Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. March 31–April 3 — Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of o•blék magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference. December 8 — Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the POETICS list, one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the contents of list postings or the list itself with "outsiders." People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved. T. S. Eliot Prize created. Reality television contest Million's Poet (Arabic: شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. Bound by Honor, a film directed by Taylor Hackford, based on the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who co-wrote the screenplay, is released. Poetic Justice, a film directed by John Singleton, features Maya Angelou's poetry, and she appears as Aunt June. Poesia sempre, is created by the National Library of Brazil to promote poetry both from that nation and from beyond its borders and provide a forum for debate on poetry A new Yiddish monthly journal, Di yidishe gas ("The Jewish Street"), edited by Aron Vergelis, appears in Moscow. It is the first since the Sovetish heymland ("Soviet Homeland") became defunct. American literary magazine o•blék (pronounced "oblique"), founded in 1987 by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath, stopped publishing.
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 Jennifer Maiden, Acoustic Shadow, Penguin Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost, Penguin, John Tranter: Under Berlin, University of Queensland Press The Floor of Heaven, HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Rungs of Time, Oxford University Press
Canada George Bowering: The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961–1992 Marilyn Bowering, Love as It Is Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, selected from works written between 1956 and 1992 Sheree Fitch, In This House Are Many Women Judith Fitzgerald: Walkin' Wounded, including a cycle of baseball poems "Habit of Blues", a prose poem meditating on the fate of the late novelist Juan Butler. Bryan Gooch and Maureen Niwa, editors, The Emergence of the Muse: Major Canadian Poets from Crawford to Pratt, Toronto: Oxford University Press (scholarship)"Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009 Irving Layton, Fornalutx Dennis Lee, Riffs London, Ont.: Brick Books."Dennis Lee: Publications ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen: Atwood, Margaret and Barry Callaghan, eds. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Early Years (Volume One). Toronto: Exile Editions. Atwood, Margaret and Barry Callaghan, eds. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Later Years (Volume Two). Toronto: Exile Editions. A. F. Moritz, The Ruined CottageRoberts, 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 bp Nichol: Truth: A Book of Fictions First Screening Hernert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones, editors, Broadview Anthology of Poetry, anthology of American, British and Canadian poetry; Raymond Souster, Old Bank Notes. Ottawa: Oberon."Notes on Life and Works ", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Riding the Long Black Horse, Ottawa: Oberon.
India, in English Sudeep Sen, Parallel ( Poetry in English ), with compact disc/audio cassette; Edinburgh: The Scottish Poetry LibraryWeb page titled "Sudeep Sen" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Arundhathi Subramaniam, editor, In Their Own Voice: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets, anthology; New Delhi: Penguin, .Web page titled "Vaidehi" at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Makarand Paranjape, editor, Indian Poetry in English, Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.J. G. Bhuva, "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla", p 208, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
Ireland Fergus Allen, The Brown Parrots of Providencia, including "Elegy for Faustina" and "The Fall", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Pat Boran, Familiar Things, publisher: Dedalus"Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2 Ciaran Carson, First Language, including "Ovid: Metamorphoses, V, 529–550" and "Bagpipe Music", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Michael D. Higgins, The Season of Fire Medbh McGuckian, The Flower Master and Other Poems, including "The Seed-picture", "Gateposts" and "The Flower Master", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Martin Mooney, Grub, including "Anna Akhmatova's Funeral", Belfast: The Blackstaff Press W. R. Rodgers, Poems, including "Lent", "The Net" and "Stormy Night", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-soprano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Andrew Johnston, Sol How to Talk, winner of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award Cilla McQueen, Crïk'ey: New and Selected Poems W. H. Oliver, Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings, co-author: Anne Munz; Wellington: BlackBerry Press, New Zealand Keith Sinclair, Moontalk Ian Wedde, The Drummer
United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-soprano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press Fergus Allen, The Brown Parrots of Providencia, including "Elegy for Faustina" and "The Fall", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Moniza Alvi, The Country at my ShoulderCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Simon Armitage, Book of Matches Barbara Bleiman editor, Five Modern Poets: Fleur Adcock, U. A. Fanthorpe, Tony Harrison, Anne Stevenson, Derek Walcott, Harlow, England: Longman Ciarán Carson: First Language: Poems, Gallery Books, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Gillian Clarke, The King of Britain's Daughter Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, The Last Rock Eagle, a translation of several of her poems Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time, Anvil Press PoetryO'Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page), "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. Douglas Dunn, Dante's Drum-Kit Paul Durcan, A Snail in my Prime D. J. Enright, Old Men and Comets James Fenton, Out of Danger Roy Fuller, Last Poems W. S. Graham, Aimed at Nobody (posthumous) Thom Gunn, Collected Poems Tony Harrison, Black Daisies for the Bride Seamus Heaney: Keeping Going, Bow and Arrow Press Translator: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press John Heath-Stubbs, Sweet-Apple Earth Jackie Kay, Other Lovers James Kirkup, Blue Bamboo Jamie McKendrick, The Kiosk on the Brink E. A. Markham, Letter from Ulster and the Hugo Poems Anna Mendelssohn (as Grace Lake), Viola Tricolor Sean O'Brien, A Rarity (Carnivorous Arpeggio) Tom Rawling, The Names of the Sea-Trout Carol Rumens, Thinking of Skins Labi Siffre, Nigger R. S. Thomas, Collected Poems, 1945–1990
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Elmer Andrews, editor, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Thomas N. Corns, editor, Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Michael Parker, Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet,
United States Ai, Greed A.R. Ammons, Garbage, a book-length poem about American trash and its implications, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry this year and the 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry Jared Carter, After the Rain, winner of the Poets' Prize for 1994 Geoffrey Dearmer, A Pilgrim's Song: Selected Poems Mark Doty, My Alexandria Petya Dubarova, Here I Am, in Perfect Leaf Today (posthumous), translated from Bulgarian to English by Don D. Wilson Jerry Estrin, Rome, A Mobile Home Margaret Gibson, The Vigil Donald Hall, Life Work, memoir John Hollander: Selected Poetry Tesserae and Other Poems Daniel Halpern, editor, The Inferno by Dante, 21 living American poets wrote their versions of the cantos Meto Jovanovski, Faceless Men and Other Macedonian Stories, translated from Macedonian to English by Charles Simic in collaboration with Milne Holton and Jeffrey Folks. Susan Ludvigson, Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming Jack Marshall, Sesame W. S. Merwin: The Second Four Books of Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press W. S. Merwin, Travels: Poems, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky, Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931–1970, edited by Jenny Penberthy (Cambridge University Press) Ed Ochester & Peter Oresick, Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press) Jim Powell, translator, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments of the 6th-century BC poet Lawrence Raab, What We Don't Know About Each Other Adrienne Rich, Collected Early Poems, 1950–1970 David Rosenberg, translator, The Lost Book of Paradise, a verse translation of Genesis Sherod Santos, The City of Women, a sequence of poems and prose Sappho, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments, translated by Jim Powell James Schuyler, Collected Poems Frederick Seidel, My Tokyo Charles Simic, translator, The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, from Serbian into English, including Serbian poets Ivan V. Lalić, Vasko Popa, Momčilo Nastasijević, and Nina Zivancevic. Sande Stojcevski, A Gate in the Cloud, translated by David Bowen and others from Macedonian to English, with more than 50 of the poet's lyrics. Mark Strand, Dark Harbor, Canadian native living in and published in the United States Luci Tapahonso, Saanii DahataalPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009 Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of the Excluded Middle (Tender Buttons) Rosanna Warren, Stained Glass Eliot Weinberger, editor, American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Marsilio Publishers)