1993 in poetry 5513153 223936458 2008-07-06T16:26:32Z Ontologyman 5186545 /* United Kingdom */ {{yearbox2 | in?=in poetry | in2?=in literature | cp=19th century | c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1990 | yp2=1991 | yp3=1992 | year=1993 | ya1=1994 | ya2=1995 | ya3=1996 | dp3=1960s | dp2=1970s | dp1=1980s | d=1990s | da=0 | dn1=2000s | dn2=2010s |dn3=2020s |}} ==Events== * [[January 20]] &mdash; [[Maya Angelou]] reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton * [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] created. * [[March 31]]&ndash;[[April 3]] &mdash; ''Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry'' held at the [[State University of New York at Buffalo]]. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of ''[[O-blek|o•blék]]'' magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference. * ''[[Bound by Honor]]'', a film directed by [[Taylor Hackford]], based on the life of poet [[Jimmy Santiago Baca]], who co-wrote the screenplay, is released. * ''[[Poetic Justice]]'', a film directed by [[John Singleton]], features [[Maya Angelou|Maya Angelou's]] poetry, and she appears as Aunt June. * ''Poesia sempre'', is created by the National Library of Brazil to promote poetry both from that nation and from beyond its borders and provide a forum for debate on poetry * A new Yiddish monthly journal, ''Di yidishe gas'' ("The Jewish Street"), edited by Aron Vergelis, appears in Moscow. It is the first since the ''Sovetish heymland'' ("Soviet Homeland") became defunct. ==Works published in English== ===[[Australian literature|Australia]]=== * [[Philip Salom]]: ''Feeding the Ghost''. (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3 * [[John Tranter]]: ** ''Under Berlin'', University of Queensland Press ** ''The Floor of Heaven'', HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson * [[Chris Wallace-Crabbe]], ''Rungs of Time'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, [[Australian literature|Australia]] ===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=== * [[Leonard Cohen]], ''Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs'', selected from works written between 1956 and 1992 * [[Irving Layton]], '' Fornalutx'' * [[Marilyn Bowering]], ''Love as It Is'' * [[Raymond Souster]], ''in Old Bank Notes'' * [[Dennis Lee]], ''Riffs'' * [[Sheree Fitch]], ''In This House Are Many Women'' * [[George Bowering]]: ** ''The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe'' ** ''George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992'' * [[Judith Fitzgerald]]: ** ''Walkin' Wounded'', including a cycle of baseball poems ** "Habit of Blues," a prose poem meditating on the fate of the late novelist [[Juan Butler]]. * [[bp Nichol]]: ** ''Truth: A Book of Fictions'' ** ''First Screening'' ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), ''Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet'', by [[Dorothy Buchanan]], with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata 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> * [[Andrew Johnston (writer)|Andrew Johnston]], ''Sol ''How to Talk'', winner of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award * [[Cilla McQueen]], ''Crïk´ey: New and Selected Poems'' * [[W. H. Oliver]], ''Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings'', co-author: Anne Munz; Wellington: BlackBerry Press, [[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]] * [[Keith Sinclair]], ''Moontalk'' * [[Ian Wedde]], ''The Drummer'' ===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=== * [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), ''Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet'', by [[Dorothy Buchanan]], with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press<ref name=faua/> * [[Barbara Bleiman]] editor, ''Five Modern Poets: [[Fleur Adcock]], [[U.A. Fanthorpe]], [[Tony Harrison]], [[Anne Stevenson]], [[Derek Walcott]]'', Harlow, England: Longman<ref