1982 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Final edition of This Magazine published.
- March 1 - Dylan Thomas was posthumously honoured by a floor plaque in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
- The New Criterion founded in New York City
[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] Australia
- M. Duwell, editor, A Possible Contemporary Poetry (scholarship)[1]
- Chris Mansell, Head, Heart & Stone (Fling Publishers)
- Les Murray:
- Equanimities
- The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988[2]
- A. Paolucci and L. Dobrez, editors, Review of National Literatures: Australia (scholarship)
[edit] Canada
- Margaret Atwood, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (anthology)[3]
- Margaret Avison, Winter Sun /The Dumbfounding: Poems 1940-66
- Don Domanski, War in an Empty House
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, The T. E. Lawrence Poems[4]
- Elizabeth Smart, Eleven Poems
- Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,[5] ISBN 0393016374, ISBN 0771068840
- Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems[4]
[edit] Ireland
- Dermot Bolger, No Waiting America
- Harry Clifton, Comparative Lives, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9780904011333
- Pearse Hutchinson, Selected Poems, including "Malaga" and "Gaeltacht", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[6]
- Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia,[7] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Derek Mahon:
- The Hunt by Night, including "Courtyards in Delft", "Rathlin", and "Tractatus", Oxford University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Translator, The Chimeras, Gallery Press, translation from the French of Les Chimères byNerval
- John Montague, Selected Poems, including "A Drink of Milk", "Family Conference", and "The Cave of Night"[6]
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press[8]
- Allen Curnow, You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979–81[9]
- W. Ihimaera and D. S. Long, Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing[10]
- Bill Manhire, Good Looks, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Homing In[11], winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1983 Jessie MacKay Award
- W. H. Oliver, Poor Richard: Poems, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, New Zealand
[edit] United Kingdom
- Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London[7]
- James Berry, Lucy's Letters and Loving[7]
- Sir John Betjeman, Uncollected Poems
- Patric Dickinson, A Rift in Time[7]
- Carol Ann Duffy, Fifth Last Song, Headland[12]
- Douglas Dunn, Europa's Lover[7]
- Gavin Ewart, More Little Ones (see All My Little Ones, 1978)[7]
- U. A. Fanthorpe, Standing To[7]
- James Fenton, The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982, Salamander Press, [13]
- Geoffrey Grigson:
- Thom Gunn, The Passages of Joy
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- John Heath-Stubbs, Naming the Beasts
- Alan Hollinghurst, Confidential Chats with Boys[7]
- Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1981[7]
- Kathleen Jamie, Black Spiders[7]
- Roger McGough, Waving at Trains[7]
- Derek Mahon, The Hunt By Night. Oxford University Press
- Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia,[7] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Nerval, The Chimeras, a version of Les Chimères, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Gallery Press
- Norman Nicholson, selected Poems 1940–82[7]
- Jeremy Reed, A Man Afraid[7]
- E. J. Scovell, The Space Between[7]
- Muriel Spark, Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems[7]
[edit] United States
- A.R. Ammons, Worldly Hopes
- Louise Simone Bennett, Selected Poems
- Robert Creeley:
- Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), Notes on Thought and Vision (posthumous), written in 1919
- Jack Gilbert, Monolithos
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Jane Hirshfield, Alaya
- William Logan, Sad-faced Men
- James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic poem
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Portraits and Elegies
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- William Meredith, Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism
[edit] Other in English
- Edward Brathwaite, Sun Poem, Caribbean poet living and publishing in the United States[15]
- Keki N. Daruwalla, The Keepeer of the Dead, New Delhi: Oxford; India, Indian poetry in English[16]
- Dennis Scott, Dreadwalk,[15] Jamaica
[edit] 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:
[edit] Spain
- Matilde Camus:
- Testimonio ("Testimony")
- La preocupación de Miguel Ángel ("The concern of Miguel Angel")
[edit] Other
- Gitaujali Badruddin, Poems of Gitaujali (posthumously published)
- Saroop Dhruv, ' 'Mara Halthni Vaat' '; Indian poet writing in Gujarati[17]
- Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας) (Greece)
- Alexander Mezhirov, Проза в стихах ("Prose in Verse") (winner of the USSR State Prize, 1986), Russia, Soviet Union[18]
- Nizar Qabbani, A Poem For Balqis, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
- Rajendra Shah, Prasang-Spatak (Indian, writing in Gujarati)[19]
- Marie Uguay, Autoportraits French-Canadian (posthumous)
- Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik (scholarship), West Germany[20]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell
- Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O’Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun
[edit] United States
- Academy of American Poets Fellowship: John Ashbery and John Frederick Nims
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One
- American Book Award: William Bronk for Life Supports (April 27)
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman"
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Anthony Hecht appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 – Maria Zaturenska, 80, of heart failure
- March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83
- March 15 – Edgell Rickword (born 1898, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor who was one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s
- March 18 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period poet and children's fiction writer
- April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892), American
- June 5 – Nishiwaki Junzaburo 西脇順三郎 (born 1894), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905), of a heart ailment, American
- June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90, American writer and poet
- October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58, of leukemia
- November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87, American
- December 3 – Bishnu Dey (born 1909) Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic
- date not known – P'Bitek
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ^ [1]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, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
- ^ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ a b c 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 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 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, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
- ^ Michelis, Angelica, "Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)", article in The Literary Encyclopedia website, retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-07.
- ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ a b Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Shrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, publisher: M.E. Sharpe, 2007, ISBN 076560521X, ISBN 9780765605214, retrieved via Google Books on May 27, 2009
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 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, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
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