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1993 in poetry

1993 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1993 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

  • January 20 Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.
  • March 31April 3 Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of o•blék magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference.
  • December 8 Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the POETICS list, one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the contents of list postings or the list itself with "outsiders." People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved.
  • T. S. Eliot Prize created.
  • Reality television contest Million's Poet (Arabic: شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates.
  • Bound by Honor, a film directed by Taylor Hackford, based on the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who co-wrote the screenplay, is released.
  • Poetic Justice, a film directed by John Singleton, features Maya Angelou's poetry, and she appears as Aunt June.
  • Poesia sempre, is created by the National Library of Brazil to promote poetry both from that nation and from beyond its borders and provide a forum for debate on poetry
  • A new Yiddish monthly journal, Di yidishe gas ("The Jewish Street"), edited by Aron Vergelis, appears in Moscow. It is the first since the Sovetish heymland ("Soviet Homeland") became defunct.
  • American literary magazine o•blék (pronounced "oblique"), founded in 1987 by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath, stopped publishing.

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

  • Jennifer Maiden, Acoustic Shadow, Penguin
  • Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost, Penguin, ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3
  • John Tranter:
    • Under Berlin, University of Queensland Press
    • The Floor of Heaven, HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Rungs of Time, Oxford University Press

Canada

India, in English

Ireland

New Zealand

  • Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-soprano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press[10]
  • Andrew Johnston, Sol How to Talk, winner of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award
  • Cilla McQueen, Crïk'ey: New and Selected Poems
  • W. H. Oliver, Bodily Presence: Words, Paintings, co-author: Anne Munz; Wellington: BlackBerry Press, New Zealand
  • Keith Sinclair, Moontalk
  • Ian Wedde, The Drummer

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

  • Donald Hall, Life Work, a memoir
  • Jay Parini, editor, The Columbia History of American Poetry[1]
  • Alex Preminger, and T. V. F. Brogan, editors, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press[1]
  • Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
  • Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin, Selected Letters, correspondence between the poet and his publisher

Anthologies in the United States

  • Don Burness, editor, Echoes of the Sunbird: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies[1]
  • John Hollander, editor, American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century, two volumes (Library of America)[1]
  • Garrett Hongo, editor, The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America, New York: Doubleday[1]
Poets included in The Best American Poetry 1993

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1993, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Louise Glück:

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:

Denmark

French language

Canada

France

Germany

Hebrew

  • Mordechai Geldman, A'yin ("Eye")
  • Israel Eliraz, Pe Karu'a ("A Torn Mouth")
  • Tamir Greenberg, Dyokan Atzmi Im Qvant veHatul Met ("Self Portrait with Quantum and Dead Cat")
  • Zvika Shternfeld, Hamarkiza miGovari ("The Marquise of Govari")
  • Shimon Shloush, Tola Havui shel Asham ("A Hidden Worm of Guilt")

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

  • Gulzar, Chand Pukhraj Ka; Urdu-language[17]
  • K. Satchidanandan, Ente Satchidanandan Kavitakal, selected poems; Malayalam-language[18]
  • Kanaka Ha Ma, Holebagilu, Sagara, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana; Kannada language[19]
  • Kunwar Narain, Koee Doosra Naheen, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, ISBN 81-267-0007-6; Hindi-language[20]
  • Mallika Sengupta, Ardheke Prithivi, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language[21]
  • Manushya Puthiran, En Padukai araiyil yaroo olithirukirargal, Chennai: South Asian Books, Tamil language[22]
  • Nilmani Phookan, editor, Aranyar Gan, an anthology of Indian tribal love poems; Guwahati, Assam: Students' Store, Assamese-language[23]
  • Prabodh Parikh, Kaunsman ("Between Parentheses/In Brackets"), winner of several awards, including Best Poetry Collection of 1993-94 from the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi and the G.F. Saraf Award for Best Gujarati Book in 19921995; Mumbai: R.R. Sheth Publishers; Gujarati-language[24]

Poland

  • Ewa Lipska, Wakacje mizantropa. Utwory wybrane ("Misanthrope Holidays: Selected Work"), Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie[25]
  • Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Moje dzielo posmiertne ("My Posthumous Works") Kraków: Znak[26]
  • Wisława Szymborska: Koniec i początek ("The End and the Beginning")
  • Jan Twardowski:
    • Kasztan dla milionera: Wiersze dla dzieci, Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia[27]
    • Krzyżyk na drogę ("Cross the Road"), Kraków: Znak[27]

Portuguese language

Portugal

  • Joaquim Manuel Magalhães, A poeira levada pelo vento

Brazil

  • Waly Salamão, Armarinho da miudezas, which reflects native Bahian traditions
  • Sebastião Uchoa Leite, published a poetry book
  • Felipe Fortuna published a poetry book
  • Adão Ventura, Texturaafro,

Serbia

Dejan Stojanović in Belgrade, 1981

Spain

Sweden

  • Jesper Svenbro:
    • Blått ("Blue")[32]
    • Samisk Apollon och andra dikter ("The Sami Apollo and Other Poems")[32]
  • Henrik Nilsson, Utan skor

Yiddish

  • Yisroel Khaym Biletski, Uri Tsvi Grinberg der yidish-dikhter ("Uri Tsvi Grinberg: The Yiddish Poet") biography on the poet

Other

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

India

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

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

See also


Notes

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  2. "Dennis Lee: Publications Archived 2011-04-09 at the Wayback Machine", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
  3. 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
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  8. Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
  9. "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
  10. 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
  11. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  12. O'Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page), "Carol Ann Duffy"at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08.
  13. Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
  14. 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
  15. Lambæk Nielsen, Michael, translated by Russell Dees, "Bibliography of Kirsten Hammann", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
  16. Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
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  18. Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  19. Web page titled "Kanaka Ha. Ma." Archived 2011-09-19 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  20. Web page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
  21. Web page title "Mallika Sengupta" Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  22. Web page titled "Manushya Puthiran" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010
  23. Web page titled "Nilmani Phookan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010
  24. Web page titled "Prabodh Parikh" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 19, 2010
  25. Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine and Polish Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
  26. Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Książki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  27. Web page titled "Jan Twardowski" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute Książki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
  28. Web page titled "Vilenica 2006 Prize/Prize-winner Vilenica 2006, Miodrag Pavlović", at the Vilenica International Literary Festival website, retrieved August 27, 2010
  29. Web page titled "Ángel González"[permanent dead link] at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 27, 2010
  30. Laura López Fernández, "Experimental Poetry in Spain" Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, Corner magazine, Fall 2001/Spring 2002, retrieved August 27, 2010
  31. Web page titled "Chair No. 8 - Jesper Svenbro" Archived 2010-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, at the Svenska Akademein (Swedish Academy) website, retrieved August 27, 2010
  32. Balcom, John, "Lo Fu" Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008.
  33. Patten, Simon, "Yu Jian" Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008

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