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

Events

*March 4 —

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...

, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Service's '' The Cremation of Sam McGee'' (

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. ...

) *December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achie ...

and his circle donated to the

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...

* John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry *Dissident Russian poet Dmitri Prigov is arrested by the K.G.B for distributing his samizdat poetry and briefly confined in a psychiatric hospital before being freed after protests by other poets such as Bella Akhmadulina *'' New American Writing'', an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago *

English poet This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken, including Republican Ireland after December 1922. The earliest ...

Wendy Cope's ''Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'' is a best-seller

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

Don Domanski Don Domanski (April 29, 1950 – September 7, 2020) was a Canadian poet. Biography Domanski was born and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and lived briefly in Toronto, Vancouver and Wolfville, before settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived ...

, ''Hammerstroke'' Canada * Louis Dudek, ''Zembla's Rocks''. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1986.Louis Dudek: Publications
," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. *

Archibald Lampman Archibald Lampman (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." ''The Canadian Encyclope ...

, ''The Story of an Affinity'', D.M.R. Bentley ed. (London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press). *

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) ...

, ''Dance With Desire: Love Poems''. Toronto:McClelland & Stewart.Irving Layton: Publications
" Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. * Dennis Lee, editor, ''The New Canadian Poets'' (anthology) * Dorothy Livesay, ''The Self-Completing Tree: Selected Poems.'' Victoria: Porcepic. * Gwendolyn MacEwen, ''The Man with Three Violins''.Gwendolyn MacEwen
" Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. HMS Press (Toronto) *

Anne Marriott Anne Marriott (November 5, 1913 – October 10, 1997)Curtis, Jenefer, "Lives Lived" was a Canadian writer who won the Governor General's Award for her book ''Calling Adventurers!'' "She was renowned especially for the narrative poem ''The Wind, ...

, ''Letters from Some Island: New Poems'', Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press.Anne Marriott (1913-1997)
, Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011. * Michael Ondaatje: ** ''All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems'' (broadside), Canadian published in the United States;

Milwaukie Milwaukie is a city mostly in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States; a very small portion of the city extends into Multnomah County. The population was 20,291 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1847 on the banks of the Willamette River, the city ...

: Woodland PatternWeb page title
"Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"
at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 **''Two Poems, Woodland Pattern'',

* Raymond Souster, ''It Takes All Kinds''. Ottawa: Oberon Press,Notes on Life and Works
," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. * Wilfred Watson, ''Collected Poems'' (introduction by Thomas Peacocke)Shirley Neuman,
Watson, Wilfred
," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 2284.

India, in English

* Jayanta Mahapatra, ''Dispossessed Nests'' ( Poetry in English ), Jaipur: Nirala Publications *

Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor ...

, '' The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse'' * Suniti Namjoshi, ''Flesh and Paper'', (with Gillian Hanscombe), Jezebel Tapes and Books, Devon, and Ragweed, * V. K. Gokak, editor, ''The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry'', New Delhi: Sahitya Academy; anthology *

Niranjan Mohanty Niranjana (), also rendered Niranjan, is an epithet in Hinduism. It is a title of Krishna according to the Bhagavad Gita, and is also an epithet of Shiva. Etymology Niranjan in Sanskrit means the one without blemishes or the one who is spotless a ...

, editor, ''The Golden Voices: Poets from Orissa Writing in English'', Berhampur University: Poetry Publications; anthology

Ireland

* Eavan Boland, ''The Journey, and Other Poems'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Dermot Bolger, ''Internal Exiles'' * Seamus Heaney, ''Clearances'', Cornamona Press, Northern Irish native at this time living in the United States *

Alan Moore (poet) Alan Moore (born 1960, Dublin), is an Irish writer and poet, published by Anvil Press Poetry. His first collection of poems, ''Opia'' (1986) was a UK Poetry Book Society Choice, a distinction for a first collection. Michael Kenneally complimente ...

