1991 in poetry

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Events

* Forward Poetry Prize created
* Dana Gioia, writing in "The Atlantic Monthly" suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings.Lehman, David, preface, "The Best American Poetry 1992", 1992]
* Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in "The New Republic" that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.

Works published in English

=Australia=

* Les Murray, "The Rabbiter's Bounty"

Anthologies in Australia

* Philip Mead and John Tranter, "The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry" a major anthology of Twentieth century poetry from that nation
* Les Murray, editor, "The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse" (editor), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986 and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, 1999

=Canada=

* Margaret Avison, "Selected Poems" Canada
* Don Domanski, "Wolf-Ladder" (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
* Don McKay, "Night Field" (Canada) [http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/d_mckay.htm] Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007]
* Roy Miki, "In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988", Canada
* John Pass, "The Hour's Acropolis", shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, ISBN 1-55017-043-0 (Canada)
* George Woodcock, "Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems", Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada [ [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock"] at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008]
* Jeffery Donaldson, "Once Out of Nature", McClelland & Stewart

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
**"Time-zones", Oxford and New York: Oxford University 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]
**"Selected Poems", Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
* Jenny Bornholdt, "Waiting Shelter", New Zealand
* Alan Brunton, "Slow Passes 1978–1988" [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Lauris Edmond, "New and Selected Poems", Auckland: Oxford University PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article]
* Michele Leggott, "Swimmers, Dancers", Auckland : Auckland University Press
* Bill Manhire, "Milky Way Bar", New Zealand
* Bob Orr, "Breeze" [ [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/orrnote.html Web page titled "Bob Orr"] at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008]

=United Kingdom=

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
**"Time-zones", Oxford and New York: Oxford University 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]
**"Selected Poems", Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
* W. H. Auden, "Collected Poems"
* Wendy Cope, "Serious Concerns"
* Seamus Heaney:
** "Seeing Things", Faber & Faber
** "Squarings", Hieroglyph Editions
* Paul Henry, "Time Pieces", Seren
* Jackie Kay, "The Adoption Papers"
* Kenneth Koch, "Selected Poems", Manchester: Carcanet, American poet's book published in the United KingdomWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3809 "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)"] at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008]
* Derek Mahon, "Selected Poems." Viking
* Sean O'Brien, "HMS Glasshouse" (Oxford University Press)

United States

* John Ashbery, "Flow Chart"
* Gwendolyn Brooks, "Children Coming Home"
* Robert Creeley, "Selected Poems 1945-90"Everett, 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, accessed May 1, 2008]
* Billy Collins, "Questions About Angels" (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993
* Paul Hoover, "The Novel: A Poem" (New Directions)
* Howard Nemerov, "Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991" (University of Chicago Press)
* Grace Paley, "Long Walks and Intimate Talks" (stories and poems)
* Kenneth Rexroth, "Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems"

Poets represented in "The Best American Poetry 1991" anthology

These 75 poets were represented in "The Best American Poetry 1991" edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Mark Strand:

*Johnathon Aaron
*Ai
*Dick Allen
*Julia Alvarez
*John Ash
*John Ashbery
*George Bradley
*Joseph Brodsky
*Gerald Burns
*Amy Clampitt
*Marc Cohen
*Alfred Corn
*Stephen Dobyns
*Stephen Dunn
*Carolyn Forche
*Alice Fulton
*Louise Glück
*Jorie Graham
*Melissa Green
*Debora Greger
*Linda Gregerson
*Allen Grossman
*Thom Gunn
*Donald Hall
*Brooks Haxton
*Daniel Hoffman
*John Hollander
*Paul Hoover
*Ron Horning
*Richard Howard
*Josephine Jacobsen
*Donald Justice
*Vickie Karp
*Robert Kelly
*Jane Kenyon
*Karl Kirchwey
*Carolyn Kizer
*Kenneth Koch
*John Koethe
*Mark Levine
*Laurence Lieberman
*Elizabeth Macklin
*J. D. McClatchy
*James McManus
*James Merrill
*Susan Mitchell
*Gary Mitchner
*A. F. Moritz
*Thylias Moss
*Joyce Carol Oates
*Bob Perelman
*Robert Polito
*Katha Pollitt
*Susan Prospere
*Jack Roberts
*Sherod Santos
*Lloyd Schwartz
*Robyn Selman
*David Shapiro
*Laurie Sheck
*Charles Simic
*David R. Slavitt
*Charlie Smith
*Elizabeth Spires
*David St. John
*Ruth Stone
*Patricia Storace
*James Tate
*Molly Tenenbaum
*David Trinidad
*Chase Twichell
*Derek Walcott
*Rosanna Warren
*Susan Wheeler
*Charles Wright

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* William Meredith, "Poems Are Hard to Read", criticism
* Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, "Part of the Climate: American Cubist Poetry", University of California Press, scholarshipPreminger, 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]

Works published in other languages

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "Tierra de mi Cantabria" ("Cantabria, my land")

Other languages

* Odysseus Elytis, "The Elegies of Oxopetras (Τα Ελεγεία της Οξώπετρας)"
* Rami Saari, "Gvarim Ba-tzomet" ("Men at the Crossroad"), Israeli writing in Hebrew [ [http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00198.php Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon] , 2007]

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, "The Winter Baby"
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, "The Winter Baby"
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - "Verandahs"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* Archibald Lampman Award
* See 1991 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: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
* Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
* Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Michael Longley, "Gorse Fires"

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, "Sleeping Preacher"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, "Museum of Clear Ideas"
* Bollingen Prize: Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice
* Frost Medal: Donald Hall
* National Book Award for poetry: Philip Levine, "What Work Is"
* Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Joseph Brodsky
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: "Near Changes"
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: David Wagoner
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. D. McClatchy

Deaths

* January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
* March 10 - Etheridge Knight, American poet
* April 12 - James Schuyler, at 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke
* July 5 - Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
* September 2 - Laura Riding Jackson, at 90, of a heart attack
* September 24 - Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse
* September 27 - Roy Fuller, English poet and writer
* October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
* October 27 - George Barker, poet
* date not known:
** George Thaniel, Canadian poet
** R. F. Brissenden
** Paul Engle, American poet, writer, editor, and novelist

Notes

ee also

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