1992 in poetry

1992 in poetry

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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. [ [http://www.pw.org/mag/0303/newssofer.htm] Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in "Poets & Writers" magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007]

Works published in English


=Canada=

* Douglas Barbour, "Inscriptions: A Prairie Poetry Anthology" (Turnstone Press) [ [http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/frames.html "Douglas Barbour" web page] at the "writing canada into the millennium project" website, accessed April 23, 2008]
* Elisabeth Harvor, "Fortress of Chairs", winner of the Gerald Lampert Award
* George Woodcock, "George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry", Toronto: ECW Press [ [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html 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]


=Australia=

* Chris Mansell, "Shining Like a Jinx"
* Les Murray, "Translations from the Natural World" [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007] , 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

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "Letters from Darkness: Poems", by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press [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]
* Alistair Campbell, "Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain", Aukland: Hazard Press
* Janet Charman, "red letter", Auckland: Auckland University Press [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article]


=United Kingdom=

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), "Letters from Darkness: Poems", by Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press [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]
* 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", scholarshipPreminger, 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]
* Peter Redgrove, "Under the Reservoir"
* R.S. Thomas, "Mass for Hard Times"

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" [McClatchy, J. D., editor, "The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry", second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003]
* Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "A Gilded Lapse of Time"
* Patti Smith, "Woolgathering"
* James Wright, "Above the River: Complete Poems", introduction by Donald Hall (posthumous)

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:
*Jonathan Aaron
*Agha Shahid Ali
*John Ash
*John Ashbery
*Robin Behn
*Charles Bernstein
*George Bilgere
*Elizabeth Bishop
*Robert Bly
*Lucie Brock-Broido
*Joseph Brodsky
*Hayden Carruth
*Billy Collins
*Robert Creeley
*Kathleen de Azevedo
*Carl Dennis
*Deborah Digges
*Stephen Dunn
*Susan Firer
*Alice Fulton
*Tess Gallagher
*Amy Gerstler
*Jack Gilbert
*Louise Glück
*Jill Gonet
*Jorie Graham
*Allen Grossman
*Marilyn Hacker
*Donald Hall
*Daniel Halpern
*Robert Hass
*Vickie Hearne
*Juan Felipe Herrera
*Edward Hirsch
*Daniel Hoffman
*John Hollander
*Richard Howard
*Lynda Hull
*Lawrence Joseph
*Galway Kinnell
*Carolyn Kizer
*Phyllis Koestenbaum
*Sharon Krinsky
*Maxine Kumin
*Evelyn Lao
*Li-Young Lee
*Dionisio D. Martínez
*Mekeel McBride
*James McCorkle
*Jerry McGuire
*Sandra McPherson
*Robert Morgan
*Thylias Moss
*Carol Muske
*Mary Oliver
*Michael Palmer
*Robert Pinsky
*Lawrence Raab
*Liam Rector
*Donald Revell
*Adrienne Rich
*Len Roberts
*Lynda Schraufnagel
*Elizabeth Spires
*Rachel Srubas
*David St. John
*Richard Tillinghast
*Lewis Turco
*Chase Twichell
*Rosanna Warren
*Ioanna-Veronika Warwick
*C. K. Williams
*Charles Wright
*Franz Wright
*Stephen Yenser

Other

* Wisława Szymborska: "Lektury nadobowiązkowe" ("Non-required Reading"), Poland

Works published in other languages

* Dimitris P. Kraniotis, "Clay Faces", Greece

Awards and honors

* Nobel prize: Derek Walcott

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"


=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


=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"

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

Deaths

* February 16 — George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet and novelist, of motor neuron disease
* February 18 — Robert Gittings, 81, English poet and biographer
* 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 —

References

ee also

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


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