1987 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke.
- In his 1987 piece 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia wrote: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."[1]
- Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who became a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
- First issue of o•blék: a journal of language arts is published in April. It is edited by Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath.
- The Dolmen Press in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.[2]
- American literary magazine o•blék (pronounced "oblique") founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stopped publishing in 1993.
[edit] 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:
[edit] Canada
- Patrick Lane, Selected Poems
- Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night
- George Woodcock:
- Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography, Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canada[3]
- Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship[4][3]
[edit] India
- Bruce King, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English (first edition), Delhi: Oxford University Press (anthology)
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Selected Poems, India[5]
- Dom Moraes, Collected Poems, India
[edit] Ireland
- Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, including "Cocktails",[6] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States
- Michael Coady, Oven Lane, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852350208
- Paul Durcan, Going Home to Russia, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press[6]
- Eamon Grennan, What Light There Is, including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[6]
- Michael Hartnett, A Necklace of Wrens, including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[6]
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,[7] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,[7] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,[7] Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber[8]
- Janet Charman, 2 Deaths in 1 Night: Poems, Auckland: New Women's Press[9]
- Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism[10]
- Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures?
- Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand
[edit] Anthologies in New Zealand
- Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, The New Poets[11]
- V. O'Sullivan, editor, Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry, anthology, third edition[12]
- Mark Williams, Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry
[edit] United Kingdom
- Peter Ackroyd, The Diversions of Purley, and Other Poems[7]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber[8]
- Alan Brownjohn, The Old Flea-Pit[7]
- Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- David Constantine, Madder[7]
- Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan[7]
- Gavin Ewart, Late Pickings[7]
- U. A. Fanthorpe, A Watching Brief[7]
- James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems, [13]
- Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
- Philip Gross, Cat's Whisker[7]
- Tony Harrison, Anno Forty-Two[7]
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,[7] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press, ISBN 1-870841-00-X
- Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live[7]
- P. J. Kavanagh, Presence[7]
- Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,[7] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper[7]
- Andrew Motion, Natural Causes[7]
- Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British,[7] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe)
- Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,[7] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Private Parts[7]
- Ruth Pitter, A Heaven to Find[7]
- Peter Porter, The Automatic Oracle[7]
- Peter Redgrove:
- In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
- The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987
- Carol Rumens, Plato Park[7]
- C. H. Sisson, God Bless Karl Marx[7]
- R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs
- Anthony Thwaite, Letter from Tokyo[7]
- Charles Tomlinson, The Return[7]
- John Wain, Open Country[7]
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Elaine Feinstein, A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva, Hutchinson
[edit] United States
- A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas
- Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song
- Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysis[14]
- John Ashbery, April Galleons
- Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks
- Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure
- Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Paul Hoover, The Figures
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press
- Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-11923-2
- Harry Matthews, a collection
- Robert McDowell, Quiet Money
- William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
- George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press
- Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
- Gregory Orr, a collection
- Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957–1987, English translation from Spanish
- Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
- W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987
- Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions)
- Theodore Weiss, a collection
- C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood
- Jay Wright, Selected Poems
[edit] Other in English
- Edward Brathwaite, X/Self, Jamaica[15]
- Les Murray, The Daylight Moon, Australia[16]
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Odysseus Elytis, Κριναγόρας ("Krinagoras"), Greece
- Nizar Qabbani, Love Shall Remain, Sir, Syrian, Arabic-language
- M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in German[17]
- Maire Mhac an tSaoi, An Cion go Dti Seo, including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain", Gaelic-language, Ireland[6]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
- Commonwealth Prize for Poetry: Edward Brathwaite of Jamaica[15]
- Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, Torque
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov
- Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine
- William Carlos Williams Award: Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), from a stroke
- June 22 – John Hewitt (born 1907), Irish
- September 16 – Howard Moss, 65, poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack;
- November 6 – John Logan
- November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen Canadian poet
- December 29 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (born 1899), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
- Also:
- Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand
- Samar Sen (born 1916) was a Bengali poet and journalist
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Hudson Review (40, 3, 1987)
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
- ^ a b Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521822831, retrieved February 9, 2009
- ^ a b "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, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ [4]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
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