1992 in poetry
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[edit] Events
The Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year. Each year, 50 to 80 poems are selected.[1]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Canada
- Douglas Barbour, Inscriptions: A Prairie Poetry Anthology (Turnstone Press)[2]
- Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs, winner of the Gerald Lampert Award
- George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW Press[3]
[edit] Australia
- Chris Mansell, Shining Like a Jinx
- Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World[4], winner of the 1993 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- A. B. Paterson, A. B. Paterson, Selected Poems, edited by Les Murray, Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1992, 1996, posthumous[4]
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press[5]
- Alistair Campbell, Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain, Aukland: Hazard Press
- Janet Charman, red letter, Auckland: Auckland University Press[6]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Letters from Darkness: Poems, by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press[5]
- Thom Gunn, The Man With Night Sweats
- Seamus Heaney:
- The Golden Bough, Bonnefant Press
- Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer), Faber & Faber
- Derek Mahon, The Yaddo Letter. Gallery Press
- Kenneth Millard, Edwardian Poetry, scholarship[7]
- Peter Redgrove, Under the Reservoir
- R.S. Thomas, Mass for Hard Times
[edit] United States
- John Ashbery, Hotel Lautréamont
- Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires
- Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems
- Grace Paley, New and Collected Poems
- Carl Phillips, In the Blood[8]
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, A Gilded Lapse of Time
- Patti Smith, Woolgathering
- James Wright, Above the River: Complete Poems, introduction by Donald Hall (posthumous)
[edit] Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1992
These 75 poets are included in The Best American Poetry 1992 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Charles Simic:
[edit] Other
- Wisława Szymborska: Lektury nadobowiązkowe ("Non-required Reading"), Poland
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Clay Faces, Greece
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Harris, Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Alison Croggon - This is the Stone
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis
- Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Hunt Hawkins, The Domestic Life
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Tony Sanders, "The Warning Track"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life
- Frost Medal: Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow
- National Book Award for poetry: Mary Oliver, New & Selected Poems
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Mona Van Duyn
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: John Ashbery
- William Carlos Williams Award: Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Adrienne Rich
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 — George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet and novelist, of motor neuron disease
- April 11 — Eve Merriam, (née Moskowitz), 75, American poet, playwright and teacher, of cancer
- May 12 — Nikos Gatsos, Greek
- November 17 — Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58, a writer, poet and political activist, of liver cancer
- November 19 — Kenneth Burke, a major American literary theorist and philosopher
- date not known — Robert W. V. Gittings
[edit] References
- ^ [1]Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007
- ^ "Douglas Barbour" web page at the "writing canada into the millennium project" website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ 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 [2]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ^ 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 353
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