''Opia'', Anvil Press Poetry, , Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Paul Muldoon, ''Selected Poems 1968–1983'', including "Lunch with Pancho Villa", "Cuba", "Anseo", "Gathering Mushrooms", "The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, ''Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology'', Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, *

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19). Biography Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942. She is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuil ...

: ''The Second Voyage'', Dublin: The Gallery PressWeb page title
"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin"
at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008 * Frank Ormsby, ''A Northern Spring'', including "Home", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press * James Simmons, ''Poems 1956–1986'', including "One of the Boys", "West Strand Visions" and "From the Irish", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press

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 ...

): ** ''Hotspur: a ballad'', Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in

) ** ''The Incident Book'', Oxford and New York: Oxford University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"
at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 *

Alan Brunton Alan Mervyn Brunton (14 October 1946 – 27 June 2002) was a New Zealand poet and playwright. Biography Brunton was born in Christchurch and educated at Hamilton Boys' High School, the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. ...

, ''New Order'', New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United StatesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson *

Allen Curnow Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Life Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a reli ...

, ''The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983–1985'' * Lauris Edmond, ''Seasons and Creatures''Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article * Cilla McQueen, ''Wild Sweets'' * Les Murray, editor, ''Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry'', Melbourne, Collins Dove (new edition, 1991)
Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 *

Norman Simms Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

, ''Silence and Invisibility: A Study of the New Literature from the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand'', scholarshipPreminger, 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, "History and Criticism" section, p 837

United Kingdom

* Dannie Abse, ''Ask the Bloody Horse''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 Incident Book'', Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press ** ''Selected Poems'', Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press * Eavan Boland, ''The Journey, and Other Poems'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Charles Causley, ''Early in the Morning'' * Jack Clemo, ''A Different Drummer'' *

Tony Connor John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright. Biography Tony Connor was born in Manchester, England. After leaving school at 14, he served in the British Army as a tank gunner, and worked as a textile designer between 1944 and ...

, ''Spirits of Place'' * Wendy Cope, ''Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'' * Kevin Crossley-Holland, ''Waterslain'' * Carol Ann Duffy, ''Thrown Voices'' * Helen Dunmore, ''The Sea Skater'' * Elaine Feinstein, ''Badlands'', Hutchinson *

Roy Fuller Roy Broadbent Fuller CBE (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire to lower-middle-class parents Leopold Charles Fuller and his wife Nellie (1888–1949; née ...

, ''Outside the Canon'' * Seamus Heaney: ''Clearances'', Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States * Adrian Henri, ''Collected Poems'' * Ted Hughes, ''Flowers and Insects'' * George MacBeth, ''The Cleaver Garden'' * Edwin Morgan, ''From the Video Box'' *

Grace Nichols Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, ''I is a Long-Memoried Woman'' (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In ...

, ''Whole of a Morning Sky'' *

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 ...

, ''Sky Ray Lolly'' * Peter Reading, ''Stet'' *

E. J. Scovell Edith Joy Scovell (9 April 1907 – 19 October 1999) was an English poet and translator. Among those who admired her work were the fellow-writers Vita Sackville-West and Philip Larkin. Life Edith Joy Scovell was born in Eccleshall Bierlow, near ...

, ''Listening to Collared Doves'' *

Penelope Shuttle Penelope Shuttle (born 12 May 1947) is a British poet. Life Born in Staines, Middlesex, Shuttle left school at 17. She wrote her first novel at the age of 20. She has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1 ...

, ''The Lion From Rio'' * Jon Silkin, ''The Ship's Pasture'' *

John Stallworthy John Stallworthy (1854 – 10 November 1923) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He was a teacher, newspaper editor, and sawmiller's trade union leader. He was born in Samoa in 1854; his father George was a member of th ...

