1994 in poetry 5513019 225167862 2008-07-12T06:52:45Z Meredyth 1880275 /* Australia */ dab {{yearbox2 | in?=in poetry | in2?=in literature | cp=19th century | c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1991 | yp2=1992 | yp3=1993 | year=1994 | ya1=1995 | ya2=1996 | ya3=1997 | dp3=1960s | dp2=1970s | dp1=1980s | d=1990s | da=0 | dn1=2000s | dn2=2010s |dn3=2020s |}} ==Events== * [[Allen Ginsberg]] sells his papers to [[Stanford University]] for $1 million.<ref name=dl/> * [[C. P. Cavafy|C.P. Cavafy's]] poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] by her longtime companion, Maurice Tempelsman.<ref name=dl/> * [[October 31]] ([[Halloween]]) &mdash; 15,000 copies of [[Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe's]] "[[The Raven]]" are distributed free at public libraries. In [[Austin, Texas]], someone from the local coroner's office and someone from a local tax department gave a "death and taxes" reading of the poem.<ref name=dl/> * [[Wyn Cooper|Wyn Cooper's]] "All I Wanna Do" is put to music by [[Sheryl Crow]] who makes it the nation's No. 1 hit rock tune.<ref name=dl/> *[[Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)|Tony Curtis]] becomes Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. ===Poets depicted in the movies=== * [[Dorothy Parker]]'s poems are featured in ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' * In the film ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'', directed by [[Mike Newell (director)|Mike Newell]], [[W. H. Auden]]'s "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."<ref name=dl>Lehman, David, "Forward", ''The Best American Poetry 1995''</ref> * [[Pablo Neruda]]'s [[1952 in poetry|1952]] stay in a villa owned by [[Italy|Italian]] historian [[Edwin Cerio]] on the island of [[Capri]] is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film ''[[Il Postino]]'' ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film. ==Works published in English== ===[[Australian literature|Australia]]=== * [[Robert Adamson (poet)|Robert Adamson]] ''Waving to Hart Crane'' * [[Jennifer Harrison]]: ''Michelangelo’s Prisoners'' (Black Pepper) * [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]]: ** ''Collected Poems'', Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia<ref name=paw>[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed [[October 15]], [[2007]]</ref> ** ''Translations from the Natural World''<ref name=paw/> * [[David Rowthbaum]], ''New and Selected Poems (1945-93)'' ===[[Canadian literature|Canada]]=== * [[Christian Bök]], ''Crystallography'' ISBN 978-1-55245-119-9 ([[Canadian poetry|Canada]]) * [[Roo Borson]], ''Night Walk'', ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a [[1995 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]]) [[American poetry|American]]-[[Canadian literature|Canadian]] * [[George Elliott Clarke]], ''Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 1978&ndash;1993''. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-83-1 [[Canadian literature|Canada]] * [[Don Domanski]], ''Stations of the Left Hand'' (nominated for a [[1995 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]]) * [[Cherie Geauvreau]], ''Even the Fawn Has Wings'', a first collection * [[Gary Geddes]], ''Girl by the Water'' * [[Ralph Gustafson]], ''Tracks in the Snow'' * [[Evelyn Lau]], ''In the House of Slaves'' * [[Tim Lilburn]], ''Moosewood Sandhills'', winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, [[Canadian poetry|Canada]] * [[Susan Musgrave]], ''Forcing the Narcissus'' * [[P. K. Page]], ''Hologram: A Book of Glosas'' * [[John Pass]], ''Radical Innocence'' (ISBN 1-55017-107-0) [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] * [[Al Purdy]], ''Naked with Summer in Your Mouth'' * [[Linda Rogers]], ''Hard Candy'', including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award * [[Joe Rosenblatt]], ''Beds and Consenting Dreamers'' * [[Stephen Scobie]], ''Gospel'' * [[Francis Sparshott]], ''The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke'' * [[George Woodcock]], ''George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry'', Toronto: ECW Press<ref>[http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock"] at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed [[April 24]], [[2008]]</ref> ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]) translator, ''Hugh Primas and the Archpoet'', Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge 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> * [[Lauris Edmond]], ''Selected Poems, 1975-1994'', Wellington: Bridget Williams Books<ref name=leox>Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article</ref> * [[Michele Leggott]], ''DIA'', Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry * [[Hone Tuwhare]], ''Deep River Talk'', 140 poems from 10 previous collections ===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=== * [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]) translator, ''Hugh Primas and the Archpoet'', Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge 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> * [[William Cookson]], editor, ''[[Agenda (poetry journal)|Agenda]] &ndash; An Anthology 1959-1993'', Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1857540697 * [[James Fenton]], ''Out of Danger'', Penguin; Farrar Straus Giroux; winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry <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> * [[Elaine Feinstein]], ''Selected Poems'', Carcanet * [[Hugo Williams]], ''Dock Leaves,'' Faber and Faber ====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom==== * [[John Heath-Stubbs]], ''Hindsights : An Autobiography'' ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[Kim Addonizio]], ''The Philosopher's Club'' (BOA Editions) * [[A.R. Ammons]], ''The North Carolina Poems'' * [[John Ashbery]], ''And the Stars Were Shining'' * [[Ted Berrigan]], ''Selected Poems'' * [[Sophie Cabot Black]], ''The Misunderstanding of Nature'', (Graywolf Press) received the [[Poetry Society of America]] Norma Farber First Book Award, ISBN 1-55597-190-3 * [[Rosellen Brown]], ''Cora Fry's Pillow Book'' * [[Russell Edson]], ''The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson'' * [[Ian Hamilton]] editor, ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English'', New York: Oxford University Press<ref name=rcnam>Everett, Nicholas, [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm "Robert Creeley's Life and Career"] at the ''Modern American Poetry'' website, accessed [[May 1]], [[2008]]</ref> * [[Jane Hirshfield]], ''The October Palace'' * [[Edward Hirsch]], ''Earthly Measures'' * [[John Hollander]], ''Animal Poems'' * [[Andrew Hudgins]], ''The Glass Hammer'' * [[Galway Kinnell]], ''Imperfect Thirst'' ([[Houghton Mifflin]]) * [[Kenneth Koch]]: ** ''On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988'', New York: Knopf<ref name=kkpf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3809 "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)"] at Poetry Foundation website, accessed [[May 15]], [[2008]]</ref> ** ''One Train: Poems'', New York: Knopf<ref name=kkpf/> * [[James McMichael]], ''Each in a Place Apart'' * [[Robert Pinsky]], translation of [[Dante]]'s ''Inferno'' * [[Mary Jo Salter]], ''Sunday Skaters'' * [[Patti Smith]], ''[[Early Work]]'' * [[Rosmarie Waldrop]], ''A Key Into the Language of America'' ([[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]]) ====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States==== * [[Louise Glück]], ''Proofs & Theories'', with pieces on [[George Oppen]], [[John Berryman]], [[Robinson Jeffers]], and [[Stanley Kunitz]] * [[Janet Malcolm]], ''The Silent Woman'', a study of Sylvia Plath * [[Mary Oliver]], ''A Poetry Handbook'' ====Anthologies in the United States==== * [[Douglas Messerli]], editor, ''[[From the Other Side of the Century|From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990]]'', including [[American poetry|American]] and [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] poets; Sun and Moon Press (Messerli's own imprint) ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7 * [[Carolyn