name=faua/> * [[Ciarán Carson]]: ''First Language: Poems'', Gallery Books, Wake Forest University Press, 1993 * [[Blaga Dimitrova]], [[Bulgarian literature|Bulgaria's]] popular vice president, ''The Last Rock Eagle'', a translation of several of her poems * [[Thom Gunn]], ''Collected Poems'' * [[Seamus Heaney]]: ** ''Keeping Going'', Bow and Arrow Press ** Translator: ''The Midnight Verdict'': Translations from the Irish of [[Brian Merriman]] and from the ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]'' of [[Ovid]], Gallery Press * [[Jackie Kay]], ''Other Lovers'' * [[Labi Siffre]], ''Nigger'' * [[John Heath-Stubbs]], ''Sweet-Apple Earth'' * [[Sean O'Brien (writer)|Sean O'Brien]], ''A Rarity'' (Carnivorous Arpeggio) ====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom==== * [[Elmer Andrews]], editor, ''The Poetry of [[Seamus Heaney]]'', ISBN 0-231-11926-7 * [[Michael Parker]], ''[[Seamus Heaney]]: The Making of the Poet'', ISBN 0-333-47181-4 ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[Ai]], ''Greed'' * [[A.R. Ammons]], ''Garbage'', a book-length poem about American trash and its implications, winner of the [[National Book Award for Poetry]] this year and the [[1994 in poetry|1994]] [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]] * [[Geoffrey Dearmer]], ''A Pilgrim's Song: Selected Poems'' * [[Mark Doty]], ''My Alexandria'' * [[Petya Dubarova]], ''Here I Am, in Perfect Leaf Today'' (posthumous), translated from Bulgarian to English by [[Don D. Wilson]] * [[Margaret Gibson]], ''The Vigil'' * [[Donald Hall]], ''Life Work'', memoir * [[John Hollander]]: ** ''Selected Poetry'' ** ''Tesserae and Other Poems'' * [[Daniel Halpern]], editor, ''The Inferno'' by [[Dante]], 21 living American poets wrote their versions of the cantos * [[Meto Jovanovski]], ''Faceless Men and Other Macedonian Stories'', translated from Macedonian to English by [[Charles Simic]] in collaboration with [[Milne Holton]] and [[Jeffrey Folks]]. * [[Susan Ludvigson]], ''Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming'' * [[Jack Marshall]], ''Sesame'' * [[Lorine Niedecker]] and [[Louis Zukofsky]], ''Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970'', edited by Jenny Penberthy (Cambridge University Press) * [[Jim Powell]], translator, ''Sappho: A Garland'', new translations of the poems and fragments of the 6th-century BC poet * [[Lawrence Raab]], ''What We Don't Know About Each Other'' * [[Adrienne Rich]], ''Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970'' * [[David Rosenberg]], translator, ''The Lost Book of Paradise'', a verse translation of [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] * [[Sherod Santos]], ''The City of Women'', a sequence of poems and prose * [[Sappho]], ''Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments'', translated by [[Jim Powell]] * [[James Schuyler]], ''Collected Poems'' * [[Frederick Seidel]], ''My Tokyo'' * [[Charles Simic]], translator, ''The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry'', from Serbian into English, including Serbian poets [[Ivan V. Lalic]], [[Vasko Popa]], [[Momcilo Nastasijevic]], and [[Nina Zivancevic]]. * [[Sande Stojcevski]], ''A Gate in the Cloud'', translated by [[David Bowen]] and others from Macedonian to English, with more than 50 of the poet's lyrics. * [[Mark Strand]], ''Dark Harbor'' * [[Rosmarie Waldrop]], ''Lawn of the Excluded Middle'' (Tender Buttons) * [[Rosanna Warren]], ''Stained Glass'' * [[Eliot Weinberger]], editor, ''American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders'' (Marsilio Publishers) ====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States==== * [[Donald Hall]], ''Life Work'', a memoir * [[Adrienne Rich]], ''What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics'' * [[Delmore Schwartz]] and [[James Laughlin]], ''Selected Letters'', correspondence between the poet and his publisher ====Anthologies in the United States==== * [[John Hollander]], editor, ''American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century'', two volumes (Library of America) =====Poets included in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1993]]''===== Poems from these 75 poets were in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1993]]'', edited by [[David Lehman]], guest editor [[Louise Glück]]: {{col-start}} {{col-break}} *[[A. R. Ammons]] *[[John Ashbery]] *[[Michael Atkinson]] *[[Stephen Berg]] *[[Sophie Cabot Black]] *[[Stephanie Brown]] *[[Charles Bukowski]] *[[Hayden Carruth]] *[[Tom Clark]] *[[Killarney Clary]] *[[Marc Cohen]] *[[Billy Collins]] *[[Peter Cooley]] *[[Carolyn Creedon]] *[[Barbara Cully]] {{col-break}} *[[Carl Dennis]] *[[Tim Dlugos]] *[[Stephen Dobyns]] *[[Denise Duhamel]] *[[Stephen Dunn]] *[[Roger Fanning]] *[[Alice B. Fogel]] *[[Tess Gallagher]] *[[Albert Goldbarth]] *[[Jorie Graham]] *[[Allen Grossman]] *[[Thom Gunn]] *[[Donald Hall]] *[[Mark Halliday]] *[[Daniel Halpern]] {{col-break}} *[[Paul Hoover]] *[[David Ignatow]] *[[Josephine Jacobsen]] *[[Mark Jarman]] *[[Rodney Jones]] *[[Donald Justice]] *[[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]] *[[Robert Kelly]] *[[Jane Kenyon]] *[[Pamela Kircher]] *[[Kenneth Koch]] *[[Phyllis Koestenbaum]] *[[Stanley Kunitz]] *[[Denise Levertov]] *[[Lisa Lewis]] {{col-break}} *[[Thomas Lux]] *[[Elizabeth Macklin]] *[[Tom Mandel]] *[[James McMichael]] *[[Sandra McPherson]] *[[W.S. Merwin]] *[[Susan Mitchell]] *[[A. F. Moritz]] *[[Mary Oliver]] *[[Ron Padgett]] *[[Michael Palmer]] *[[Lucia Maria Perillo]] *[[Wang Ping]] *[[Lawrence Raab]] *[[Adrienne Rich]] {{col-break}} *[[Laura Riding]] *[[Gjertrud Schnackenberg]] *[[Hugh Seidman]] *[[Charles Simic]] *[[Louis Simpsom]] *[[Gary Snyder]] *[[Gerald Stern]] *[[Ruth Stone]] *[[Mark Strand]] *[[James Tate]] *[[John Updike]] *[[Ellen Bryant Voigt]] *[[Susan Wheeler]] *[[C. K. Williams]] *[[Dean Young (poet)|Dean Young]] {{col-end}} ===Other in English=== * [[Pat Boran]], ''Familiar Things'' (Dedalus), [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]<ref name=pbcom>[http://www.patboran.com/ "Publications" Web page] at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed [[May 2]]</ref> ==Works published in other languages== ===[[Danish literature|Denmark]]=== *[[Pia Tafdrup]], ''Krystalskoven'' *[[Henrik Nordbrandt]], ''Støvets tyngde'' *[[Thorkild Bjørnvig]], ''Siv vand og måne'' *[[Kirsten Hammann]], ''Vera Vinkelvir'', a cross between a prose poem and a novel ===French language=== ====[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]==== * [[Claude Beausoleil]], ''L'Usage du temps'' * [[Louise Dupré]], ''Noir déjà'' * [[Madeleine Gagnon]], ''La Terre est remplie de langage * [[Serge-Patrice Thibodeau]], ''Le Cycle de Prague'' ====[[French poetry|France]]==== * [[Yves Leclair]], ''L'or du commun'' * [[Yves Bonnefoy]], ''La vie errante'' ===[[German literature|Germany]]=== * [[Heinz Czechowski]], ''Nachtspur'' * [[Wulf Kirsten]], ''Stimmenschotter'' * [[Richard Wagner]], ''Heisse Maroni'' ===[[Hebrew literature|Hebrew]]=== * [[Mordechai Geldman]], ''A'vin'' ("Eye") * [[Israel Eliraz]], ''Pe Karu'a'' ("A Torn Mouth") * [[Tamir Greenberg]], ''Dyokan Atzmi Im Qvant veHatul Met'' ("Self Portrait with Quantum and Dead Cat") * [[Zvika Shternfeld]], ''Hamarkiza miGovari'' ("The Marquise of Govari") * [[Shimon Shloush]], ''Tola Havui shel Asham'' ("A Hidden Worm of Guilt") ===Portuguese language=== ====[[Portuguese literature|Portugal]]==== * [[Joaquim Manuel Magalhães]], ''A poeira levada pelo vento'' ====[[Brazilian literature|Brazil]]==== * [[Waly Salamão]], ''Armarinho da miudezas'', which reflects native Bahian traditions * [[Sebastião Uchoa Leite]], published a poetry book * [[Felipe Fortuna]] published a poetry book * [[Adão Ventura]], ''Texturaafro'', ===[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]=== * [[Matilde Camus]], ''Amor dorado'' ("Golden Love") ===[[Swedish literature|Sweden]]=== * [[Jesper Svenbro]], ''Samisk Apollon och andra dikter'' * [[Henrik Nilsson]], ''Utan skor'' ===[[Yiddish literature|Yiddish]]=== * [[Yisroel Khaym Biletski]], ''[[Uri Tsvi Grinberg]] der yidish-dikhter'' ("Uri Tsvi Grinberg: The Yiddish Poet") biography on the poet ===Other=== * [[Novica Tadic]], ''Night Mail: Selected Poems'' ([[Macedonian literature|Macedonia]]) * [[Blaga Dimitrova]], [[Bulgarian literature|Bulgaria's]] popular vice president, ''Noshten dnevnik'' (“Night Diary”), 70 poems written from 1989-1992 * [[Wisława Szymborska]]: ''Koniec i początek'' ("The End and the Beginning"), [[Polish literature|Poland]] ==Awards and honors== ===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]=== * [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''Translations from the Natural World'' * [[The Age Book of the Year|Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize]]: ''At the Florida'' by [[John Tranter]] * [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''Translations from the Natural World'' * [[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Jill Jones (poet)|Jill Jones]] - ''The Mask and Jagged Star'' ===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=== * [[Gerald Lampert Award]] * [[Archibald Lampman Award]] * See [[1993 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. * [[Pat Lowther Award]] * [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]] ===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=== * [[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Patricia Beer]], [[George Mackay Brown]], [[P. J. Kavanagh]], [[Michael Longley]] * [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best Collection: [[Carol Ann Duffy]], ''Mean Time'' (Anvil Press) * [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best First Collection: [[Don Paterson]], ''Nil Nil'' (Faber and Faber) * [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (United Kingdom and Ireland): [[Ciaran Carson]], ''First Language: Poems'' * [[Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Award]] for poetry: [[Carol Ann Duffy]], ''Mean Time'' ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Natasha Saj]], ''Red Under the Skin'' * [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[George Starbuck]] * [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[Stephen Yenser]], "Blue Guide" * [[Bollingen Prize]] (United States): [[Mark Strand]] * [[Frost Medal]]: [[William Stafford]] * [[National Book Awards#Poetry|National Book Award]] for poetry (United States): [[A.R. Ammons]], ''Garbage'' (will also win [[1994 in poetry|1994]] [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]) * [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]]: [[Rita Dove]] appointed * [[Pulitzer Prize for poetry]] (United States): [[Louise Glück]], ''The Wild Iris'' * [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Louise Glück]], ''The Wild Iris'' * [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]] * [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Gerald Stern]] ==Deaths== *[[April 23]] &mdash; [[Bertus Aafjes]], 89, [[Dutch literature|Dutch]] poet *[[June 19]] &mdash; [[William Golding]], 82, [[English poetry|English]] novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] *[[August 28]] &mdash; [[William Stafford]], 79, [[American poetry|American]] poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist [[Kim Stafford]] *[[September 16]] &mdash; [[Oodgeroo Noonuccal]], 71, [[Australian literature|Australian]] poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes *[[October 27]] &mdash; [[Peter Quennell]], 88, English biographer, historian and poet * October (exact date not known) &mdash; [[Gu Cheng]], [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]] poet, by suicide ==See also== {{portal|Poetry}} *[[Poetry]] *[[List of years in poetry]] *[[List of poetry awards]] ==Notes== <references/> {{Schools of poetry}} [[Category:Years in poetry]] [[Category:1993|Poetry]] [[Category:1993 poems|*]]