, ''The Anzac Sonata'' * R.S. Thomas, ''Experimenting with an Amen'' * Abdullah al-Udhari, editor and translator, ''Modern Poetry of the Arab World'', Penguin, anthology

United States

* A.R. Ammons, ''The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition'' *

Ralph Angel Ralph Angel (May 2, 1951 – March 6, 2020) was an American poet and educator. Early life and education Born on May 2, 1951, in Seattle, Washington, Angel was a second-generation American of Sephardic Jewish descent. He attended inner-city publ ...

, ''Anxious Latitudes'' *

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 ...

, ''The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems'' *

, ''New Order'', New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United States * Raymond Carver, ''Ultramarine'' * Henri Cole, ''The Marble Queen'' * Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ''Over All the Obscene Boundaries'' *

Alice Fulton Alice Fulton (born 1952) is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English Emerita at Cornell University. Her awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, ...

, ''Palladium'' * Marilyn Hacker, ''Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons'' * Seamus Heaney: ''Clearances'', Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States * John Hollander, ''In Time and Place'' * Paul Hoover, ''Nervous Songs'', (L'Epervier Press) * Jane Kenyon, ''The Boat of Quiet Hours'' * Li-Young Lee, ''Rose'' * Mary Oliver, ''Dream Work'' * Michael Ondaatje: ** ''All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems'' (broadside), Canadian published in the United States;

: Woodland Pattern **''Two Poems, Woodland Pattern'',

Carl Rakosi Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 – June 25, 2004) was the last surviving member of the original group of poets who were given the rubric Objectivist. He was still publishing and performing his poetry well into his 90s. Early life Rakosi was ...

, ''Collected Poems'' published by the National Poetry Foundation *

, '' The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse'' * Rosmarie Waldrop, ''Streets Enough to Welcome Snow'' (Station Hill)

Anthologies in the United States

* Philip Dacey and

David Jauss David Patrick Jauss (born January 16, 1957) is an American professional baseball coach (baseball), coach and scout (sport), scout who currently serves as an advisor in the Washington Nationals organization. He previously served as a coach for the ...

, editors of the New Formalist anthology, ''Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms'' * Ron Silliman, editor, ''

In the American Tree IN, In or in may refer to: Places * India (country code IN) * Indiana, United States (postal code IN) * Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN) * In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Businesses and organizations * In ...

'', anthology of Language poets

Other in English

* Paula Burnett, ''Penguin Book of

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

Verse'', anthology"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 *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

, ''Collected Poems'', St. Lucia native living in the United States

Works published in other languages

Danish

Jørgen Gustava Brandt Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George People with the given name Jørgen * Jørgen Aall (1771–1833), Norwegian ship-owner and politician * Jørgen Andersen (1886–1973), Norwegian gymnast * Jørgen ...

, ''Giv dagen dit lys'' ("Give the Day Your Light")"Danish Poetry" article, p 273, 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 *

Niels Frank Niels is a male given name, equivalent to Nicholas, which is common in Denmark, Belgium, Norway (formerly) and the Netherlands. The Norwegian and Swedish variant is Nils. The name is a developed short form of Nicholas or Greek Nicolaos after Saint ...

, ''Digte i kim'', Denmark *

Christian Graugaard Christian Lykke Graugaard (born 1967) is a Danish medical doctor, author, poet, and professor of sexology at the Aalborg University. He has published widely about sexology, both in popular and scientific contexts, and has published a number of coll ...

, ''Kan jeg købe dine øjnes blå dans'' ("Can I Buy Your Eyes Blue Dance")

French language

Kama Sywor Kamanda Kama Sywor KAMANDA(11 November 1952, Congo) is a Congolese French-speaking writer, poet, novelist, playwright, speaker, essayist and storyteller from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is also a committed intellectual who contributes to t ...

, ''Chants de brumes'',

Congo Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa: * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...

native writing in

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 ...