Forché]], ''Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness'' * [[Jane Hirshfield]], editor, ''Women in Praise of the Sacred: Forty-Three Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women'' * Paul Hoover, editor, ''[[Postmodern American Poetry]]'' (Norton) The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by [[Charles Olson]], and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945; about 20 short essays on poetics also included * [[E. Ethelbert Miller]], ''In Search of Color Everywhere'', including almost 150 African-American poets =====Poets in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1994]]'' anthology===== Poems from these 75 poets were in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1994]]'' edited by [[David Lehman]], guest editor [[A.R. Ammons]]: {{col-start}} {{col-break}} *[[Dick Allen (poet)|Dick Allen]] *[[Tom Andrews]] *[[John Ashbery]] *[[Burlin Barr]] *[[Cynthia Bond]] *[[Catherine Bowman]] *[[George Bradley (poet)|George Bradley]] *[[Charles Bukowski]] *[[Rebecca Byrkit]] *[[Amy Clampitt]] *[[Michelle T. Clinton]] *[[James Cummins]] *[[Ramola Dharmaraj]] *[[Thomas M. Disch]] *[[Mark Doty]] {{col-break}} *[[Denise Duhamel]] *[[Tony Esolen]] *[[Richard Foerster]] *[[Alice Fulton]] *[[Allison Funk]] *[[Jorie Graham]] *[[Debora Greger]] *[[Donald Hall]] *[[Forrest Hamer]] *[[Lyn Hejinian]] *[[Roald Hoffmann]] *[[John Hollander]] *[[Janet Holmes]] *[[Paul Hoover]] *[[Richard Howard]] {{col-break}} *[[Phyllis Janowitz]] *[[Mark Jarman]] *[[Alice Jones]] *[[Rodney Jones]] *[[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]] *[[Caroline Knox]] *[[Kenneth Koch]] *[[Dionisio D. Martínez]] *[[J. D. McClatchy]] *[[Jeffrey McDaniel]] *[[James McManus]] *[[James Merrill]] *[[W. S. Merwin]] *[[Stephen Paul Miller]] *[[Jenny Mueller]] {{col-break}} *[[Harryette Mullen]] *[[Brighde Mullins]] *[[Fred Muratori]] *[[Sharon Olds]] *[[Maureen Owen]] *[[Kathleen Peirce]] *[[Carl Phillips]] *[[Lloyd Schwartz]] *[[Frederick Seidel]] *[[Alan Shapiro]] *[[Angela Shaw]] *[[Charles Simic]] *[[W. D. Snodgrass]] *[[Elizabeth Spires]] *[[A. E. Stallings]] {{col-break}} *[[Mark Strand]] *[[Sharan Strange]] *[[May Swenson]] *[[Janet Sylvester]] *[[James Tate]] *[[Patricia Traxler]] *[[William Wadsworth]] *[[Kevin Walker (poet)|Kevin Walker]] *[[Rosanne Wasserman]] *[[Bruce Weigl]] *[[Joshua Weiner]] *[[Henry Weinfield]] *[[Michael White]] *[[Richard Wilbur]] *[[Dean Young (poet)|Dean Young]] {{col-end}} ===Other in English=== * [[Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]]: ''The Brazen Serpent'', 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> ==Works published in other languages== ===[[Danish literature|Danish]]=== * [[Ole Wivel]], ''Iris'' * [[Benny Andersen]], ''Denne kommen og gåen'' * [[Lundbye]], ''Lundbyes dyrefabler'' * [[Pia Tafdrup]], ''Territorialsang'' ===[[Dutch literature|Dutch]]=== * [[Bernlef]], ''Vreemde wil'' * [[Toon Tellegen]], ''Tijger onder de slakken'' * [[Leonard Nolens]], ''Honing en As'' ===French language=== ====[[Canadian literature|Canada]]==== * [[Robert Mélançon]], ''L'Avant-printemps à Montréal'' ====[[French poetry|France]]==== * [[Edouard Glissant]], ''{{lang|fr|Poèmes complets}}'' ===[[German literature|German]]=== * [[Grünbein]], ''Falten und Fallen'' * [[Jürgen Kolbe]], a book of poetry * [[Robert Gernhardt]], a book of poetry ====Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Germany==== * [[Erich Mühsam]], ''Tagebücher, 1910-1924'' (posthumous) ===[[Hebrew literature|Hebrew]]=== * [[Haim Gouri]], ''Ha-Ba Aharai'' ("Poems"), [[Israeli literature|Israel]]<ref>[http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed [[October 6]], [[2007]]</ref> ===Spanish language=== ====[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]==== * [[Matilde Camus]], ''Ronda de azules'' ("Blue avenue") ====[[Latin American literature|Latin America]]==== * [[José Emilio Pacheco]], ''El silencio de la luna'', Mexico * [[Francisco Hernández]], ''El infierno es un decir'', Mexico * [[Octavio Paz]]. ''Obras completas'', Mexico ===[[Swedish literature|Sweden]]=== * [[Katarina Frostenson]], ''Tankarna'' * [[Ann