Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

* April – First issue of '' o•blék: a journal of language arts'' (pronounced "oblique") is published in the United States, founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edits it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stops publishing in

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

. * August 30 – Poets Paul Muldoon and

Jean Hanff Korelitz Jean Hanff Korelitz (born May 16, 1961) is an American novelist, playwright, theater producer and essayist. Biography Korelitz was born to Jewish parents and raised in New York City. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a major in Eng ...

marry. * October 16 – Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film ''

Barfly Barfly may refer to: * ''Barfly'' (album), 1995 album by the band Buck-O-Nine * Barfly (club), a music venue in Camden Town, London, UK * ''Barfly'' (film), 1987 American film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway * Barfly, a bar in Montreal o ...

'' starring Mickey Rourke released today. * October – Tony Harrison's poem " V" is broadcast in a filmed version on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom. *

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

, a Russian exile who has become 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 Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...

, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man". * Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's ''

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'', an elegy about suffering of Soviet people under the Great Purge, composed 1935–61 and first published in the West in 1963, is first openly published complete in book form in the Soviet Union. * In his 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia writes: "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." * The Dolmen Press in

Portlaoise Portlaoise ( ), or Port Laoise (), is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. It is located in the Midland Region, Ireland, South Midlands in the province of Leinster. The 2016 census shows that the town's population increased by 9.5% to 22,050 ...

, Ireland, founded in

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada

* Patrick Lane, ''Selected Poems'' *

Irving Layton Irving Peter Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following, but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001) ...

, ''Fortunate Exile''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Irving Layton: Publications
" Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. . *

, ''Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982-1986''. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press. * Dennis Lee, ''The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets.'' Toronto: Macmillan. * Gwendolyn MacEwen, ''Afterworlds''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Gwendolyn MacEwen
" Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. *

Don McKay Don McKay may refer to: * Don McKay (poet) (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator * Don McKay (actor) (1925–2018), American actor, dancer and singer * Don McKay (rugby union) (born 1937), New Zealand rugby union player * Sir Don McKay (p ...

, ''Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night'' * Raymond Souster, ''The Eyes of Love''. Ottawa: Oberon Press.Notes on Life and Works
," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. * George Woodcock: **''Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography'', Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, CanadaWeb 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 **''Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature'', Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship

India, in English

* Keki Daruwalla, ''Landscapes'' ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press * Dom Moraes, ''Collected Poems 1957-1987'' ( Poetry in English ) * Jayanta Mahapatra, ''Selected Poems'' ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press * Bruce King, editor, ''Modern Indian Poetry in English'' - ''Historical Perspective'' (first edition), Delhi: Oxford University Press (anthology)

Ireland

Ciarán Carson Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist. Biography Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast into an Irish-speaking family. His father, William, was a postman and his mother, Mary, wo ...

: ''The Irish for No'', including "Cocktails",Crotty, Patrick, ''Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology'', Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States * Michael Coady, ''Oven Lane'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, * Paul Durcan, ''Going Home to Russia'', Belfast: The Blackstaff Press *

Eamon Grennan Eamon JR Grennan (born 13th November 1941) is an Irish poet born in Dublin, Ireland. He attended University College Dublin where he completed a BA 1963 and an MA 1964. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He ...

, ''What Light There Is'', including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press * Michael Hartnett, ''A Necklace of Wrens'', including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press * Seamus Heaney, ''

The Haw Lantern ''The Haw Lantern'' (1987) is a collection of poems written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Several of the poems—including the sonnet cycle "Clearances"—explore themes of mortality and lo ...

'', Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States * Thomas Kinsella, ''Out of Ireland'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Paul Muldoon, ''Meeting the British'', including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Tom Paulin, ''Fivemiletown'', Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

), ''The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry'', edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and FaberWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"
at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 * Janet Charman, ''2 deaths in 1 night: poems'', Auckland: New Women's Press * Allen Curnow, ''Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984'' (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism *

Kendrick Smithyman William Kendrick Smithyman (9 October 1922 – 28 December 1995) was a New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century. Family and early life Smithyman was born in Te Kōpuru, a milling and logging t ...

, ''Are You Going to the Pictures?'' * Ian Wedde, ''Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems'', New Zealand

Anthologies in New Zealand

* Murray Edmond and

Mary Paul Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also cal ...

, editors, ''The New Poets'' *

V. O'Sullivan ''V.'' is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged United States Navy, U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York City, New York with a group of pseudo-bohemianism, b ...

