1998 in poetry
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Events
- Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).
- Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas.
- Tony Harrison's film-poem Prometheus is released in the United Kingdom.
- John Montague named the first Irish professor of poetry.
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, New Selected Poems
- Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper)
- Frieda Hughes, Wooroloo, English-born Australian poet, originally published in United States by Harper Flamingo
- 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
Canada
- Gary Barwin, Outside the Hat, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-030-7
- Stephen Cain, dislexicon (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-027-7
- 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
- Louis Dudek, The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Ottawa: The Golden Dog.[1]
- Paul Dutton, Aurealities, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-0-88910-414-3
- Michael Holmes, Satellite Dishes from the Future Bakery, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-004-8
- Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds
- Dorothy Livesay, Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay, Irvine Dean ed. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.[2]
- Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999[3] ISBN 0-375-40559-3
- E. J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Sandra Djwa, W.J. Keith, and Zailig Pollock ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.[4]
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
India, in English
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Transfiguring Places ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, ISBN 81-7530-019-1[5]
- K. Satchidanandan, How to go to the Tao Temple, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi.[6]
- Dilip Chitre, The Mountain, Pune: Vijaya Chitre[7]
Ireland
- Dermot Bolger, Taking my Letters Back: New and Selected Poems, Dublin: New Island Books[8]
- Ciaran Carson:
- The Alexandrine Plan, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-218-9
- The Twelfth of Never, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-235-6
- Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-214-1
New Zealand
- Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: Penguin[9]
- Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper Books[10]
- Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press
United Kingdom
- Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press
- Carol Ann Duffy, The Pamphlet,[11] Anvil Press Poetry[12]
- Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
- Seamus Heaney:
- Audenesque, Maeght
- Translator, Beowulf[11]
- 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 verse chronicle of the author's relationship with Sylvia Plath, his late wife; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Translator, Phedre[11]
- Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom
- Peter Levi, Reed Music[11]
- Kevin MacNeil, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish poet published in Scotland
- Andrew Motion, Selected Poems 1976–1997[11]
- Paul Muldoon, Hay[11]
- Carol Rumens, Holding Pattern[11]
- Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep[11]
- Jon Stallworthy, Rounding the Horn[11]
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, editors, Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-86829-2
- 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
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
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
- Renée Ashley, The Various Reasons of Light
- 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 [13]
- William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- W. S. Merwin:
- Translator, East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf[14]
- 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[15]
- 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"; by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
- Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete
- James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Richard Tayson, The Apprentice of Fever, winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
- Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Laurence Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, scholarship[16]
- Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner[13]
- 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
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
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:
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:
Denmark
- Klaus Høeck; Denmark:
- Inger Christensen, Samlede digte ("Collected Poems")[18]
French language
France
- Olivier Barbarant, Odes dérisoires et quelques autres un peu moins, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, ISBN 978-2-87673-272-8
- Salah Stetie, Fievre et guerison de l'icone
- Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Domaine public
India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Amarjit Chandan, Chhanna, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-language[19]
- Anamika, Anushtup, Delhi: Kitab Ghar; Hindi-language[20]
- Gagan Gill, Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1998, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language[21]
- K. Satchidanandan, Apoornam, ("Imperfect"); Malayalam-language[6]
- Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, Ban Sngewthuh ia ka Poitri ("Understanding Poetry"), Shillong: Gautam Brothers; Khasi-language[22]
- Mallika Sengupta; Hindi-language:
- Meyeder Aa Aaa Ka Kha, Kolkata: Prativas Publication[23]
- Translator, Akaler Madhye Saras, translation from the original Hindi of Kedarnath Singh, Kolkata: Sahitya Akademi[23]
- Manushya Puthiran, Itamum Iruppum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathipagam, Tamil language[24]
- Prathibha Nandakumar, Kavadeyata ("Game of Cowry"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College[25]
- Raghavan Atholi, Mozhimattam, Kottayam: Sahitya Pravarthaka Cooperative Society (SPCS)[26]
- Rajendra Bhandari, Kshar/Akshar ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan; Nepali-language[27]
- Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Aa Rojulu ("Those Days"), Hyderabad: Akruti Printers[28][29]
