Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year. During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you". In The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial, published in 1986, Voznesensky had written poetry and prose about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea, and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens that was tolerated, he said, by officials because the victims were primarily Jews. Voznesensky reads the notes out loud and challenges the writers to identify themselves. None does.Anderson, Raymond H., "Andrei Voznesensky, Poet, Dies at 77", obituary, June 2, 2010, The New York Times, retrieved June 7, 2010
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, Piano Jennifer Maiden, The Trust, Black Lightning, Australia Chris Mansell, Redshift/Blueshift, Five Islands Press Chris Wallace-Crabbe, I'm Deadly Serious, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Canada Louis Dudek, Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Robin Blaser ed. Montreal: Véhicule Press."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Elisabeth Harvor, If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever Dorothy Livesay, Beginnings. Winnipeg: Peguis."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Roy Miki, Tracing the Paths, about bp nichol, critical study; Raymond Souster, Asking for More. 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 Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden and Fruit ( Poetry in English ), Washington, D.C.: Three Continents PressPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, 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 Eunice de Souza, Women in Dutch Painting, Bombay: XAL-PRAXISWeb page titled "Eunice de Souza" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors ( Poetry and prose in English ), Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Sujata Bhatt, Brunizem (Poetry in English), Carcanet Press and New Delhi: Penguin; won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett AwardWeb page titled "Sujata Bhatt" , Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Robin Ngangom, Words and the Silence ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers WorkshopWeb page titled "Robin Ngangom" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
Ireland Ciaran Carson, The New Estate and Other Poems, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, Harry Clifton, The Liberal Cage, Oldcastle: New Gallery Press, Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Irish poet at this time living in the United States Valentin Iremonger, Sandymount, Dublin, including "This Houre Her Vigill", "Clear View in Summer" and "Icarus"Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Thomas Kinsella: Blood and Family, including "The Messenger" and "Out of Ireland" One Fond Embrace: Peppercanister 13 Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, Viking, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Jenny Bornholdt, This Big Face Allen Curnow, Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972–1988Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Lauris Edmond, Summer Near the Arctic CircleRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Michele Leggott, Like This?: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand Cilla McQueen, BenzinaCilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library winner of the 1989 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry Ian Wedde, Tendering Lydia Wevers, editor, Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women, anthologyRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
United Kingdom Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) Patricia Beer, Collected Poems Alison Brackenbury, Christmas Roses Ciarán Carson: The New Estate and Other Poems, Gallery Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Charles Causley, A Field of Vision Jack Clemo, Selected Poems Wendy Cope: Does She Like Word-Games? Men and their Boring Arguments Helen Dunmore, The Raw Garden Douglas Dunn, Northlight Paul Durcan, Jesus and Angela, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson David Gascoyne, Collected Poems Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States John Heath-Stubbs: Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas Time Pieces, Hearing Eye. Selima Hill, My Darling Camel Libby Houston, Necessity Ted Hughes, Moon-Whales, first British edition; published originally in the United States, 1976 Mick Imlah, Birthmarks (Chatto & Windus, ) Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking Philip Larkin, Collected Poems Alan Jenkins, In the Hot-House Philip Larkin (died 1985), Collected Poems, edited by Anthony Thwaite Tim Liardet, Clay Hill (Seren, ) George MacBeth, Anatomy of a Divorce Norman MacCaig, Voice-Over Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Edwin Morgan, Themes on a Variation Grace Nichols, editor, Black Poetry, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Blackie (London, England), published as Poetry Jump-Up, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), in 1989 Brian Patten, Storm Damage Kathleen Raine, To the Sun Peter Reading, Final Demands Jeremy Reed, Engaging Form Carol Rumens, The Greening of the Snow Beach E. J. Scovell, Collected Poems Peter Scupham, The Air Show Jo Shapcott, Electroplating the Baby Lemn Sissay, Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars Heathcote Williams, Whale Nation
Anthologies The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988 Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet
United States Meena Alexander, House of a Thousand Doors, poetry and prose, Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, 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 Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press) Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels John Hollander: Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language Harp Lake Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940) William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes James Merrill, The Inner Room W. S. Merwin: The Rain in the Trees, New York: KnopfWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum Michael Palmer, Sun Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press)
Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 1988 The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:
A. R. Ammons Ralph Angel Rae Armantrout John Ash John Ashbery Ted Berrigan Mei-mei Berssenbrugge George Bradley Stefan Brecht Joseph Brodsky Nicholas Christopher Marc Cohen Wanda Coleman Clark Coolidge Alfred Corn
Douglas Crase Robert Creeley Thomas M. Disch Kenward Elmslie Alice Fulton Amy Gerstler Jorie Graham Debora Greger Allen Grossman Barbara Guest Rachel Hadas Donald Hall Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Anthony Hecht
Gerrit Henry John Hollander Richard Howard Donald Justice Robert Kelly Kevin Killiam August Kleinzahler Carolina Knox Kenneth Koch John Koethe Philip Lamantia Ann Lauterbach David Lehman Philip Levine Nathaniel Mackey
Michael Malinowitz Tom Mandel Harry Mathews Bernadette Mayer James Merrill Eileen Myles A. L. Nielson Ron Padgett Michael Palmer Bob Perelman Robert Pinsky Donald Revell Joe Ross Leslie Scalapino James Schuyler
David Shapiro Charles Simic Gary Snyder Ruth Stone May Swenson James Tate Lydia Tomkiw Derek Walcott Rosanne Wasserman Majorie Welish Susan Wheeler Richard Wilbur Alan Williamson John Yau Geoffrey Young
Other works published in English Frank Birbalsingh, Jahaji Bhai: An Anthology of Indo–Caribbean Literature"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 Breyten Breytenbach, Judas Eye: 63 prison poems of an indefinite colour, South African Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden of Waves & Fruit, India Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
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:
Arabic language Nizar Qabbani, Syrian: Three Stone-throwing Children Secret Papers of a Karmathian Lover Biography of an Arab Executioner
French language Michel Deguy, Comité ("Committee"), a book attacking French publishers for using poets they rarely publish themselves to help determine which books of poetry to accept; FranceDenis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1023, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989