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
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
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:
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")
Other
- 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
Awards and honors
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
- December 22 — Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
See also
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
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