Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticizes the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he is dismissed from his post., August 16, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved August 20, 2010 Prvoslav Vujčić's second collection of poems, Kastriranje vetra ("Castration of the Wind"), written during a week's imprisonment in Tuzla for criticising the state, is prohibited in Yugoslavia. Scottish Poetry Library established.
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, The Skylight Jeff Guess, Leaving Maps, Adelaide: Friendly Street PoetsRoberts, Neil, editor, "The Poetry Kit: Who's Who" Jeff Guess section, retrieved October 21, 2012 Chris Wallace-Crabbe, D. Goodman and D.J. Hearn, editors, Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology
Canada Roo Borson, The Whole Night, Coming Home, (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun Leonard Cohen, Book of MercyRoberts, 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 Robert Finch, Double Tuning. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill. Robert Finch, Sailboat and Lake.. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill.Search results: Robert Finch, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011. Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation George Johnston, Ask Again.James Steele, " Johnston, George Benson," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1114. Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton: With Reverence & Delight. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1984."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Irving Layton, A Spider Danced a Cosy Jig. Toronto: Stoddart. Dorothy Livesay, Feeling the Worlds: New Poems. Fredericton: Goose Lane."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Miriam Mandel, The Collected Poems of Miriam Mandel. Sheila Watson, ed. Edmonton: Longspoon Press."Bibliography of Works by Sheila Watson ," English-Canadian Writers, AthabascaU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2011. Michael Ondaatje, Secular Love, Toronto: Coach House Press, , ; New York: W. W. Norton, 1985Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 James Reaney, Imprecations: The Art of Swearing. Black Moss Press. Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenary and other poems (revised edition), edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh) Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. Raymond Souster, Jubilee of Death: The Raid On Dieppe. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Queen City. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
India, in English Kamala Das, Collected Poems Volume 1 ( Poetry in English ), Trivandrum: Kamala DasK. V. Surendran, "13. The Image of Woman in Kamala Das's Poems", p 160, 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 Nissim Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms ( Poetry in English ), DelhiAnup C. Nair and Rajesh I. Patel, "22. Nissim Ezekiel the Poet: A Bird's Eyeview", pp 248, 257-259, 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 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Middle Earth ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Web page titled "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Suniti Namjoshi, From the Bedside Book of Nightmares ( Poetry in English ), Fredericton, New Brunswick : Fiddlehead, Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
Ireland Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States: Hailstones, Gallery Press Station Island, Faber & Faber, Sweeney Astray (see also Sweeney's Flight 1992) Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press Thomas McCarthy, The Non-Aligned Storyteller, Anvil Press, London, IrelandWeb page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008 Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain, first edition (see revised edition 1994), Oldcastle: The Gallery PressCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Derek Mahon, A Kensington Notebook, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, editor, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, an anthology of works by Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian.Web page about The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry on the Allen & Unwin website, retrieved October 21, 2012
New Zealand Fleur Adcock, editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry Charles Brasch, Collected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press, posthumousWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alan Brunton, And She Said, New York:Red MoleRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Bill Manhire, Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82 Cilla McQueen, Anti GravityCilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library Ian Wedde: Georgicon Tales of Gotham City
United Kingdom Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot: A Life (biography) Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems 1930–78 James Berry (editor), News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British PoetryDavid Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), The Oxford Companion to Black British History, Oxford University Press, 2007, "News for Babylon", p. 343. Alison Brackenbury, Breaking Ground George Mackay Brown, Christmas Poems Charles Causley, Secret Destinations David Constantine, Mappa Mundi Gavin Ewart: The Ewart Quarto Festival Nights U. A. Fanthorpe, Voices Off Alison Fell, Kisses for Mayakovsky James Fenton, Children in Exile: Poems 1968-1984 Salamander Press version, poems from this volume were combined with those from The Memory of War to make the Penguin volume titled The Memory of War and Children in Exile; that combined volume was published in the United States, also under the title Children in Exile Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Roy Fuller, Mianserin Sonnets Geoffrey Grigson, Montaigne's Tower, and Other Poems Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States: Hailstones, Gallery Press Station Island, Faber & Faber, Sweeney Astray (see also Sweeney's Flight 1992) Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press John Hegley, Visions of the Bone Idol (Poems about Dogs and Glasses) Selima Hill, Saying Hello at the Station Liz Lochhead, Dreaming Franenstein and Collected Poems (includes Memo for Spring 1972, Islands 1978, The Grimm Sisters 1981) Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain Derek Mahon, A Kensington Notebook, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom E. A. Markham, Human Rites Christopher Middleton, Serpentine Edwin Morgan, Sonnets from Scotland Blake Morrison, Dark Glasses Andrew Motion, Dangerous Play Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, Virago Fiona Pitt-Kethley, London Peter Porter, Fast Forward Craig Raine, Rich Peter Reading, C Jeremy Reed, By the Fisheries Charles Tomlinson, Notes from New York; and Other Poems
United States John Ashbery, A Wave, awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Bollingen Prize Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, "selected" pieces from the 13 issues of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press) Joseph Brodsky, To Urania Alan Brunton, And She Said, Red Mole, book by a New Zealand poet published in the United States Louise Erdrich, Jacklight Seamus Heaney Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States: Station Island, Faber & Faber, Verses for a Fordham Commencement, Nadja Press Hailstones, Gallery Press* Denise Levertov, Breathing the Water, her 19th book of poetry Sharon Olds, The Dead and the Living Michael Palmer, First Figure (North Point Press) Molly Peacock, Raw Heaven Kenneth Rexroth, Selected Poems Rosmarie Waldrop, Differences for Four Hands (Singing Horse)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States 'The Rhapsodic Fallacy' by Mary Kinzie appears in Salmagundi 65
Other English language Judith Moffett, James Merrill: An Introduction to the Poetry Hariprasad Sastri, editor and translator, Indian Mystic Verse, 3rd revised and enlarged edition; New Delhi: Macmillan (first edition 1941) anthologyJoshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" , "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
Works published in other languages
Denmark Klaus Høeck; Denmark: Blåvand revisited, with Asger Schnack, publisher: SchønbergWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 International Klein Bleu, publisher: Gyldendal Marienbad, publisher: Brøndum Henrik Nordbrandt, 84 digte ("84 Poems"); Copenhagen: Gylendal, 125 pagesWeb page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010
Poland S. Barańczak, editor, Poeta pamieta ("The poet remembers"), anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp 959-960 Stanisław Barańczak, ("Fugitive from Utopia: On the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert"), criticism; London: PoloniaWeb page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Czesław Miłosz, Nieobjeta ziemia ("The Unencompassed Earth"); Paris: Instytut LiterackiWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version [for translated titles] and Polish version [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Mogila Ordona ("Ordon's Grave")
India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Nuskha-hae Wafa; Urdu-languageDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008* Nirendranath Chakravarti; Bengali-language: Roop-Kahini, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers"Nirendranath Chakravarti" , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Shomoi Boro Kom, Kolkata: Proma Prokashoni