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Overview of the events of 1998 in poetry
Events
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:
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 FlamingoJohn 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 PressChris Wallace-Crabbe , Whirling , Oxford: Oxford University PressGary 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978-1-55245-004-8 Sylvia Legris , Iridium Seeds Dorothy Livesay , Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay , Irvine Dean ed.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
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
Kate Camp , Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University PressCiarán Carson : The Alexandrine Plan , (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University PressCarol Ann Duffy , The Pamphlet ,[ 11] [ 12] Paul Farley , The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You Salena Godden , The Fire People Seamus Heaney :
Audenesque , MaeghtTranslator, 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 1999Paul Henry , The Milk Thief , SerenTed Hughes :
Jackie Kay , Off Colour United Kingdom Peter Levi , Reed Music [ 11] Kevin MacNeil , Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides , Scottish poet published in ScotlandAndrew 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), anthologyLloyd Searwar , editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry , Leeds: Peepal Tree
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 printCarl 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 StatesPatti 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)
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 DearbornMary Oliver , Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Anthologies in the United States
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999 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:
French language
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] Stanisław Barańczak , Chirurgiczna precyzja ("Surgical Precision"), Krakow: a5[ 30] Zbigniew Herbert :
89 wierszy , ("89 Poems"), Kraków: a5[ 31] Epilog burzy ("Epilogue to a Storm"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie[ 31] Ewa Lipska :
Godziny poza godzinami ("Hours Beyond Hours"), selected poems, Warsaw: PIW[ 32] Życie zastępcze , Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[ 32] Jan Twardowski :
Bóg prosi o miłość - Gott fleht um Liebe , Krakow, Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie[ 33] Niebo w dobrym humorze , Warsaw: PIW[ 33] Adam Zagajewski , Trzej aniołowie, Three Angels (sic ) Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie[ 34]
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
Archibald Lampman Award : Sandra Nicholls , Woman of Sticks, Woman of Stones Atlantic Poetry Prize : Carmelita McGrath , To the New World Gerald Lampert Award : Mark Sinnett , The Landing 1998 Governor General's Awards : Stephanie Bolster , White Stone: The Alice Poems (English); Suzanne Jacob , La Part de feu / Le Deuil de la rancune (French)Pat Lowther Award : Barbara Nickel , The Gladys Elegies Prix Alain-Grandbois : Paul Chanel Malenfant , Fleuves Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Patricia Young , What I Remember from My Time on Earth Prix Émile-Nelligan : Tony Tremblay , Rue Pétrole-Océan 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 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 Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year: Ted Hughes , Birthday Letters National Poetry Competition : Caroline Carver for Horse Underwater 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 PhillipsWhiting Awards : Nancy Eimers , Daniel Hall , James Kimbrell , Charles Harper Webb , Greg Williamson Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets : Charles Simic
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 — John Forbes , 47 (born 1915 ), Australian poet
February 8
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
See also
Notes
^ "Louis Dudek: Publications Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine ," 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 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" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
^ a b Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
^ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
^ Web page titled "Dermot Bolger" Archived 2010-02-17 at the Wayback Machine , at the New Island Books website, retrieved February 1, 2010
^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" Archived 2004-08-11 at the Wayback Machine 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. 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
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^ Web page titled "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih" Archived 2009-06-25 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
^ a b Web page title "Mallika Sengupta" Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
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^ Web page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine 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" Archived 2013-05-30 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
^ "Varavara Rao" . Poetry International . Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2010 .^ Gopal, Venu (December 15, 2005). "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal" . Venu Gopal website, varavararao.org . Archived from the original on 2010-04-20. Retrieved August 2, 2010 . ^ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
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^ https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
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