poet, of lung cancer George MacBeth, 60 (born 1932), Scottish-born poet, novelist and critic, of motor neuron disease February 18 – Robert Gittings, 81 (born 1911), English poet and biographer February 29 – Ruth Pitter, 94 (born 1897), English poet and decorative painter April 11 – Eve Merriam, née Moskowitz, 75 (born 1916), American poet, playwright and teacher, of cancer May 12 – Nikos Gatsos, 80 (born 1911), Greek poet, translator and lyricist May 21 – Bimbo Rivas, 52 (born 1939), Puerto Rican-born American actor, community activist, director, playwright, poet and teacher, of heart attack November 17 – Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58 (born 1934), African American writer, poet and political activist, of liver cancer November 19 – Kenneth Burke, 96 (born 1897), American literary theorist and philosopher See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards References Category:20th-century poetry *