1986 in poetry

[edit] Events

• New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• March 4 — President Ronald Reagan publicly recites from memory lines from Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
• Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis a best-seller
• December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library

[edit] Works published in English

[edit] Canada

• Don Domanski, Hammerstroke Canada
• D. Lee, editor, The New Canadian Poets (anthology)^[1]
• Michael Ondaatje:
  • All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadan published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland Pattern^[2]
  • Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie^[2]

[edit] New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
  • The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[3]
  • Selected Poems, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press^[3]
• Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United States^[4]
• Allen Curnow, The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983–1985, New Zealand^[5]
• Lauris Edmond, Seasons and Creatures^[6]
• Cilla McQueen, Wild Sweets, New Zealand^[7]
• Les Murray, editor, Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry, Melbourne, Collins Dove (new edition, 1991)^[8]
• Norman Simms, Silence and Invisibility: A Study of the New Literature from the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand, scholarship^[9]

[edit] United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
  • The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[3]
  • Selected Poems, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press^[3]
• Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
• Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• Ted Hughes, Flowers and Insects
• R.S. Thomas, Experimenting with an Amen
• Abdullah al-Udhari, editor and translator, Modern Poetry of the Arab World, Penguin, anthology

[edit] United States

• A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition
• Ralph Angel, Anxious Latitudes
• Gwendolyn Brooks, The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems
• Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United States^[10]
• Raymond Carver, Ultramarine
• Henri Cole, The Marble Queen
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Over All the Obscene Boundaries
• Alice Fulton, Palladium
• Marilyn Hacker, Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons
• Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• John Hollander, In Time and Place
• Paul Hoover, Nervous Songs, (L'Epervier Press)
• Jane Kenyon, The Boat of Quiet Hours
• Li-Young Lee, Rose
• Mary Oliver, Dream Work
• Michael Ondaatje:
  • All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadan published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland Pattern^[2]
  • Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie^[2]
• Carl Rakosi, Collected Poems published by the National Poetry Foundation
• Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Streets Enough to Welcome Snow (Station Hill)

[edit] Anthologies in the United States

• Philip Dacey and David Jauss, editors of the New Formalist anthology, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms
• Ron Silliman, editor, In the American Tree, anthology of Language poets

[edit] Other in English

• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery Press, Ireland^[11]
• Jayanta Mahapatra, Dispossessed Nests, India^[12]
• Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse, India

[edit] Works published in other languages

• Matilde Camus, Sin teclado de fiebre ("Without a fever keyboard"), Spain
• Osman Durrani, editor, German Poetry of the Romantic Era (with poetry in German), anthology, Leamington Spa, England: Oswald, Wolf and Berg (publisher)^[13]
• Kama Sywor Kamanda, Chants de brumes, Congo native writing in French
• Wisława Szymborska: Ludzie na moście ("People on the Bridge"), Poland

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Rhyll McMaster, Washing the Money and John A. Scott, St. Clair
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray Selected Poems 1963-83
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Stephen Williams - A Crowd of Voices

[edit] Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award

[edit] United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Lawrence Durrell, James Fenton, Selima Hill
• Eric Gregory Award: Mick North, Lachlan Mackinnon, Oliver Reynolds, Stephen Romer
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman MacCaig

[edit] United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Robley Wilson, Kingdoms of the Ordinary
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Koethe, "Mistral"
• Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Robert Penn Warren
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Adrienne Rich
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Irving Feldman and Howard Moss

[edit] Deaths

• January 12 - Bob Kaufman, at 60, of emphysema
• March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, at 72
• March 30 - John Ciardi, at 69, of a heart attack
• June 24 - Rex Warner
• July 13 - Brion Gysin, at 70
• August 20 - Milton Acorn, at 63, of heart disease and diabetes
• August 31 - Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93
• December 8 - Henry Reed, at 72
• date not known - William Sydney Graham

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

[edit] References

1. ^ 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
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
4. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
5. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
6. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
7. ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
8. ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
9. ^ Preminger, 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, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
10. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
11. ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008
12. ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
13. ^ 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, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474;First name of editor and publishing information from Murray, Christopher John, Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Taylor & Francis, 2004, p 885