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[edit] Events
The Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected.[1]
[edit] Works published in English
- Chris Mansell, Shining Like a Jinx
- Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World[4], winner of the 1993 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- A. B. Paterson, A. B. Paterson, Selected Poems, edited by Les Murray, Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1992, 1996, posthumous[4]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press[5]
- Thom Gunn, The Man With Night Sweats
- Seamus Heaney:
- The Golden Bough, Bonnefant Press
- Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer), Faber & Faber
- Derek Mahon, The Yaddo Letter. Gallery Press
- Kenneth Millard, Edwardian Poetry, scholarship[7]
- Peter Redgrove, Under the Reservoir
- R.S. Thomas, Mass for Hard Times
[edit] Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1992
These 75 poets are included in The Best American Poetry 1992 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Charles Simic:
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] Awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis
- Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 — George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet and novelist, of motor neuron disease
- February 18 — Robert Gittings, 81, English poet and biographer
- April 11 — Eve Merriam, (née Moskowitz), 75, American poet, playwright and teacher, of cancer
- May 12 — Nikos Gatsos, Greek
- November 17 — Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58, a writer, poet and political activist, of liver cancer
- November 19 — Kenneth Burke, a major American literary theorist and philosopher
- date not known —
[edit] References
- ^ [1]Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007
- ^ "Douglas Barbour" web page at the "writing canada into the millennium project" website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ a b [2]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 353
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
[edit] See also
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