1997 in poetry.html



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

Events

• January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration.
• Regeneration (titled Behind the Lines in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It was based on the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker.
• Jacket online literary magazine founded.

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

• Michael Barnholden, On the Ropes (Coach House Books) ISBN 9781552450024
• Clint Burnham, Be Labour Reading (ECW Press) ISBN 9781550223446
• Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
• Laura Lush:
  • Darkening In, Montreal: Vehicule Press
  • Fault Line, Montreal: Vehicule Press
• Don McKay, Apparatus¹
• Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki

Ireland

• Moya Cannon, The Parchment Boat, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352011
• Michael Coady, All Souls (peoms and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852352127
• Aidan Murphy, Stark Naked Blues, New Island Books, ISBN 9781874597674
• William Wall, Mathematics And Other Poems, Collins Press, Cork ISBN 1898256268

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)²
• Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems
• Alan Brunton, Years Ago Today, documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper Books³
• Allen Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997
• Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous

United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)²
• Gillian Clarke, Collected Poems, Carcanet Press, ISBN 1-85754-335-1
• Elaine Feinstein, Daylight, Carcanet
• Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly, Faber and Faber
• Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book. Gallery Press
• Sean O'Brien, The Ideology (Smith/Doorstep)
• Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
• Peter Redgrove:
  • Orchard End
  • What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry
• Robin Robertson, A Painted Field
• Labi Siffre, Monument

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

• R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, Oxford University Press ISBN 0192880853

United States

• Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita (BOA Editions) 1997
• Dick Allen, Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande)
• A.R. Ammons, Glare
• Frank Bidart, Desire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Angela Y. Davis, "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday", 1997 American Book Award
• Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Allison Hedge Coke, "Dog Road Woman", 1997 Coffee House Press "American Book Award"
• Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls
• Paul Hoover, Viridian, (University of Georgia Press)
• Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out
• Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
• William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
• Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize)
• Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
• Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite 1997
• Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems
• Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems Talisman House

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States

• Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
• Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Douglas R. Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism)
• Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship)
• Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
• Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"

Anthologies in the United States

• Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
• Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)

The Best American Poetry 1997

Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:

Other in English

• Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still, Australia

Works published in other languages

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

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Mundo interior ("Inner World")

Hebrew

• Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
• Rami Saari, Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az ("The Route of the Bold Pain")⁴

Other

• Wisława Szymborska: Sto wierszy - sto pociech ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses"), Poland
• Chen Kehua, Bie ai moshengren ("Don’t Make Love to Strangers") Chinese (Taiwan)⁵
• Wang Xiaoni, Wode zhili baozhe wo de huo ("My paper wraps my fire"), China⁶

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
• Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Joint winners
  • Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter
  • The Wild Reply by Emma Lew
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award
• Prix Alain-Grandbois
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
• Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
• Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
• Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
• Whitbread Award for poetry and book of the year: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid

United States

• Bollingen Prize: Gary Snyder
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Drury, "Burning the Aspern Papers"
• National Book Award for poetry: William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky appointed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Live Together: New and Selected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: William Matthews
• Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Haines

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 19 - James Dickey, 73 (born 1923), American
• April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, 70 (born 1926), of liver cancer, American
• May 15 - Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
• August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish
• November 12 -
  • James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
  • William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
• November 17 - David Ignatow, 83, American poet
• December 20 - Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

References

1. ^ [1]Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
2. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
3. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
4. ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon, 2007
5. ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
6. ^ Web page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008