Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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:
- Margaret Avison, No Time (winner of the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 1990
- C. Bayard, The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec (scholarship)
- Roo Borson, Intent, or, The Weight of the World, American-Canadian
- Tim Lilburn, Tourist To Ecstasy, a finalist for the Governor General's Award, Canada
- Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Canadian poet published in the United Kingdom; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991
- Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, editors, The Brick Anthology, illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press
- Sebastian Barry, Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever
- Dermot Bolger, Leinster Street Ghosts
- Eavan Boland, Selected Poems, including "Listen. This is the Noise of Myth" and "Fond Memory", Carcanet Press
- Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti, including "The Mouth" and "Hamlet", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
- Eiléan NàChuilleanáin: The Magdalene Sermon, shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Ireland
- Denis Devlin, Collected Poems, including "Ank'hor Vat", "Little Elegy", "Memoirs of a Turcoman Diplomat: Oteli Asia Palas, Inc.", (see also Collected Poems 1964), Dedalus Press
- Thomas McCarthy, Seven Winters in Paris, Anvil Press, London, Ireland
- John Montague, New Selected Poems, including "Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People", "The Trout", "A Chosen Light", The Same Gesture", "Last Journey", "Dowager" and "Herbert Street Revisited", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
- Matthew Sweeney, Blue Shoes, including "to the Building Trade", and "Tube Ride to Martha's"
- Dannie Abse, White Coat, Purple Coat
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), translator, Orient Express: Poems. Grete Tartler, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
- Simon Armitage, Zoom!
- Dermot Bolger, Leinster Street Ghosts, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Gillian Clarke, Letting in the Rumour
- Donald Davie, To Scorch or Freeze
- Gavin Ewart, Penultimate Poems
- James Fenton, Manila Envelope, self-published book of poems
- Roy Fuller, Available for Dreams
- Alasdair Gray, Old Negatives
- Gerald Hammond, Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660, scholarship
- The Blasphemers' Banquet by Tony Harrison
- Selima Hill, The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness
- Ted Hughes, Wolfwatching
- Peter Levi, Shadow and Bone
- George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958–1982
- E. A. Markham, editor, '
- Grace Nichols:
- Editor, Poetry Jump-Up, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England); had been published as Black Poetry in 1988 by Blackie (London, England)
- Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems, Virago Press (London, England); published in 1990 by Random House (New York)
- Sean O'Brien, Boundary Beach (Ulsterman Publications)
- Fiona Pitt-Kethley, The Perfect Man
- Peter Porter, Possible Worlds
- Pauline Prior-Pitt, Waiting Women
- J. H. Prynne, Word Order
- Peter Reading, Perduta Gente
- Vernon Scannell, Soldiering On
- Iain Crichton Smith, The Village, and Other Poems
- Charles Tomlinson, Annunciations
- Hugo Williams, Selected Poems, Oxford University Press
- Joseph Payne Brennan, Look Back On Laurel Hills (Jwindz Publishing/Dwayne H. Olsen)
- Raymond Carver, A New Path To The Waterfall
- Henri Cole, The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge
- Ed Dorn, Abhorrences, Black Sparrow Press
- Rita Dove, Grace Notes
- W. S. Merwin and Soiku Shigematsu, translators, Sun at Midnight, poems by MusÃ
 Soseki
- Molly Peacock, Take Heart
- Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff, edited by Seamus Cooney (Black Sparrow Press)
- Michael Ryan, God Hunger, Viking Penguin
- Mary Jo Salter, Unfinished Painting, Knopf
Anthologies in the United States
- N. Baym, et al., editors, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, two volumes, third edition
- Eugene England and Dennis Clark, editors, ', 328 pages. Signature Books, .
- M. Honey, editors, Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
- M. Harris and K. Aguero, editors, An Ear to the Ground
Poems by these 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by David Lehman, with Donald Hall, guest editor:
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Frederick Feirstein, editor, Expansive Poetry, various essays on the New Formalism and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term "Expansive Poetry"
- Michele Leggott, Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (New Zealand writer; book published in the United States)
- A. Shucard, Modern American Poetry 1865-1950
- M. Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance
- W. Kalaidjian, Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry
Other in English
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:
French language
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Anamika, Samay Ke Shahar Mein, Delhi: Parag Publications; Hindi-language
- Dileep Jhaveri, Pandukavyo ane Itar, Gujarati-language http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16904
- Gagan Gill, Ek Din Lautegi Laraki, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1989, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language
- Nirendranath Chakravarti, Jongole Ek Unmadini, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
- Matilde Camus:
- Santander en mi sentir ("Santander in my heart")
- Sin alcanzar la luz ("Without reaching the Light")
Other languages
- Nujoom Al-Ghanem, Masaa Al-Janah ("Evening of Heaven"), Emirati Arabic
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Rolf Haufs, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1989/90 ("Poetry Yearbook 1989/90"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology; West Germany
- Alexander Mezhirov, Russia, Soviet Union:
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- Vladimir Vysotsky, PoÃÂziiáa i proza ("Poems and prose"), Russia songwriter and poet, Soviet Union
- Yu Jian, Shi liushi shou, China
Awards and honors
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 4 – Srikrishna Alanahalli, 41 (born 1947), Indian Kannada-language novelist and poet
- January 13 – Sterling Allen Brown, 87 (born 1901), African-American poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
- January 17 РGeorges Schehad̩, 83 (born 1905), Lebanese poet and playwright
- January 23 – M. Govindan, 69 (born 1919), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- January 28 – Halina Konopacka, 89 (born 1900), Polish-born poet and discus thrower
- February 28 – Richard Armour, 82, American poet and writer, of Parkinson's disease
- May 14 – Bhupi Sherchan, 53 (born 1935) Nepali poet
- June 19 – Betti Alver, 82 (born 1906), Estonian poet
- August 25 – Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
- September 15 – Robert Penn Warren (born 1905), poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- October 12 – N. V. Krishna Warrier, 78 (born 1911), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, critic and scholar, introduced new types of long narrative poems and satires, editor of weekly Mathrubhumi, director of Kerala Bhasa Institute
- October 24 – Doris Huestis Speirs (born 1894), Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
- December 4 – May Swenson, American poet and playwright
- December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1969
See also
References