Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration. Regeneration (titled Behind the Lines in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It is based on the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker. Jacket online literary magazine founded.
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:
Canada Michael Barnholden, On the Ropes (Coach House Books) Dionne Brand, Land to Light On Clint Burnham, Be Labour Reading (ECW Press) Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane. Louis Dudek, The Caged Tiger. Montreal: Empyreal Press."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. John Glassco, Selected Poems with Three Notes on the Poetic Process. Ottawa: Golden Dog Press) Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki A.M. Klein, Selected Poems. Selected Poems Seymour Mayne, Zailig Pollock, Usher Caplan ed. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997."Selected Poems: A.M. Klein", Amazon.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Laura Lush: Darkening In, Montreal: Véhicule Press Fault Line, Montreal: Véhicule Press Don McKay, Apparatus George McWhirter, Incubus: The Dark Side of the Light John Reibetanz: Midland SummerRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 Near Finisterre
India, in English R. Parthasarathy Rough Passage ( Poetry in English ). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, India 1977. Jeet Thayil, Apocalypso ( Poetry in English ), London: Aark Arts, 1997, Web page titled "Jeet Thayil" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Sudeep Sen, Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: HarperCollins, Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Eunice de Souza, editor, Nine Indian Women Poets, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Svami Bhumananda Sarasvati, editor and translator, Anthology of Vedic Hymns: Being a Collection of Hymns from the Four Vedas, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad: Kusum Lat Arya Pratishthan, India.
Ireland Moya Cannon, The Parchment Boat, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Michael Coady, All Souls (poems and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Aidan Murphy, Stark Naked Blues, New Island Books, William Wall, Mathematics And Other Poems, Collins Press, Cork
New Zealand Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, and Mark Williams, editors, An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Auckland: Oxford University Press New Zealand (anthology) Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems Diane Brown, Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press Alan Brunton, Years Ago Today, documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Allen Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997 Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous Paula Green, Cookhouse, Auckland University Press
United Kingdom Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand (sic.) Charles Causley, Collected Poems (see also Collected Poems 1975) Gillian Clarke, Collected Poems, Carcanet Press, Elaine Feinstein, Daylight, Carcanet Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly, Faber and Faber Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1998 Elizabeth Jennings, In the Meantime Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly Anne MacLeod, Standing by Thistles (Scottish poet) Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book. Gallery Press Andrew Motion, Salt Water Sean O'Brien, The Ideology (Smith/Doorstep) Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women Peter Reading, Work in Regress Peter Redgrove: Orchard End What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry Robin Robertson, A Painted Field Labi Siffre, Monument Anthony Thwaite, Selected Poems 1956–1996 Charles Tomlinson, Selected Poems 1955–1997
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Thomas Rain Crowe with Gwendal Denez and Tom Hubbard, Writing the Wind: A Celtic resurgence: The New Celtic Poetry: Welsh, Breton, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin Iona Opie and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, Oxford University Press
United States Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita (BOA Editions) 1997 Agha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post Office (Indian-born poet of Kashmiri heritage) Dick Allen, Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande) A.R. Ammons, Glare"Contributors" section, pp 98-107, Poetry magazine, October–November 1997 Marvin Bell, Ardor (The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2) (Copper Canyon Press) Wendell Berry, Entries (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint) Frank Bidart, Desire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Allison Hedge Coke, [Dog Road Woman (Coffee House Press), "American Book Award" Alfred Corn, Present (Washington: Counterpoint Press) Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year" Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Beth Gylys, Balloon Heart (Wind Publications), Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award. Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Susan Hahn, Confession (University of Chicago Press) Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls Paul Hoover, Viridian (University of Georgia Press) Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year" Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year" John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (Columbia University Press) Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (W.W. Norton) Philip Levine, Unselected Poems (Greenhouse Review Press) Sarah Lindsay, Primate Behavior (Grove Press), National Book Award finalist William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems W. S. Merwin, Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize) Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite 1997 Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems (Talisman House) C. K. Williams, The Vigil (Farrar Straus), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award David Wojahn, The Falling Hour (University of Pittsburgh Press)Web page titled "The Shampoo (From The Nightingales)" at the Poetry Foundation Web page, retrieved July 25, 2010 Charles Wright, BlackZodiac (Farrar Straus)
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1997 American Book Award Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism) Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship) Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
Anthologies in the United States Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)
The Best American Poetry 1997 Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:
Ai Sherman Alexie Agha Shahid Ali A. R. Ammons Nin Andrews L. S. Asekoff Leevester Clay John Ashbery Marianne Boruch Catherine Bowman Joseph Brodsky Stephanie Brown Joshua Clover Billy Collins Gillian Conoley Jayne Cortez
Robert Creeley Carl Dennis William Dickey Robert Dow Thomas Sayers Ellis Irving Feldman Herman Fong Dick Gallup Martin Galvin Amy Gerstler Allen Ginsberg Dana Gioia Elton Glaser Kate Gleason Albert Goldbarth
Jorie Graham Donald Hall Daniel Halpern Robert Hass Bob Hicok Paul Hoover Christine Hume Harry Humes Don Hymans Lawson Fusao Inada Richard Jackson Gray Jacobik George Kalamaras Jennifer L. Knox Philip Kobylarz
Yusef Komunyakaa Elizabeth Kostova Denise Levertov Larry Levis Matthew Lippman Beth Lisick Khaled Mattawa William Matthews Josip Novakovich Geoffrey Nutter Catie Rosemurgy Clare Rossini Mary Ruefle Hillel Schwartz Maureen Seaton
Vijay Seshadri Steven Sherrill Charles Simic Charlie Smith Leon Stokesbury Mark Strand Jack Turner Karen Volkman Derek Walcott Rosanna Warren Lewis Warsh Terence Winch Eve Wood Charles Wright Dean Young
Other in English Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still, Australia
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
France Olivier Barbarant, Aragon: la mémoire et l'excès, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, Yves Bonnefoy, L'Encore Aveugle, Seyhmus Dagtekin, Artères-solaires, publisher: L'Harmattan; Kurdish Turkish poet writing in French, living in and published in France
Canada, in French