1994 in poetry
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Events
Poets depicted in the movies
- Dorothy Parker's poems are featured in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
- In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."[1]
- Pablo Neruda's 1952 stay in a villa owned by Italian historian Edwin Cerio on the island of Capri is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film Il Postino ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film.
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:
- Christian Bök, Crystallography ISBN 978-1-55245-119-9
- Roo Borson, Night Walk, ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian
- Margaret Christakos, Other Words for Grace (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press)
- George Elliott Clarke, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978–1993. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-83-1 Canada
- Don Domanski, Stations of the Left Hand (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Cherie Geauvreau, Even the Fawn Has Wings, a first collection
- Gary Geddes, Girl by the Water
- Ralph Gustafson, Tracks in the Snow
- Evelyn Lau, In the House of Slaves
- Tim Lilburn, Moosewood Sandhills, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Canada
- Susan Musgrave, Forcing the Narcissus
- P. K. Page, Hologram: A Book of Glosas
- John Pass, Radical Innocence (ISBN 1-55017-107-0) Canadian
- Al Purdy, Naked with Summer in Your Mouth
- Linda Rogers, Hard Candy, including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award
- Joe Rosenblatt, Beds and Consenting Dreamers
- Stephen Scobie, Gospel
- Francis Sparshott, The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke
- George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW Press[3]
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press[4]
- Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, 1975-1994, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books[5]
- Michele Leggott, DIA, Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- Hone Tuwhare, Deep River Talk, 140 poems from 10 previous collections
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press[4]
- Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Gift and Other Poems, St. Inan's Press (16 pages; "I used to produce this tiny pamphlet from my breast pocket at poetry readings, and announce I would read from my complete and unexpurgated works", Cambridge wrote on his website.)[6]
- William Cookson, editor, Agenda – An Anthology 1959-1993, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1857540697
- James Fenton, Out of Danger, Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry [7]
- Elaine Feinstein, Selected Poems, Carcanet
- Hugo Williams, Dock Leaves, Faber and Faber
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Kim Addonizio, The Philosopher's Club (BOA Editions)
- A. R. Ammons, The North Carolina Poems
- John Ashbery, And the Stars Were Shining
- Ted Berrigan, Selected Poems
- Sophie Cabot Black, The Misunderstanding of Nature, (Graywolf Press) received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award, ISBN 1-55597-190-3
- Rosellen Brown, Cora Fry's Pillow Book
- Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson
- Ian Hamilton [disambiguation needed] editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English, New York: Oxford University Press[8]
- Jane Hirshfield, The October Palace
- Edward Hirsch, Earthly Measures
- John Hollander, Animal Poems
- Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer
- Galway Kinnell, Imperfect Thirst (Houghton Mifflin)
- Kenneth Koch:
- On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988, New York: Knopf[9]
- One Train: Poems, New York: Knopf[9]
- James McMichael, Each in a Place Apart
- Robert Pinsky, translation of Dante's Inferno
- Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters
- Patti Smith, Early Work
- Rosmarie Waldrop, A Key Into the Language of America (New Directions Publishers)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Anthologies in the United States
- Douglas Messerli, editor, From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990, including American and Canadian poets; Sun and Moon Press (Messerli's own imprint) ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7
- Carolyn Forché, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
- Jane Hirshfield, editor, Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
- Paul Hoover, editor, Postmodern American Poetry (Norton) The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945; about 20 short essays on poetics also included
- E. Ethelbert Miller, In Search of Color Everywhere, including almost 150 African-American poets
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by David Lehman, guest editor A. R. Ammons:
Other in English
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:
French language
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Germany
Spanish language
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Sweden
Other languages
Awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole
- Eric Gregory Award: Julia Copus, Alice Oswald, Steven Blyth, Kate Clanchy, Giles Goodland
- Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best Collection): Alan Jenkins, Harm (Chatto & Windus)
- Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree)
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile
- Whitbread Award for poetry: James Fenton, Out of Danger
Other
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 9 — Charles Bukowski, 73 (born 1920), American poet and novelist, of leukemia
- March 29 — Lynda Hull, 49 (born 1955), American poet, in an automobile accident;
- May 24 — John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke
- September 10 — Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet, of ovarian cancer
- date not known:
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Lehman, David, "Forward", The Best American Poetry 1995
- ^ a b [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 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 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, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ "Publications" page, Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
- ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Web page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Web page/article titled "Yi Sha" at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008
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