1993 in poetry
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==Events==
* [[January 20]] — [[Maya Angelou]] reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
* [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] created.
* [[March 31]]–[[April 3]] — ''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]]:
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[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]]
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===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]] — [[Bertus Aafjes]], 89, [[Dutch literature|Dutch]] poet
*[[June 19]] — [[William Golding]], 82, [[English poetry|English]] novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]
*[[August 28]] — [[William Stafford]], 79, [[American poetry|American]] poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist [[Kim Stafford]]
*[[September 16]] — [[Oodgeroo Noonuccal]], 71, [[Australian literature|Australian]] poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
*[[October 27]] — [[Peter Quennell]], 88, English biographer, historian and poet
* October (exact date not known) — [[Gu Cheng]], [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]] poet, by suicide
==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of years in poetry]]
*[[List of poetry awards]]
==Notes==
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