1984 in poetry

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Events

*December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship, and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate.

Works published in English

=Canada=

* Roo Borson, "The Whole Night, Coming Home", ISBN 0-7710-1579-8 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian
* Paulette Jiles, "Celestial Navigation"
* Michael Ondaatje, "Secular Love", Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 0889102880, ISBN 0393019918 ; New York: W. W. Norton, 1985Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008]

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock, editor, "Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry"
* Charles Brasch, "Collected Poems", Auckland: Oxford University Press, posthumous [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, [2008]
* Alan Brunton, "And She Said", New York:Red Mole [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Lauris Edmond, "Selected Poems", winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article]
* Bill Manhire, "Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82", New Zealand
* Cilla McQueen, "Anti Gravity" [ [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/mcqueen.htm Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library ] ]
* Ian Wedde, New Zealand:
** "Georgicon"
** "Tales of Gotham City"

=United Kingdom=

* Peter Ackroyd, "T. S. Eliot: A Life" (biography)
* James Fenton, "Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984" Salamander Press version, poems from this volume were combined with those from "The Memory of War" to make the Penguin volume titled "The Memory of War and Children in Exile"; that combined volume was published in the United States, also under the title "Children in Exile" [http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
* Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States:
** "Station Island", Faber & Faber,
** "Verses for a Fordham Commencement", Nadja Press
** "Hailstones", Gallery Press
* Grace Nichols, "The Fat Black Woman's Poems", Virago
* Craig Raine, "Rich"

United States

* John Ashbery, "A Wave", awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize
* Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, "The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book", "selected" pieces from the 13 issues of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press)
* Joseph Brodsky, "To Urania"
* Alan Brunton, "And She Said", Red Mole, book by a New Zealand poet published in the United States [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Louise Erdrich, "Jacklight"
* Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States:
** "Station Island", Faber & Faber,
** "Verses for a Fordham Commencement", Nadja Press
** "Hailstones", Gallery Press* Denise Levertov, "Breathing the Water", her 19th book of poetry
* Sharon Olds, "The Dead and the Living"
* Michael Palmer, "First Figure" (North Point Press)
* Molly Peacock, "Raw Heaven"
* Kenneth Rexroth, "Selected Poems"
* Rosmarie Waldrop, "Differences for Four Hands" (Singing Horse)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

* 'The Rhapsodic Fallacy' by Mary Kinzie appears in "Salmagundi" 65

Other English language

* Robert Gray, "The Skylight", Australia
* Seamus Heaney, "Station Island", Ireland
* Thomas McCarthy, "The Non-Aligned Storyteller", Anvil Press, London, Ireland [http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy"] at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008]
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, D. Goodman and D.J. Hearn, editors, "Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australia War Poems", Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology

Works published in other languages

* Matilde Camus, "Raíz del recuerdo" ("Root of remembrance"), Spain
* Odysseus Elytis, "Ημερολόγιο ενός αθέατου Απριλίου" ("Diary of an Invisible April"), Greece

Awards and honors

Australia

* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, "The People's Other World"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* See 1984 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Pat Lowther Award: Bronwen Wallace

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Michael Baldwin, Michael Hofmann, Carol Rumens
* Eric Gregory Award: Martyn Crucefix, Mick Imlah, Jamie McKendrick, Bill Smith, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Meredith, Peter Armstrong, Iain Bamforth

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Arthur Smith, "Elegy on Independence Day"
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "Imaginary Prisons", and (separately) Sharon Ben-Tov, "Carillon for Cambridge Women"
* Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Fitzgerald appointed this year in a health-limited capacity, but was not present at the Library of Congress.
* Frost Medal: Jack Stadler
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mary Oliver: "American Primitive"
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richmond Lattimore and Robert Francis

Deaths

*February 6 - Jorge Guillén
*February 17 - Jesse Stewart, at 76, of a stroke
*February 26 - Richard Lattimore, at 77, of cancer
*April 15, Sir William Empson, at 77
*May 19 - Sir John Betjeman, at 77, of Parkinson's disease
*July 2 - George Oppen, at 76, of Alzheimer's disease
*September 29 - Hal Porter, Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet, at 73
*December 14 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
* date not known - Richard Brautigan at 49, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The exact date of his suicide is unknown, but it is speculated that Brautigan ended his life on September 14. His body was not found until October 25.

Notes

ee also

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

References