Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- April â First issue of oâ¢blék: a journal of language arts (pronounced "oblique") is published in the United States, founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edits it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stops publishing in 1993.
- August 30 â Poets Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz marry.
- October 16 â Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke released today.
- October â Tony Harrison's poem "V" is broadcast in a filmed version on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.
- Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who has become a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
- Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, an elegy about suffering of Soviet people under the Great Purge, composed 1935âÂÂ61 and first published in the West in 1963, is first openly published complete in book form in the Soviet Union.
- In his 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia writes: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."
- The Dolmen Press in Portlaoise, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.
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:
- Patrick Lane, Selected Poems
- Irving Layton, Fortunate Exile. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. .
- Irving Layton, Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982-1986. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.
- Dennis Lee, The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan.
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
- Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night
- Raymond Souster, The Eyes of Love. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
- George Woodcock:
- Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography, Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canada
- Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship
- Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, including "Cocktails", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States
- Michael Coady, Oven Lane, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
- Paul Durcan, Going Home to Russia, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press
- Eamon Grennan, What Light There Is, including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
- Michael Hartnett, A Necklace of Wrens, including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber
- Janet Charman, 2 deaths in 1 night: poems, Auckland: New Women's Press
- Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935âÂÂ1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism
- Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures?
- Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand
Anthologies in New Zealand
- Peter Ackroyd, The Diversions of Purley, and Other Poems
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber
- Alan Brownjohn, The Old Flea-Pit
- Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- David Constantine, Madder
- Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan
- Gavin Ewart, Late Pickings
- U. A. Fanthorpe, A Watching Brief
- James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems,
- Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
- Philip Gross, Cat's Whisker
- Tony Harrison, Anno Forty-Two
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press,
- Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live
- P. J. Kavanagh, Presence
- Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper
- Andrew Motion, Natural Causes
- Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe)
- Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Private Parts
- Ruth Pitter, A Heaven to Find
- Peter Porter, The Automatic Oracle
- Peter Redgrove:
- In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
- The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987
- Carol Rumens, Plato Park
- C. H. Sisson, God Bless Karl Marx
- R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs
- Anthony Thwaite, Letter from Tokyo
- Charles Tomlinson, The Return
- John Wain, Open Country
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas
- Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysis
- John Ashbery, April Galleons
- Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks
- Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure
- Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Roald Hoffmann, The Metamict State
- Paul Hoover, The Figures
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press
- Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum)
- Harry Mathews, a collection
- Robert McDowell, Quiet Money
- William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
- George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press
- Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
- Gregory Orr, a collection
- Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957âÂÂ1987, English translation from Spanish
- Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
- Mark Rudman, By Contraries and other poems
- W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987
- Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions)
- Theodore Weiss, a collection
- C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood
- Jay Wright, Selected Poems
- Stephen Yenser, The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, criticism, scholarship
Other in English
Works published in other languages
French language
- Jean Royer:
- Depuis l'amour: Poème, Montréal: l'Hexagone / Paris: La Table rase
- Le Québec en poésie, Saint-Laurent: Lacombe
- La poésie québécoise contemporaine (anthologie), Montréal: l'Hexagone/Paris: La Découverte; anthology
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Chandrakanta Murasingh, Haping Garingo Chibuksa Ringo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language
- Jayant Kaikini, Shravana Madhyahna, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language
- K. Satchidanandan, Ivanekkoodi, ("Him, too"); Malayalam-language
- Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghumiye Porar Aage, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
- Rituraj, Surat Nirat, Jaipur: Panchscheel Prakashan; Hindi-language
- Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shubha-vartaman; Marathi-language
Other languages
- Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Miniatury; Poland
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Jürgen Becker, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1987/88 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1987/88"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology; Germany
- Odysseus Elytis, ÃÂÃÂùýñóÃÂÃÂñà("Krinagoras"), Greece
- Ndoc Gjetja, Poezi ("Poetry"); Albania
- Hamid Ismailov, áðô ("Garden") Uzbek language
- CzesÃ
Âaw MiÃ
Âosz, Kroniki ("Chronicles"); Paris: Instytut Literacki; Poland
- Nizar Qabbani, Love Shall Remain, Sir, Syrian, Arabic-language
- M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in German
- Maire Mhac an tSaoi, An Cion go Dti Seo, including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain", Gaelic-language, Ireland
Awards and honors
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 14 â Ewart Milne, 83 (born 1903), Irish poet and radical
- February 22 â Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), American novelist and poet, from a stroke
- June 22 â John Hewitt, 79 (born 1907), Irish poet
- August 23 â Samar Sen, 70 (born 1916), Bengali poet and journalist
- September 11 â Ladislav StehlÃÂk (born 1908), Czech poet, writer and painter
- September 16 â Howard Moss, 65 (born 1922), poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack
- November 6 â John Logan (born 1923), American poet
- November 29 â Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46 (born 1941) Canadian poet and novelist, alcohol-related
- December 29 â Jun Ishikawa ç³å·Âæ·³ pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa, 88 (born 1899), Japanese, ShÃ
Âwa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
- Also â Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand shepherd-poet
See also
Notes