1982 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 |
| Years in literature: | 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 |
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| Years: | 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 |
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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
[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
- Elizabeth Smart, Eleven Poems
- Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,[4] ISBN 0393016374, ISBN 0771068840
[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[5]
- Allen Curnow, You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979–81[6]
- W. Ihimaera and D. S. Long, Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing[7]
- Bill Manhire, Good Looks, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Homing In[8], 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
- James Fenton, The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982, Salamander Press, [9]
- 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
- Derek Mahon, The Hunt By Night. Oxford University Press
- Nerval, The Chimeras, a version of Les Chimères, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Gallery Press
[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] Works published in other languages
[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)
- Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας) (Greece)
- Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik (scholarship), West Germany[11]
[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
- January 19 — Maria Zaturenska, 80, of heart failure
- March 11 — Horace Gregory, 83
- April 20 — Archibald MacLeish, 89
- June 6 — Kenneth Rexroth, 76, of a heart ailment
- June 18 — Djuna Barnes, 90, American writer and poet
- October 22 — Richard Hugo, 58, of leukemia
- November 13 — Babette Deutsch, 87
- date not known — Edgell Rickword
- date not known — P'Bitek
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ [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
- ^ 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
