1987 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke.
• In his 1987 piece 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia wrote: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."^[1]
• Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who became a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
• First issue of o•blék: a journal of language arts (pronounced "oblique") is published in April, founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stopped publishing in 1993.
• The Dolmen Press in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.^[2]

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:

Canada

• Patrick Lane, Selected Poems
• Irving Layton, Fortunate Exile. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[3] ISBN 0-7710-4947-1.
• Irving Layton, Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982-1986. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.^[3]
• Dennis Lee, The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan.^[4]
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[5] ISBN 978-0-7710-5428-0
• Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night
• Raymond Souster, The Eyes of Love. Ottawa: Oberon Press.^[6]
• George Woodcock:
  • Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography, Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canada^[7]
  • Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship^[7][8]

India, in English

• Keki Daruwalla, Landscapes ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press^[9]
• Dom Moraes, Collected Poems 1957-1987 ( Poetry in English ) ^[10]
• Jayanta Mahapatra, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press^[11]
• Bruce King, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English - Historical Perspective (first edition), Delhi: Oxford University Press (anthology)

Ireland

• Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, including "Cocktails",^[12] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States
• Michael Coady, Oven Lane, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-020-8
• Paul Durcan, Going Home to Russia, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press^[12]
• Eamon Grennan, What Light There Is, including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[12]
• Michael Hartnett, A Necklace of Wrens, including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[12]
• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,^[13] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,^[13] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[12]
• Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,^[13] Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[14]
• Janet Charman, 2 Deaths in 1 Night: Poems, Auckland: New Women's Press^[15]
• Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism^[16]
• Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures?
• Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand

Anthologies in New Zealand

• Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, The New Poets^[17]
• V. O'Sullivan, editor, Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry, anthology, third edition^[18]
• Mark Williams, Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry

United Kingdom

• Peter Ackroyd, The Diversions of Purley, and Other Poems^[13]
• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[14]
• Alan Brownjohn, The Old Flea-Pit^[13]
• Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• David Constantine, Madder^[13]
• Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan^[13]
• Gavin Ewart, Late Pickings^[13]
• U. A. Fanthorpe, A Watching Brief^[13]
• James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems,^[19]
• Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
• Philip Gross, Cat's Whisker^[13]
• Tony Harrison, Anno Forty-Two^[13]
• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,^[13] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press, ISBN 1-870841-00-X
• Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live^[13]
• P. J. Kavanagh, Presence^[13]
• Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,^[13] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper^[13]
• Andrew Motion, Natural Causes^[13]
• Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British,^[13] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe)
• Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,^[13] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Private Parts^[13]
• Ruth Pitter, A Heaven to Find^[13]
• Peter Porter, The Automatic Oracle^[13]
• Peter Redgrove:
  • In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
  • The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987
• Carol Rumens, Plato Park^[13]
• C. H. Sisson, God Bless Karl Marx^[13]
• R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs
• Anthony Thwaite, Letter from Tokyo^[13]
• Charles Tomlinson, The Return^[13]
• John Wain, Open Country^[13]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

• Elaine Feinstein, A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva, Hutchinson

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas
• Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song
• Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysis^[20]
• John Ashbery, April Galleons
• Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks
• Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure
• Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty
• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• Paul Hoover, The Figures
• Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press
• Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-11923-2
• Harry Matthews, a collection
• Robert McDowell, Quiet Money
• William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
• George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press
• Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
• Gregory Orr, a collection
• Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957–1987, English translation from Spanish
• Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
• W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987
• Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions)
• Theodore Weiss, a collection
• C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood
• Jay Wright, Selected Poems
• Stephen Yenser, The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, criticism, scholarship

Other in English

• Edward Brathwaite, X/Self, Jamaica^[21]
• Les Murray, The Daylight Moon, Australia^[22]

Works published in other languages

Denmark

• Klaus Høeck, Blackberry Winter, with Asger Schnack,; publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark^[23]
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Byens tvelys ("Twilight of the City"), Denmark^[24]
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen, New Poems

