1999 in poetry 5512966 219091228 2008-06-13T15:01:53Z TexasAndroid 271376 Removed category "1999"; Quick-adding category "1999 works" (using [[WP:HOTCAT|HotCat]]) {{yearbox2 | in?=in poetry | in2?=in literature | cp=19th century | c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1996 | yp2=1997 | yp3=1998 | year=1999 | ya1=2000 | ya2=2001 | ya3=2002 | dp3=1960s | dp2=1970s | dp1=1980s | d=1990s | da=0 | dn1=2000s | dn2=2010s |dn3=2020s |}} ==Events== * [[July 1]] &mdash; Scotland's Parliament opened with the singing of [[Robert Burns|Robert Burns']] "A Man's a Man For A'That," instead of "God Save The Queen" * The [[Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award]] is established at the Fifth Annual [[West Chester University Poetry Conference]]. The award is given to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. [[Derek Attridge]] was the first winner. * [[Andrew Motion]] becomes [[Poet Laureate]] of England * [[Carl Rakosi|Carl Rakosi's]] 99th birthday celebrated at the Kelly Writers House with a live audiocast * A new grave slab is installed at the [[Greyfriars Kirkyard]] in [[Edinburgh]] over the final resting place of [[William Topaz McGonagall]] ([[1825 in poetry|1825]]&ndash;[[1904 in poetry|1904]]), comically renowned as the worst poet in the English language; the slab is inscribed: :William McGonagall :Poet and Tragedian :"I am your gracious Majesty :ever faithful to Thee, :William McGonagall, the Poor Poet, :That lives in Dundee." ==Works published in English== ===[[Australian literature|Australia]]=== * [[Robert Adamson (poet)|Robert Adamson]] ''Black Water: Approaching Zukofsky'' * [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]]: ** ''Fredy Neptune'', verse novel, winner of the 2005 Premio Mondello (in Italy)<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> ** ''New Selected Poems'', Duffy & Snellgrove<ref name=paw/> ** ''Conscious and Verbal'', Carcanet, Duffy & Snellgrove<ref name=paw/> ===[[Canadian literature|Canada]]=== * [[Ken Babstock]], ''Mean'', his first book of poetry, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award ([[Canadian literature|Canada]])<ref>[http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=1]Web page titled "Griffin Poetry Prize/ Canadian Shortlist" at the Griffen Poetry Award Web site, accessed [[October 6]], [[2007]]</ref> * [[George Elliott Clarke]], ''Gold Indigoes''. Durham: Carolina Wren, ISBN 0-932112-40-4 * [[Tim Lilburn]], ''To the River'', winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * [[Alistair Campbell (poet)|Alistair Campbell]], ''Gallipoli & Other Poems'', Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press * [[Janet Charman]], ''Rapunzel Rapunzel'', Auckland: Auckland University Press<ref>Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', 1998, "Janet Charman" article</ref> * [[Michele Leggott]], ''As far as I can see'', Auckland: Auckland University Press * [[Robin Hyde]], ''The book of Nadath'', introduction and notes by [[Michele Leggott]]; Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous * [[Bill Manhire]], ''What to Call Your Child'' * [[Sarah Quigley]], [[Raewyn Alexander]] and [[Anna Jackson]], ''AUP New Poets 1: Sarah Quigley, Raewyn Alexander and Anna Jackson'', Auckland: Auckland University Press<ref name=raual>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/alexander.htm Web page titled "Raewyn Alexander / New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed [[April 30]], [[2008]]</ref> ===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=== * [[Ciarán Carson]]: ''The Ballad of HMS Belfast: A Compendium of Belfast Poems'', Picador * [[Seamus Heaney]]: ** ''The Light of the Leaves'', Bonnefant Press ** Translator: ''[[Beowulf]]'', Faber & Faber ** Translator: ''Diary of One Who Vanished'', a song cycle by [[Leoš Janáček]] of poems by [[Ozef Kalda]], Faber & Faber * [[John Heath-Stubbs]], ''The Sound of Light'' * [[Andrew Johnston (poet)]], ''The Open Window'', Arc Publications, a [[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]] poet living in Paris, France * [[Derek Mahon]], ''Collected Poems.'' Gallery Press * [[Peter Redgrove]], ''Selected Poems'' * [[Mary Jo Salter]], ''A Kiss in Space'', Knopf * [[Marina Tsvetayeva]], ''The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva'', translated by [[Elaine Feinstein]], fifth edition, with new poems and a new introduction, Oxford University Press/Carcanet * [[Hugo Williams]], ''Billy's Rain,'' Faber and Faber ====Anthologies in the United Kingdom==== * [[Richard Caddel]] and [[Peter Quartermain]], editors, ''[[Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970]]'', an anthology of poetry outside [[The Movement]] (essentially the mainstream) of [[English poetry|English]] and [[Irish poetry]] (Wesleyan University Press) * [[Elaine Feinstein]], editor, ''After Pushkin'', "versions by contemporary poets", published by the Folio Society and Carcanet * [[Michael