1988 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 |
| Years in literature: | 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s |
| Years: | 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 |
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[edit] Events
- The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year.
[edit] Works published
- Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight
- Joseph Brodsky, To Urania
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie
- Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems
- Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press)
- Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris
- Odysseus Elytis, The Little Mariner (Ο Μικρός Ναυτίλος)
- Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems
- Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels
- 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)
- Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
- William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes
- James Merrill, The Inner Room
- Michael Palmer, Sun
- Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark
- R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press)
[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
[edit] Poets appearing in The Best American Poetry 1988
The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:
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[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
[edit] Canada
- See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
- Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: David Lehman, "Mythologies"
- Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Howard Nemerov (also served 1963-64 in the same position, then named "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress")
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Anthony Hecht
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Donald Justice
[edit] Deaths
- February 3 — Robert Duncan, at 69, of a heart attack
- March 30 — John Clellon Holmes, 62, of cancer
- June 16 — Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
- September 15 — Robert Penn Warren, poet and writer
- October 1 — Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90
- no date known :
- Léonie Fuller Adams
- Henry Coulette
