1984 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1984 poetry literature Events December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced,'True poet' Ted Hughes is Laureate Philip Howard The Times London 1984-12-20 1 62017 Philip Larkin having turned down the post. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticizes the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he is dismissed from his post.https://archive.today/20130103004431/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gV6lhLRItRVXk4wSgLqwi3oA_O4A "Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, poet, dead at 70", August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010 Prvoslav Vujčić's second collection of poems, Kastriranje vetra ("Castration of the Wind"), written during a week's imprisonment in Tuzla for criticising the state, is prohibited in Yugoslavia. Scottish Poetry Library established. 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, The Skylight Jeff Guess, Leaving Maps, Adelaide: Friendly Street PoetsRoberts, Neil, editor, "The Poetry Kit: Who's Who" Jeff Guess section, retrieved October 21, 2012 Chris Wallace-Crabbe, D. Goodman and D.J. Hearn, editors, Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology Canada Roo Borson, The Whole Night, Coming Home, 0-7710-1579-8 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun Leonard Cohen, Book of MercyRoberts, 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 Robert Finch, Double Tuning. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill. Robert Finch, Sailboat and Lake.. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill.Search results: Robert Finch, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011. Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation George Johnston, Ask Again.James Steele, " Johnston, George Benson," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1114. Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton: With Reverence & Delight. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1984."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. Irving Layton, A Spider Danced a Cosy Jig. Toronto: Stoddart. Dorothy Livesay, Feeling the Worlds: New Poems. Fredericton: Goose Lane."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" https://web.archive.org/web/20120905023413/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works 2012-09-05 , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Miriam Mandel, The Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel. Sheila Watson, ed. Edmonton: Longspoon Press."Bibliography of Works by Sheila Watson https://web.archive.org/web/20101106205045/http://www2.athabascau.ca/cll/writers/english/writers/swatson/biblio_by.php 2010-11-06 ," English-Canadian Writers, AthabascaU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2011. 0-920316-50-6 978-0920316504 Michael Ondaatje, Secular Love, Toronto: Coach House Press, 0-88910-288-0, 0-393-01991-8 ; New York: W. W. Norton, 1985Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 James Reaney, Imprecations: The Art of Swearing. Black Moss Press. Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenary and other poems (revised edition), edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. Raymond Souster, Jubilee of Death: The Raid On Dieppe. 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. Raymond Souster, Queen City. Ottawa: Oberon Press. India, in English Kamala Das, Collected Poems Volume 1 ( Poetry in English ), Trivandrum: Kamala DasK. V. Surendran, "13. The Image of Woman in Kamala Das's Poems", p 160, 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 Nissim Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms ( Poetry in English ), DelhiAnup C. Nair and Rajesh I. Patel, "22. Nissim Ezekiel the Poet: A Bird's Eyeview", pp 248, 257-259, 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 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Middle Earth ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 0-19-561604-9Web 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 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Suniti Namjoshi, From the Bedside Book of Nightmares ( Poetry in English ), Fredericton, New Brunswick : Fiddlehead, 0-86492-031-8Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" https://web.archive.org/web/20100202031754/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9964&x=1 2010-02-02 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Ireland Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States: Hailstones, Gallery Press Station Island, Faber & Faber, Sweeney Astray (see also Sweeney's Flight 1992) Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press Thomas McCarthy, The Non-Aligned Storyteller, Anvil Press, London, IrelandWeb 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 Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain, first edition (see revised edition 1994), Oldcastle: The Gallery PressCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Derek Mahon, A Kensington Notebook, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, editor, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, an anthology of works by Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian.Web page about The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry on the Allen & Unwin website, retrieved October 21, 