1989 in poetry
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==Events==
* [[Dead Poets Society]], a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
* [[My Left Foot]], a film about [[Christy Brown]], the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography
==Works published==
===[[Australian literature|Australia]]===
* [[Robert Adamson (poet)|Robert Adamson]] ''The Clean Dark''
* [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''The Idyll Wheel''
* [[Philip Salom]]: ''Barbecue of the Primitives''. (University of Queensland) ISBN 978-0-7022-2221-4
* [[Chris Wallace-Crabbe]] (''Sangue e l'acqua'', translated and edited into [[Italian literature|Italian]] by [[Giovann Distefano]], Abano Terme: Piovan Editore
===[[Canadian literature|Canada]]===
* [[Margaret Avison]], ''No Time''
* C. Bayard, ''The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec'' (scholarship)<ref>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 "History and Criticism" section, p 164</ref>
* [[Roo Borson]], ''Intent, or, The Weight of the World'', ISBN 0-7710-1588-7 [[American poetry|American]]-[[Canadian literature|Canadian]]
* [[Tim Lilburn]], ''Tourist To Ecstasy'', a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, [[Canadian literature|Canada]]
* [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems'', [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poet published in the [[English poetry|United Kingdom]]; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991<ref name=mopf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed [[May 7]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Michael Ondaatje]] and [[Linda Spalding]], editors, ''The Brick Anthology'', illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press<ref name=mopf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed [[May 7]], [[2008]]</ref>
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), translator, ''Orient Express: Poems. [[Grete Tartler]]'', Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press<ref name=faua>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed [[April 26]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[James Fenton]], ''Manila Envelope'', self-published book of poems<ref name=jf>[http://www.jamesfenton.com/books/]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed [[October 11]], [[2007]]</ref>
* [[Gerald Hammond]], ''Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660'', scholarship<ref name=appe>Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "English Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 353</ref>
* [[E. A. Markham]], editor, ''[[Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain]]''
* [[Grace Nichols]]:
** Editor, ''Poetry Jump-Up'', illustrated by Michael Lewis, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England); had been published as ''Black Poetry'' in [[1988 in poetry|1988]] by Blackie (London, England)
** ''Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems'', Virago Press (London, England); published in [[1990 in poetry|1990]] by Random House (New York)
* [[Sean O'Brien (writer)|Sean O'Brien]], ''Boundary Beach '' (Ulsterman Publications)
* [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems'', [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poet published in the [[English poetry|United Kingdom]]; London: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991<ref name=mopf/>
* [[Hugo Williams]], ''Selected Poems,'' Oxford University Press
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Raymond Carver]], ''A New Path To The Waterfall''
* [[Henri Cole]], ''The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge''
* [[Ed Dorn]], ''Abhorrences'', Black Sparrow Press<ref name=edpf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1837"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved [[May 8]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Rita Dove]], ''Grace Notes''
* [[Molly Peacock]], ''Take Heart''
* [[Charles Reznikoff]], ''Poems 1918-1975: The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff'', edited by [[Seamus Cooney]] (Black Sparrow Press)
* [[Michael Ryan (poet)|Michael Ryan]], ''God Hunger'', Viking Penguin
* [[Mary Jo Salter]], ''Unfinished Painting'', Knopf
====Anthologies in the United States====
* [[N. Baym]], et all, editors, ''[[The Norton Anthology of American Literature]]'', two volumes, third edition<ref name=appe>Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "American Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p. 66</ref>
* [[M. Honey]], editors, ''Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance''<ref name=appe/>
* [[M. Harris]] and [[K. Aguero]], editors, ''An Ear to the Ground''<ref name=appe/>
=====Poets included in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1989]]''=====
Poems by these 75 poets were included in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1989]]'', edited by [[David Lehman]], with [[Donald Hall]], guest editor:
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*[[A. R. Ammons]]
*[[John Ashbery]]
*[[Beth Bentley]]
*[[Elizabeth Bishop]]
*[[Robert Bly]]
*[[Catherine Bowman]]
*[[George Bradley (poet)|George Bradley]]
*[[David Budbill]]
*[[Michael Burkhard]]
*[[Amy Clampitt]]
*[[Tom Clark]]
*[[Clark Coolidge]]
*[[Douglas Crase]]
*[[Robert Creeley]]
*[[Peter Davison]]
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*[[David Dooley]]
*[[Rita Dove]]
*[[Stephen Dunn]]
*[[Russell Edson]]
*[[Daniel Mark Epstein]]
*[[Elaine Equi]]
*[[Aaron Fogel]]
*[[Alice Fulton]]
*[[Suzanne Gardinier]]
*[[Deborah Greger]]
*[[Linda Gregg]]
*[[Thom Gunn]]
*[[Donald Hall]]
*[[John Hollander]]
*[[Paul Hoover]]
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*[[Marie Howe]]
*[[Andrew Hudgins]]
*[[Rodney Jones]]
*[[Lawrence Joseph]]
*[[Donald Justice]]
*[[Vickie Karp]]
*[[Jane Kenyon]]
*[[Kenneth Koch]]
*[[Phillis Levin]]
*[[Philip Levine]]
*[[Anne MacNaughton]]
*[[Harry Mathews]]
*[[Robert Mazzacco]]
*[[James McCorkle]]
*[[Robert McDowell]]
