1996 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

[edit] Events

Seamus and Marie Heaney, October 4, 1996, during a visit to Kraków, Poland

• National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 as way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States.
• The movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody.

[edit] Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

[edit] Australia

• Raewyn Alexander, Fat, Auckland: Penguin^[1]
• Robert Gray, Lineations
• Jennifer Harrison: Cabramatta/Cudmirrah (Black Pepper)
• Les Murray:
  • Late Summer Fires
  • Subhuman Redneck Poems, Carcanet and Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize^[2]
• Peter Porter, editor, The Oxford book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne: Oxford University Press^[3]
• Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3

[edit] Canada

• Roo Borson, Water Memory, ISBN 0-7710-1589-5 American-Canadian
• Sylvia Legris:
  • ash petals (chapbook)
  • Circuitry of Veins
• Cyril Dabydeen, editor, Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States, Toronto: TSAR^[4]

[edit] India

• Rashmi Bajaj, Women Indo-Anglian Poets: A Critique, New Delhi: Asian, criticism
• Shirish Chindhade, editor, Five Indian English poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A. K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Dilip Chitre, R. Parthasarathy, New Delhi: Atlantic

[edit] Ireland

• Ciaran Carson, Opera Et Cetera, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852351885
• Seán Dunne, Time and the Island, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852351816
• Thomas McCarthy, The Lost Province, Anvil Press, London^[5]

[edit] New Zealand

• James K. Baxter, posthumous, Cold Spring : Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited by Paul Millar, Auckland: Oxford University Press
• Alan Brunton, Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Bumper Books^[6]
• Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
• Bill Manhire:
  • My Sunshine
  • Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982

[edit] United Kingdom

• John Agard and Grace Nichols, A Caribbean Dozen: A Collection of Poems, London: Walker Books (children's book)^[7]
• Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (posthumous)
• Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level Faber & Faber
• Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title), London: Virago Press
• John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad
• Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5
• Peter Redgrove:
  • Assembling a Ghost
  • The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson

[edit] Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

• Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" for 1997, when it was published in the United States (Irish poet and scholar published in the United Kingdrom)

[edit] United States

• Elizabeth Alexander, Body of Life^[8]
• A.R. Ammons, Brink Road
• Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon
• Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[9] Russian-American
• Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems
• Juliana Chang, editor, Quiet Fire: A Historical Anthology of Asian American poetry, 1892-1970, New York: The Asian American Writers' Workshop
• Ed Dorn, High West Rendezvous^[10]
• Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7 ^[11]
• Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren
• Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
• Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)^[12]
• James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
• Patti Smith, The Coral Sea
• Brian Swann, editor, Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, New York: Random House

[edit] Poets in The Best American Poetry 1996

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich:

[edit] Other in English

• Pat Boran, The Shape of Water (Dedalus), Ireland^[13]
• Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), a philosophical poetry book in Urdu; M.A.K. Khalil translation into English of the 1923 work

[edit] Works published in other languages

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

[edit] French language

[edit] France

• Esther Tellermann, Pangeia

[edit] Spain

• Matilde Camus, Reflexiones a medianoche ("Midnight thoughts")

[edit] Other

• Wisława Szymborska: Widok z ziarnkiem piasku ("View with a Grain of Sand"), Poland

[edit] Awards and honors

• Nobel prize: Wislawa Szymborska

[edit] Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing

[edit] Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois

[edit] United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith
• Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinead Morrissey, Kate Thomas
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
• Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level

[edit] United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Voiklis, "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately) Sarah Arvio, "Visits from the Seventh"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Koch, One Train
• National Book Award for poetry: Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern
• Wallace Stevens Award: Adrienne Rich
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jay Wright

[edit] Deaths

Brodsky's grave in San Michele

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 28 — Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992), of a heart attack
• February 11 — Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
• March 18 — Odysseus Elytis, Greek
• April 13 — George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
• August 18 — Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet
• September 25 — Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor
• December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet
• Date not known:
  • Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
  • Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald Finkel^[14]

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

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

[edit] References

1. ^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
2. ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
3. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
4. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
5. ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
6. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
7. ^ "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
8. ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
9. ^ [2] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
10. ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
11. ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
12. ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
13. ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
14. ^ Fox, Margalit, "Donald Finkel, 79, Poet of Free-Ranging Styles, Is Dead", obituary, The New York Times, November 20, 2008, retrieved December 10, 2008