* Abdellatif Laabi, ''L'Écorché vif''. L'Harmattan, Paris, Moroccan author writing in and published in France * Jean Royer, ''Le chemin brûlé'', Montréal: l'Hexagone; Canada *

Marie Uguay Marie Uguay (April 22, 1955 – October 26, 1981) was a French Canadian poet from the province of Quebec. She was born in the former town of Ville-Émard which has now become a district of the city of Montreal. A victim of bone cancer, she had her ...

, ''Poèmes'' (contains ''Signe et rumeur'', ''L'Outre-vie'', and ''Autoportraits'') French- Canada (posthumously published)

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name: * Nirendranath Chakravarti, ''Jabotiyo Bhalobashabashi'', Kolkata: Proma Prokashoni; Bengali-language * Rajendra Bhandari, ''Yee shabdaharu: yee harafharu'' ("These Words: These Lines"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan;

Nepali Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...

-language *

Sitanshu Yashaschandra Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta (born 19 August 1941), better known as Sitanshu Yashaschandra, is a Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic from India. He was the President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. He was awarded the Sahi ...

, '' Jatayu'', Mumbai and Ahmedabad: R R Sheth & Co.; Gujarati-language * Namdeo Dhasal, ''Gandu Bagicha''

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 *

Varavara Rao Pendyala Varavara Rao (born 3 November 1940) is an Indian activist, poet, teacher, and writer from Telangana, India. He is an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and has been arrested under the non-bailable Unlawful Activities (Prevent ...

(better known as "VV"), ''Bhavishyathu Chitrapatam'' or ''Bhavishyattu Chitrapatam'' ("Portrait of the Future"), Vijayawada: Vijayakrishna Printers;

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

-language *

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Mehr or Mihr may refer to: Persian names * Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity * Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars * Mehr's day, or ...

, ''Naram garam hawain'' (The soft Warm Air) - published posthumously by R.K.Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi.

Poland

* Stanisław Barańczak, ''Atlantyda i inne wiersze z lat 1981-85'' ("Atlantis and Other Poems"), London: PulsWeb page title
"Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek"
, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 *

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 ...

, ''Nago'' *

Ernest Bryll Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, M ...

, ''Adwent'' ("Advent"), LondonWeb pages titled "Bryll Ernest" (i
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), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

Ewa Lipska Ewa Lipska (born 8 October 1945 in Kraków), is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna and ...

, ''Utwory wybrane'' ("Selected Work"), Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (i
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), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 *

Bronisław Maj Bronisław Maj (born 19 November 1953) is a Polish poet, essayist, translator and academic. Biography Maj attended Jan Kasprowicz High School in Łódź. He later graduated in Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the ...

: ** ''Album rodzinny'' ("Family Album"); Cracow: Oficyna LiterackaWeb pages titled "Maj Bronisław" (bot
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an
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), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography" section, retrieved March 2, 2010 ** ''Zaglada świętego miasta'' ("Destruction of the Holy City"); London: Puls ** ''Zmęczenie'' ("Fatigue"); Cracow: Znak * Piotr Sommer, ''Czynnik liryczny'' * Jan Twardowski, ''Nie przyszedłem pana nawracać. Wiersze z lat 1937- 1985'' ("I Did Not Come to Convert You: Poems From the Years 1937-1985"), Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Archidiecezji WarszawskiejWeb page title
"Jan Twardowski"
, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010

Other languages

* Mario Benedetti, ''Preguntas al azar'' ("Random Questions"), UruguayWeb page title
"Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor"
in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30. *

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 Elke Erb, guest editor, ''Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1986'' ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1986"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology * Matilde Camus, ''Sin teclado de fiebre'' ("Without a fever keyboard"), Spain * Osman Durrani, editor, ''German Poetry of the Romantic Era'' (with poetry in German), anthology, Leamington Spa, England: Oswald, Wolf and Berg (publisher)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;First name of editor and publishing information from Murray, Christopher John, ''Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850'', Taylor & Francis, 2004, p 885 * Nizar Qabbani, ''Poems Inciting Anger'',

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 ...

poet writing in Arabic *

Maria Luisa Spaziani Maria Luisa Spaziani (21 June 1923 – 30 June 2014) was an Italian poet. Biography Spaziani was born in Turin. At nineteen, she founded the review ''Il dado'', working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vinc ...

