Events
Works published in English
Anthologies in Australia
- Margaret Avison, Selected Poems Canada
- Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Don McKay, Night Field (Canada)[2]
- Roy Miki, In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988, Canada
- John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis, shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, ISBN 1-55017-043-0 (Canada)
- George Woodcock, Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems, Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada[3]
- Jeffery Donaldson, Once Out of Nature, McClelland & Stewart
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- Jenny Bornholdt, Waiting Shelter, New Zealand
- Alan Brunton, Slow Passes 1978–1988[5]
- Lauris Edmond, New and Selected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press[6]
- Michele Leggott, Swimmers, Dancers, Auckland : Auckland University Press
- Bill Manhire, Milky Way Bar, New Zealand
- Bob Orr, Breeze[7]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press[4]
- W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
- Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
- Seamus Heaney:
- Paul Henry, Time Pieces, Seren
- Jackie Kay, The Adoption Papers
- Kenneth Koch, Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet, American poet's book published in the United Kingdom[8]
- Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Viking
- Sean O'Brien, HMS Glasshouse (Oxford University Press)
- John Ashbery, Flow Chart
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Children Coming Home
- Robert Creeley, Selected Poems 1945-90[9]
- Billy Collins, Questions About Angels (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993
- Paul Hoover, The Novel: A Poem (New Directions)
- Howard Nemerov, Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (University of Chicago Press)
- Grace Paley, Long Walks and Intimate Talks (stories and poems)
- Kenneth Rexroth, Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems
Poets represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 anthology
These 75 poets were represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Mark Strand:
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Works published in other languages
Other languages
Awards and honors
Deaths
- January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
- March 10 - Etheridge Knight, American poet
- April 12 - James Schuyler, at 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke
- July 5 - Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- September 2 - Laura Riding Jackson, at 90, of a heart attack
- September 24 - Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse
- September 27 - Roy Fuller, English poet and writer
- October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 27 - George Barker, poet
- date not known:
Notes
- ^ a b Lehman, David, preface, The Best American Poetry 1992, 1992
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d 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, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 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, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 66
- ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
See also
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