1987 in poetry
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| Years: | 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 |
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[edit] Events
- Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke.
- In his 1987 piece 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia wrote: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."[1]
- Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who became a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
- First issue of o•blék: a journal of language arts is published in April. It is edited by Peter Gizzi and Connell McGrath.
- The Dolmen Press in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.[2]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Canada
- Patrick Lane, Selected Poems
- Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night
- George Woodcock:
[edit] New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber[5]
- Janet Charman, 2 Deaths in 1 Night: Poems, Auckland: New Women's Press[6]
- Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism[7]
- Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures?
- Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand
[edit] Anthologies in New Zealand
- Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, The New Poets[8]
- V. O'Sullivan, editor, Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry, anthology, third edition[9]
- Mark Williams, Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry
[edit] United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber[5]
- Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press
- James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems, [10]
- Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press, ISBN 1-870841-00-X
- Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe)
- Peter Redgrove:
- In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
- The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987
- R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Elaine Feinstein, A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva, Hutchinson
[edit] United States
- A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas
- Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song
- John Ashbery, April Galleons
- Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks
- Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure
- Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty
- Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- Paul Hoover, The Figures
- Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press
- Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-11923-2
- Harry Matthews, a collection
- Robert McDowell, Quiet Money
- William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
- George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press
- Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
- Gregory Orr, a collection
- Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957–1987, English translation from Spanish
- Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
- W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987
- Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions)
- Theodore Weiss, a collection
- C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood
- Jay Wright, Selected Poems
[edit] Other in English
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Selected Poems, India[11]
- Dom Moraes, Collected Poems, India
- Les Murray, The Daylight Moon, Australia[12]
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Odysseus Elytis, Κριναγόρας ("Krinagoras"), Greece
- M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in German[13]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
- Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, Torque
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov
- Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine
- William Carlos Williams Award: Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn
[edit] Deaths
- February 22 — Glenway Wescott, 85 (Feb. 22), from a stroke
- September 16 — Howard Moss, 65, poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack;
- November 6 — John Logan
- November 29 — Gwendolyn MacEwen Canadian poet
- Date not known:
- Richard Lehman
- Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hudson Review (40, 3, 1987)
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ 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, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ 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
- ^ [2]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ [3]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ [4]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, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
