Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. Summer/Autumn – Ledbury Poetry Festival established in England. November 11 – A memorial to John Betjeman is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Lady Wilson.
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 Raewyn Alexander, Fat, Auckland: PenguinWeb page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 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 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Peter Porter, editor, The Oxford book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne: Oxford University Press"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 Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin)
Canada Roo Borson, Water Memory, American-Canadian Cyril Dabydeen, editor, Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States, Toronto: TSAR Kristjana Gunnar, Exiles Among YouWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/English Canada" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Dennis Lee, Nightwatch: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1996 Sylvia Legris: ash petals (chapbook) Circuitry of Veins Steve McCaffery, The Cheat of Words George McWhirter, A Staircase for All Souls Erín Moure, Search Procedures Janis Rapoport, After Paradise Joe Rosenblatt, The Voluptuous Gardener. (new poetry and selected drawings from Carleton University Art Gallery permanent collection) Beach Holme Press."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Stephen Scobie, Taking the Gate: A Journey Through Scotland Raymond Souster, Close to Home. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
India, in English Keki N. Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University PressJ. G. Bhuva, "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla", p 196, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Kamala Das, My Story, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers; autobiographyJyoti Rane, "14. The Poetry of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath", p 172, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
Ireland Pat Boran, The Shape of Water (Dedalus), Ireland"Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2 Ciaran Carson, Opera Et Cetera, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, Seán Dunne, Time and the Island, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, Seamus Heaney, The Spirit LevelWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/English United Kingdom" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Thomas McCarthy, The Lost Province, Anvil Press, LondonWeb page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008 Ulick O'Connor, Poems of the Damned, a translation of Les Fleurs du mal from the original French of Charles Baudelaire Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom
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 BooksRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press Allen Curnow, New and Collected Poems 1941-1995 Maurice Gee, Loving Ways Bill Manhire: My Sunshine Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982
United Kingdom John Agard and Grace Nichols, A Caribbean Dozen: A Collection of Poems, London: Walker Books (children's book) James Berry, Playing a DazzlerCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy: Salmon - Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems, Salmon 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. Editor, with Trisha Rafferty, Stopping for Death, Viking (anthology)Griffin, Gabriele, editor, "Duffy, Carol Ann", article, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, May 4, 2009 T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917, early unpublished verse that the author had said he never wanted published; edited by Christopher Ricks; posthumous Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level Faber & Faber; Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad Tobias Hill, Midnight in the City of Clocks Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title), London: Virago Press Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom Iona Opie, editor, My Very First Mother Goose, a collection of nursery rhymes Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, Craig Raine, Clay: Whereabouts Unknown Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1985–1996 Peter Redgrove: Assembling a Ghost The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson Iain Sinclair, editor, Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology, anthology of poets associated with or seen as precursors to the British Poetry Revival; Picador Benjamin Zephaniah, Propa Propaganda
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)
United States Elizabeth Alexander, Body of LifeWeb page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008 A.R. Ammons, Brink Road Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon, the author's first book of poems, at age 83Web page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/English United States" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 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 RendezvousWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Robert Fagles, translator, The Odyssey, from the original Ancient Greek of Homer Donald Hall, The Old Life, four short poems, a long poem and three elegies Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood, lyric poems Louise Glück, Meadowlands Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism Ronald Johnson, ARK (Albuquerque: Living Batch Press & University of New Mexico Press) Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008 Maxine Kumin, Connecting the Dots James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996 W. S. Merwin Editor, Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology, Washington: CounterpointWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Translator, Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 James Reiss, The Parable of Fire Patti Smith, The Coral Sea Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End Brian Swann, editor, Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, New York: Random House Henry Taylor, Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996 C. K. Williams, The Vigil
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:
Latif Asad Abdullah Sherman Alexie Margaret Atwood Thomas Avena Marie Annharte Baker Sidney Burris Rosemary Catacalos Marilyn Chin Wanda Coleman Jacqueline Dash Ingrid de Kok William Dickey Nancy Eimers Nancy Eimers Martin Espada
Martin Espada Beth Ann Fennelly Robert C. Fuentes Rámon Garcia, Salmo Suzanne Gardinier Frank Gaspar Reginald Gibbons C. S. Giscombe Kimiko Hahn Gail Hanlon Henry Hart William Heyen Jonathan Johnson Jane Kenyon August Kleinzahler
Yusef Komunyakaa Stanley Kunitz Natasha Le Bel Natasha Le Bel Carolyn Lei-Lanilau Valerie Martínez Davis McCombs Sandra McPherson James Merrill W. S. Merwin Jane Miller Susan Mitchell Pat Mora Alice Notley Naomi Shihab Nye
Alicia Ostriker Raymond Patterson Carl Phillips Wing Ping Sterling Plumpp Katherine Alice Power Reynolds Price Alberto Álvaro Ríos Pattiann Rogers Quentin Rowan David Shapiro Angela Shaw Reginald Shepherd Enid Shomer Gary Soto
Jean Starr Deborah Stein Roberta Tejada Chase Twichell Luís Alberto Urrea Jean Valentine Alma Luz Villanueva Karen Volkman Diane Wakoski Ron Welburn Susan Wheeler Paul Wilis Anne Winters C. Dale Young Ray A. Young Bear
Other in English 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
Works published in other languages Listed by language or nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Arabic Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati, "The Dragon", Iraq Books of poetry by: in Egypt: Muhammad Salih (poet), Rif'at Sallam, Imad Abu-Salih, and Muhammad Mutawalli in Lebanon: Yahya Jabir, 'Abduh Wazin, and Bassam Hajjar in Syria: Nuri al-Jarrah in Morocco: 'Abd al-Latif Lu'abi, Muhammad Binnis, M. Bin Talhah, Mahdi Khuraif, and Tiraibaq Ahmad
Denmark Naja Marie Aidt, Huset overforWeb page titled "Literature/ Year in Review 1996/Germanic Danish" at the Encyclopædia Britannica website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Niels Frank, Tabernakel Katrine Marie Guldager, Blank, publisher: GyldendalLundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, [uid]=98&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010