2012 New Zealand Fleur Adcock, editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry Charles Brasch, Collected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press, posthumousWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm September 28, 2006 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alan Brunton, And She Said, New York:Red MoleRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Bill Manhire, Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82 Cilla McQueen, Anti GravityCilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024955/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm March 6, 2006 Ian Wedde: Georgicon Tales of Gotham City United Kingdom Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot: A Life (biography) Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems 1930–78Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm James Berry (editor), News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British PoetryDavid Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), The Oxford Companion to Black British History, Oxford University Press, 2007, "News for Babylon", p. 343. Alison Brackenbury, Breaking Ground George Mackay Brown, Christmas Poems Charles Causley, Secret Destinations David Constantine, Mappa Mundi Gavin Ewart: The Ewart Quarto Festival Nights U. A. Fanthorpe, Voices Off Alison Fell, Kisses for Mayakovsky James Fenton, Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 Salamander Press version, poems from this volume were combined with those from The Memory of War to make the Penguin volume titled The Memory of War and Children in Exile; that combined volume was published in the United States, also under the title Children in Exile Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Roy Fuller, Mianserin Sonnets Geoffrey Grigson, Montaigne's Tower, and Other Poems Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States: Hailstones, Gallery Press Station Island, Faber & Faber, Sweeney Astray (see also Sweeney's Flight 1992) Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press John Hegley, Visions of the Bone Idol (Poems about Dogs and Glasses) Selima Hill, Saying Hello at the Station Liz Lochhead, Dreaming Franenstein and Collected Poems (includes Memo for Spring 1972, Islands 1978, The Grimm Sisters 1981) Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain Derek Mahon, A Kensington Notebook, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom E. A. Markham, Human Rites Christopher Middleton, Serpentine Edwin Morgan, Sonnets from Scotland Blake Morrison, Dark Glasses Andrew Motion, Dangerous Play Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, Virago Fiona Pitt-Kethley, London Peter Porter, Fast Forward Craig Raine, Rich Peter Reading, C Jeremy Reed, By the Fisheries Charles Tomlinson, Notes from New York; and Other Poems United States John Ashbery, A Wave, awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, "selected" pieces from the 13 issues of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press) Joseph Brodsky, To Urania Alan Brunton, And She Said, Red Mole, book by a New Zealand poet published in the United States Louise Erdrich, Jacklight Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States: Station Island, Faber & Faber, Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press Hailstones, Gallery Press* Denise Levertov, Breathing the Water, her 19th book of poetry Sharon Olds, The Dead and the Living Michael Palmer, First Figure (North Point Press) Molly Peacock, Raw Heaven Kenneth Rexroth, Selected Poems Rosmarie Waldrop, Differences for Four Hands (Singing Horse) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States 'The Rhapsodic Fallacy' by Mary Kinzie appears in Salmagundi 65 Other English language Judith Moffett, James Merrill: An Introduction to the Poetry Hariprasad Sastri, editor and translator, Indian Mystic Verse, 3rd revised and enlarged edition; New Delhi: Macmillan (first edition 1941) anthologyJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" https://web.archive.org/web/20090830022509/http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/guides/pre1947.html#PoetryAnth 2009-08-30 , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19. Works published in other languages Denmark Klaus Høeck; Denmark: Blåvand revisited, with Asger Schnack, publisher: SchønbergWeb page titled "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 International Klein Bleu, publisher: Gyldendal Marienbad, publisher: Brøndum Henrik Nordbrandt, 84 digte ("84 Poems"); Copenhagen: Gylendal, 125 pagesWeb page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" https://web.archive.org/web/20101223163443/http://www.litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/henrik-nordbrandt 2010-12-23 at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Poland S. Barańczak, editor, Poeta pamieta ("The poet remembers"), anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp 959-960 Stanisław Barańczak, pl Uciekinier z utopii. O poezji Zbigniewa Herberta ("Fugitive from Utopia: On the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert"), criticism; London: PoloniaWeb 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 Czesław Miłosz, Nieobjeta ziemia ("The Unencompassed Earth"); Paris: Instytut LiterackiWeb 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 Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Mogila Ordona ("Ordon's Grave") India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Nuskha-hae Wafa; Urdu-languageDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008* Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language: Roop-Kahini, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers"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 Shomoi Boro Kom, Kolkata: Proma Prokashoni Rituraj, Nahin Prabodhachandrodya, Bikaner: Dharati 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 Saroop Dhruv, Mara Hathni Vat, Ahmedabad: Nakshatra Trust, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled "Saroop Dhruv" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040112/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9982 2012-03-25 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, Socrateesum Kozhiyum, ("Socrates and the Cock"); 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 Other languages Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Gregory Laschen, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1984 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1984"), 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 Matilde Camus, Raíz del recuerdo ("Root of remembrance"), Spain Odysseus Elytis, Ημερολόγιο ενός αθέατου Απριλίου ("Diary of an Invisible April"), Greece Ndoc Gjetja, Çaste ("Moments"); Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010 Rita Kelly, An Bealach Éadóigh, Ireland Alexander Mezhirov, Тысяча мелочей ("A thousand small things"), Russia, Soviet Union Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie, enlarged from the original 1977 edition; publisher: Mondadori; posthumous; ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Jacques Prévert, La Cinquième Saison, published posthumously (died 1977); France Jean Royer, Jours d'atelier, Saint-Lambert: Le Noroît; Canada, in FrenchWeb 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 Håkan Sandell, Efter sjömännen; Elektrisk måne ("After the sailors; Electric Moon"), Sweden Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Jaroslav Seifert, a Czech poet Australia Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, The People's Other World Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Sandra Birdsell, Night Travellers and Jean McKay, Gone to Grass 1984 Governor General's Awards: Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (English); Nicole Brossard, Double Impression (French) Pat Lowther Award: Bronwen Wallace, Signs of the Former Tenant Prix Émile-Nelligan: Normand de Bellefeuille, Le Livre du devoir Japan Japanese 100 yen note, starting this year and through 2004, features a portrait of Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (1867–1916), Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Michael Baldwin (poet), Michael Hofmann, Carol Rumens Eric Gregory Award: Martyn Crucefix, Mick Imlah, Jamie McKendrick, Bill Smith, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Meredith, Peter Armstrong, Iain Bamforth United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Arthur Smith, Elegy on Independence Day Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "Imaginary Prisons", and (separately) Sharon Ben-Tov, "Carillon for Cambridge Women" Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Fitzgerald appointed this year in a health-limited capacity, but was not present at the Library of Congress. Frost Medal: Jack Stadler Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mary Oliver: American Primitive Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richmond Lattimore and Robert Francis Births Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Irish-language poet Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Cuban poet Deaths thumb|Headstone of John Betjeman Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 18 – Ary dos Santos, 46 (born 1937), Portuguese, of cirrhosis February 6 – Jorge Guillén, 91 (born 1893), Spanish February 8 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (born 1906), Japanese, Shōwa period haiku poet and novelist February 17 – Jesse Stuart, 76 (born 1906), American, from a stroke February 26 – Richmond Lattimore, 77 (born 1906), American poet and translator, of cancer March 3 – Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (born 1903), Japanese, Shōwa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman) April 15 – Sir William Empson, 77 (born 1906), English critic May 19 – Sir John Betjeman, 77 (born 1906), English poet laureate, of Parkinson's disease July 2 – George Oppen, 76 (born 1908), American, of Alzheimer's disease August 26 – Rukhl Fishman (born 1935), Israeli poet of Yiddish poetry September 14 (possible date) – Richard Brautigan 49 (born 1935), American novelist and poet, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; the exact date of his suicide is speculative as his body is not found until October 25 September 29 – Hal Porter, 73 (born 1911), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet December 8 – Edward James, 77 (born 1907), English poet and patron of the arts and of surrealism December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, 86 (born 1898), Spanish December 29 – Robert Farren (Roibeárd Ó Faracháin), 75 (born 1909), Irish See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Category:20th-century poetry *