1996 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1996 poetry literature Events thumb|right|250px|Seamus and Marie Heaney, October 4, 1996, during a visit to Kraków, Poland April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. Summer/Autumn – Ledbury Poetry Festival established in England. November 11 – A memorial to John Betjeman is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Lady Wilson.http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/sir-john-betjeman Sir John Betjeman Westminster Abbey 2011-12-06 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 Raewyn Alexander, Fat, 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 Robert Gray, Lineations Jennifer Harrison: Cabramatta/Cudmirrah (Black Pepper) Les Murray: Late Summer Fires Subhuman Redneck Poems, Carcanet and Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize 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 Peter Porter, editor, The Oxford book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne: Oxford 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 Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin) 978-0-14-058692-3 Canada Roo Borson, Water Memory, 0-7710-1589-5 American-Canadian Cyril Dabydeen, editor, Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States, Toronto: TSAR Kristjana Gunnar, Exiles Among YouWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/English Canada" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Dennis Lee, Nightwatch: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1996 Sylvia Legris: ash petals (chapbook) Circuitry of Veins Steve McCaffery, The Cheat of Words George McWhirter, A Staircase for All Souls Erín Moure, Search Procedures Janis Rapoport, After Paradise Joe Rosenblatt, The Voluptuous Gardener. (new poetry and selected drawings from Carleton University Art Gallery permanent collection) Beach Holme Press."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm 2011-08-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Stephen Scobie, Taking the Gate: A Journey Through Scotland Raymond Souster, Close to Home. 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. India, in English Keki N. Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University PressJ. G. Bhuva, "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla", p 196, 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 Kamala Das, My Story, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers; autobiographyJyoti Rane, "14. The Poetry of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath", p 172, 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 Ireland Pat Boran, The Shape of Water (Dedalus), Ireland"Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2 Ciaran Carson, Opera Et Cetera, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-188-5 Seán Dunne, Time and the Island, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 978-1-85235-181-6 Seamus Heaney, The Spirit LevelWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/English United Kingdom" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Thomas McCarthy, The Lost Province, Anvil Press, LondonWeb page titled "Thomas McCarthy" https://web.archive.org/web/20100515195236/http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 2010-05-15 at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008 Ulick O'Connor, Poems of the Damned, a translation of Les Fleurs du mal from the original French of Charles Baudelaire Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom New Zealand James K. Baxter, posthumous, Cold Spring : Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited by Paul Millar, Auckland: Oxford University Press Alan Brunton, Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Bumper BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press Allen Curnow, New and Collected Poems 1941-1995 Maurice Gee, Loving Ways Bill Manhire: My Sunshine Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982 United Kingdom John Agard and Grace Nichols, A Caribbean Dozen: A Collection of Poems, London: Walker Books (children's book) James Berry, Playing a DazzlerCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy: Salmon - Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems, Salmon 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. Editor, with Trisha Rafferty, Stopping for Death, 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 T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917, early unpublished verse that the author had said he never wanted published; edited by Christopher Ricks; posthumous Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level Faber & Faber; Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad Tobias Hill, Midnight in the City of Clocks Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title), London: Virago Press Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom Iona Opie, editor, My Very First Mother Goose, a collection of nursery rhymes Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, 0-19-282513-5 Craig Raine, Clay: Whereabouts Unknown Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1985–1996 Peter Redgrove: Assembling a Ghost The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson Iain Sinclair, editor, Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology, anthology of poets associated with or seen as precursors to the British Poetry Revival; Picador Benjamin Zephaniah, Propa Propaganda Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" for 1997, when it was published in the United States (Irish poet and scholar published in the United Kingdrom) United States Elizabeth Alexander, Body of LifeWeb page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008 A.R. Ammons, Brink Road Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon, the