Schmidt]], ''[[The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English]]'' ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[John Ashbery]], ''Girls on the Run'', a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist [[Henry Darger]] * [[Joseph Brodsky]]: ''Discovery'', New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux<ref name=n>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-bibl.html] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed [[October 18]], [[2007]]</ref> [[Russian literature|Russian]]-[[American poetry|American]] * [[Riohard Caddel]] and [[Peter Quartermain]], editors, ''Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970'' Wesleyan University Press * [[Robert von Dassanowsky|Robert Dassanowsky]], ''Telegrams from the Metropole. Selected Poems 1980-1998'' ISBN 13 978-3-901993-02-2; ISBN 103-901993-02-9 * [[Ed Dorn]] and [[Gordon Brotherston]], editors (and Brotherston, translator), ''Sun Unwound: Original Texts from Occupied America'', North Atlantic Books<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> anthology * [[Rita Dove]], ''On the Bus with Rosa Parks'' (Norton); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * [[Geoffrey Hill]], ''The Triumph of Love'' (Houghton Mifflin); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * [[John Hollander]], ''Figurehead and Other Poems'' * [[Fanny Howe]], ''Forged'' * [[William Logan (poet)|William Logan]], ''Night Battle'' * [[Glyn Maxwell]], ''The Breakage'', (Houghton Mifflin); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * [[W.S. Merwin]], ''The River Sound: Poems'' (Knopf); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * [[Eugenio Montale]], ''Collected Poems: 1920-1954'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year"; translated from [[Italian literature|Italian]] * [[Mary Oliver]], ''Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems'' * [[Michael Palmer]], ''The Danish Notebook'' (Avec Books); memoir/poetic essay * [[Carl Rakosi]], ''The Old Poet's Tale'' * [[Kenneth Rexroth]], ''Swords That Shall Not Strike: Poems of Protest and Rebellion'' (Glad Day; posthumous} * [[Charles Simic]], ''Jackstraws: Poems'' (Harcourt Brace); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * [[Melvin B. Tolson]], ''Harlem Gallery: And Other Poems'' (University Press of Virginia); a ''New York Times'' "notable book of the year" * [[Rosmarie Waldrop]], ''Reluctant Gravities'' ([[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]]) ===Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States=== * [[Charles Bernstein]], ''A Poetics'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) =====Poets in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1999]]''===== Poems from these 75 poets are in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1999]]'', edited by [[David Lehman]], guest editor, [[Robert Bly]]: {{col-start}} {{col-break}} *[[Dick Allen]] *[[John Balaban]] *[[Coleman Barks]] *[[George Bilgere]] *[[Elizabeth Bishop]] *[[Chana Bloch]] *[[Philip Booth]] *[[John Brehm]] *[[Hayden Carruth]] *[[Lucille Clifton]] *[[Billy Collins]] *[[Robert Creeley]] *[[Lydia Davis]] *[[Debra Kang Dean]] *[[Chard deNiord]] {{col-break}} *[[Russell Edson]] *[[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] *[[Dan Gerber]] *[[Louise Glück]] *[[Ray Gonzalez]] *[[John Haines]] *[[Donald Hall]] *[[Jennifer Michael Hecht]] *[[Bob Hicok]] *[[Jane Hirshfield]] *[[Tony Hoagland]] *[[John Hollander]] *[[Amy Holman]] *[[David Ignatow]] *[[Gray Jacobik]] {{col-break}} *[[Josephine Jacobsen]] *[[Louis Jenkins]] *[[Mary Karr]] *[[X. J. Kennedy]] *[[Galway Kinnell]] *[[Carolyn Kizer]] *[[Ron Koertge]] *[[Yusef Komunyakaa]] *[[William Kulik]] *[[James Laughlin]] *[[Dorianne Laux]] *[[Li-Young Lee]] *[[Denise Levertov]] *[[Philip Levine]] *[[David Mamet]] {{col-break}} *[[Gigi Marks]] *[[William Matthews]] *[[Wesley McNair]] *[[Czeslaw Milosz]] *[[Joan Murray]] *[[Sharon Olds]] *[[Mary Oliver]] *[[Franco Pagnucci]] *[[Molly Peacock]] *[[Alberto Ríos]] *[[David Ray]] *[[Adrienne Rich]] *[[Kay Ryan]] *[[Sonia Sanchez]] *[[Revan Schendler]] {{col-break}} *[[Myra Shapiro]] *[[Charles Simic]] *[[Louis Simpson]] *[[Thomas R. Smith]] *[[Marcia Southwick]] *[[William Stafford]] *[[Peggy Steele]] *[[Ruth Stone]] *[[Larissa Szporluk]] *[[Diane Thiel]] *[[David Wagoner]] *[[Richard Wilbur]] *[[C.K. Williams]] *[[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]] *[[Timothy Young]] {{col-end}} ===Other in English=== * [[Thomas McCarthy (poet)|Thomas McCarthy]], ''Mr Dineen’s Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems'', 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> * [[Medbh McGuckian]] and [[Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]], translators, ''The Water Horse: Poems in Irish'' [[Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill]]'', Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, [[Irish poetry|Ireland]] ==Works published in other