, ''La stella del libero arbitrio'', Italy * Wisława Szymborska: ''Ludzie na moście'' ("People on the Bridge"), Poland * Andrei Voznesensky, ''The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial'', prose and poetry primarily about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens. Addressing a topic long suppressed by the Soviet government, the work made clear that most of the victims were Jews, and it implied this was why Soviet authorities tolerated the grave robbing. Russian-language work published in the Soviet Union. *

Wang Xiaoni Wang Xiaoni () (born 1955) is a Chinese poet. Xiaoni graduated from Jilin University in 1982 where she was a literary editor and worked for a film studio. In 1985, she settled in Shenzhen and became a professor at Hainan University. She has publi ...

, ''Wode shixuan'' ("My Selected Poems"),

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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: Rhyll McMaster, ''Washing the Money'' and

John A. Scott John Alan Scott (who has published under the names John A. Scott and John Scott) (born 23 April 1948) is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic. Biography Scott was born in Littlehampton

, ''St. Clair'' *

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.Robert Gray ''Selected Poems 1963-83'' * Mary Gilmore Prize: Stephen Williams - ''A Crowd of Voices''

Canada

* Gerald Lampert Award:

Joan Fern Shaw Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *: Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events *Tropical Storm Joan (disambiguation), multipl ...

, ''Raspberry Vinegar'' * Archibald Lampman Award:

Colin Morton Colin Morton (born 1948) is a Canadian poet. Personal life Morton was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Calgary, Alberta and has worked as a teacher and editor. His poetry and fiction have appeared in ''Descant'', ''The Fiddlehead'', ''A ...

, ''This Won't Last Forever'' *

1986 Governor General's Awards Each winner of the 1986 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The four Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes, two each for children's book writers and ...

: Al Purdy, ''The Collected Poems of Al Purdy'' (English); Cécile Cloutier, ''L'écouté'' (French) *

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.Erín Moure, ''Domestic Fuel'' * Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:

Joe Rosenblatt Joseph Rosenblatt (December 26, 1933 – March 11, 2019) was a Canadian poet who lived in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry.Prix Émile-Nelligan:

Carole David Carole David (born July 25, 1955) is a Quebec poet and novelist. Biography The daughter of Clothilde Fioramore and Guy David, she was born in Montreal and earned a PhD in literary studies from the University of Sherbrooke. She was a member of the ...

, ''Terroristes d'amour'' and

France Mongeau France Mongeau (born 1961) is a Quebec educator and poet. Her collection ''Lumières'' received the Prix Émile-Nelligan in 1986. Early life and career Mongeau was born in Trois-Rivières. She teaches French and literature at the Collège Édouard ...

, ''Lumières''

United Kingdom

* Cholmondeley Award: Lawrence Durrell, James Fenton,

Selima Hill Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945) is a British poet. She has published twenty poetry collections since 1984. Her 1997 collection, ''Violet'', was shortlisted for the most important British poetry awards: the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry ...

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 ...

Mick North Mick is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Michael. Because of its popularity in Ireland, it is often used in England as a derogatory term for an Irish person or a person of Irish descent. In Australia the meaning broaden ...

Lachlan Mackinnon Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956) is a contemporary Scottish poet, critic and literary journalist. He was born in Aberdeen and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He took early retirement from his job as a teacher of English at Win ...

Oliver Reynolds Oliver Reynolds (born 1957, in Cardiff, Wales) is a British poet and critic. He studied drama at the University of Hull before returning to Wales to work as an assistant to the Director for Theatre Wales. He won the Arvon Foundation Internat ...

Stephen Romer Stephen Romer, FRSL (born 1957) is an English poet, academic and literary critic. Life, education and teaching career Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1957 and educated at Radley College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After a ...

* Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:

Norman MacCaig Norman Alexander MacCaig DLitt (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity. Life Norman Alexander MacCaig was born ...

United States

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Robley Wilson, ''Kingdoms of the Ordinary'' * AML Award for poetry to

Dennis Marden Clark Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is someti ...

for "Sunwatch" * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry:

John Koethe John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an American poet, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Biography Koethe is originally from San Diego, California. He was educated at Princeton University and ...

, "Mistral" * Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart *

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 ...

appointed: Robert Penn Warren * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, ''The Flying Change'' * Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Adrienne Rich * Whiting Awards: John Ash, Hayden Carruth, Frank Stewart, Ruth Stone *

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 ...

Irving Feldman Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English. Academic career Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his univers ...

and Howard Moss

Births

* Raymond Antrobus, English poet and educator *

Caroline Bird Caroline Bird (born 1986) is a British poet, playwright and author. Life Caroline Bird was born in 1986. Daughter of Jude Kelly, she grew up in Leeds, England, and attended the Steiner School in York and the Lady Eleanor Holles School before ...

, English poet *

Fateme Ekhtesari Fateme Ekhtesari, also Fatemeh Ekhtesari, (born 1986) is an Iranian poet. Ekhtesari lived in Karaj and she writes in Persian. In 2013, she appeared at the poetry festival in Gothenburg (''Göteborgs poesifestival''). After she arrived back in I ...

, Persian poet and midwife

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article: * January 4 –

Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...

(born

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...

), English-born

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 * January 9 –

W. S. Graham William Sydney Graham (19 November 1918 – 9 January 1986) was a Scottish poet, who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime; however, partly thanks to th ...

(born

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

poet * January 12 – Bob Kaufman, at 60 (born

1925 Events January * January 1 ** The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italia ...

Beat poet, of emphysema * March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, at 72 (born

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...

), Canadian poet and novelist * March 8 –

Kersti Merilaas Kersti Merilaas ( in Narva – 8 March 1986 in Tallinn) was an Estonian poet and translator. In addition, she wrote poems and prose for children and plays. Early life and education Kersti Merilaas was born Eugenie Moorberg in Narva, Estonia ...

, at 72 (born

Estonian Estonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe * Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent * Estonian language * Estonian cuisine * Estonian culture See also

...

poet, translator and author of children's fiction * March 30 – John Ciardi, at 69 (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. * ...

poet, translator and etymologist, of a heart attack * April 15 –

Jean Genet Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's ...

, at 75 (born

1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...

novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and political activist * April 21 –

Salah Jahin Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (, ), known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" ( ar, صلاح جاهين, ; December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986) was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist. Life and career Jah ...

, also spelled "Salah Jaheen" صلاح جاهين (born

1930 Events January * January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be ...

), Egyptian, Arabic-language poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist * May 25 – Carlo Betocchi, at 87 (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 ...

), Italian poet * June 24 – Rex Warner (born

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

), English classicist, author, poet and translator * July 13 –

Brion Gysin Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the ...

, at 70 (born

), English painter, writer, sound poet and performance artist * August 19 –

, at 73 (born

), Urdu poet, essayist, critic, biographer * August 20 – Milton Acorn, at 63 (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 ...

), Canadian poet, writer and playwright, of heart disease and diabetes * August 31 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93 (born

1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...

author of children's fiction and poetry * November 10 – Laurence Collinson (born

), Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist and secondary school teacher, in London * December 8 – Henry Reed, at 72 (born

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

), English poet, translator, radio playwright and journalist * Also: ** Atul Chandra Hazarika (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 ...

), Indian, writing in

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

; poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society **

Audrey Longbottom Audrey Clarice Longbottom (c.1922 – 1986) was an Australian poet. Life Longbottom was born in Coramba, New South Wales, around 1922. After leaving school aged fourteen,

(born c.

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 ...

), Australian

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