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[edit] Events
- The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year.
[edit] Works published in English
- Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[1]
- Jenny Bornholdt, This Big Face
- Allen Curnow, Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972–1988[2]
- Lauris Edmond, Summer Near the Arctic Circle[3]
- Michele Leggott, Like This?: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Benzina[4] winner of the 1989 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- Ian Wedde, Tendering
- Lydia Wevers, editor, Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women, anthology[5]
- Fleur Adcock, Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[1]
- Ciarán Carson: The New Estate and Other Poems, Gallery Press
- Helen Dunmore, The Raw Garden
- Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson
- Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems
- Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- John Heath-Stubbs:
- Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press
- A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas
- Time Pieces, Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
- Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking
- Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
- Grace Nichols, editor, Black Poetry, illustrated by Michael Lewis, Blackie (London, England), published as Poetry Jump-Up, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), in 1989
- R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow
- Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars
[edit] Anthologies
- The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988
- Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet
- Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight
- Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[6] Russian-American
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie
- Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems
- Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press)
- Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris
- Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels
- John Hollander:
- Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
- Harp Lake
- Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
- Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "A Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940)
- William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes
- James Merrill, The Inner Room
- Michael Palmer, Sun
- Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press)
The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:
[edit] Other works published in English
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Dieter Breuer, editor, Deutsche Lyrik nach 1945, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (scholarship) West Germany [8]
- Haim Gouri, Heshbon Over ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[9]
- Rami Saari, Hinne, Matzati Et Beyti ("Behold, I Found My Home"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[10]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Deaths
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 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, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
