Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events May 23 — C. P. Cavafy's poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by her longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman. October 6 — First annual National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom, established by William Sieghart. October 31 (Halloween) — 15,000 copies of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" are distributed free at public libraries. In Austin, Texas, someone from the local coroner's office and someone from a local tax department gives a "death and taxes" reading of the poem. Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million. Wyn Cooper's "All I Wanna Do" is put to music by Sheryl Crow who makes it the United States' No. 1 hit rock tune. Welsh poet Tony Curtis becomes Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. Poetry Canada Review folds, the publication was founded in 1978 by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada.Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009
Poets depicted in the movies Dorothy Parker's poems are featured in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."Lehman, David, "Forward", The Best American Poetry 1995 Pablo Neruda's 1952 stay in a villa owned by Italian historian Edwin Cerio on the island of Capri is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film Il Postino ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film.
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 Adamson Waving to Hart Crane Jennifer Harrison: Michelangelo's Prisoners, winner of the 1995 Anne Elder Award for first book of poetry; North Fitzroy: Black Pepper Les Murray: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Translations from the Natural World David Rowthbaum, New and Selected Poems (1945–93)
Canada Christian Bök, Crystallography Roo Borson, Night Walk, (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian Margaret Christakos, Other Words for Grace (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press) George Elliott Clarke, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978–1993. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, Canada Don Domanski, Stations of the Left Hand (nominated for a Governor General's Award) Cherie Geauvreau, Even the Fawn Has Wings, a first collection Gary Geddes, Girl by the Water Ralph Gustafson, Tracks in the Snow Evelyn Lau, In the House of Slaves Tim Lilburn, Moosewood Sandhills, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Canada A. F. Moritz: MahoningRoberts, 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 Phantoms in the Ark Susan Musgrave, Forcing the Narcissus P. K. Page, Hologram: A Book of Glosas, poems in 14th-century Spanish stanzaic form John Pass, Radical Innocence () Canadian Al Purdy, Naked with Summer in Your Mouth Linda Rogers, Hard Candy, including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award Joe Rosenblatt, Beds and Consenting Dreamers Stephen Scobie, Gospel Francis Sparshott, The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW PressWeb 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
India, in English Imtiaz Dharker, Postcards from God ( Poetry in English ), Viking PenguinWeb page titled "Imtiaz Dharker" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Eunice de Souza, Selected and New Poems ( Poetry in English ), St Xavier's College, Department of English Publication, Mumbai.Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 E.V. Ramakrishnan, A Python in A Snake Park, New Delhi: Rupa and Co., Web page titled "E.V. Ramakrishnan" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Sudeep Sen: Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames, New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 South African Woodcut, New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, C. P. Surendran, Gemini II, New Delhi: Penguin (Viking)Web page titled "C. P. Surendran" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Robin Ngangom, Time's Crossroads, Hyderabad: Orient Longman Ltd, Web page titled "Robin Ngangom" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Ruth Vanita, A Play of Light: Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Penguin IndiaWeb page titled "Ruth Vanita" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
Ireland Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence, including "Anna Liffey", "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me", "The Latin Lesson" and "Midnight Flowers", Carcanet PressCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Vona Groarke, Shale, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Michael Hartnett, Selected and New Poems, including "Bread", "I have exhausted the delighted range ...", "For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin", "A Farewell to English", "Lament for Tadhg Cronin's Children" and "The Man who Wrote Yeats, the Man who Wrote Mozart", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Medbh McGuckian: Venus and the Rain, revised edition (first edition 1984), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Captain Lavender, including "Porcelain Bells", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Paula Meehan, Pillow Talk, including "Laburnum", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, including "The Real Thing" and "Saint Margaret of Cortona", Oldcastle: The Gallery PressWeb page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008 Tom Paulin, Walking a Line, including "The Lonely Tower", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, 1975-1994, Wellington: Bridget Williams BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Michele Leggott, DIA, Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry Hone Tuwhare, Deep River Talk, 140 poems from 10 previous collections
United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press Eavan Boland, In a Time of ViolenceCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Alan Brownjohn, In the Cruel Arcade Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Gift and Other Poems, St. Inan's Press (16 pages; "I used to produce this tiny pamphlet from my breast pocket at poetry readings, and announce I would read from my complete and unexpurgated works", Cambridge wrote on his website.)"Publications" page , Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008 William Cookson, editor, Agenda – An Anthology 1959-1993, Carcanet Press, Carol Ann Duffy: Editor, Anvil New Poets Volume 2 Penguin (anthology), sources also give 1995Forbes, Peter, "Winning Lines", August 31, 2002, The Guardian, retrieved May 4, 2009 and 1996Griffin, Gabriele, editor, "Duffy, Carol Ann", article, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, May 4, 2009 as publication year Selected Poems PenguinO’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. Helen Dunmore, Recovering a Body Paul Durcan Give Me Your Head James Fenton, Out of Danger, Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Elaine Feinstein, Selected Poems, Carcanet Roy Fisher, Birmingham River Philip Gross, I.D. Adrian Henri, Not Fade Away Selma Hill, Trembling Hearts in the Bodies of Dogs Kathleen Jamie, The Queen of Sheba Alan Jenkins, Harm Elizabeth Jennings, Familiar Spirits Thomas Kinsella, From Centre City Peter Levi, The Rags of Time Medbh McGuckian, Captain Lavender Derek Mahon, The Yaddo Letter Glyn Maxwell, Mick Imlah and Peter Reading, Penguin New Poets 3, Andrew Motion, The Price of Everything Paul Muldoon: The Annals of Chile The Prince of Quotidian Tom Paulin, Walking a Line Peter Porter, Millennial Fables Craig Raine, History: The Home Movie Peter Redgrove, My Father's Trapdoors Peter Scupham, The Ark Jon Silkin, Watersmeet C. H. Sisson, What and Who Sir Stephen Spender, Dolphins Anthony Thwaite, The Dust of the World Hugo Williams, Dock Leaves, Faber and Faber Gerard Woodward, After The Deafening
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom John Heath-Stubbs, Hindsights : An Autobiography
United States Kim Addonizio, The Philosopher's Club (BOA Editions) A. R. Ammons, The North Carolina Poems Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining Ted Berrigan, Selected Poems Sophie Cabot Black, The Misunderstanding of Nature, (Graywolf Press) received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award, Rosellen Brown, Cora Fry's Pillow Book Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson Jane Hirshfield, The October Palace Edward Hirsch, Earthly Measures John Hollander, Animal Poems Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer Galway Kinnell, Imperfect Thirst (Houghton Mifflin) Kenneth Koch: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 One Train: Poems, New York: Knopf James McMichael, Each in a Place Apart Robert Pinsky, translation of Dante's Inferno Wendy Rose, Bone DancePorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009 Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters Patti Smith, Early Work Rosmarie Waldrop, A Key Into the Language of America (New Directions Publishers)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Louise Glück, Proofs & Theories, with pieces on George Oppen, John Berryman, Robinson Jeffers, and Stanley Kunitz Ian Hamilton, editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English, New York: Oxford University PressEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman, a study of Sylvia Plath Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook