Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events May 12 — John Montague is named as first holder of The Ireland Chair of Poetry. August — English poet and playwright Tony Harrison's film-poem Prometheus is first shown. Fall — Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas. Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).
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:
Australia Robert Gray, New Selected Poems Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper) Frieda Hughes, Wooroloo, English-born Australian poet, originally published in United States by Harper Flamingo John Leonard, editor, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, Melbourne: Oxford University Press (anthology) Philip Salom, New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre) John Tranter, Late Night Radio, Polygon Press Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Canada Gary Barwin, Outside the Hat, (Coach House Books) Stephen Cain, dislexicon (Coach House Books) Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Margaret Christakos, The Moment Coming (Oakville: ECW) Don Domanski, Parish of the Psychic Moon Louis Dudek, The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Ottawa: The Golden Dog."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Paul Dutton, Aurealities, (Coach House Books) Michael Holmes, Satellite Dishes from the Future Bakery, (Coach House Books) Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds Dorothy Livesay, Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay, Irvine Dean ed. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008; also Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 E. J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Sandra Djwa, W.J. Keith, and Zailig Pollock ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press."The Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt : A Hypertext Edition," TrentU.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
Canadian anthologies Allan Forrie, Patrick O'Rourke, and Glen Sorestad, editors, In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology, Saskatoon: Thistledown Press Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane
India, in English Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Transfiguring Places ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, Web page titled "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 K. Satchidanandan, How to go to the Tao Temple, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi.Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Dilip Chitre, The Mountain, Pune: Vijaya ChitreWeb page titled "Dilip Chitre" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
Ireland Dermot Bolger, Taking my Letters Back: New and Selected Poems, Dublin: New Island BooksWeb page titled "Dermot Bolger" , at the New Island Books website, retrieved February 1, 2010 Ciaran Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, The Twelfth of Never, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
New Zealand Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: PenguinWeb page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University Press
United Kingdom Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press Carol Ann Duffy, The Pamphlet,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Anvil Press PoetryO’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08. Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You Salena Godden, The Fire People Seamus Heaney: Audenesque, Maeght Translator, Beowulf Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999 Paul Henry, The Milk Thief, Seren Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a verse chronicle of the author's relationship with Sylvia Plath, his late wife; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Translator, Phedre Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom Peter Levi, Reed Music Kevin MacNeil, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish poet published in Scotland Andrew Motion, Selected Poems 1976–1997 Paul Muldoon, Hay Carol Rumens, Holding Pattern Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep Jon Stallworthy, Rounding the Horn
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, editors, Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945, Viking, Sean O'Brien, editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology Lloyd Searwar, editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry, Leeds: Peepal Tree
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Sean O'Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
United States John Ashbery: The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year" Wakefulness Renée Ashley, The Various Reasons of Light Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair Henri Cole, The Visible Man Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning () Fanny Howe, Q Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems, (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Lee Harwood, Morning Light Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems, New York: Knopf Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year" W. S. Merwin: Translator, East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: KnopfAmazon.com Web page titled "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)", with reprinted review "From Publishers Weekly" ("His sprawling new novel-in-verse [...]"), retrieved June 8, 2010 Michael Palmer, The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print Carl Phillips, From the DevotionsMcClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003 Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Frederick Seidel Going Fast: Poems, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Mark Strand, Blizzard of One: Poems, (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Richard Tayson, The Apprentice of Fever, winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Laurence Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, scholarship"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner Eric L. Haralson, editor, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Anthologies in the United States Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi, editors, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop
Poets in The Best American Poetry 1998 Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:
Jonathan Aaron Agha Shahid Ali Dick Allen A. R. Ammons Daniel Anderson James Applewhite Craig Arnold Sarah Arvio John Ashbery Frank Bidart Robert Bly George Bradley John Bricuth Anne Carson Turner Cassity
Henri Cole Billy Collins Alfred Corn James Cummins Thomas M. Disch Denise Duhamel Lynn Emanuel Irving Feldman Emily Fragos Debora Greger Allen Grossman Thom Gunn Marilyn Hacker Rachel Hadas Donald Hall
Joseph Harrison Anthony Hecht Daryl Hine Edward Hirsch Richard Howard Andrew Hudgins Mark Jarman Donald Justice Brigit Pegeen Kelly Karl Kirchwey Carolyn Kizer Kenneth Koch John Koethe Rika Lesser Phillis Levin
Philip Levine Rebecca McClanahan J. D. McClatchy Heather McHugh Sandra McPherson W. S. Merwin Robert Mezey A. F. Moritz Thylias Moss William Mullen Eric Ormsby Jacqueline Osherow Robert Pinsky Reynolds Price Wyatt Prunty
Stephen Sandy Alan Shapiro Robert B. Shaw Charles Simic Mark Strand James Tate Sidney Wade Derek Walcott Rosanna Warren Rachel Wetzsteon Susan Wheeler Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams Greg Williamson Charles Wright
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:
Denmark Klaus Høeck; Denmark: Hjem, publisher: GyldendalWeb page titled [stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Honeymoon, publisher: Gyldendal Inger Christensen, Samlede digte ("Collected Poems")
French language
France Olivier Barbarant, Odes dérisoires et quelques autres un peu moins, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, Salah Stetie, Fievre et guerison de l'icone Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Domaine public
India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Amarjit Chandan, Chhanna, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled "Amarjit Chandan" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Anamika, Anushtup, Delhi: Kitab Ghar; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Anamika" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010