Poland
- Stanisław Barańczak, Chirurgiczna precyzja ("Surgical Precision"), Krakow: a5[30]
- Zbigniew Herbert:
- Ewa Lipska:
- Jan Twardowski:
- Adam Zagajewski, Trzej aniołowie, Three Angels (sic) Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie[34]
Serbia
- Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling),[35] Second Edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd
Spain
- Matilde Camus, Fuerza creativa ("Creative strength")
Other languages
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Marcel Beyer, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1998/99 ("Poetry Yearbook 1998/99"), publisher: Beck; anthology[36]
- Ndoc Gjetja, Dhjata ime ("My Testament"); Albania[37]
- Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew[38]
- Chen Kehua, Yinwei siwang er jingying de fanfu shipian ("Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death ") Chinese (Taiwan)[39]
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, La traversata dell'oasi, Italy
- Rahman Henry, Banbhojoner Moto Aundhokar ( Darkness as Picnic is), Bengali
Awards and honors
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
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
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
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)
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"
- AML Award for poetry to Alex Caldiero for Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings
- 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
- Poet Laureate of Virginia: Joseph Awad, two year appointment 1998 to 2000 [40]
- 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
- Whiting Awards: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Charles Simic
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 — John Forbes, 47 (born 1915), Australian poet
- February 8 — Enoch Powell, 85 (born 1912), British MP from 1950 to 1987, classicist and poet
- March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81 (born 1916), American poet, after a fall
- April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84 (born 1914), Mexican writer, poet, diplomat and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
- April 21 — Ivan Chtcheglov, 65 (born 1933), French political theorist, activist and poet
- April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75 (born 1923), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher of Arabic poetry
- May 29 — Philip O'Connor, 81 (born 1916), English writer and surrealist poet
- June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, 81 (born 1916), American poet and critic
- July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, 70 (born 1928), English poet, critic and biographer
- July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75 (born 1923), Czech poet and immunologist
- July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, 73 (born 1924), influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist
- August 26 — Ryūichi Tamura 田村隆, 75 (born 1923), Japanese Shōwa period poet, essayist and translator of English-language novels and poetry
- October 25 – Dick Higgins, 60 (born 1938), English-born poet, composer and early Fluxus artist with ties to the Language poets
- October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68 (born 1930), English poet, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom since 1984
- Date not known
- Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, American poet, of cancer
- Michalis Katsaros (born 1919), Greek poet
See also
Notes
- ^ "Louis Dudek: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
- ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ^ 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 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ "The Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt: A Hypertext Edition," TrentU.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
- ^ Web page titled "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Dermot Bolger", at the New Island Books website, retrieved February 1, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland 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 c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ O’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. Archived 2009-05-08.
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ Amazon.com Web page titled "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)", with reprinted review "From Publishers Weekly" ("His sprawling new novel-in-verse [...]"), retrieved June 8, 2010
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
- ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ a b Web page titled [stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Inger Christensen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.
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- ^ Web page titled "Anamika" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Gagan Gill" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ^ a b Web page title "Mallika Sengupta", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Manushya Puthiran" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Raghavan Atholi" Archived February 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ^ "Varavara Rao". Poetry International. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ^ Gopal, Venu (December 15, 2005). "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal". Venu Gopal website, varavararao.org. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
- ^ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "Herbert Zbigniew", at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, retrieved February 27, 2010
- ^ a b Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English and Polish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "Jan Twardowski", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ^ Web page titled Zagajewski Adam", at the Instytut Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliografia: Poezja:" section, retrieved February 19, 2010
- ^ Web page titled Krugovanje, Drugo izdanje (Second edition) by Dejan Stojanović at the Open Library
- ^ Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
- ^ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
- ^ [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
- ^ http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia