1996 in poetry
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Events
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:
- Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, United Kingdom
- T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (posthumous)
- Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level Faber & Faber
- Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title), Virago Press (London, England)
- John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad
- Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5
- Peter Redgrove:
- Assembling a Ghost
- The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom
- Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" for 1997, when it was published in the United States (Irish poet and scholar published in the United Kingdrom)
- Elizabeth Alexander, Body of Life[5]
- A.R. Ammons, Brink Road
- Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon
- Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[6] Russian-American
- Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems
- Ed Dorn, High West Rendezvous[7]
- Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7 [8]
- Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren
- Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
- Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)[9]
- James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
- Patti Smith, The Coral Sea
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich:
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
Other
Awards and honors
- Cholmondeley Award: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith
- Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinead Morrissey, Kate Thomas
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
- Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 28 — Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992), of a heart attack
- February 11 — Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
- March 18 — Odysseus Elytis, Greek
- April 13 — George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
- August 18 — Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet
- September 25 — Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor,
- date not known — Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
See also
References
- ^ Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Web page titled "Elizabeth Alexander" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ [2] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
