Events
Works published in English
- Les Murray, Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
- For Crying Out Loud, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Poetry and Belief (scholarship), Hobart: University of Tasmania
- Ciarán Carson: Belfast Confetti, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, 1990
- Elaine Feinstein, City Music, Hutchinson
- John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems
- Derek Mahon, The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush: Selected Poems. Gallery Press
- Peter Redgrove, Dressed as for a Tarot Pack
- Seamus Heaney:
- R.S. Thomas, Counterpoint
- Derek Walcott, Omeros
- Elizabeth Alexander, The Venus Hottentot[4]
- Maya Angelou, I Shall Not be Moved
- Frank Bidart, In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Philip Booth, Selves, Viking Penguin
- George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, ninth and last volume published this year (first volume published in 1980), Santa Barbara, California, biography and criticism[5]
- Maxine Chernoff, Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems (Another Chicago Press)
- Alice Fulton, Powers of Congress
- David Graham, Second Wind, Texas Tech University Press
- David Lehman, Operation Memory, Princeton University Press
- Thomas Lux, The Drowned River, Houghton Mifflin
- Grace Nichols (Guyanian poet and author writing in the United Kingdom), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems, Random House (New York, NY); originally published in the United Kingdom by Virago Press (London, England) in 1989
- Mary Oliver, House of Light
- Peter Oresick, Definitions (West End Press) and Working Classics (University of Illinois Press)
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Peculiar Motions (Kelsey St. Press)
- Reed Whittemore, The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New
These 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1990, edited by David Lehman with Jorie Graham, guest editor:
Other in English
- Pat Boran, Ireland:
- History and Promise (IUP)[6]
- The Unwound Clock (Dedalus)[6]
- A. E. Davidson, Studies on Canadian Literature (scholarship), Canada[7]
- George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls, Vancouver: Polestar, ISBN 0-919591-57-4 (revised edition, 2000 ISBN 1-896095-50-X) Canada
- Bill Manhire, The Old Man's Example, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Berlin Diary, winner of the 1991 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, New Zealand
Works published in other languages
Spanish language
- Matilde Camus, El color de mi cristal ("The colour of my glasses")
Awards and honors
Deaths
- May 14 — Mary Oppen, 82, American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife of George Oppen
- November 7 — Lawrence Durrell, 78, English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- November 11 — Yannis Ritsos, Greek
- dates not known:
See also
References
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ [1]Web psge titled "James K. Baxter" at "Best of New Zealand Poetry 2001" Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
- ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
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