author's first book of poems, at age 83Web page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/English United States" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems Juliana Chang, editor, Quiet Fire: A Historical Anthology of Asian American poetry, 1892-1970, New York: The Asian American Writers' Workshop Ed Dorn, High West RendezvousWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Robert Fagles, translator, The Odyssey, from the original Ancient Greek of Homer Donald Hall, The Old Life, four short poems, a long poem and three elegies Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood, lyric poems Louise Glück, Meadowlands Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 0-8143-2594-7 http://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 Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism Ronald Johnson, ARK (Albuquerque: Living Batch Press & University of New Mexico Press) Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 Maxine Kumin, Connecting the Dots James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996 W. S. Merwin Editor, Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology, Washington: CounterpointWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Translator, Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 James Reiss, The Parable of Fire Patti Smith, The Coral Sea Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End Brian Swann, editor, Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, New York: Random House Henry Taylor, Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996 C. K. Williams, The Vigil Poets in The Best American Poetry 1996 Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich: Latif Asad Abdullah Sherman Alexie Margaret Atwood Thomas Avena Marie Annharte Baker Sidney Burris Rosemary Catacalos Marilyn Chin Wanda Coleman Jacqueline Dash Ingrid de Kok William Dickey Nancy Eimers Nancy Eimers Martin Espada Martin Espada Beth Ann Fennelly Robert C. Fuentes Rámon Garcia, Salmo Suzanne Gardinier Frank Gaspar Reginald Gibbons C. S. Giscombe Kimiko Hahn Gail Hanlon Henry Hart William Heyen Jonathan Johnson Jane Kenyon August Kleinzahler Yusef Komunyakaa Stanley Kunitz Natasha Le Bel Natasha Le Bel Carolyn Lei-Lanilau Valerie Martínez Davis McCombs Sandra McPherson James Merrill W. S. Merwin Jane Miller Susan Mitchell Pat Mora Alice Notley Naomi Shihab Nye Alicia Ostriker Raymond Patterson Carl Phillips Wing Ping Sterling Plumpp Katherine Alice Power Reynolds Price Alberto Álvaro Ríos Pattiann Rogers Quentin Rowan David Shapiro Angela Shaw Reginald Shepherd Enid Shomer Gary Soto Jean Starr Deborah Stein Roberta Tejada Chase Twichell Luís Alberto Urrea Jean Valentine Alma Luz Villanueva Karen Volkman Diane Wakoski Ron Welburn Susan Wheeler Paul Wilis Anne Winters C. Dale Young Ray A. Young Bear Other in English Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), a philosophical poetry book in Urdu; M.A.K. Khalil translation into English of the 1923 work Works published in other languages Listed by language or nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Arabic Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati, "The Dragon", Iraq Books of poetry by: in Egypt: Muhammad Salih (poet), Rif'at Sallam, Imad Abu-Salih, and Muhammad Mutawalli in Lebanon: Yahya Jabir, 'Abduh Wazin, and Bassam Hajjar in Syria: Nuri al-Jarrah in Morocco: 'Abd al-Latif Lu'abi, Muhammad Binnis, M. Bin Talhah, Mahdi Khuraif, and Tiraibaq Ahmad Denmark Naja Marie Aidt, Huset overforWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Germanic Danish" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Niels Frank, Tabernakel Katrine Marie Guldager, Blank, publisher: GyldendalLundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, [uid]=98&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010 Klaus Høeck, Skovene (døden), 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 Per Højholt, Anekdoter, the end of the author's Praksis series in poetry and prose Klaus Rifbjerg, Leksikon Søren Ulrik Thomsen; Denmark: Det skabtes vaklen: Arabesker ("The Shaking of Creation"), poetry""", blog post, March 6, 2009, "CLA blog" ("College of Liberal Arts"), University of Minnesota website, retrieved January 1, 2009 En dans på gloser, ("Dancing Attendance on the Word,"), critical essays French language Canada, in French Denise Desautels, «Ma joie», crie-t-elle ("'My joy', she cried"), illustrated with drawings by Francine Simonin, Montréal: Le NoroîtWeb 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 Suzanne Jacob, Les écrits de l'eau, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled "Suzanne Jacob" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164010/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/suzanne_jacob.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Traversée du désertWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/French Canada" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Switzerland, in French Markus Hediger, Ne retournez pas la pierre, Editions de l'Aire, Vevey France Michel Butor, A la frontièreWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/French France" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Bertrand Degott, Éboulements et Taillis Claude Esteban, Sur la dernière lande, Fourbis Michel Houellebecq, Le Sens du combat, poèmes, Flammarion Abdellatif Laabi, Le Spleen de Casablanca. La Différence, Paris, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France Dominique Pagnier, La Faveur de l'obscurité Esther Tellermann, Pangeia Joël Vernet, Totems de sable Germany Christoph Buchwald, general editor, Michael Brown and Michael Buselmeier, guest editors, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1996/97 ("Poetry Yearbook 