1997 in poetry

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Events

* January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration.
* "Regeneration" (titled "Behind the Lines" in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It was based on the novel "Regeneration" by Pat Barker.
* "Jacket" online literary magazine founded.

Works published in English

=Canada=

* Elisabeth Harvor, "The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring"
* Don McKay, "Apparatus" [http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/d_mckay.htm] Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007]
* Roy Kiyooka, "Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka" (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock, "Looking Back", Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
* Jenny Bornholdt, "Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems"
* Alan Brunton, "Years Ago Today", documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper Books [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson]
* Allen Curnow, "Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997"
* Kendrick Smithyman, "Atua Wera", Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous

=United Kingdom=

* Fleur Adcock, "Looking Back", Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
* Gillian Clarke, "Collected Poems", Carcanet Press, ISBN 1-85754-335-1
* Elaine Feinstein, "Daylight", Carcanet
* Lavinia Greenlaw, "A World Where News Travelled Slowly", Faber and Faber
* Derek Mahon, "The Yellow Book." Gallery Press
* Sean O'Brien, "The Ideology" (Smith/Doorstep)
* Don Paterson, "God's Gift to Women"
* Peter Redgrove:
** "Orchard End"
** "What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry"
* Robin Robertson, "A Painted Field"
* Labi Siffre, "Monument"

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

* Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in "Penguin Modern Poets 11," Penguin

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

* R. F. Foster, "W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage", Oxford University Press ISBN 0192880853

United States

* Kim Addonizio, "Jimmy & Rita" (BOA Editions) 1997
* Dick Allen, "Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected" (Sarabande)
* A.R. Ammons, "Glare"
* Frank Bidart, "Desire" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
*Angela Y. Davis, "", 1997 American Book Award
* Tess Gallagher, "At the Owl Woman Saloon" (Scribner), a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Amy Clampitt, "The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt" (Knopf), published posthumously, a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Jorie Graham, "The Errancy: Poems" (Ecco), a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Robert Fagles (translator), "The Odyssey" by Homer (Viking), a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
*Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", 1997 Coffee House Press "American Book Award"
* Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, "Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls"
* Paul Hoover, "Viridian", (University of Georgia Press)
* Fanny Howe, "One Crossed Out"
* Jane Kenyon, "Otherwise: New and Selected Poems" (Graywolf), a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Maxine Kumin, "Selected Poems, 1960-1990" (Norton), a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* Robert Hass, "Sun Under Wood: New Poems" (Ecco), a "New York Times" "notable book of the year"
* William Meredith, "Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems"
* Howard Nemerov, "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov" (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize)
* Mary Oliver, "West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems"
* Carl Rakosi, "The Earth Suite" 1997
* Kenneth Rexroth, "Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems"
* Rosmarie Waldrop, "Another Language: Selected Poems" Talisman House

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States

* Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, "The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry"
* Joseph Blotner, "Robert Penn Warren: A Biography." (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
* Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, "The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore" (Knopf), one of "The New York Times" "notable books of the year"
* Phyllis Grosskurth, "Byron: The Flawed Angel" (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of "The New York Times" "notable books of the year"
* Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language" (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of "The New York Times" "notable books of the year"
* John Hollander, "The Work of Poetry" (criticism)
* Sam McCready, "A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia", Greenwood Press (scholarship)
* Nicholas Murray, "A Life of Matthew Arnold" (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of "The New York Times" "notable books of the year"
* Helen Vendler, "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets" (Belknap/Harvard University), one of "The New York Times" "notable books of the year"

Anthologies in the United States

* Harold Bloom edits "The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997"
* Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, "Very Bad Poetry" (Vintage)

"The Best American Poetry 1997"

Poems from these 75 poets are in "The Best American Poetry 1997", edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:

*Ai
*Sherman Alexie
*Agha Shahid Ali
*A. R. Ammons
*Nin Andrews
*L. S. Asekoff
*John Ashbery
*Marianne Boruch
*Catherine Bowman
*Joseph Brodsky
*Stephanie Brown
*Joshua Clover
*Billy Collins
*Gillian Conoley
*Jayne Cortez
*Robert Creeley
*Carl Dennis
*William Dickey
*Robert Dow
*Thomas Sayers Ellis
*Irving Feldman
*Herman Fong
*Dick Gallup
*Martin Galvin
*Amy Gerstler
*Allen Ginsberg
*Dana Gioia
*Elton Glaser
*Kate Gleason
*Albert Goldbarth
*Jorie Graham
*Donald Hall
*Daniel Halpern
*Robert Hass
*Bob Hicok
*Paul Hoover
*Christine Hume
*Harry Humes
*Don Hymans
*Lawson Fusao Inada
*Richard Jackson
*Gray Jacobik
*George Kalamaras
*Jennifer L. Knox
*Philip Kobylarz
*Yusef Komunyakaa
*Elizabeth Kostova
*Denise Levertov
*Larry Levis
*Matthew Lippman
*Beth Lisick
*Khaled Mattawa
*William Matthews
*Josip Novakovich
*Geoffrey Nutter
*Catie Rosemurgy
*Clare Rossini
*Mary Ruefle
*Hillel Schwartz
*Maureen Seaton
*Vijay Seshadri
*Steven Sherrill
*Charles Simic
*Charlie Smith
*Leon Stokesbury
*Mark Strand
*Jack Turner
*Karen Volkman
*Derek Walcott
*Rosanna Warren
*Lewis Warsh
*Terence Winch
*Eve Wood
*Charles Wright
*Dean Young

Other in English

* Margaret Avison, "Not Yet but Still" Australia

Works published in other languages

=Spain=

* Matilde Camus, "Mundo interior" ("Inner World")

=Hebrew=

* Aharon Shabtai, "Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’" ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
* Rami Saari, "Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az" ("The Route of the Bold Pain") [ [http://www.library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00198.php Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon] , 2007]

Other

* Wisława Szymborska: "Sto wierszy - sto pociech" ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses"), Poland

Awards and honors

Australia

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, "Subhuman Redneck Poems"
* Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Joint winners
**"Dragons in their Pleasant Places" by Peter Porter
**"The Wild Reply" by Emma Lew
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, "The Viewfinder"
* Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - "The Wild Reply"

=Canada=

* Gerald Lampert Award
* Archibald Lampman Award
* See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Pat Lowther Award
* Prix Alain-Grandbois
* Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

=United Kingdom=

* Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
* Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
* Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jamie McKendrick, "The Marble Fly" (Oxford University Press)
* Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Robin Robertson, "A Painted Field" (Picador)
* T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson, "God's Gift to Women"
* Whitbread Award for poetry and book of the year: Ted Hughes, "Tales from Ovid"

United States

* Bollingen Prize: Gary Snyder
* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, "City of a Hundred Fires"
* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Drury, "Burning the Aspern Papers"
* National Book Award for poetry: William Meredith, "Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems"
* Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky appointed
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: "Live Together: New and Selected Poems"
* Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: William Matthews
* Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
* Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Haines

Deaths

* January 19 - James Dickey, 73
* April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, 70, of liver cancer
* May 15 - Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
* August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish poet
* November 12 -
**James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
**William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
* November 17 - David Ignatow, 83, American poet
* December 20 - Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of poetry awards

References