French language

Canada, in French

• Jean Royer:
  • Depuis l'amour: Poème, Montréal: l'Hexagone / Paris: La Table rase^[25]
  • Le Québec en poésie, Saint-Laurent: Lacombe^[25]
  • La poésie québécoise contemporaine (anthologie), Montréal: l'Hexagone/Paris: La Découverte; anthology^[25]

France

• Yves Bonnefoy:
  • Ce qui fut sans lumière
  • Récits en rêve
• Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Autobiographie du voleur de feu, translated from the original Arabic of Abdelwahab al-Bayati into French; Paris: Unesco/Actes Sud

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Chandrakanta Murasingh, Haping Garingo Chibuksa Ringo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language^[26]
• Jayant Kaikini, Shravana Madhyahna, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language^[27]
• K. Satchidanandan, Ivanekkoodi, ("Him, too"); Malayalam-language^[28]
• Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghumiye Porar Aage, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language^[29]
• Rituraj, Surat Nirat, Jaipur: Panchscheel Prakashan; Hindi-language^[30]
• Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shubha-vartaman; Marathi-language^[31]

Other languages

• Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Miniatury; Poland^[32]
• Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Jürgen Becker, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1987/88 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1987/88"), publisher: Luchterhand; anthology; Germany^[33]
• Odysseus Elytis, Κριναγόρας ("Krinagoras"), Greece
• Ndoc Gjetja, Poezi ("Poetry"); Albania^[34]
• Czesław Miłosz, Kroniki ("Chronicles"); Paris: Instytut Literacki; Poland^[35]
• Nizar Qabbani, Love Shall Remain, Sir, Syrian, Arabic-language
• M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in German^[36]
• Maire Mhac an tSaoi, An Cion go Dti Seo, including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain", Gaelic-language, Ireland^[12]

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
• Commonwealth Prize for Poetry: Edward Brathwaite of Jamaica^[21]
• Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, Torque
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov
• AML Award for poetry to Robert A. Christmas for "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young"
• Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine
• William Carlos Williams Award: Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn

Births

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Deaths

Grave of Czech poet Ladislav Stehlík.

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

• February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), from a stroke
• June 22 – John Hewitt (born 1907), Irish
• September 11 – Ladislav Stehlík (born 1908), Czech poet, writer and painter
• September 16 – Howard Moss, 65, poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack;
• November 6 – John Logan
• November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen Canadian poet
• December 29 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (born 1899), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic

• Also:
  • Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand
  • Samar Sen (born 1916) was a Bengali poet and journalist

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

Notes

1. ^ The Hudson Review (40, 3, 1987)
2. ^ [1] Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
3. ^ ^{a b} "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
4. ^ "Dennis Lee: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
5. ^ "Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
6. ^ "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
7. ^ ^{a b} 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
8. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
9. ^ Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla", Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
10. ^ Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 250, Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010
11. ^ 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
12. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
13. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
14. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
15. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article
16. ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
17. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
18. ^ 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
19. ^ [2] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
20. ^ 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
21. ^ ^{a b} "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
22. ^ [3] Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
23. ^ Web page titled [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
24. ^ "Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
25. ^ ^{a b c} Web page titled "Jean Royer" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
26. ^ Web page titled "Chandrakant Shah" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
27. ^ Web page titled "Jayant Kaikini" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
28. ^ Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
29. ^ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
30. ^ Web page titled "Rituraj" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
31. ^ Web page titled "Vasant Abaji Dahake", Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010
32. ^ Web page titled "Juliusz Erazm Bolek był gościem wczorajszego Wieczoru w "Arce" (zdjęcia)" (in Polish; Google translation: "Julius Erasmus Bolek was a guest last night in the "Ark" (photos)") at the "moja-ostroleka" website, retrieved February 19, 2010
33. ^ Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
34. ^ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
35. ^ Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version [for translated titles] and Polish version [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
36. ^ 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