, editor, ''Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry'', anthology, third editionPreminger, 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 * Mark Williams, ''Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry''

United Kingdom

* Peter Ackroyd, ''The Diversions of Purley, and Other Poems''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in

), ''The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry'', edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber * Alan Brownjohn, ''The Old Flea-Pit'' *

: ''The Irish for No'', Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * David Constantine, ''Madder'' * Carol Ann Duffy, ''Selling Manhattan'' * Gavin Ewart, ''Late Pickings'' *

U. A. Fanthorpe Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, Commander of the British Empire, CBE, Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe. Her poetry comments mainly on social issues. Life and work ...

, ''A Watching Brief'' * James Fenton, ''Partingtime Hall'' (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems,
Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 * Elaine Feinstein, ''Badlands'', Hutchinson * Philip Gross, ''Cat's Whisker'' * Tony Harrison, ''Anno Forty-Two'' * Seamus Heaney, ''

'', Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States * John Heath-Stubbs, ''Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press'', * Kathleen Jamie, ''The Way We Live'' * P. J. Kavanagh, ''Presence'' * Thomas Kinsella, ''Out of Ireland'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom *

Blake Morrison Philip Blake Morrison FRSL (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs ''And When Did You Last See Your Fat ...

, ''The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper'' *

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio reco ...

, ''Natural Causes'' * Paul Muldoon, ''Meeting the British'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Sean O'Brien, ''The Frighteners'' (Bloodaxe) * Tom Paulin, ''Fivemiletown'', Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom *

Fiona Pitt-Kethley Fiona Pitt-Kethley (born 21 November 1954) is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist, who is the author of more than 20 books of both poetry and prose. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, and moved to Spain in 200 ...

, ''Private Parts'' *

Ruth Pitter Emma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (7 November 1897 – 29 February 1992) was a British poet. She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appoi ...

, ''A Heaven to Find'' * Peter Porter, ''The Automatic Oracle'' * Peter Redgrove: ** ''In the Hall of the Saurians'', shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987 ** ''The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987'' * Carol Rumens, ''Plato Park'' *

C. H. Sisson Charles Hubert Sisson, CH (22 April 1914 – 5 September 2003), usually cited as C. H. Sisson, was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator. Life Born in Bristol in 1914, C. H. Sisson was noted as a poet, novelist, essayist and an ...

, ''God Bless Karl Marx'' * R.S. Thomas, ''Welsh Airs'' *

Anthony Thwaite Anthony Simon Thwaite (23 June 1930 – 22 April 2021) was an English poet and critic, widely known as the editor of his friend Philip Larkin's collected poems and letters. Early years and education Born in Chester, England, to Yorkshire par ...

, ''Letter from Tokyo'' * Charles Tomlinson, ''The Return'' * John Wain, ''Open Country''

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

* Elaine Feinstein, ''A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva'', Hutchinson

United States

* A.R. Ammons, ''Sumerian Vistas'' *

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...

, ''Now Sheba Sings the Song'' * Gloria Anzaldúa, ''Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'', autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysisPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer
''The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature''
p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009 *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

, ''April Galleons'' * Marvin Bell, ''New and Selected Poems'', Athenaeum *

Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetr ...

, ''Blacks'' *

Amy Clampitt Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920 – September 10, 1994) was an American poet and author. Life Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Gr ...

, ''Archaic Figure'' * Jorie Graham, ''The End of Beauty'' * Seamus Heaney, ''

'', 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 Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet. He developed and sus ...

, ''The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein'' (Atheneum) * Harry Mathews, a collection * Robert McDowell, ''Quiet Money'' * William Meredith, ''Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems'' (winner of the

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

) *

George Frederick Morgan George Frederick Morgan (April 25, 1922 – February 20, 2004) was a poet, the co-founder (1947) and long-time editor (1948–1998) of the literary quarterly ''The Hudson Review'' and an heir to a fortune built on soap. Morgan attended Princeton ...

, ''Poems: New and Selected,'' University of Illinois Press * Mary Oliver, ''Provincetown'' (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor) *

Gregory Orr Gregory Orr may refer to: * Gregory Orr (filmmaker) (born 1954), American writer and director of documentary and fiction films * Gregory Orr (poet) (born 1947), American poet {{Hndis, Orr, Gregory ...

, a collection * Octavio Paz, ''Collected Poems, 1957–1987'', English translation from Spanish *

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

and Louis Zukofsky, ''Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky'', edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber) *

Mark Rudman Mark Rudman (born 1948 New York City) is an American poet. He is a former professor at Columbia University and New York University. He graduated from The New School with a BA, and from Columbia University with an MFA. His work has appeared in ''S ...

, ''By Contraries and other poems'' *

W.D. Snodgrass William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Life Snodgrass was born on January 5, 1926, in Beaver Falls, ...

, ''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'' * Stephen Yenser, ''The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill'', criticism, scholarship

Other in English

Edward Brathwaite The Honourable Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, D ...

