- 1985 in poetry
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* The term "
New Formalism " was first used in the article "The Yuppie Poet" in the May 1985 issue of theAWP Newsletter in an attack on the poetry movement. The term was adopted as the name of the movement by those in it.
*A memorial toHugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home atLangholm , Scotland.
* Boulevard magazine founded atSt. Louis University by Richard W. Burgin.
*Canadian Poetry Association was founded on January 16, 1985 and just celebrated its 20th anniversary.Works published in English
* Robert Gray, "Selected poems 1963-1983"
*Chris Wallace-Crabbe , "The Amorous Cannibal", Oxford: Oxford University Press
* W. Wilde, et al., editors, "Oxford Companion to Australian Literature" (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, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108]
=Canada=*
Roo Borson , "The Transparence of November / Snow", ISBN 0-919627-30-7 (withKim Maltman ) American-Canadian
* Elizabeth Smart, "In the Meantime"New Zealand
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Ursula Bethell , "Collected Poems", edited and with a substantial introduction byVincent O'Sullivan , Auckland: Oxford University Press (posthumous) [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Aukland Library website, accessedApril 30 ,2008 ]
* Alistair Campbell, "Soul Traps", Pukerua Bay: Te Kotare Press
*Janet Charman ,Marina Bachmann andSue Fitchett , "Drawing Together", New Women's Press [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Janet Charman" article]
* Bob Orr, "Red Trees" [ [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/orrnote.html Web page titled "Bob Orr"] at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessedApril 23 ,2008 ]
*Kendrick Smithyman , "Stories About Wooden Keyboards", winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
*Ian Wedde andHarvey McQueen , editors, "Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse] , anthology, revised 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]*
Seamus Heaney : "From the Republic of Conscience", Amnesty International, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
*John Heath-Stubbs , "The Immolation of Aleph"
*Derek Mahon , "Antarctica." Gallery Press
*Stephen Spender , "Collected Poems 1947-80"
*R.S. Thomas , "Ingrowing Thoughts"United States
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John Ashbery , "April Galleons"
* Paul Blackburn, "The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn"
*Raymond Carver , "Where Water Comes Together With Other Water"
*Maxine Chernoff , "New Faces of 1952" (Ithaca House)
*Amy Clampitt , "What the Light was Like"
*Michael S. Harper , "Healing Song for the Inner Ear" [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/277 Web page titled "Michael S. Harper"] at the Academy of American poets website, accessedApril 23 ,2008 ]
*Robert Hayden , "Collected Poems" (posthumously published)
*Seamus Heaney : "From the Republic of Conscience", Amnesty International, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
* William Logan, "Difficulty"
*James Merrill , "Late Settings "
*Lorine Niedecker , "From This Condensery" and "The Granite Pail" (posthumous)
*Grace Paley , "Leaning Forward"
*Mary Jo Salter , "Henry Purcell in Japan", Knopf
*Gjertrud Schnackenberg , "The Lamplit Answer"Works published in other languages
=Spain=*
Matilde Camus , "Cristales como enigmas" ("Glasses as enigma")Other languages
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Haim Gouri , "Mahbarot Elul" ("Summer's End"), 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, accessedOctober 6 ,2007 ]
*Dimitris P. Kraniotis , "Traces", GreeceAwards and honors
Australia
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C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry :Kevin Hart , "Your Shadow";Rosemary Dobson , "The Three Fates"
*Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ,Kevin Hart , "Your Shadow"
*Mary Gilmore Prize :Doris Brett , "The Truth about Unicorns"
=Canada=*
Gerald Lampert Award
* See1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
*Pat Lowther Award *
Cholmondeley Award :Dannie Abse ,Peter Redgrove ,Brian Taylor
*Eric Gregory Award : Graham Mort,Adam Thorpe ,Pippa Little ,James Harpur ,Simon North ,Julian May United States
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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize :Liz Rosenberg , "The Fire Music"
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry,Robert Penn Warren
*Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry :James Schuyler , "A Few Days"
* Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"):Gwendolyn Brooks appointed this year.
*Frost Medal :Robert Penn Warren
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Carolyn Kizer : "Yin"
*Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets :Amy Clampitt andMaxine Kumin Deaths
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January 31 —F. R. Scott , 85
*January 16 —Robert Fitzgerald , 74, American poet and translator of ancient Greek and Latin.
*April 17 —Basil Bunting , 85
*May 25 —Robert Nathan , 91, of kidney failure
*August 14 — Alfred Hayes, 74, of menengitis, poet of the labor song "Joe Hill"
*October 31 —Nikos Engonopoulos , Greek
*November 25 —Geoffrey Grigson , 80
*December 2 —Philip Larkin , 63, of throat cancer, English poet
*December 7 —Robert Graves , 90, English writer and poet
* date not known —Josephine Miles , of pneumonia, poet and literary critic
* date not known — J.V. Cunninghamee also
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