1981 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine published.
- First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published.
- This year, "the word 'Martianism' came into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the 1982 Britannica Book of the Year reported (page 504). Some noted that "Martianism" is an anagram for one of Raine's associates, Martin Amis.
[edit] Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
[edit] Australia
- R. Hall, editor, Collins Book of Australian Poetry, anthology[1]
- H. Heseltine, editor, Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse, anthology[1]
- L. Kramer, Oxford History of Australian Literature (scholarship)[1]
[edit] Canada
- Margaret Atwood, True Stories
- Roo Borson, A Sad Device, ISBN 0-86495-011-X, American-Canadian
- Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-80
- Gwen Hauser, Gophers and Swans
- P. K. Page, Evening Dance of the Grey Flies, poetry and prose[2]
- Stephen Scobie, A Grand Memory For Forgetting
- Stephen Scobie and Douglas Barbour:
- The Pirates of Pen's Chance: Homolinguistic Translations
- The Maple Laugh Forever: An Anthology of Canadian Comic Poetry (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers)
- F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
- Raymond Souster, Collected Poems of Raymond Souster, Volume Two, 1955-62
[edit] Ireland
- Dermot Bolger, Finglas Lilies
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Rose Geranium, Dublin: The Gallery Press[3]
- Thomas McCarthy, The Sorrow Garden, Anvil Press, London, Irish poet published in the United Kingdm[4]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Roberta Berke, Bounds out of Bounds: A Compass for Recent American and British Poetry, Oxford University Press, criticism[5]
- James Fenton, Dead Soldiers, Sycamore Press, [6]
- John Heath-Stubbs, editor, Selected Poems of Thomas Gray
- Derek Mahon, Courtyards in Delft. Gallery Press
- Elizabeth Smart, Ten Poems
- The Faber Book of Christian Verse
[edit] United States
- A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees
- John Ashbery, Shadow Train
- Ted Berrigan, In a Blue River
- Joseph Brodsky: Verses on the Winter Campaign 1980, translation by Alan Meyers. – London: Anvil Press[7] Russian-American
- Gwendolyn Brooks:
- Black Love
- To Disembark
- Gregory Corso, Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit, his first collection in 11 years
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Endless Life: Selected Poems
- Philip Levine, One for the Rose
- Michael Palmer, Notes For Echo Lake (North Point Press)
- Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, editor, containing 224 poems in chronological order (posthumous)
- Marie Ponsot, Admit Impediment
- Michael Ryan, In Winter (Holt)
- Gilbert Sorrentino, Selected Poems 1958-1980
- Gerald Stern, The Red Coal
- Richard L. Tierney, Collected Poems
- Michael Van Walleghen, More Trouble With the Obvious
- David Wagoner, One for the Rose
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Nothing Has Changed (Awede Press)
- Robert Penn Warren, Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980
- Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic a collection of children's poetry
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- John Hollander:
- Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse, criticism
- The Figure of Echo, criticism
[edit] Other in English
- Alistair Campbell, Collected Poems, Hazard, ISBN 1-877393-00-2, New Zealand
- C. K. Stead, In the Glass Case, criticism, New Zealand[8]
[edit] Works published in other languages
Listed by language and often by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
[edit] French language
[edit] France
- Alain Bosquet:
- Poèmes, deux
- Sonnets pour une fin de siècle
- Jean Cayrol, Poésie-Journal
- Charles le Quintrec, La Lumière et l'argile
- Jacques Roubaud, Dors
- Jacques Roubaud and Florence Delay, Merlin l'enchanteur
[edit] German
- V. Hage, editor, Lyrik für Leser: Deutsche Gedichte der siebziger Jahre, anthology[9]
- Heinz Toni Hamm, Poesie und kommunikative Praxis (scholarship)[10]
- Klaus Weissenberger, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik, 1945-1975 (scholarship)[10]
[edit] Hebrew
- A. Hillel, Devareiy
- Gavriel Preil, a new collection[11]
- Avot Yeshurun, a new collection[11]
- S. Shalom, a new collection[11]
- Yehuda Amichai, Shalva gedola, she'elot uteshuvot
- Robert Whitehill, a "new poet"[11]
- Peretz Banai, a "new poet"[11]
- Esther Ettinger, a "new poet"[11]
- Yosef Yehezkel, a "new poet"[11]
- Aharon Shabtai, a new collection[11]
- Mordecai Geldman, a new collection[11]