, ''X/Self'', Jamaica"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry"
in Williams, Emily Allen, ''Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography'', page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 * Les Murray, ''The Daylight Moon'',

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007

Works published in other languages

Danish poetry, Denmark

Klaus Høeck Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus *Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American basebal ...

, ''Blackberry Winter'', with

Asger Schnack Asger is a predominantly Danish language masculine given name derived from the Old Norse elements ''Æsir'' or ''ás'', meaning "gods" and ''geirr'', meaning "spear". Individuals bearing the name Asger include: *Asger Aaboe (1922–2007), Danis ...

,; publisher: Gyldendal; Danish poetry, DenmarkWeb page title
"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"
website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 * Klaus Rifbjerg, ''Byens tvelys'' ("Twilight of the City"), Danish poetry, Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications * Søren Ulrik Thomsen, ''New Poems''

French language

Canada, in French

* Jean Royer: ** ''Depuis l'amour: Poème, Montréal: l'Hexagone / Paris: La Table raseWeb page title
"Jean Royer"
at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 ** ''Le Québec en poésie'', Saint-Laurent: Lacombe ** ''La poésie québécoise contemporaine'' (anthologie), Montréal: l'Hexagone/Paris: La Découverte; anthology

France

* Yves Bonnefoy: ** ''Ce qui fut sans lumière'' ** ''Récits en rêve'' * Abdellatif Laabi, translator, ''Autobiographie du voleur de feu'', translated from the original Arabic of

Abdelwahab al-Bayati Abdul Wahhab ( ar, عبد الوهاب, translit=ʻAbd al-Wahhāb) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and '' al-Wahhāb'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to ...

into

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

; Paris: Unesco/ Actes Sud

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name: *

Chandrakanta Murasingh Chandrakanta may refer to: * ''Chandrakanta'' (novel), a 19th-century Hindi-language novel by Indian writer Devaki Nandan Khatri, and its title character *''Chandrakanta Santati'', a series of sequel novels revolving around Chandrakanta and its ot ...

, ''Haping Garingo Chibuksa Ringo'', Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language * Jayant Kaikini, ''Shravana Madhyahna'', Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language *

K. Satchidanandan K. Satchidanandan (1946) is an Indian poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator, he is the former editor of ''Indian L ...

, ''Ivanekkoodi'', ("Him, too"); Malayalam-language * Nirendranath Chakravarti, ''Ghumiye Porar Aage'', Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language * Rituraj, ''Surat Nirat'', Jaipur: Panchscheel Prakashan; Hindi-language * Vasant Abaji Dahake, ''Shubha-vartaman'';

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

-language

Other languages

Juliusz Erazm Bolek Juliusz is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Juliusz Bardach (1914–2010), Polish legal historian *Juliusz Bursche (1862–1942), bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland *Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski (1924–1998), note ...

, ''Miniatury''; Poland *

Christoph Buchwald Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhofe ...

, general editor, and Jürgen Becker, guest editor, ''Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1987/88'' ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1987/88"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology; Germany * Odysseus Elytis, ''Κριναγόρας'' ("Krinagoras"), Greece *

Ndoc Gjetja Ndoc Gjetja (March 9, 1944 – June 7, 2010) was an Albanian poet. He was born in Bërdicë near Shkodër in north Albania, but moved to Lezhë at a young age. His poetry collections include ''Rrezatim'' (Radiance) of 1971, followed by ''Shqip ...

, ''Poezi'' ("Poetry"); Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike"
June 8, 2010, ''Telegrafi'' of Pristina
Google translation of Web page
, retrieved June 10, 2010 * Hamid Ismailov, Сад ("Garden") Uzbek language * Czesław Miłosz, ''Kroniki'' ("Chronicles"); Paris: Instytut Literacki; PolandWeb pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (bot
English version

or translated titles Or or OR may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * "O.R.", a 1974 episode of M*A*S*H * Or (My Treasure), a 2004 movie from Israel (''Or'' means "light" in Hebrew) Music * ''Or'' (album), a 2002 album by Golden Boy with Miss ...

an
Polish version
or diacritical marks, at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010 * Nizar Qabbani, ''Love Shall Remain, Sir'',

Syrian Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...

, Arabic-language * M. Swales, editor, ''German Poetry'', anthology with poems in GermanPreminger, 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 * Maire Mhac an tSaoi, ''An Cion go Dti Seo'', including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain",

Gaelic Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...

-language, Ireland

Awards and honors

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, ''The Auschwitz Poems'' *

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.Philip Hodgins, ''Blood and Bone'' * Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - ''Boy with Telescope''

Canada

* Gerald Lampert Award: Rosemary Sullivan, ''The Space a Name Makes'' * Archibald Lampman Award:

Christopher Levenson Christopher Levenson (born February 13, 1934, in London, England) is a Canadian poet. Life Levenson lived in the Netherlands and Germany, before moving to Ottawa in 1968. He became a Canadian citizen in 1973. He has received degrees from Cambrid ...

