Forward Poetry Prize created
Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings.
Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in The New Republic that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Les Murray, The Rabbiter's Bounty
Philip Mead and John Tranter, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry a major anthology of Twentieth century poetry from that nation
Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (editor), Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986 and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, 1999
Margaret Avison, Selected Poems Canada
Earle Birney, Last Makings: Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
Jeffery Donaldson, Once out of Nature, McClelland & Stewart.
Louis Dudek, Europe. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1991.
Louis Dudek, Small Perfect Things. Montreal: DC Books.
Robert Finch, Miracle at the Jetty. Port Rowan, ON: Leeboard Press.
Dorothy Livesay, The Woman I Am. Montreal: Guernica.
Laura Lush, Hometown, Montreal: Vehicle Press.
Anne Marriott, Aqua, Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn.
Don McKay, Night Field (Canada)
Roy Miki, In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988, Canada
P. K. Page, The Glass Air: Selected Poems (an expanded edition; original edition published in 1985)
John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis, shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, ISBN 1-55017-043-0
Raymond Souster, 'Running Out the Clock. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
George Woodcock, Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems, Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada
Gieve Patel, Mirrored, Mirroring ( Poetry in English ), Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Sujata Bhatt, Monkey Shadows ( Poetry in English ), received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Carcanet Press
Ranjit Hoskote, Zones of Assault ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa & Co., ISBN 81-7167-063-6
Sudeep Sen:
Kali in Ottava Rima, Paramount, London, 1992; Rupa, New Delhi, 1991, ISBN 81-7167-235-3
New York Times, New Delhi: Rupa, ISBN 81-7167-235-3 (reprinted in 1993, London: The Many Press, ISBN 0-907326-25-0)
Dilip Chitre, Travelling in a Cage
Ireland
Brian Coffey, Poems and Versions 1929–1990, including "Death of Hektor" and "For What for Whom Unwanted"
Gerald Dawe, Sunday School, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-063-5
Paul Durcan, Crazy About Women, including "The Levite and His Concubine at Gibeah"
Eamon Grennan, As If It Matters, including "Breaking Points", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
John Hewitt, Collected Poems, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press
Michael Longley:
Gorse Fires, including "Between Hovers", "Laertes", "Argos" and "The Butchers"
Poems 1963–1983, including "In memoriam", "Caravan", "Wounds", "Ghost Town", "Man Lying on a Wall", "Wreaths", "Mayo Monologues" and "The Linen Industry"
Thomas McGreevy, Collected Poems, including "Homage to Hieronymous Bosch" and "Recessional"
Medbh McGuckian, Marconi's Cottage, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
Paula Meehan, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter, "The Pattern" and "Child Burial", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
Bernard O'Donoghue, The Weakness, including "A Nun Takes the Veil" and "The Weakness", Chatto and Windus
Peter Sirr, Ways of Falling, including "A Few Helpful Hints", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
New Zealand
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Jenny Bornholdt, Waiting Shelter, New Zealand
Alan Brunton, Slow Passes 1978–1988
Lauris Edmond, New and Selected Poems, Auckland: Oxford University Press
Michele Leggott, Swimmers, Dancers, Auckland : Auckland University Press
Bill Manhire, Milky Way Bar, New Zealand
Bob Orr, Breeze
Dannie Abse, There Was a Young Man From Cardiff, autobiography
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
W. H. Auden, Collected Poems
George Mackay Brown, Selected Poems 1954–1983
Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
Paul Durcan, Crazy About Women
Gavin Ewart, Collected Poems 1980–1991
John Fuller, The Mechanical Body
Lavinia Greenlaw, The Cost of Getting Lost in Space
Philip Gross, The Son of the Duke of Nowhere
Michael Hamburger, Roots in the Air
Tony Harrison, A Cold Coming
Seamus Heaney:
Seeing Things, Faber & Faber
Squarings, Hieroglyph Editions
Paul Henry, Time Pieces, Seren
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tings an' Times
P. J. Kavanagh, An Enchantment
Jackie Kay, The Adoption Papers
Thomas Kinsella, Madonna, and Other Poems
Kenneth Koch, Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet, American poet's book published in the United Kingdom
Liz Lochhead, Bagpipe Muzak
Michael Longley, Gorse Fires
George MacBeth, Trespassing
Medbh McGukian, Marconi's Cottage
Jamie McKendrick, The Sirocco Room
Derek Mahon, Selected Poems. Viking
Edwin Morgan, Hold Hands Among the Atoms
Andrew Motion, Love in a Life
Sean O'Brien, HMS Glasshouse, Oxford University Press
Christopher Reid, In the Echoey Tunnel
C. H. Sisson, Antidotes
John Ashbery, Flow Chart
Gwendolyn Brooks, Children Coming Home
Robert Creeley, Selected Poems 1945-90
Billy Collins, Questions About Angels (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993
Paul Hoover, The Novel: A Poem (New Directions)
Howard Nemerov, Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (University of Chicago Press)
