Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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[edit] Events
- Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).
- Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas.
[edit] 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:
[edit] Australia
- Robert Gray, New Selected Poems
- Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper)
- John Leonard, editor, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, Melbourne: Oxford University Press (anthology)
- Philip Salom, New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-1-86368-218-3
- John Tranter, Late Night Radio, Polygon Press
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press
[edit] Canada
- Gary Barwin, Outside the Hat, (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552450307
- Stephen Cain, dislexicon (Coach House Books) ISBN 978155245-0277
- Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Margaret Christakos, The Moment Coming (Oakville: ECW)
- Don Domanski, Parish of the Psychic Moon
- Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds
- Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999[1] ISBN 0375405593
[edit] Canadian anthologies
- Allan Forrie, Patrick O'Rourke, and Glen Sorestad, editors, In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology, Saskatoon: Thistledown Press
- Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane
[edit] Ireland
- Dermot Bolger, Taking my Letters Back
- Ciaran Carson:
- The Alexandrine Plan, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352189
- The Twelfth of Never, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352356
- Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352141
[edit] New Zealand
- Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: Penguin[2]
- Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper Books[3]
- Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press
[edit] United Kingdom
- Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press
- Seamus Heaney:
- Audenesque, Maeght
- Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999
- Paul Henry, The Milk Thief, Seren
- Ted Hughes:
- Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Tales from Ovid, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom
[edit] Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Sean O'Brien, editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology
- Lloyd Searwar, editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry,Leeds: Peepal Tree
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Sean O'Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism
- John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley
- Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
[edit] United States
- John Ashbery:
- The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Wakefulness
- Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair
- Henri Cole, The Visible Man
- Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning (ISBN 0-8229-4066-3)
- Fanny Howe, Q
- Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems, (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Lee Harwood, Morning Light
- Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems, New York: Knopf [4]
- William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Michael Palmer, The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print
- Carl Phillips, From the Devotions[5]
- Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- Frederick Seidel Going Fast: Poems, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Mark Strand, Blizzard of One: Poems, (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete
- James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press)
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner[4]
- Eric L. Haralson, editor, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn
- Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
[edit] Anthologies in the United States
- Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi, editors, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop
[edit] Poets in The Best American Poetry 1998
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:
[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
- Salah Stetie, Fievre et guerison de l'icone
- Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Domaine public
[edit] Spain
- Matilde Camus, Fuerza creativa ("Creative strength")
[edit] Other languages
- Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew[6]
- Chen Kehua, Yinwei siwang er jingying de fanfu shipian ("Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death ") Chinese (Taiwan)[7]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, Broken Land
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell
[edit] Canada
- Atlantic Poetry Prize
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
[edit] New Zealand
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no award given in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea, Auckland University Press
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith
- Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (Picador)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber)
- Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber)
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote
- American Academy of Arts and Letters: Robert Fagles elected a member of the Literature Department
- American Book Award: Angela Y. Davis, "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday"
- American Book Award: Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", Coffee House Press "American Book Award 1998"
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, Desire
- National Book Award for poetry: Gerald Stern, This Time: New and Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: W.S. Merwin
- Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons
- William Carlos Williams Award: John Balaban, Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, Judge: Robert Phillips
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Charles Simic
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 — John Forbes, 47 (born 1915), Australian poet
- March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81 (born 1916), American poet, after a fall
- April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
- April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher of Arabic poetry
- June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, American poet and critic
- July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, British poet, critic and biographer
- July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75, a Czech poet and immunologist
- July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist
- October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death
- date not known — Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, of cancer
- date not known — Michalis Katsaros, Greek
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008; also 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
- ^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008