- 1990 in poetry
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Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May DayWorks published in English
* Les Murray, "Dog Fox Field" Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
*Chris Wallace-Crabbe :
** "For Crying Out Loud", Oxford: Oxford University Press
** "Poetry and Belief" (scholarship), Hobart: University of TasmaniaNew Zealand
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Allen Curnow , "Selected Poems 1940–1989" [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessedApril 21 ,2008 ]
*Bill Manhire , "The Old Man's Example"
*Frank McKay , "Life ofJames K. Baxter ", Auckland: Oxford University Press; called the "standard biography" of New Zealand's "probably New Zealand's best-known poet" [ [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/baxternote.html] Web psge titled "James K. Baxter" at "Best of New Zealand Poetry 2001" Web site, accessedOctober 11 ,2007 ]
*Cilla McQueen , "Berlin Diary", [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library ] ] winner of the 1991 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry*
Ciarán Carson : "Belfast Confetti", Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, 1990
*Elaine Feinstein , "City Music", Hutchinson
*John Heath-Stubbs , "Selected Poems"
*Derek Mahon , "The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush: Selected Poems." Gallery Press
*Peter Redgrove , "Dressed as for a Tarot Pack"
*Seamus Heaney :
** "The Tree Clock", Linen Hall Library
** "New Selected Poems 1966-1987 ", Faber & Faber
*R.S. Thomas , "Counterpoint"
*Derek Walcott , "Omeros "United States
* Elizabeth Alexander, "The Venus Hottentot" [ [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82517 Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed
April 24 ,2008 ]
*Maya Angelou , "I Shall Not be Moved"
*Frank Bidart , "In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
*Philip Booth , "Selves", Viking Penguin
*George F. Butterick andRichard Blevins , editors, "Charles Olson andRobert Creeley : The Complete Correspondence", ninth and last volume published this year (first volume published in 1980),Santa Barbara, California , biography and criticismEverett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the "Modern American Poetry" website, accessedMay 1 ,2008 ]
*Maxine Chernoff , "Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems" (Another Chicago Press)
*Alice Fulton , "Powers of Congress"
*David Graham , "Second Wind", Texas Tech University Press
*David Lehman , "Operation Memory", Princeton University Press
*Thomas Lux , "The Drowned River", Houghton Mifflin
*Grace Nichols (Guyanian poet and author writing in the United Kingdom), "Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems", Random House (New York, NY); originally published in the United Kingdom by Virago Press (London, England) in 1989
*Mary Oliver , "House of Light"
*Peter Oresick , "Definitions" (West End Press) and "Working Classics " (University of Illinois Press)
*Rosmarie Waldrop , "Peculiar Motions" (Kelsey St. Press)
*Reed Whittemore , "The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New"Poets included in "
The Best American Poetry 1990 "These 75 poets were included in "
The Best American Poetry 1990 ", edited byDavid Lehman withJorie Graham , guest editor:*
A. R. Ammons
*John Ash
*John Ashbery
*Marvin Bell
*Stephen Berg
*Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
*Hayden Carruth
*Anne Carson
*Raymond Carver
*Amy Clampitt
*Killarney Clary
*Robert Creeley
*Christopher Davis
*Tom Disch
*Norman Dubie
*Aaron Fogel
*James Galvin
*Suzanne Gardinier
*Amy Gerstler
*Linda Gregg
*Thom Gunn
*Donald Hall
*Daniel Halpern
*Robert Hass
*Seamus Heaney
*Anthony Hecht
*Emily Hiestand
*Brenda Hillman
*John Hollander
*Virginia Hooper
*Richard Howard
*Fanny Howe
*Rodney Jones
*Galway Kinnell
*Edward Kleinschmidt
*Yusef Komunyakaa
*Denise Levertov
*Philip Levine
*Thomas Lux
*Nathaniel Mackey
*Kevin Magee
*Thomas McGrath
*Lynne McMahon
*Jane Mead
*James Merrill
*W. S. Merwin
*Jane Miller
*Susan Mitchell
*Paul Monette
*Laura Moriarty
*Thylias Moss
*Melinda Mueller
*Laura Mullen
*Alice Notley
*Michael Palmer
*Robert Pinsky
*Jendi Reiter
*Joan Retallack
*Donald Revell
*Adrienne Rich
*Michael Ryan
*James Schuyler
*Frederick Seidel
*Charles Simic
*Gustaf Sobin
*Elizabeth Spires
*David St. John
*Gerald Stem
*Mark Strand
*James Tate
*Sidney Wade
*Rosanna Warren
*Richard Wilbur
*Eleanor Wilner
*Charles WrightOther in English
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Pat Boran , Ireland:
**"History and Promise" (IUP) [http://www.patboran.com/ "Publications" Web page] at Pat Boran's Web site, accessedMay 2 ]
**"The Unwound Clock" (Dedalus)
* A. E. Davidson, "Studies on Canadian Literature" (scholarship), Canada [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 "Anthologies" section, p 164]
*George Elliott Clarke , "Whylah Falls ", Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 0-919591-57-4 (revised edition, 2000 ISBN 1-896095-50-X) Canada
*Bill Manhire , "The Old Man's Example", New Zealand
*Cilla McQueen , "Berlin Diary", winner of the 1991 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, New ZealandWorks published in other languages
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Matilde Camus , "El color de mi cristal" ("The colour of my glasses")Awards and honors
Australia
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C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry : Robert Adamson, "The Clean Dark"
*Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry : Robert Adamson, "The Clean Dark"
*Mary Gilmore Prize :Kristopher Rassemussen - "In the Name of the Father"
=Canada=*
Gerald Lampert Award
*Archibald Lampman Award
* See1990 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
*Pat Lowther Award
*Prix Alain-Grandbois *
Cholmondeley Award :Kingsley Amis ,Elaine Feinstein ,Michael O’Neill
*Eric Gregory Award :Nicholas Drake ,Maggie Hannan ,William Park , Jonathan Davidson,Lavinia Greenlaw ,Don Paterson ,John Wells
*Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :Sorley Maclean United States
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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize :Debra Allbery , "Walking Distance"
*Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry :W. S. Merwin
*Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry :Christopher Logue , "Kings"
*Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry :James Merrill , "The Inner Room"
*Frost Medal :Denise Levertov /James Laughlin
*National Book Award for Poetry : No prize given
*Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress :Mark Strand
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Charles Simic : "The World Doesn't End"
*Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize :Hayden Carruth
*Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets :William Meredith Deaths
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May 14 —Mary Oppen , 82, American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife ofGeorge Oppen
*November 7 —Lawrence Durrell , 78, English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
*November 11 —Yannis Ritsos , Greek
* dates not known:
**Frances Chung
**Nikos Karouzos , Greekee also
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