Events
Works published in English
- Robert Gray, Selected poems 1963-1983
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Amorous Cannibal, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- W. Wilde, et al., editors, Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (scholarship)[1]
- Ursula Bethell, Collected Poems, edited and with a substantial introduction by Vincent O'Sullivan, Auckland: Oxford University Press (posthumous)[2]
- Alistair Campbell, Soul Traps, Pukerua Bay: Te Kotare Press
- Janet Charman, Marina Bachmann and Sue Fitchett, Drawing Together, New Women's Press[3]
- Bob Orr, Red Trees[4]
- Kendrick Smithyman, Stories About Wooden Keyboards, winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen, editors, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse]], anthology, revised edition[5]
- John Ashbery, April Galleons
- Paul Blackburn, The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn
- Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together With Other Water
- Maxine Chernoff, New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca House)
- Amy Clampitt, What the Light was Like
- Michael S. Harper, Healing Song for the Inner Ear[6]
- Robert Hayden, Collected Poems (posthumously published)
- Seamus Heaney: From the Republic of Conscience, Amnesty International, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
- William Logan, Difficulty
- James Merrill, Late Settings
- Lorine Niedecker, From This Condensery and The Granite Pail (posthumous)
- Grace Paley, Leaning Forward
- Mary Jo Salter, Henry Purcell in Japan, Knopf
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Lamplit Answer
Works published in other languages
Other languages
Awards and honors
Deaths
- January 31 — F. R. Scott, 85
- January 16 — Robert Fitzgerald, 74, American poet and translator of ancient Greek and Latin.
- April 17 — Basil Bunting, 85
- May 25 — Robert Nathan, 91, of kidney failure
- August 14 — Alfred Hayes, 74, of menengitis, poet of the labor song "Joe Hill"
- October 31 — Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek
- November 25 — Geoffrey Grigson, 80
- December 2 — Philip Larkin, 63, of throat cancer, English poet
- December 7 — Robert Graves, 90, English writer and poet
- date not known — Josephine Miles, of pneumonia, poet and literary critic
- date not known — J.V. Cunningham
See also
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
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