1983 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events
- April – Russian samizdat poet Irina Ratushinskaya is sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp for dissident activity; she continues to write poetry clandestinely in prison.
- June 2 – Francophone Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first black African writer elected as a member of the Académie française
- The Frogmore Press is founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone, England. The press publishes a magazine, The Frogmire Papers
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:
Australia
- David Brooks, The Cold Front. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger
- Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry[1]
- Philip Salom: The Projectionist, A Sequence. (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-0-909144-69-2
- John Tranter, Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger
Canada
- Dionne Brand, Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia
- George Elliott Clarke, Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-12-2
- Robert Finch, The Grand Duke of Moscow's Favourite Solo.[2]
- Irving Layton, The Gucci Bag. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[3]
- Dorothy Livesay, The Phases of Love. Toronto: Coach House.[4]
- Don McKay, Birding, or Desire[5]
- George McWhirter, Fire Before Dark
- Roy Miki, The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (critical study)
- Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions.[6]
- Raymond Souster, Going the Distance. Ottawa: Oberon Press.[7]
- George Woodcock, Collected Poems, Victoria: Sono Nis Press, Canada[8]
India, in English
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Life Signs ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press[9]
- Dom Moraes, Absences ( Poetry in English ),
- Sudeep Sen, Leaning Against the Lamp-Post ( Poetry in English ),[10]
Ireland
- Sebastian Barry, The Water-Colourist, Ireland
- Padraic Fallon, Poems and Versions (see also Poems 1974 in poetry, Collected Poems1990 in poetry)[11]
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States:
- An Open Letter, Field Day
- Translator, Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
- Paul Muldoon, Quoof, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom[11]
- Tom Paulin, Liberty Tree, including "Desertmartin", "Off the Back of a Lorry" and "A Written Answer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[12]
New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock(New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Leigh Robert Davis, Willy's Gazette, Wellington: Jack Books
- Lauris Edmond, Catching It: Poems[14]
- M. P. Jackson and V. O'Sullivan, editors, Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945, anthology[15] 1983
- Bill Manhire, Locating the Beloved and Other Stories, New Zealand
- W. H. Oliver, James K. Baxter: A Portrait, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1983; reprinted 1994, Godwit Press/Bridget Williams Books, biography
- Bob Orr, Cargo[16]
United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- George Barker, Anno Domino[11]
- George Mackay Brown, Voyages[11]
- Alan Brownjohn, Collected Poems 1952–1983[11]
- Helen Dunmore, The Apple Fall[11]
- Gavin Ewart, Capital Letters[11]
- Padraic Fallon, Poems and Versions (see also Poems 1974 in poetry, Collected Poems1990 in poetry), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[11]
- James Fenton, Memory of War and Children in Exile[11]
- Roy Fuller, As From the Thirties[11]
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States:
- An Open Letter, Field Day
- Translator: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
- Adrian Henri, Penny Arcade[11]
- Geoffrey Hill, The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy[11]
- Frances Horovitz, Snow Light, Water Light[11]
- Ted Hughes, River[11]
- Jenny Joseph, Beyond Descartes[11]
- Peter Levi, The Echoing Green[11]
- Christopher Middleton, 111 Poems, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-0-85635-457-1
- Pete Morgan, A Winter Visitor[17]
- Andrew Motion, Secret Narratives[11]
- Paul Muldoon, Quoof, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom[11]
- Grace Nichols, I is a Long-Memoried Woman,[11] Caribbean Cultural International
- Sean O'Brien, The Indoor Park[11] (Bloodaxe)
- Tom Paulin, Liberty Tree, including "Desertmartin", "Off the Back of a Lorry" and "A Written Answer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[12]
- J. H. Prynne, The Oval Window[11]
- Carol Rumens, Star Whisper[11]
- Peter Scupham, Winter Quarters[11]
United States
- A.R. Ammons, Lake Effect Country[18]
- Maya Angelou, Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
- Elizabeth Bishop, Collected Poems 1927-1979, posthumous (died 1979)[18]
- Amy Clampitt, Kingfisher[18]
- James Dickey, The Central Motion[18]
- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Collected Poems, 1912–1944, posthumous (died 1961)[18]
- Alice Fulton, Dance Script with Electric Ballerina
- Nikki Giovanni, Those Who Ride the Nightwinds[18]
- Frank Graziano, editor, Georg Trakl: A Profile, Logbridge-Rhodes, criticism
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States:
- An Open Letter, Field Day
- Translator: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
- Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses[19]
- John Hollander, Powers of Thirteen[18]
- Paul Hoover, Somebody Talks a Lot (The Yellow Press)
- Richard Howard, Lining Up[18]
- W. S. Merwin, Opening the Hand, New York: Atheneum[20]
- Gary Miranda, Grace Period
- Mary Oliver, American Primitive
- Carl Rakosi, Spiritus I
- James Reiss, Express
- Adrienne Rich, Sources[18]
- William Saroyan, My Name Is Saroyan, a miscellany of fiction, nonfiction, drama and verse; published posthumously (died 1981)[18]
- James Schevill, The American Fantasies: Collected Poems, 1945–1981[18]
- Peter Seaton, Crisis Intervention (Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press)[21]
- Ntozake Shange, A Daughter's Geography[18]
- Louis Simpson, The Best Hour of the Night[18]
- Gary Snyder, Axe Handles[18]
- Eleanor Ross Taylor, New and Selected Poems[22]
- David Wagoner, First Light[18]
- Robert Penn Warren, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce[18]
Other in English
- M. Nourbese Philip, Salmon Courage, Caribbean[23]
Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
French language
- Claude Esteban, Conjoncture du corps et du jardin suivi de Cosmogonie, Flammarion; France
- Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Rien qu'une autre année translated from the original Arabic of Mahmoud Darwich into French; Paris: Unesco/Éditions de Minuit
- Pierre Nepveu, Mahler et autres matières, Montréal: Le Noroît; Canada[24]
Germany
- H. Bender, Deutsche Gedichte 1930-1960, anthology[25]
- Hiltrud Gnüg, Entstehung und Krise lyrischer subjektivität. Vom Klassischen Lyrischen Ich zur Modernen Erfahrungswirklichkeit, Stuttgart (scholarship)[26]
- Walter Hinderer, editor, Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Stuttgart (scholarship), called "indispensable" by the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993)
