1993 in poetry

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Events

* January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
* T. S. Eliot Prize created.
* 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.
* "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.

Works published in English

=Australia=

* Philip Salom: "Feeding the Ghost". (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3
* John Tranter:
** "Under Berlin", University of Queensland Press
** "The Floor of Heaven", HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "Rungs of Time", Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia

=Canada=

* Leonard Cohen, "Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs", selected from works written between 1956 and 1992
* Irving Layton, " Fornalutx"
* Marilyn Bowering, "Love as It Is"
* Raymond Souster, "in Old Bank Notes"
* Dennis Lee, "Riffs"
* Sheree Fitch, "In This House Are Many Women"
* George Bowering:
** "The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe"
** "George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992"
* 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.
* bp Nichol:
** "Truth: A Book of Fictions"
** "First Screening"

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet", by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web 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-sporano and Clarinet", by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press
* 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, 1993
* Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, "The Last Rock Eagle", a translation of several of her poems
* Thom Gunn, "Collected Poems"
* 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
* Jackie Kay, "Other Lovers"
* Labi Siffre, "Nigger"
* John Heath-Stubbs, "Sweet-Apple Earth"
* Sean O'Brien, "A Rarity" (Carnivorous Arpeggio)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Elmer Andrews, editor, "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney", ISBN 0-231-11926-7
* Michael Parker, "Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet", ISBN 0-333-47181-4

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
* 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
* 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"
* 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. Lalic, Vasko Popa, Momcilo Nastasijevic, 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"
* 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)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* Donald Hall, "Life Work", a memoir
* Adrienne Rich, "What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics"
* Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin, "Selected Letters", correspondence between the poet and his publisher

Anthologies in the United States

* John Hollander, editor, "American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century", two volumes (Library of America)

Poets included in "The Best American Poetry 1993"

Poems from these 75 poets were in "The Best American Poetry 1993", edited by David Lehman, guest editor Louise Glück:
*A. R. Ammons
*John Ashbery
*Michael Atkinson
*Stephen Berg
*Sophie Cabot Black
*Stephanie Brown
*Charles Bukowski
*Hayden Carruth
*Tom Clark
*Killarney Clary
*Marc Cohen
*Billy Collins
*Peter Cooley
*Carolyn Creedon
*Barbara Cully
*Carl Dennis
*Tim Dlugos
*Stephen Dobyns
*Denise Duhamel
*Stephen Dunn
*Roger Fanning
*Alice B. Fogel
*Tess Gallagher
*Albert Goldbarth
*Jorie Graham
*Allen Grossman
*Thom Gunn
*Donald Hall
*Mark Halliday
*Daniel Halpern
*Paul Hoover
*David Ignatow
*Josephine Jacobsen
*Mark Jarman
*Rodney Jones
*Donald Justice
*Brigit Pegeen Kelly
*Robert Kelly
*Jane Kenyon
*Pamela Kircher
*Kenneth Koch
*Phyllis Koestenbaum
*Stanley Kunitz
*Denise Levertov
*Lisa Lewis
*Thomas Lux
*Elizabeth Macklin
*Tom Mandel
*James McMichael
*Sandra McPherson
*W.S. Merwin
*Susan Mitchell
*A. F. Moritz
*Mary Oliver
*Ron Padgett
*Michael Palmer
*Lucia Maria Perillo
*Wang Ping
*Lawrence Raab
*Adrienne Rich
*Laura Riding
*Gjertrud Schnackenberg
*Hugh Seidman
*Charles Simic
*Louis Simpsom
*Gary Snyder
*Gerald Stern
*Ruth Stone
*Mark Strand
*James Tate
*John Updike
*Ellen Bryant Voigt
*Susan Wheeler
*C. K. Williams
*Dean Young

Other in English

* Pat Boran, "Familiar Things" (Dedalus), Ireland [http://www.patboran.com/ "Publications" Web page] at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2]

Works published in other languages

=Denmark=

*Pia Tafdrup, "Krystalskoven"
*Henrik Nordbrandt, "Støvets tyngde"
*Thorkild Bjørnvig, "Siv vand og måne"
*Kirsten Hammann, "Vera Vinkelvir", a cross between a prose poem and a novel

French language

=Canada=

* Claude Beausoleil, "L'Usage du temps"
* Louise Dupré, "Noir déjà"
* Madeleine Gagnon, "La Terre est remplie de langage
* Serge-Patrice Thibodeau, "Le Cycle de Prague"

=France=

* Yves Leclair, "L'or du commun"
* Yves Bonnefoy, "La vie errante"

Germany

* Heinz Czechowski, "Nachtspur"
* Wulf Kirsten, "Stimmenschotter"
* Richard Wagner, "Heisse Maroni"

=Hebrew=

* Mordechai Geldman, "A'yin" ("Eye")
* Israel Eliraz, "Pe Karu'a" ("A Torn Mouth")
* Tamir Greenberg, "Dyokan Atzmi Im Qvant veHatul Met" ("Self Portrait with Quantum and Dead Cat")
* Zvika Shternfeld, "Hamarkiza miGovari" ("The Marquise of Govari")
* Shimon Shloush, "Tola Havui shel Asham" ("A Hidden Worm of Guilt")

Portuguese language

=Portugal=

* Joaquim Manuel Magalhães, "A poeira levada pelo vento"

Brazil

* Waly Salamão, "Armarinho da miudezas", which reflects native Bahian traditions
* Sebastião Uchoa Leite, published a poetry book
* Felipe Fortuna published a poetry book
* Adão Ventura, "Texturaafro",

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "Amor dorado" ("Golden Love")

=Sweden=

* Jesper Svenbro, "Samisk Apollon och andra dikter"
* Henrik Nilsson, "Utan skor"

=Yiddish=

* Yisroel Khaym Biletski, "Uri Tsvi Grinberg der yidish-dikhter" ("Uri Tsvi Grinberg: The Yiddish Poet") biography on the poet

Other

* Novica Tadic, "Night Mail: Selected Poems" (Macedonia)
* Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, "Noshten dnevnik" (“Night Diary”), 70 poems written from 1989-1992
* Wisława Szymborska: "Koniec i początek" ("The End and the Beginning"), Poland

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, "Translations from the Natural World"
* Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: "At the Florida" by John Tranter
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, "Translations from the Natural World"
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Jill Jones - "The Mask and Jagged Star"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* Archibald Lampman Award
* See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Pat Lowther Award
* Prix Alain-Grandbois

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley
* Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Carol Ann Duffy, "Mean Time" (Anvil Press)
* Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Don Paterson, "Nil Nil" (Faber and Faber)
* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ciaran Carson, "First Language: Poems"
* Whitbread Award for poetry: Carol Ann Duffy, "Mean Time"

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Natasha Saj, "Red Under the Skin"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide"
* Bollingen Prize (United States): Mark Strand
* Frost Medal: William Stafford
* National Book Award for poetry (United States): A.R. Ammons, "Garbage" (will also win 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry)
* Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Rita Dove appointed
* Pulitzer Prize for poetry (United States): Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Charles Wright
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Gerald Stern

Deaths

*April 23 — Bertus Aafjes, 89, Dutch poet
*June 19 — William Golding, 82, English novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
*August 28 — William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford
*September 16 — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 71, Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
*October 27 — Peter Quennell, 88, English biographer, historian and poet
* October (exact date not known) — Gu Cheng, Chinese poet, by suicide

ee also

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

Notes