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1997 in poetry
| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 |
| Years in literature: | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 |
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| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s |
| Years: | 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 |
Events
- January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration.
- Regeneration (titled Behind the Lines in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It was based on the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker.
- Jacket online literary magazine founded.
Works published in English
Canada
- Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
- Don McKay, Apparatus[1]
- Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki
United Kingdom
- Gillian Clarke, Collected Poems, Carcanet Press, ISBN 1-85754-335-1
- Elaine Feinstein, Daylight, Carcanet
- Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly, Faber and Faber
- Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book. Gallery Press
- Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
- Peter Redgrove:
- Orchard End
- What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry
- Robin Robertson, A Painted Field
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin
United States
- Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita (BOA Editions)
- Dick Allen, Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande)
- A.R. Ammons, Glare
- Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Paul Hoover, Viridian, (University of Georgia Press)
- Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
- Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize)
- Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
- Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite
- Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems Talisman House
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
Anthologies in the United States
- Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
- Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)
The Best American Poetry 1997
Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:
Other in English
- Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still Australia
- Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems, New Zealand
- Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous, New Zealand
Works published in other languages
Spain
- Matilde Camus, Mundo interior ("Inner World")
Hebrew
- Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
Other
- Wisława Szymborska: Sto wierszy - sto pociech ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses"), Poland
Awards and honors
Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply
Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See
1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. - Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
- Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendal, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
- Whitbread Award for poetry and book of the year: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
United States
- Bollingen Prize: Gary Snyder
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Drury, "Burning the Aspern Papers"
- National Book Award for poetry: William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky appointed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Live Together: New and Selected Poems
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: William Matthews
- Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Haines
Deaths
- January 19 - James Dickey, 73
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, 70, of liver cancer
- May 15 - Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
- November 12 -
- James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
- William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
- November 17 - David Ignatow, 83, American poet
- December 20 - Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma
See also
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