1989 in poetry 5513183 218530158 2008-06-11T01:30:23Z Paul A 7104 /* Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1989 */ disambiguate link {{yearbox2 | in?=in poetry | in2?=in literature | cp=19th century | c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1986 | yp2=1987 | yp3=1988 | year=1989 | ya1=1990 | ya2=1991 | ya3=1992 | dp3=1950s | dp2=1960s | dp1=1970s | d=1980s | da=0 | dn1=1990s | dn2=2000s |dn3=2010s |}} ==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: {{col-start}} {{col-break}} *[[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]] {{col-break}} *[[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]] {{col-break}} *[[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]] {{col-break}} *[[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]] {{col-break}} *[[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]] {{col-end}} ====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== [[Image:RobertPennWarren.png|right|250px]] *[[January 13]] &mdash; [[Sterling Allen Brown]], 87, poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism *[[February 28]] &mdash; [[Richard Willard Armour]], 82, of Parkinson's disease; *[[August 25]] &mdash; [[Hans Børli]], 70, [[Norwegian literature|Norwegian]] poet, novelist, and writer *[[September 15]] &mdash; [[Robert Penn Warren]], poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer *[[December 4]] &mdash; [[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== <references /> [[Category:Years in poetry]] [[Category:1989|Poetry]] [[Category:1989 poems|*]]