1996/97"), 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 Sarah Kirsch, Bodenlos, winner of the Büchner-PreisWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Germanic German" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Inge Müller, Irgendwo: noch einmal möcht ich sehn, poetry, prose, diary, edited and with commentary by Ines Geipel Bert Papenfuß, Berliner Zapfenstreich: Schnelle Eingreifsgesänge Hebrew Ory Bernstein, Zman shel aherim ("Temps des autres")Web page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Jewish Hebrew" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Roni Somek, Gan eden le-orez ("Rice Paradise") Avner Treinin, Ma`a lot Ahaz ("The Dial of Ahaz") Nathan Zach, Mikhevan she`ani baSviva ("Because I'm Around") India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Amarjit Chandan, Beejak, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled "Amarjit Chandan" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050623/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10489 July 21, 2011 Gagan Gill, Andhere men Buddha, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1996, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Gagan Gill" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110919091229/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11061 September 19, 2011 Jiban Narah, Tumi Poka Dhanar Dore, Guwahati, Assam: Puthiniketan; Indian, Assamese-languageWeb page titled "Jiban Narah" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090041/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14751 September 19, 2011 Kedarnath Singh, Bagh, Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam; Malayalam-languageWeb page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Nilmani Phookan, Cheena Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Students’ Store, Assamese-languageWeb page titled "Nilmani Phookan" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Raghavan Atholi, Kandathi, Thrissur: Current Books; Malayalam-languageWeb page titled "Raghavan Atholi", Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 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 Saleel Wagh, Nivadak Kavita, Pune: Time and Space Communications; Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Saleel Wagh", Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051456/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2737 July 21, 2011 Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shunah-shepa; Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Vasant Abaji Dahake", Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20070310225142/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2740 March 10, 2007 Italy Eugenio Montale, Diario postumo: 66 poesie e altre, edited by Annalisa Cima; publisher: MondadoriEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Maria Luisa Spaziani, I fasti dell’ortica Andrea Zanzotto, MeteoWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Italian" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Latin America Sergio Badilla Castillo, Nordic Saga Monteverdi Editions. 1996, Santiago de Chile. Norway Erling Aadland, Poetisk tenkning i Rolf Jacobsens lyrikk, analysis of the verse of Rolf Jacobsen; criticismWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Germanic Norwegian" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Inger Hagerup, a book of poetry Gunvor Hofmo, Samlede dikt Sigmund Mjelve, a book of poetry Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Poezja i duch uogolnienia. Wybor esejow 1970-1995 ("Poetry and the Spirit of Generalization: Selected Essays"), criticism; Kraków: ZnakWeb 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 Urszula Koziol, Wielka pauza (“The Great Pause”)Web page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Eastern European" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Ryszard Krynicki, Magnetyczny punkt. Wybrane wiersze i przeklady ("The Magnetic Point: Selected Poems and Translations"); Warsaw: CiSWeb pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20090425224424/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,172.php 2009-04-25 and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062736/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,74.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 Ewa Lipska, Wspólnicy zielonego wiatraczka. Lekcja literatury z Krzysztofem Lisowskim ("Partners of the Green Fan: Literature Lesson with Krzysztofem Lisowskim"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb 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 Czeslaw Milosz: Legendy nowoczesnoshci (“Legends of Modernity”), wartime essays and wartime correspondence with Jerzy Andrzejewski Cóz to za goshcia mielishmy ("What a Guest We Had"), a biography of his friend, the late poet Anna Swirszczynska Tadeusz Różewicz, Zawsze fragment. Recycling ("Always a Fragment: Recycling"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo DolnośląskieWeb 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: Widok z ziarnkiem piasku ("View with a Grain of Sand"), the author was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature this year Jan Twardowski, Rwane prosto z krzaka ("Torn Straight From the Bush") Warsaw: PIWWeb 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 Russian Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Trinadtsat" ("The Thirteen"), a long poem alluding to "Dvenadtsat" ("The Twelve") by Aleksandr Blok, about the Russian RevolutionWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Russian" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Books of poetry were published by Bella Akhmadulina, Sergey Biryukov, Oleg Chukhontsev, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Vladimir