1997 in poetry

[edit] Events

• January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration.
• Regeneration (titled Behind the Lines in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It was based on the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker.
• Jacket online literary magazine founded.

[edit] Works published in English

[edit] Canada

• Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
• Don McKay, Apparatus^[1]
• Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki

[edit] New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)^[2]
• Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems
• Alan Brunton, Years Ago Today, documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper Books^[3]
• Allen Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997
• Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous

[edit] United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)^[2]
• Gillian Clarke, Collected Poems, Carcanet Press, ISBN 1-85754-335-1
• Elaine Feinstein, Daylight, Carcanet
• Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly, Faber and Faber
• Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book. Gallery Press
• Sean O'Brien, The Ideology (Smith/Doorstep)
• Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
• Peter Redgrove:
  • Orchard End
  • What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry
• Robin Robertson, A Painted Field
• Labi Siffre, Monument

[edit] Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin

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

• R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, Oxford University Press ISBN 0192880853

[edit] United States

• Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita (BOA Editions) 1997
• Dick Allen, Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande)
• A.R. Ammons, Glare
• Frank Bidart, Desire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Angela Y. Davis, "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday", 1997 American Book Award
• Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", 1997 Coffee House Press "American Book Award"
• Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls
• Paul Hoover, Viridian, (University of Georgia Press)
• Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out
• Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
• Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize)
• Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
• Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite 1997
• Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems Talisman House

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

• Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
• Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Douglas R. Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism)
• Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship)
• Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"

[edit] Anthologies in the United States

• Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
• Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)

[edit] The Best American Poetry 1997

Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:

[edit] Other in English

• Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still Australia

[edit] Works published in other languages

[edit] Spain

• Matilde Camus, Mundo interior ("Inner World")

[edit] Hebrew

• Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
• Rami Saari, Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az ("The Route of the Bold Pain")^[4]

[edit] Other

• Wisława Szymborska: Sto wierszy - sto pociech ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses"), Poland

[edit] Awards and honors

[edit] Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
• Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Joint winners
  • Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter
  • The Wild Reply by Emma Lew
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply

[edit] Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

[edit] United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
• Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
• Whitbread Award for poetry and book of the year: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

[edit] United States

• Bollingen Prize: Gary Snyder
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Drury, "Burning the Aspern Papers"
• National Book Award for poetry: William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Live Together: New and Selected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: William Matthews
• Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Haines

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - James Dickey, 73
• April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, 70, of liver cancer
• May 15 - Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
• August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish poet
• November 12 -
  • James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
  • William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
• November 17 - David Ignatow, 83, American poet
• December 20 - Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

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

[edit] References

1. ^ [1]Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
2. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
3. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
4. ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007