Jäderlund]], ''Mörker mörka mörkt kristaller'' * [[Arne Johnsson]], ''Faglarnas eldhuvuden'' ====Criticism, scholarship and biography in Sweden==== * [[Lars Huldén]], ''[[Carl Michael Bellman]]'', on the 18th-century poet * [[Olof Lagercrantz]], ''In Jag bor i en annan värld men du bor ju i samma'', about the author's friendship with poet [[Gunnar Ekelöf]] * [[Lars Gustafsson]], ''Ett minnespalats. Vertikala memoarer.'', a memoir * [[Ylva Eggehorn]], ''Kvarteret Radiomottagaren'', a memoir of her childhood ===Other languages=== * [[Hugo Claus]], ''Gedichten 1948-1993'', [[Flemish literature|Flemish]] ==Awards and honors== ===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]=== * [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Gray (poet)|Robert Gray]], ''Certain Things'' * [[The Age Book of the Year|Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize]]: ''[[The Monkey's Mask]]'' by [[Dorothy Porter]] * [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Barry Hill (writer)|Barry Hill]], ''Ghosting William Buckley'' * [[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Aileen Kelly]] - ''Coming Up for Light'' ===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=== * [[Gerald Lampert Award]] * [[Archibald Lampman Award]] * See [[1994 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]]: [[Ruth Fainlight]], [[Gwen Harwood]], [[Elizabeth Jennings]], [[John Mole]] * [[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Julia Copus]], [[Alice Oswald]], [[Steven Blyth]], [[Kate Clanchy]], [[Giles Goodland]] * [[Forward Poetry Prize]] (United Kingdom, Best Collection): [[Alan Jenkins]], ''Harm ''(Chatto & Windus) * [[Forward Poetry Prize]] (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): [[Kwame Dawes]], ''Progeny of Air'' (Peepal Tree) * [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (United Kingdom and Ireland): [[Paul Muldoon]], ''The Annals of Chile'' * [[Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Award]] for poetry: [[James Fenton]], ''Out of Danger'' ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Jan Beatty]], ''Mad River'' * [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[Wendell Berry]] * [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[Stewart James]], "Vanessa", and (separately) [[Marilyn Hacker]], "Cancer Winter" * [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]: [[A. R. Ammons]], ''Garbage'' * [[National Book Awards#Poetry|National Book Award]] for poetry (United States): [[James Tate]], ''A Worshipful Company of Fletchers'' * [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Yusef Komunyakaa]], ''Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems'' * [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Donald Hall]] * [[Wallace Stevens Award]] inaugurated with first award this year: [[W. S. Merwin]] * [[William Carlos Williams Award]]: [[Cyrus Cassells]], ''The Mud Actor'' * [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[David Ferry]] ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * [[Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry|Montana Book Award for Poetry]]: [[Bill Manhire]], ed., ''100 New Zealand Poems'' * [[Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry|New Zealand Book Award for Poetry]]: [[Andrew Johnston]], ''How to Talk'' ===Other=== * [[Norwegian literature|Norway]]: [[Brague Prize]]: [[Sigmund Mjelve]] for ''Omrade aldri fastlagt'' ==Deaths== * [[March 9]] &mdash; [[Charles Bukowski]], 73, [[American poetry|American]] poet and novelist, of leukemia * [[March 29]] &mdash; [[Lynda Hull]], 49, [[American poetry|American]] poet, in an automobile accident; * [[May 24]] &mdash; [[John Wain]], 69, [[English poetry|English]] poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke * [[September 10]] &mdash; [[Amy Clampitt]], 74, [[American poetry|American]] poet, of ovarian cancer * date not known: ** [[Rolf Jacobsen]] ==Notes== <references/> ==See also== {{portal|Poetry}} *[[Poetry]] *[[List of years in poetry]] *[[List of poetry awards]] {{Schools of poetry}} [[Category:Years in poetry]] [[Category:1994|Poetry]]