Gandelsman, Sergey Gandlevsky, Yelena Kabysh, Svetlana Kekova, Aleksandr Kushner, Ilya Kutik, Aleksey Parshchikov, Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinshtein, Yelena Shvarts, Genrikh Sapgir, Vladimir Sokolov, and Andrey Voznesensky Spain Matilde Camus, Reflexiones a medianoche ("Midnight thoughts") Ánchel Conte, O tiempo y os días Sweden Lars Gustafsson, Variationer över ett tema av SilfverstolpeWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Germanic Germanic: Swedish." at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Gunnar D. Hansson, AB Neanderthal Juris Kronbergs, Vilks vienacis ("Wolf One-Eye", Latvian) Lukas Moodysson, Souvenir Göran Sonnevi, Mozarts tredje hjärna Jesper Svenbro, Vid budet att Santo Bambino di Aracœli slutligen stulits av maffian Tomas Tranströmer, Sorgegondolen Yiddish Joseph Bar-El, Di shire fun Yankev Fridman ("The Poetry of Jacob Friedmann he יעקב פרידמן (משורר) ru Фридман, Янкев"), criticismWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Jewish: Yiddish." at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Joseph Kerler ru Керлер, Иосиф Борисович and Dov-Ber Kerler ru Керлер, Дов-Бер, Shpigl-ksav ("Mirror-writing"); the authors are father and son; Israel Yitskhok Niborski, Vi fun a pustn fas ("As Though out of an Empty Barrel"); Israel Hadasa Rubin pl, Rays nisht op di blum ("Don't Tear Up the Flower"); Israel Yankev Tsvi Shargel, Tsum eygenem shtern ("To My Own Star"); translations and original poems; Israel Other Gerrit Komrij, Kijken is bekeken worden; NetherlandsWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Germanic Netherlandic" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Wang Huairang, Zhongguoren: buguide ren ("Chinese: A People Not on Its Knees"), ChinaWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Turkish" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Krystyna Rodowska, Na dole płomień W górze płomień, Poland Tadeusz Różewicz, Zawsze fragment, Poland Hilmi Yavuz, Çöl (“Desert”); TurkeyWeb page titled "Literature/Year in Review 1996/Chinese" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website (subscription only), retrieved February 19, 2010January 2016 Awards and honors Nobel prize: Wislawa Szymborska Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin Archibald Lampman Award: Gary Geddes, The Perfect Cold Warrior 1996 Governor General's Awards: E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (English); Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Quatuor de l'errance / La Traversée du désert (French) Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light Prix Alain-Grandbois: Hélène Dorion, Sans bord, sans bout du monde Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce Prix Émile-Nelligan: Carle Coppens, Poèmes contre la montre United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinéad Morrissey, Kate Thomas Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus) Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night AML Award for poetry to Leslie Norris for Collected Poems Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Voiklis, "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately) Sarah Arvio, "Visits from the Seventh" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Koch, One Train National Book Award for poetry: Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern Wallace Stevens Award: Adrienne Rich Whiting Awards: Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Elizabeth Spires, Patricia Storace Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jay Wright Awards and honors elsewhere Denmark: Golden Laurels: Henrik Nordbrandt Critics' Prize: Per Højholt Japan: Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize in Poetry: Masao Tsuji for Haikai Tsuji shu ("Poems of Haikai Tsuji")Web page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Japanese." at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Spain: Cervantes Prize: José García NietoWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Spanish Spain." at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Turkey: President's Award: Cahit Külebi Deaths thumb|right|Brodsky's grave in San Michele Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), Russian-American poet and essayist, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991–1992), of a heart attack February 11 – Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself. March 18 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek April 13 – George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist May 8 – Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack May 11 – Sam Ragan (born 1915), American poet, journalist; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996 August 18 – Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, English poet September 25 – Mina Loy, 83, artist, poet, Futurist, actor November 13 – Margaret Steuart Pollard (Peggy Pollard), 93 (born 1904), English bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist, oriental scholar and eccentricFerguson's Gang: The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters Bagnall Polly Sally Beck Pavilion Books 2015 9781909881716 London November 24 – Sorley MacLean, 85, Scottish December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet December 14 – Gaston Miron, 68 Canada Date not known: Haermann Kesten (born 1900), German Tom Rawling (born 1916), English poet and angler Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald FinkelFox, Margalit, "Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead", obituary, The New York Times, November 20, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008 See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards References 30em Category:20th-century poetry *