Grace Paley, Long Walks and Intimate Talks (stories and poems)
Kenneth Rexroth, Flower Wreath Hill: Later Poems
Eleanor Ross Taylor, Days Going/Days Coming Back
These 75 poets were represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 edited by David Lehman, with guest editor Mark Strand:
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
William Meredith, Poems Are Hard to Read, criticism
Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Part of the Climate: American Cubist Poetry, University of California Press, scholarship
M.L. Rosenthal, Our Life in Poetry, collection of literary criticism, including the influential "Poetry as Confession", an article appearing in 1959 in which Rosenthall coined the term "confessional" as used in Confessional poetry
Naja Marie Aidt. Så længe jeg er ung ("As Long as I’m Young"), first volume of a poetic trilogy which includes Et Vanskeligt mode ("A Difficult Encounter") 1992, and Det tredje landskap ("The Third Landscape") 1994
Inger Christensen, Butterfly Valley: A Requiem (Sommerfugledalen), poems (later translated into English by Susanna Nied)
Klaus Høeck, Salme, publisher: Brøndum
Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Hjemfalden
Yves Bonnefoy:
Début et fin de neige
Là où retombe la flèche
Claude Esteban, Soleil dans une pièce vide, Flammarion
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
K. Siva Reddy, Sivareddy Kavita, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language
Mallika Sengupta, Haghare O Debdasi, Kolkata: Prativas Publication; Bengali-language
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Aay Rongo, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
Prathibha Nandakumar, Rasteyanchina gaadi ("Cart at the Edge of the Road"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College; Kannada-language
Rajendra Kishore Panda, Bahubreehi, Jharsuguda: Soubhagya Manjari, Jharsuguda, Oraya-language
Poland
Stanisław Barańczak, Biografioly: poczet 56 jednostek slawnych, slawetnych i oslawionych ("Biographies of 56 Celebrated, Famous or Notorious Individuals"), light verse; Poznan: a5
Stanisław Barańczak, Zwierzeca zajadlosc: z zapiskow zniecheconego zoologa ("Animal Ferocity: From the Notes of a Discouraged Zoologist"), light verse; Poznan: a5
Czesław Miłosz, Dalsze okolice ("Farther Surroundings"); Kraków: Znak
Tadeusz Różewicz, Płaskorzeźba ("Bas-Relief"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie
Jan Twardowski,Uśmiech Pana Boga. Wiersze dla dzieci ("The Smile of God: Poems for Children"), Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia
Matilde Camus, Tierra de mi Cantabria ("Cantabria, my land")
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, Tomoshibi ("Light"), Japan, with English translations
Mario Benedetti, Las soledades de Babel ("The Loneliness of Babel"), Uruguay
Odysseus Elytis, The Elegies of Oxopetras (Τα Ελεγεία της Οξώπετρας)
Ndoc Gjetja, Kthimet ("Returns"); Albania
Alexander Mezhirov, Избранное ("Favorite"), Russia
Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie, edited by Giorgio Zampa. Jonathan Galassi in 1998 called this book the "most comprehensive edition of Montale's poems"; posthumously published; Italy
Nizar Qabbani, Syrian, Arabic-language poet:
Do You Hear the Cry of My Sadness?
Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat
Rami Saari, Gvarim Ba-tzomet ("Men at the Crossroad"), Israeli writing in Hebrew
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - Verandahs
Gerald Lampert Award
Archibald Lampman Award
See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Pat Lowther Award
Prix Alain-Grandbois
Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Michael Longley, Gorse Fires
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, Sleeping Preacher
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims
AML Award for poetry Philip White for "Island Spring"
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, "Museum of Clear Ideas"
Bollingen Prize: Laura Riding Jackson and Donald Justice
Frost Medal: Donald Hall
National Book Award for poetry: Philip Levine, What Work Is
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Joseph Brodsky
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: David Wagoner
Whiting Awards: Thylias Moss, Franz Wright
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. D. McClatchy
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 22 – Robert Choquette (born 1905), Canadian novelist and poet
January 29 – John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
February 21 – Dorothy Auchterlonie (born 1915), Australian poet, academic and literary critic
March 10 – Etheridge Knight (born 1931), American poet
March 22 – Paul Engle (born 1908), American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
April 7 – R. F. Brissenden (born 1928), Australian poet, novelist, critic and academic
April 12 – James Schuyler, 67, American poet and a central figure in the New York School, of a stroke
June 22 – George Thaniel (born 1938), Canadian poet
July 5 – Howard Nemerov, 71, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
September 2 – Laura Riding Jackson, 90, American poet and writer, of a heart attack
September 24 – Dr. Seuss, 87, American author of children's verse
September 27 – Roy Fuller (born 1912), English poet and writer
October 11 – Steven "Jesse" Bernstein (born 1950), American performance poet, suicide
October 27 – George Barker (born 1913), English poet
December 14 – John Arlott (born 1914), English cricket commentator and poet
Also – Clementina Suárez (born 1902), Honduran poet