- Klaus Weissenberger, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik, 1945-1975 (scholarship)[26]
India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Hindi
- Kedarnath Singh, Yahan Se Dekho, Delhi: Radhakrishan Prakashan; Hindi[27]
- Rituraj, Abacus, Hapur: Sambhavana Prakashan[28]
- Teji Grover, Yahan Kucch Andheri Aur Tikhi Hai Nadi, New Delhi: Bharati Bhasha Prakashan[29]
Other languages in India
- Ajmer Rode, Chubhchintan, Amritsar: Nanak Singh Pustakmala; Punjabi-language[30]
- Dilip Chitre, Daha by Daha, Mumbai: Pras Prakashan, Mumbai; Marathi-language[31]
- K. Satchidanandan; Malayalam-language:
- K. Siva Reddy, Bharamiti, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-language[33]
- Mallika Sengupta, Challish Chander Ayu, Virus publication; Bengali-language[34]
- Manushya Puthiran, Manushya Puthiranin Kavithaigal, Chennai: Manimegalai Prasuram, Tamil language[35]
- Namdeo Dhasal, Khel Marathi-language[36]
- Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghor-duwar, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language[37]
- Prathibha Nandakumar, Navu Hudugiyare Heege ("We Girls Are Thus"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College; Kannada-language[38]
Poland
- Zbigniew Herbert, Raport z oblężonego Miasta i inne wiersze ("Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems"), Paris: Instytut Literacki[39]
- Ryszard Krynicki, Ocalenie z nicości ("Salvation from Nothingness"); Krakow: Swit[40]
- Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Ulica Mandelsztama ("Mandelstam Street")[41]
- Piotr Sommer, Kolejny świat[42]
- Jan Twardowski,Który stwarzasz jagody, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie[43]
- Wiktor Woroszylski, Lustro. Dziennik internowania ("Mirror: An Internment Journal")[44]
Spain
- Matilde Camus:
- Tierra de palabras ("Land of words")
- Coral montesino ("Chorale of Monte")
Other languages
- Mia Couto, Raiz de Orvalho, Mozambican Portuguese
- Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Wine-Brewing Stone, Chinese (Taiwan) [45]
- Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
- Marlene van Niekerk, Groenstaar, South Africa
Awards and honors
Australia
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Vivian Smith, Tide Country
Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- See 1983 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: John Fuller, Craig Raine, Anthony Thwaite
- Eric Gregory Award: Martin Stokes, Hilary Davies, Michael O'Neill, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Deidre Shanahan
- Commonwealth Poetry Prize: Grace Nichols, i is a long memoried woman
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kate Daniels, The White Wave
- AML Award for poetry to Clinton F. Larson for "A Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems"
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Galway Kinnell - Selected Poems
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Schuyler and Philip Booth
Births
- July 2 – Tao Lin 林韬, Chinese novelist and poet
- Sarah Howe, Hong Kong-born English poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 18 – Robert Payne, 71 (born 1911), English professor of English literature in the U.S., lecturer in naval architecture, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
- May 4 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (born 1935), Japanese avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
- May 21 – Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol (born 1940), Egyptian poet
- June 17 – Miron Białoszewski (born 1922), Polish poet and playwright
- June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason (born 1948), Icelandic politician, historian and poet, by suicide
- June 27 – Alden Nowlan, 50 (born 1933), Canadian poet and novelist
- July 4 – Ted Berrigan, 48 (born 1934), American poet
- July 12 – Edwin Denby, 80 (born 1903), American dance critic and poet, by suicide
- August 12 – Mikey Smith (born 1954), Jamaican dub poet, stoned to death[23]
- October 2 – Frances Horovitz, 45 (born 1938), English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry
See also
Notes
- ↑ Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
- ↑ " Robert Finch," Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011.
- ↑ "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ↑ Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ↑ "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
- ↑ "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Purnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ISBN 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Sudeep Sen", Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 1 2 Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
- 1 2 3 4 Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ↑ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ↑ 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 "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ↑ Salter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ↑ Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009
- ↑ Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
- ↑ available complete and online courtesy of Eclipse. This takes you to a list of authors published at the Eclipse site, scroll down for the Seaton publications
- ↑ News release, "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize" Archived June 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine., April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 9, 2010
- 1 2 "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ↑ Web page titled "Pierre Nepveu" at L'Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 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
- ↑ Web page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Rituraj" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Teji Grover" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- 1 2 Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page title "Mallika Sengupta", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Manushya Puthiran" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Namdeo Dhasal", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ↑ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Herbert Zbigniew", at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, retrieved February 27, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version and Polish version), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Piotr Sommer" Archived October 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine., "Poetry International" website, retrieved February 19, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Jan Twardowski", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "WOROSZYLSKI Wiktor" (in English and Polish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 2, 2010
- ↑ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
- 1 2 Web page titled [http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
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