- Hannah Barzilai, a new collection[11]
- Batsheva Sharif, a new collection[11]
- Michael Senunit, a new collection[11]
- Menachem Ben, a new collection[11]
[edit] Italian
- Eugenio Montale, L'opera in versi
- Carlo Betocchi, Poesie del sabato
- Maria Luisa Spaziani, Geometria del disordine
- Giovanni Guidici, Il ristorante dei morti
- Amelia Rosselli:
- Primi scritti 1952-1965
- Impromptu
[edit] Portuguese language
[edit] Portugal
- Herberto Helder, Poesia Toda
- A. Pinheiro Torre, O Ressentimento dum Ocidental
[edit] Brazil
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade, A paixão medida
- João Cabral de Melo Neto, A escola das faces
- Adélia Prado, Terra de Santa Cruz
- Mário da Silva, several volumes of poetry
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] Spain
- Antonio Abad, Misericor de mí
- Matilde Camus:
- He seguido tus huellas ("I have followed your footprints")
- Testigo de tu marcha ("Witness of your departure")
- Concha Lagos, Teoría de la inseguridad
- Vincente Presa, Teoría de los límites
- Pablo Virumbrales, Cancionero del vaso
[edit] Yiddish
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in Yiddish
- Itskhak Janoswicz, Avrom Sutzkever, His Poetry and Prose
- The Lexicon of Modern Yiddish Literature, the eighth and final volume
- Khaim Leyb Fuks, Biographical Dictionary of Hebrew and Yiddish Writers in Canada
[edit] Other
- Chen Kehua, Qijing shaonian ("Whale Boy") Chinese (Taiwan)[12]
- Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Wound of Time, Chinese (Taiwan) [13]
[edit] Nordic
- Inger Christensen, Alfabet, 1981 ("Alphabet"), later translated into English by Susanna Nied, twice translated into Swedish, Denmark[14]
- Stein Mehren, Den usynlige regnbuen, Norway
- Karl Vennberg, Bilder I-XXVI, Sweden
- Goran Sonnevi, Små klanger; en rőst, Sweden
- Eva Runefelt, Augusti, Sweden
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Gould, Astral Sea
[edit] Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Roy Fisher, Robert Garioch, Charles Boyle
- Eric Gregory Award: Alan Jenkins, Simon Rae, Marion Lomax, Philip Gross, Kathleen Jamie, Mark Abley, Roger Crowley, Ian Gregson
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: D. J. Enright
- Hawthornden Prize: Christopher Reid
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kathy Calloway, Heart of the Garfish
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky"
- Bollingen Prize (United States): Howard Nemerov and May Swenson
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Maxine Kumin appointed this year.
- MacArthur Fellowships: A.R. Ammons, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Penn Warren
- National Book Award for poetry (United States): Lisel Mueller, The Need to Hold Still
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry: A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees (Norton)
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Maxine Kumin appointed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler: The Morning of the Poem
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Hugo
- Walt Whitman Award: Alberto Ríos, Whispering to Fool the Wind (Sheep Meadow Press) Judge: Donald Justice
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 26 – Robert Garioch (born 1909)
- May 31 – Falguni Ray (born 1945), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
- September 12 – Eugenio Montale, 85, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
- October 26 – Marie Uguay, 26 (born 1955), French-Canadian), from bone cancer
- October 30 – George Brassens, French
- Date not known:
- John Glassco, Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
- Ada Verdun Howell (born 1902), Australian
- Leonard Mann (born 1895), Australian
- Takis Sinopoulos (born 1917), Greek
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)", "Further Readings" section, at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ [2] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Britannica Book of the Year 1982, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 1982, "Literature" section, "Jewish" subsection, page 518; the article does not specify the names of all works, or, in the case of "new poets" whether a work was even written or whether the poet was just published in a periodical; perhaps this information can be added from other sources
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
- Britannica Book of the Year 1982 ("for events of 1981"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1982 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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