1990 in poetry

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Events

* Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day

Works published in English

=Australia=

* 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 Tasmania

New Zealand

* 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, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Bill Manhire, "The Old Man's Example"
* Frank McKay, "Life of James 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, accessed October 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

=United Kingdom=

* 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 and Richard Blevins, editors, "Charles Olson and Robert 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, accessed May 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 by David Lehman with Jorie 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 Wright

Other in English

* Pat Boran, Ireland:
**"History and Promise" (IUP) [http://www.patboran.com/ "Publications" Web page] at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 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 Zealand

Works published in other languages

panish language

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "El color de mi cristal" ("The colour of my glasses")

Awards and honors

Australia

* 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
* See 1990 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: 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

* 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

* May 14 — Mary Oppen, 82, American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife of George 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, Greek

ee also

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

References