1987 in poetry

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Events

* Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film "Barfly" starring Mickey Rourke.
* In his 1987 piece 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia wrote: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation." ["The Hudson Review" (40, 3, 1987)]
* Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who became a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
* First issue of "" is published in April. It is edited by Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath.
* The Dolmen Press in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller. [ [http://collections.zsr.wfu.edu:20018/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?page=object&OUTPUTXSL=dolmen.xsl] Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007]

Works published in English

=Canada=

* Patrick Lane, "Selected Poems"
* Don McKay, "Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night"
* George Woodcock:
**"Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography", Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 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]
**"Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature", Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship [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]

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry", edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber [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]
* Janet Charman, "2 Deaths in 1 Night: Poems", Auckland: New Women's Press [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article]
* Allen Curnow, "Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984" (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/curnowa.html Allen Curnow Web page] at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008]
* Kendrick Smithyman, "Are You Going to the Pictures?"
* Ian Wedde, "Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems", New Zealand

Anthologies in New Zealand

* Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, "The New Poets" [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Janet Charman" article]
* V. O'Sullivan, editor, "Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry", anthology, third editionPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, "The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics", 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837]
* Mark Williams, "Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry"

=United Kingdom=

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry", edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber
* Ciarán Carson: "The Irish for No", Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press
* James Fenton, "Partingtime Hall" (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems, [http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
* Elaine Feinstein, "Badlands", Hutchinson
* Seamus Heaney, "The Haw Lantern", Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
* John Heath-Stubbs, "Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press", ISBN 1-870841-00-X
* Sean O'Brien, "The Frighteners" (Bloodaxe)
* Peter Redgrove:
** "In the Hall of the Saurians", shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
** "The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987"
* R.S. Thomas, "Welsh Airs"

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Elaine Feinstein, "A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva", Hutchinson

United States

* A.R. Ammons, "Sumerian Vistas"
* Maya Angelou, "Now Sheba Sings the Song"
* John Ashbery, "April Galleons"
* Marvin Bell, "New and Selected Poems", Athenaeum
* Gwendolyn Brooks, "Blacks"
* Amy Clampitt, "Archaic Figure"
* Jorie Graham, "The End of Beauty"
* Seamus Heaney, "The Haw Lantern", Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
* Paul Hoover, "The Figures"
* Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, "Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology", Columbia University Press
* Lincoln Kirstein, "The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein" (Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-11923-2
* Harry Matthews, a collection
* Robert McDowell, "Quiet Money"
* William Meredith, "Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems" (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
* George Frederick Morgan, "Poems: New and Selected," University of Illinois Press
* Mary Oliver, "Provincetown" (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
* Gregory Orr, a collection
* Octavio Paz, "Collected Poems, 1957–1987", English translation from Spanish
* Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, "Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky", edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
* W.D. Snodgrass, "Selected Poems: 1957-1987"
* Rosmarie Waldrop, "The Reproduction of Profiles" (New Directions)
* Theodore Weiss, a collection
* C.K. Williams, "Flesh and Blood"
* Jay Wright, "Selected Poems"

Other in English

* Jayanta Mahapatra, "Selected Poems", 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]
* Dom Moraes, "Collected Poems", India
* Les Murray, "The Daylight Moon", Australia [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007]

Works published in other languages

* Odysseus Elytis, "Κριναγόρας" ("Krinagoras"), Greece
* M. Swales, editor, "German Poetry", anthology with poems in GermanPreminger, 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, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474]

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, "The Auschwitz Poems"
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, "Blood and Bone"
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - "Boy with Telescope"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* Archibald Lampman Award
* See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Pat Lowther Award

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
* Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, "Torque"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov
* Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
* Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, "Thomas and Beulah"
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine
* William Carlos Williams Award: Alan Shapiro, "Happy Hour"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn

Deaths

* February 22 — Glenway Wescott, 85 (Feb. 22), from a stroke
* September 16 — Howard Moss, 65, poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack;
* November 6 — John Logan
* November 29 — Gwendolyn MacEwen Canadian poet
* Date not known:
** Richard Lehman
** Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand

ee also

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

Notes