, ''Arriving at Night'' *

1987 Governor General's Awards Each winner of the 1987 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners and nominees were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The ...

Gwendolyn MacEwan Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen (1 September 1941 – 29 November 1987) was a Canadian poet and novelist.Gwendoly ...

, ''Afterworlds'' (English);

Fernand Ouellette Fernand Ouellette is a Quebecois writer. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Awards, having won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1970 Governor General's Awards for ''Les actes retrouvés'', the ...

, ''Les Heures'' *

Pat Lowther Award The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Heather Spears Heather Spears (September 29, 1934 - April 15, 2021) was a Canadians, Canadian-born poet, novelist, artist, sculptor, and educator. She resided in Denmark from 1962 until her death in Copenhagen in 2021. She returned to Canada annually to conduct ...

, ''How to Read Faces'' * Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:

Diana Hartog Diana Hartog (born 1942 in Palo Alto, California) is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.Gordon Ripley, ''Who's Who in Canadian Literature''. Reference Press, 1997. p. 148. She won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1983 for her poetry collection ''Matine ...

, ''Candy from Strangers'' * Prix Émile-Nelligan:

Michael Delisle Michael Delisle (born 1959 in Longueuil) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, for ''Le sort de fille'' at the 2006 Governor General's Awards and for ''Le Feu de mo ...

, ''Fontainebleau'' and

Élise Turcotte Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian writer. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the Université de Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature ...

, ''La voix de Carla''

United Kingdom

* Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes * Commonwealth Prize for Poetry:

of Jamaica *

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seven ...

: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight,

Steve Anthony Steve Anthony (born Stephen Anthony Gomes on 2 April 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian broadcaster. He gained attention throughout Canada as a MuchMusic host, or " VJ" from May 1987 to November 1995.Jill Maughan,

Paul Munden Paul Anthony Munden (born 5 November 1938) is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket, first-class and List A cricket for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicestershire between 1957 and 1964. He was a left-handed middle-ord ...

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, ''Torque'' * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov * AML Award for poetry to Robert A. Christmas for "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young" * Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown *

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national cons ...

: Richard Wilbur * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, ''Thomas and Beulah'' * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine * Whiting Awards: Mark Cox,

Michael Ryan Michael or Mike Ryan may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Michael M. Ryan (1929–2017), American actor best known for his role as John Randolph on ''Another World'' * Rocky Ryan or Michael Ryan (1937–2004), British media hoaxer * Michael R ...

* William Carlos Williams Award:

Alan Shapiro Alan Richard Shapiro (born February 18, 1952 in Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the ...

, ''Happy Hour'' *

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...

Josephine Jacobsen Josephine Jacobsen (19 August 1908 – 9 July 2003) was a Canadian-born American poet, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. In 1997, sh ...

and

Alfred Corn Alfred Corn (born August 14, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. Early life Alfred Corn was born in Bainbridge, Georgia in 1943 and raised in Valdosta, Georgia. Corn graduated from Emory University in 1965 with a B.A. in French literature ...

Births

* Penny Boxall, British poet

Deaths

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Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article: * January 14 –

Ewart Milne Ewart Milne (25 May 1903 – 14 January 1987) was an Irish poet who described himself on various book jackets as "a sailor before the mast, ambulance driver and courier during the Spanish Civil War, a land worker and estate manager in England du ...

, 83 (born

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...

), Irish poet and radical * February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born

1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

novelist and poet, from a stroke * June 22 – John Hewitt, 79 (born

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...

), Irish poet * August 23 – Samar Sen, 70 (born

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * ...

), Bengali poet and journalist * September 11 – Ladislav Stehlík (born

1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...

), Czech poet, writer and painter * September 16 – Howard Moss, 65 (born

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

), poetry editor of '' The New Yorker'', from a heart attack * November 6 – John Logan (born

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

poet * November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46 (born

1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...

) Canadian poet and novelist, alcohol-related * December 29 –

Jun Ishikawa was the pen name of a modernism, modernist author, translator and literary critic active in Shōwa period Japan. His real name (written in the same ''kanji'') was Ishikawa Kiyoshi. Early life Ishikawa was born in the Asakusa district of Tokyo a ...

石川淳

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa, 88 (born

1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...

), Japanese, Shōwa period modernist author, translator and literary critic * Also –

Vaughan Morgan Vaughan () (2021 population 323,103) is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Regional Municipality of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006 with its population increas ...

(born

), New Zealand shepherd-poet

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