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[edit] Events
- February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T. Coleridge have been discovered
- February 17 — Sotheby's announces discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks
[edit] Works published
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
[edit] Australia
- Jennifer Harrison: Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems (Black Pepper)
- Chris Mansell, Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin, Melbourne) ISBN 9780-14-024540-0
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Selected Poems 1956-1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia
[edit] Canada
- Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart
- Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Knopf
- Roy Miki, Random Access File, Canada
- John Reibetanz, Morning Watch[1]
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press[2]
- Jenny Bornholdt, How We Met, New Zealand
- Janet Charman, End of the Dry, Auckland: Auckland University Press[3]
- Robin Hyde, The Victory Hymn, 1935-1995, with an essay by Michele Leggott; Auckland: Holloway Press, New Zealand
- Mark Williams and Michele Leggott, editors, Opening the Book : New Essays on New Zealand Writing Auckland: Auckland University Press, criticism
[edit] United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press[2]
- Alison Brackenbury, 1829, Carcanet Press, ISBN 9781857541229
- Gerry Cambridge, The Shell House, Scottish Cultural Press, ISBN 189821834X
- Jan Kochanowski: Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies, translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanisław Barańczak, Faber & Faber
- Derek Mahon, The Hudson Letter. Gallery Press
- Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
- Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Labi Siffre, Blood on the Page
- R.S. Thomas, No Truce with the Furies
[edit] Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien, Penguin Modern Poets 5 (Penguin)
- Roderick Watson, editor, The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English, 1380–1980, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (anthology)[5]
- Stella Chipasula and Frank Chipasula, editors, The Heinemann book of African women's poetry, London: Heinemann (anthology) [6]
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Robert F. Garratt, editor, Critical essays on Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0-7838-0004-5
[edit] United States
- Ralph Angel, Nether World
- John Ashbery, Can You Hear, Bird?
- Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[7] Russian-American
- Henri Cole, The Look of Things
- Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, For a Living (University of Illinois Press)
- Alice Fulton, Sensual Math
- Michael S. Harper, Honorable Amendments[8]
- Fanny Howe, O'Clock
- Walter K. Lew, editor, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American poetry, New York: Kaya Productions[9]
- James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts (his last book)
- Carl Rakosi, Poems, 1923-1941
- Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures
- Michael Palmer, At Passages
- Molly Peacock, Original Love
- Carl Phillips, Cortége[10]
- Giorgos Seferis, Complete Poems (in English), translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Helen Vendler, The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Harvard University Press
- John Hollander, The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, criticism
[edit] The Best American Poetry 1995
Richard Howard is the guest editor for The Best American Poetry 1995 (David Lehman, series editor). Howard changes the rules of inclusion for this year: "[P]oets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series." A total of 75 poems are included.[11]
Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology:
[edit] Other in English
- Gerald Dawe, Heart of Hearts, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852351540 Ireland
- Aharon Shabtai, Ha-lev ("The Heart"), Hebrew
- Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] 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:
[edit] French language
[edit] France
- Michel Deguy, A ce qui n'en finite pas
- Andree Chedid, Par dela les mots (Lebanese resident of France, writing in French)
[edit] Spain
- Matilde Camus, Vuelo de la mente ("Mind flight")
[edit] Other languages
- Chen Kehua, Qiankantou shi ("Head-hunting Poems") Chinese (Taiwan)[12]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Bruce Beaver - Anima and Other Poems
- Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Selected poems 1956-1994 by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Peter Boyle, Coming Home From the World
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jordie Albiston - Nervous Arcs
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: U.A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C. H. Sisson, Kit Wright
- Eric Gregory Award: Colette Bryce, Sophie Hannah, Tobias Hill, Mark Wormald
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Jane Duran, Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon Press)
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Mark Doty, My Alexandria
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sandy Solomon, Pears, Lake, Sun
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Vijay Seshadri, "Lifeline"
- Bollingen Prize: Kenneth Koch
- National Book Award for poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Passing Through: The Later Poems
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Hass appointed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: A.R. Ammons
- Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Denise Levertov
[edit] New Zealand
- Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, Pieces of Music
- New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, Dia
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 28 – George Woodcock (born 1912), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
- February 6 – James Merrill, 68, of a heart attack
- April 14 – Brian Coffey (born 1905), Irish poet and publisher
- April 22 – Jane Kenyon, 47, of leukemia
- May 11 – David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet.
- July 7 – Helene Johnson, after osteoporosis
- July 16:
- May Sarton, 83 (born 1912), American poet, novelist, and memoirist, of breast cancer
- Stephen Spender 86, (born 1909), English poet and essayist, of a heart ailment
- September 3 – Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet
- September 18 – Donald Davie, 73, of cancer
- October 22 – Kingsley Amis, 73, after an accidental fall
- November 5 – Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay activist, from complications relating to AIDS
- December 30 – Heiner Muller (born 1929), German
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ "Publications" page, Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
- ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
- ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
- ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
- ^ Howard, Richard, "Introduction", page 16
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
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