1998 in poetry

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Events

* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).
* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas.

Works published in English

=Australia=

* Robert Gray, "New Selected Poems"
* Jennifer Harrison, "Dear B" (Black Pepper)
* Philip Salom, "New and Selected Poems". (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-1-86368-218-3
* John Tranter, "Late Night Radio", Polygon Press
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "Whirling", Oxford: Oxford University Press

=Canada=

* Anne Carson, "Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse" (Knopf); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Don Domanski, "Parish of the Psychic Moon"
* Sylvia Legris, "Iridium Seeds", Canada
* Michael Ondaatje, "Handwriting", Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008] ISBN 0375405593

New Zealand

* Raewyn Alexander, "Concrete", Auckland: Penguin [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/alexander.htm Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008]
* Alan Brunton, "Moonshine", Bumper Books [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]

=United Kingdom=

* Ciarán Carson: "The Alexandrine Plan", (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press
* Seamus Heaney:
** "Audenesque", Maeght
** "Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996", Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a "New York Times" "notable book of the year" for 1999
* Paul Henry, "The Milk Thief", Seren
* Ted Hughes:
** "Birthday Letters," (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
** "Tales from Ovid", (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Jackie Kay, "Off Colour" United Kingdom
* Sean O'Brien:
** Editor, "The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945" (Picador), anthology
** "The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry" (Bloodaxe), criticism

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* John Heath-Stubbs, "The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs", edited by A.T. Tolley

United States

* John Ashbery:
** "The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry" (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
** "Wakefulness"
* Ted Berrigan, "Great Stories of the Chair"
* Henri Cole, "The Visible Man"
* Billy Collins, "Picnic, Lightning" (ISBN 0-8229-4066-3)
* Fanny Howe, "Q"
* Deborah Garrison, "A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems", (Random House); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Lee Harwood, "Morning Light"
* Kenneth Koch, "Straits: Poems", New York: Knopf Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3809 "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)"] at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008]
* David Lehman, general editor, Harold Bloom, guest editor, "The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997"
*William Logan, "Vain Empires: Poems", (Penguin, paper); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
*Michael Palmer, "The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995" (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print
* Carl Phillips, "From the Devotions" [McClatchy, J. D., editor, "The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry", second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003]
*Marie Ponsot, "The Bird Catcher", winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
*Frederick Seidel "Going Fast: Poems", (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
*Mark Strand, "Blizzard of One: Poems", (Knopf); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
*Patti Smith, "Patti Smith Complete"
*James Tate, "Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems", (Ecco); a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, "Well Well Reality" (The Post-Apollo Press)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* Kenneth Koch, "Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry", New York: Scribner
* Mary Oliver, "Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse"

Poets in "The Best American Poetry 1998"

Poems from these 75 poets were in "The Best American Poetry 1999", general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:

*Jonathan Aaron
*Agha Shahid Ali
*Dick Allen
*A. R. Ammons
*Daniel Anderson
*James Applewhite
*Craig Arnold
*Sarah Arvio
*John Ashbery
*Frank Bidart
*Robert Bly
*George Bradley
*John Bricuth
*Anne Carson
*Turner Cassity
*Henri Cole
*Billy Collins
*Alfred Corn
*James Cummins
*Tom Disch
*Denise Duhamel
*Lynn Emanuel
*Irving Feldman
*Emily Fragos
*Debora Greger
*Allen Grossman
*Thom Gunn
*Marilyn Hacker
*Rachel Hadas
*Donald Hall
*Joseph Harrison
*Anthony Hecht
*Daryl Hine
*Edward Hirsch
*Richard Howard
*Andrew Hudgins
*Mark Jarman
*Donald Justice
*Brigit Pegeen Kelly
*Karl Kirchwey
*Carolyn Kizer
*Kenneth Koch
*John Koethe
*Rika Lesser
*Phillis Levin
*Philip Levine
*Rebecca McClanahan
*J. D. McClatchy
*Heather McHugh
*Sandra McPherson
*W. S. Merwin
*Robert Mezey
*A. F. Moritz
*Thylias Moss
*William Mullen
*Eric Ormsby
*Jacqueline Osherow
*Robert Pinsky
*Reynolds Price
*Wyatt Prunty
*Stephen Sandy
*Alan Shapiro
*Robert B. Shaw
*Charles Simic
*Mark Strand
*James Tate
*Sidney Wade
*Derek Walcott
*Rosanna Warren
*Rachel Wetzsteon
*Susan Wheeler
*Richard Wilbur
*C. K. Williams
*Greg Williamson
*Charles Wright

Works published in other languages

French language

=France=

* Salah Stetie, "Fievre et guerison de l'icone"
* Jean-Michel Maulpoix, "Domaine public"

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "Fuerza creativa" ("Creative strength")

Other languages

* Haim Gouri "Ha-Shirim" ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew [ [http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101] Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007]

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, "Broken Land"
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, "Memory Shell"

=Canada=

* Atlantic Poetry Prize
* Gerald Lampert Award
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: "The Love of a Good Woman"
* Pat Lowther Award
* Prix Alain-Grandbois
* Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

New Zealand

* Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
* Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no award given in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Kapka Kassabova, "All Roads Lead to the Sea", Auckland University Press

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith
* Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams
* Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Ted Hughes, "Birthday Letters" (Faber and Faber)
* Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Paul Farley, "The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You" (Picador)
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray
* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ted Hughes, "Birthday Letters" (Faber and Faber)
* Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year: Ted Hughes, "Birthday Letters" (Faber and Faber)

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, "The Water Between Us"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote
* American Academy of Arts and Letters: Robert Fagles elected a member of the Literature Department
*American Book Award: Angela Y. Davis, ""
*American Book Award: Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", Coffee House Press "American Book Award 1998"
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs"
* Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, "Desire"
* National Book Award for poetry: Gerald Stern, "This Time: New and Selected Poems"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, "Black Zodiac"
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: W.S. Merwin
* Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons
* William Carlos Williams Award: John Balaban, "Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems", Judge: Robert Phillips
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Charles Simic

Deaths

* January 23 — John Forbes, 47, Australian poet
* March 23 — Hilda Morley, 81, American poet, after a fall
* April 19 — Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican writer, poet, diplomat, and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
* April 30 — Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher of Arabic poetry
* June 25 — John Malcolm Brinnin, American poet and critic
* July 1 — Martin Seymour-Smith, British poet, critic and biographer
* July 14 — Miroslav Holub, 75, a Czech poet and immunologist
* July 28 — Zbigniew Herbert, influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist
* October 28 — Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death
* date not known — Aimee Joan Grunberger, 44, of cancer
* date not known — Michalis Katsaros, Greek

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of poetry awards

Notes