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[edit] Events
- Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
- My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography
[edit] Works published
- Margaret Avison, No Time
- C. Bayard, The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec (scholarship)[1]
- Roo Borson, Intent, or, The Weight of the World, ISBN 0-7710-1588-7 American-Canadian
- Tim Lilburn, Tourist To Ecstasy, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, Canada
- Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991[2]
- Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, editors, The Brick Anthology, illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press[2]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translator, Orient Express: Poems. Grete Tartler, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[3]
- James Fenton, Manila Envelope, self-published book of poems[4]
- Gerald Hammond, Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660, scholarship[5]
- E. A. Markham, editor, Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
- Grace Nichols:
- Editor, Poetry Jump-Up, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England); had been published as Black Poetry in 1988 by Blackie (London, England)
- Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems, Virago Press (London, England); published in 1990 by Random House (New York)
- Sean O'Brien, Boundary Beach (Ulsterman Publications)
- Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991[2]
- Hugo Williams, Selected Poems, Oxford University Press
- Raymond Carver, A New Path To The Waterfall
- Henri Cole, The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge
- Ed Dorn, Abhorrences, Black Sparrow Press[6]
- Rita Dove, Grace Notes
- Molly Peacock, Take Heart
- Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press)
- Michael Ryan, God Hunger, Viking Penguin
- Mary Jo Salter, Unfinished Painting, Knopf
[edit] Anthologies in the United States
Poems by these 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by David Lehman, with Donald Hall, guest editor:
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Frederick Feirstein, editor, Expansive Poetry, various essays on the New Formalism and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term "Expansive Poetry"
- Michele Leggott, Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (New Zealand writer; book published in the United States)
- A. Shucard, Modern American Poetry 1865-1950[7]
- M. Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance[7]
- W. Kalaidjian, Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry[7]
- Matilde Camus:
- Santander en mi sentir ("Santander in my heart")
- Sin alcanzar la luz ("Without reaching the Light")
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Magdalene Sermon, shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland[8]
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Temple, India[9]
- Thomas McCarthy, Seven Winters in Paris, Anvil Press, London, Ireland[10]
- Norman Simms, Who's Writing and Why in the South Pacific, scholarship, New Zealand[11]
- Wisława Szymborska: Poezje: Poems, bilingual Polish-English edition, Poland
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 — Sterling Allen Brown, 87, poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
- February 28 — Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
- August 25 — Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
- September 15 — Robert Penn Warren, poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- December 4 — May Swenson, American poet and playwright
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "History and Criticism" section, p 164
- ^ a b c Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ a b c d Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 353
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ a b c 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
- ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
- ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 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, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
