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[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Anthologies in Australia
- Margaret Avison, Selected Poems Canada
- Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Don McKay, Night Field (Canada)[2]
- Roy Miki, In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988, Canada
- John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis, shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, ISBN 1-55017-043-0 (Canada)
- George Woodcock, Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems, Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada[3]
- Jeffery Donaldson, Once Out of Nature, McClelland & Stewart
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- Jenny Bornholdt, Waiting Shelter, New Zealand
- Alan Brunton, Slow Passes 1978–1988[5]
- Lauris Edmond, New and Selected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press[6]
- Michele Leggott, Swimmers, Dancers, Auckland : Auckland University Press
- Bill Manhire, Milky Way Bar, New Zealand
- Bob Orr, Breeze[7]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
- Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
- Seamus Heaney:
- Paul Henry, Time Pieces, Seren
- Jackie Kay, The Adoption Papers
- Kenneth Koch, Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet, American poet's book published in the United Kingdom[8]
- Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Viking
- Sean O'Brien, HMS Glasshouse (Oxford University Press)
- John Ashbery, Flow Chart
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Children Coming Home
- Robert Creeley, Selected Poems 1945-90[9]
- Billy Collins, Questions About Angels (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993
- Paul Hoover, The Novel: A Poem (New Directions)
- Howard Nemerov, Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (University of Chicago Press)
- Grace Paley, Long Walks and Intimate Talks (stories and poems)
- Kenneth Rexroth, Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems
[edit] Poets represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 anthology
These 75 poets were represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Mark Strand:
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] Other languages
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Deaths
- January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
- March 10 - Etheridge Knight, American poet
- April 12 - James Schuyler, at 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke
- July 5 - Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- September 2 - Laura Riding Jackson, at 90, of a heart attack
- September 24 - Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse
- September 27 - Roy Fuller, English poet and writer
- October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 27 - George Barker, poet
- date not known:
- ^ a b Lehman, David, preface, The Best American Poetry 1992, 1992
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Web 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
- ^ a b c d 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, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 66
- ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
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