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*[[Wesley McNair]]
*[[James Merrill]]
*[[Thylias Moss]]
*[[Sharon Olds]]
*[[Mary Oliver]]
*[[Steve Orlen]]
*[[Michael Palmer]]
*[[Bob Perelman]]
*[[Robert Pinsky]]
*[[Anna Rabinowitz]]
*[[Mark Rudman]]
*[[Yvonne Sapia]]
*[[Lynda Schraufnagel]]
*[[David Shapiro (poet)|David Shapiro]]
*[[Karl Shapiro]]
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*[[Charles Simic]]
*[[Louis Simpson]]
*[[W. D. Snodgrass]]
*[[Gary Snyder]]
*[[Elizabeth Spires]]
*[[David St. John]]
*[[William Stafford]]
*[[George Starbuck]]
*[[Patricia Storace]]
*[[Mark Strand]]
*[[Eleanor Ross Taylor]]
*[[Jean Valentine]]
*[[Richard Wilbur]]
*[[Alan Williamson]]
*[[Jay Wright]]
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====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States====
*[[Frederick Feirstein]], editor, ''Expansive Poetry'', various essays on the [[New Formalism]] and the related movement New Narrative, under the umbrella term "[[Expansive Poetry]]"
* [[Michele Leggott]], ''Reading Zukofsky's 80 Flowers'', Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ([[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]] writer; book published in the United States)
* [[A. Shucard]], ''Modern American Poetry 1865-1950''<ref name=cappec>Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 66</ref>
* [[M. Davidson]], ''The San Francisco Renaissance''<ref name=cappec/>
* [[W. Kalaidjian]], ''Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry''<ref name=cappec/>
===[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]===
* [[Matilde Camus]]:
** ''Santander en mi sentir'' ("Santander in my heart")
** ''Sin alcanzar la luz'' ("Without reaching the Light")
===Other===
* [[Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]]: ''The Magdalene Sermon'', shortlisted for the ''[[Irish Times]]''/[[Aer Lingus]] Award, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]<ref name=encpiw>[http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11162&x=1 Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin"] at Poetry International website, accessed [[May 3]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Jayanta Mahapatra]], ''Temple'', [[Indian English literature|India]]<ref name=og>[http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra/]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed [[October 16]], [[2007]]</ref>
* [[Thomas McCarthy (poet)|Thomas McCarthy]], ''Seven Winters in Paris'', Anvil Press, London, [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]<ref name=tmpiw>[http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy"] at the Poetry International Website, accessed [[May 2]], [[2008]]</ref>
* [[Norman Simms]], ''Who's Writing and Why in the South Pacific'', scholarship, [[New Zealand poetry|New Zealand]]<ref name=nzhcpep>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, "History and Criticism" section, p 837</ref>
* [[Wisława Szymborska]]: ''Poezje: Poems'', bilingual Polish-English edition, [[Polish literature|Poland]]
==Awards and honors==
===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]===
* [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Gwen Harwood]], ''Bone Scan''
* [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[John Tranter]], ''Under Berlin''
* [[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Alex Skovron]], ''The Re-arrangement''
===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[Gerald Lampert Award]]
* [[Archibald Lampman Award]]
* Canadian Author's Association ''Canadian Author & Bookman'' Editors Prize Best Poet 1989: [[Wayne Ray]]
* See [[1989 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* [[Pat Lowther Award]]
* [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]]
===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* [[Jenny Bornholdt]], ''Moving House''
* [[Lauris Edmond]], ''Hot October'', autobiography<ref>Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article</ref>
* [[Kendrick Smithyman]], ''Selected Poems'', edited by [[Peter Simpson]], Auckland: Auckland University Press, [[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]
===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Peter Didsbury]], [[Douglas Dunn]], [[E.J. Scovell]]
* [[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Gerard Woodward]], [[David Morley]], [[Katrina Porteous]], [[Paul Henry (poet)|Paul Henry]]
* [[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Allen Curnow]]
===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Nancy Vieira Couto]], ''The Face in the Water''
* [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[Anthony Hecht]]
* [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[Jorie Graham]], "Spring"
* [[Frost Medal]]: [[Gwendolyn Brooks]]
* [[Lannan Literary Awards#Lannan Literary Award for Poetry|Lannan Literary Award for Poetry]]: [[Cid Corman]], [[George Evans]] and [[Peter Levitt]]
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Richard Wilbur]]: ''New and Collected Poems''
* [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Mona Van Duyn]]
* [[William Carlos Williams Award]]: [[Diane Wakoski]], ''Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987''
* [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Richard Howard]]
==Deaths==
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*[[January 13]] — [[Sterling Allen Brown]], 87, poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
*[[February 28]] — [[Richard Willard Armour]], 82, of Parkinson's disease;
*[[August 25]] — [[Hans Børli]], 70, [[Norwegian literature|Norwegian]] poet, novelist, and writer
*[[September 15]] — [[Robert Penn Warren]], poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
*[[December 4]] — [[May Swenson]], [[American poetry|American]] poet and playwright
==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of years in poetry]]
*[[List of poetry awards]]
{{Schools of poetry}}
==References==
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[[Category:Years in poetry]]
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