1991 in poetry

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Works published in English

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Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Anthologies in Australia

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  • Margaret Avison, Selected Poems Canada
  • Earle Birney, Last Makings: Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.[2]
  • Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Jeffery Donaldson, Once out of Nature,[3] McClelland & Stewart.
  • Louis Dudek, Europe. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1991.[4]
  • Louis Dudek, Small Perfect Things. Montreal: DC Books.[4]
  • Robert Finch, Miracle at the Jetty. Port Rowan, ON: Leeboard Press.[5]
  • Dorothy Livesay, The Woman I Am. Montreal: Guernica.[6]
  • Laura Lush, Hometown, Montreal: Vehicle Press.
  • Anne Marriott, Aqua, Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn.[7]
  • Don McKay, Night Field (Canada)[8]
  • 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)[3]
  • 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.[9]
  • George Woodcock, Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other Poems, Kingston: Quarry Press, Canada[10]
  • Brian Coffey, Poems and Versions 1929–1990, including "Death of Hektor" and "For What for Whom Unwanted"[16]
  • 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"[16]
  • Eamon Grennan, As If It Matters, including "Breaking Points", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[16]
  • John Hewitt, Collected Poems, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press[16]
  • Michael Longley:
    • Gorse Fires, including "Between Hovers", "Laertes", "Argos" and "The Butchers"[16]
    • Poems 1963–1983, including "In memoriam", "Caravan", "Wounds", "Ghost Town", "Man Lying on a Wall", "Wreaths", "Mayo Monologues" and "The Linen Industry"[16]
  • Thomas McGreevy, Collected Poems, including "Homage to Hieronymous Bosch" and "Recessional"[16]
  • Medbh McGuckian, Marconi's Cottage, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[16]
  • Paula Meehan, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter, "The Pattern" and "Child Burial", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[16]
  • Bernard O'Donoghue, The Weakness, including "A Nun Takes the Veil" and "The Weakness", Chatto and Windus[16]
  • Peter Sirr, Ways of Falling, including "A Few Helpful Hints", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[16]

United Kingdom

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Poets represented in The Best American Poetry 1991 anthology

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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

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Works published in other languages

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Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

  • Stanisław Barańczak, Biografioly: poczet 56 jednostek slawnych, slawetnych i oslawionych ("Biographies of 56 Celebrated, Famous or Notorious Individuals"), light verse; Poznan: a5[35]
  • Stanisław Barańczak, Zwierzeca zajadlosc: z zapiskow zniecheconego zoologa ("Animal Ferocity: From the Notes of a Discouraged Zoologist"), light verse; Poznan: a5[35]
  • Czesław Miłosz, Dalsze okolice ("Farther Surroundings"); Kraków: Znak[36]
  • Tadeusz Różewicz, Płaskorzeźba ("Bas-Relief"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie[37]
  • Jan Twardowski, Uśmiech Pana Boga. Wiersze dla dzieci ("The Smile of God: Poems for Children"), Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia[38]

Other languages

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Awards and honors

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Births

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Deaths

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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Lehman, David, preface, The Best American Poetry 1992, 1992
  2. ^ "Earle Birney: Published Works Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
  4. ^ a b "Louis Dudek: Publications Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
  5. ^ Search results: Robert Finch, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011.
  6. ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
  7. ^ "Anne Marriott (1913-1997)", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011.
  8. ^ [1] Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
  9. ^ "Notes on Life and Works Archived 2011-08-17 at the Wayback Machine," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ Web page titled "Gieve Patel" Archived 2010-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  12. ^ Web page titled "Sujata Bhatt" Archived 2005-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010
  13. ^ Web page titled "Ranjit Hoskote" Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 26, 2010
  14. ^ a b Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
  15. ^ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 258, Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
  17. ^ a b c d Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" Archived 2006-12-21 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
  18. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
  19. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
  20. ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  22. ^ Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
  23. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
  24. ^ 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
  25. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "American Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p. 66
  26. ^ Rosenthal, Our Life in Poetry pages 109 – 112
  27. ^ Web page titled "Naja Marie Aidt" Archived 2010-04-29 at the Wayback Machine at the PEN World Voices Festival website, retrieved August 5, 2010
  28. ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Inger Christensen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009.
  29. ^ Web page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
  30. ^ Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  31. ^ Web page title "Mallika Sengupta" Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  32. ^ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  33. ^ Web page titled "Prathibha Nandakumar" Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
  34. ^ Web page titled "Rajendra Kishore Panda" Archived 2011-09-19 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010
  35. ^ a b Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  36. ^ Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine [for translated titles] and Polish version Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
  37. ^ Web pages titled "Tadeusz Rozewicz" (in English Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine and Polish Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved February 28, 2010
  38. ^ Web page titled "Jan Twardowski" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  39. ^ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor"(in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30.
  40. ^ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
  41. ^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0-374-12554-6
  42. ^ Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon Archived 2008-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, 2007