languages== ===[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]=== * [[Matilde Camus]]: ** ''Clamor del pensamiento'' ("Clamour of thought") ** ''Cancionero multicolor'' ("Multicolour collection of verses") ** ''La estrellita Giroldina'' ("Giroldina the star") ===Other languages=== * [[Aharon Shabtai]], ''Politiqa'' (Hebrew: "Politics") ==Awards and honors== * [[List of Nobel laureates#Literature|Nobel prize]]: [[Günter Grass]] ===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]=== * [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Gig Ryan]], ''Pure and Applied'' * [[The Age Book of the Year|Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize]]: ''The Impossible, and other Poems'' by [[R. A. Simpson]] * [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Lee Cataldi]], ''Race Against Time'' * [[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Murray Bail]], ''Eucalyptus'' ===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]=== * [[Gerald Lampert Award]] * [[Archibald Lampman Award]] * [[Atlantic Poetry Prize]] * See [[1999 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. * [[Pat Lowther Award]] * [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]] * [[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award]] ===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]=== * Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: * [[Montana New Zealand Book Awards]] (no poetry winner this year) First-book award for poetry: [[Kate Camp]], ''Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars'', Victoria University Press ===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]=== * [[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Vicki Feaver]], [[Geoffrey Hill]], [[Elma Mitchell]], [[Sheenagh Pugh]] * [[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Ross Cogan]], [[Matthew Hollis]], [[Helen Ivory]], [[Andrew Pidoux]], [[Owen Sheers]], [[Dan Wyke]] * [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best Collection: [[Jo Shapcott]], ''My Life Asleep'' (Oxford University Press) * [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best First Collection: [[Nick Drake]], ''The Man in the White Suit'' (Bloodaxe) * [[Poet Laureate]] of Great Britain: [[Andrew Motion]] appointed * [[Samuel Johnson Prize]]: [[Antony Beevor]], ''Stalingrad'' * [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (United Kingdom and Ireland): [[Hugo Williams]], ''Billy's Rain'' * [[1999 Whitbread Book Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[Seamus Heaney]], ''Beowulf'' ===[[American poetry|United States]]=== * [[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Daisy Fried]], ''She Didn't Mean To Do It'' * [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[George Garrett]] * [[Arthur Rense Prize]] awarded to [[James McMichael]] by the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] * [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[J.D. McClatchy]], "Tattoos" * [[Bollingen Prize]]: [[Robert Creeley]] * [[Frost Medal]]: [[Barbara Guest]] * [[National Book Awards#Poetry|National Book Award]] for poetry: [[Ai (poet)|Ai]], ''Vice: New & Selected Poems'' * [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Special Bicentential Consultants in Poetry to the Library of Congress]]: [[Rita Dove]], [[Louise Glück]], and [[W.S. Merwin]] appointed * [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Mark Strand]], ''Blizzard of One'' * [[Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award]]: [[Derek Attridge]] * [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Maxine Kumin]] * [[Wallace Stevens Award]]: [[Jackson Mac Low]] * [[William Carlos Williams Award]]: [[B.H. Fairchild]], ''The Art of the Lathe'' (Working Classics), Judge: ''Garrett Hongo'' * [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] ==Deaths== * [[January 13]] &ndash; [[John Frederick Nims]], [[American poetry|United States]] * [[February 22]] &ndash; [[William Bronk]], 81, [[American poetry|United States]] * [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Shel Silverstein]], 68, children's poet * [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Patricia Beer]], 79, [[English poetry|British]] poet and critic * [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Moondog]], 83, street poet (aka [[Louis T. Hardin]]) * [[October 9]] &ndash; [[João Cabral de Melo Neto]], 79, [[Brazilian literature|Brazilian]] poet and diplomat * [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Edward Dorn]], 70, [[American poetry|American]] poet associated with the [[Black Mountain poets]] * date not known: ** [[December]] &ndash; [[Ida Affleck Graves]], 97 ** [[Felipe Alfau]] (born [[1902 in poetry|1902]]), [[Spanish poetry|Spanish]]-[[American poetry|American]] poet, translator and author ==See also== {{portal|Poetry}} *[[Poetry]] *[[List of years in poetry]] *[[List of poetry awards]] ==Notes== <references/> {{Schools of poetry}} [[Category:Years in poetry]] [[Category:1999 works|Poetry]]