1988 in poetry

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Events

* The first annual "The Best American Poetry" volume is published this year.

Works published in English

=Australia=

* Robert Gray, "Piano"
* Chris Mansell, "Redshift/Blueshift", Five Islands Press
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, "I'm Deadly Serious", Oxford: Oxford University Press

=Canada=

* Elisabeth Harvor, "If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever"
* Roy Miki, "Tracing the Paths", about bp nichol, critical study;

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock, "Meeting the Comet", Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) [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]
* Jenny Bornholdt, "This Big Face"
* Allen Curnow, "Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972–1988" [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Lauris Edmond, "Summer Near the Arctic Circle"Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article]
* Michele Leggott, "Like This?: Poems", Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand
* Cilla McQueen, "Benzina" [ [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 1989 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
* Ian Wedde, "Tendering"
* Lydia Wevers, editor, "Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women", anthology [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Janet Charman" article]

=United Kingdom=

* Fleur Adcock, "Meeting the Comet", Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) [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]
* Ciarán Carson: "The New Estate and Other Poems", Gallery Press
* Helen Dunmore, "The Raw Garden"
* Elaine Feinstein, "Mother's Girl: Hutchinson"
* Lee Harwood, "Crossing the frozen river: selected poems"
* Seamus Heaney: "The Sounds of Rain", Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
* John Heath-Stubbs:
** "Collected Poems 1942-1987", Carcanet Press
** "A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas"
** "Time Pieces", Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
* Philippe Jaccottet, "The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet", translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking
* Philip Larkin, "Collected Poems"
* Grace Nichols, editor, "Black Poetry", illustrated by Michael Lewis, Blackie (London, England), published as Poetry Jump-Up, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), in 1989
* R.S. Thomas, "The Echoes Return Slow"
* Nika Turbina, "First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina", translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars

Anthologies

*"The New British Poetry", a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988
* Elaine Feinstein, editor, "PEN New Poetry II", Quartet

United States

* Ted Berrigan, "A Certain Slant of Sunlight"
* Joseph Brodsky: "To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985", New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-bibl.html] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007] Russian-American
* Gwendolyn Brooks, "Winnie"
* Raymond Carver, "In a Marine Light: Selected Poems"
* Maxine Chernoff, "Japan" (Avenue B Press)
* Billy Collins, "The Apple That Astonished Paris"
* Seamus Heaney: "The Sounds of Rain", Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
* Jane Hirshfield, "Of Gravity & Angels"
* John Hollander:
** "Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language"
** "Harp Lake"
* Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, "The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan" (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
* Federico García Lorca, "Poeta en Nueva York" first translation into English as "A Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940)
* William Logan, "Sullen Weedy Lakes"
* James Merrill, "The Inner Room"
* Michael Palmer, "Sun"
* Marie Ponsot, "The Green Dark"
* Rosmarie Waldrop, "Shorter American Memory" (Paradigm Press)

Poets appearing in "The Best American Poetry 1988"

The 75 poets included in "The Best American Poetry 1988", edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:
*A. R. Ammons
*Ralph Angel
*Rae Armantrout
*John Ash
*John Ashbery
*Ted Berrigan
*Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
*George Bradley
*Stefan Brecht
*Joseph Brodsky
*Nicholas Christopher
*Marc Cohen
*Wanda Coleman
*Clark Coolidge
*Alfred Corn
*Douglas Crase
*Robert Creeley
*Tom Disch
*Kenward Elmslie
*Alice Fulton
*Amy Gerstler
*Jorie Graham
*Deborah Greger
*Allen Grossman
*Barbara Guest
*Rachel Hadas
*Donald Hall
*Robert Hass
*Seamus Heaney
*Anthony Hecht
*Gerrit Henry
*John Hollander
*Richard Howard
*Donald Justice
*Robert Kelly
*Kevin Killiam
*August Kleinzahler
*Carolina Knox
*Kenneth Koch
*John Koethe
*Philip Lamantia
*Ann Lauterbach
*David Lehman
*Philip Levine
*Nathaniel Mackey
*Michael Malinowitz
*Tom Mandel
*Harry Mathews
*Bernadette Mayer
*James Merrill
*Eileen Myles
*A. L. Nielson
*Ron Padgett
*Michael Palmer
*Bob Perelman
*Robert Pinsky
*Donald Revell
*Joe Ross
*Leslie Scalapino
*James Schuyler
*David Shapiro
*Charles Simic
*Gary Snyder
*Ruth Stone
*May Swenson
*James Tate
*Lydia Tomkiw
*Derek Walcott
*Rosanne Wasserman
*Majorie Welish
*Susan Wheeler
*Richard Wilbur
*Alan Williamson
*John Yau
*Geoffrey Young

Other works published in English

* Jayanta Mahapatra, "Burden of Waves & Fruit", India [http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra/] Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007]

Works published in other languages

* Dieter Breuer, editor, "Deutsche Lyrik nach 1945", Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (scholarship) West Germany Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474]
* Haim Gouri, "Heshbon Over" ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), 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]
* Rami Saari, "Hinne, Matzati Et Beyti" ("Behold, I Found My Home"), 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: Judith Beveridge, "The Domesticity of Giraffes"
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, "The Domesticity of Giraffes"
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, "The Domesticity of Giraffes"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* Archibald Lampman Award
* See 1988 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: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
* Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, "Toluca Street"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: David Lehman, "Mythologies"
* Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
* Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Howard Nemerov (also served 1963-64 in the same position, then named "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress")
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: "Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems"
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Anthony Hecht
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Donald Justice

Deaths

* February 3 — Robert Duncan, at 69, of a heart attack
* March 30 — John Clellon Holmes, 62, of cancer
* June 16 — Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
* October 1 — Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90
* no date known :
** Léonie Fuller Adams
** Henry Coulette

ee also

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

References