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1994 in poetry

1994 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1994 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

Poets depicted in the movies

  • Dorothy Parker's poems are featured in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
  • In the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, W. H. Auden's "Stop all the clocks" is read as a eulogy. "[I]t so moved audiences that Random House published a slender paperback with "Funeral Blues" plus nine other Auden poems in a hot-selling edition of forty thousand copies."[1]
  • Pablo Neruda's 1952 stay in a villa owned by Italian historian Edwin Cerio on the island of Capri is depicted in a fictionalized version this year the popular film Il Postino ("The Postman"). Neruda is treated worshipfully in the film.

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

Canada

  • Christian Bök, Crystallography ISBN 978-1-55245-119-9
  • Roo Borson, Night Walk, ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) American-Canadian
  • Margaret Christakos, Other Words for Grace (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press)
  • George Elliott Clarke, Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems 19781993. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, ISBN 0-919001-83-1 Canada
  • Don Domanski, Stations of the Left Hand (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Cherie Geauvreau, Even the Fawn Has Wings, a first collection
  • Gary Geddes, Girl by the Water
  • Ralph Gustafson, Tracks in the Snow
  • Evelyn Lau, In the House of Slaves
  • Tim Lilburn, Moosewood Sandhills, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, Canada
  • A. F. Moritz:
    • Mahoning[4]
    • Phantoms in the Ark[4]
  • Susan Musgrave, Forcing the Narcissus
  • P. K. Page, Hologram: A Book of Glosas, poems in 14th-century Spanish stanzaic form[4]
  • John Pass, Radical Innocence (ISBN 1-55017-107-0) Canadian
  • Al Purdy, Naked with Summer in Your Mouth
  • Linda Rogers, Hard Candy, including "Wrinkled Coloratura", winner of the new Stephen Leacock Award
  • Joe Rosenblatt, Beds and Consenting Dreamers
  • Stephen Scobie, Gospel
  • Francis Sparshott, The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke
  • George Woodcock, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, Toronto: ECW Press[5]

India, in English

Ireland

  • Eavan Boland, In a Time of Violence, including "Anna Liffey", "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me", "The Latin Lesson" and "Midnight Flowers", Carcanet Press[13]
  • Vona Groarke, Shale, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
  • Michael Hartnett, Selected and New Poems, including "Bread", "I have exhausted the delighted range ...", "For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin", "A Farewell to English", "Lament for Tadhg Cronin's Children" and "The Man who Wrote Yeats, the Man who Wrote Mozart", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[13]
  • Medbh McGuckian:
    • Venus and the Rain, revised edition (first edition 1984), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[13]
    • Captain Lavender, including "Porcelain Bells", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[13]
  • Paula Meehan, Pillow Talk, including "Laburnum", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[13]
  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Brazen Serpent, including "The Real Thing" and "Saint Margaret of Cortona",[13] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press[14]
  • Tom Paulin, Walking a Line, including "The Lonely Tower", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[13]

New Zealand

  • Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) translator, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press[15]
  • Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems, 1975-1994, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books[16]
  • Michele Leggott, DIA, Auckland: Auckland University Press; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
  • Hone Tuwhare, Deep River Talk, 140 poems from 10 previous collections

United Kingdom

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Anthologies in the United States

Poets in The Best American Poetry 1994 anthology

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1994 edited by David Lehman, guest editor A. R. Ammons:

Other in English

  • Vinay Dharwadker and A. K. Ramanujan, editors, The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, Delhi: Oxford University Press

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:

Danish

  • Naja Marie Aidt, Det tredje landskap ("The Third Landscape"), third volume of a poetic trilogy which started with Sålænge jeg er ung ("As Long as I'm Young") 1991, and included Et Vanskeligt mode ("A Difficult Encounter") 1992
  • Benny Andersen, Denne kommen og gåen
  • Katrine Marie Guldager, Dagene skifter hænder, ("The Days Change Hands"); Denmark[28]
  • Vagn Lundbye, Lundbyes dyrefabler
  • Pia Tafdrup, Territorialsang
  • Ole Wivel, Iris

Dutch

French language

Canada

France

German

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in Germany

Hebrew

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Poland

Spanish language

Spain

Latin America

Sweden

Criticism, scholarship and biography in Sweden

Other languages

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

India

United Kingdom

United States

New Zealand

Other

Deaths

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

See also


Notes

  1. Lehman, David, "Forward", The Best American Poetry 1995
  2. Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009
  3. Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Web page titled "Imtiaz Dharker" Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  7. Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
  8. Web page titled "E.V. Ramakrishnan" Archived 2011-04-11 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
  9. Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
  10. Web page titled "C. P. Surendran" Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
  11. Web page titled "Robin Ngangom" Archived 2010-01-31 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
  12. Web page titled "Ruth Vanita" Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
  13. Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
  14. Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" Archived 2008-05-19 at the Wayback Machine at Poetry International website, accessed May 3, 2008
  15. 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
  16. Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
  17. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  18. "Publications" page Archived 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine, Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
  19. O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08.
  20. Forbes, Peter, "Winning Lines", August 31, 2002, The Guardian, retrieved May 4, 2009
  21. Griffin, Gabriele, editor, "Duffy, Carol Ann", article, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-15984-5, retrieved via Google Books, May 4, 2009
  22. Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
  23. Web page titled "Archives / Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)" at Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 15, 2008
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
  27. Fleming, Robert, The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print, "African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000, ISBN 978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
  28. Lundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010
  29. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-10-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
  30. Web page titled "Jiban Narah" Archived 2011-09-19 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  31. Web page title "Joy Goswami" Archived 2011-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  32. Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  33. Web page titled "K. G. Sankara Pillai" Archived 2010-08-22 at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
  34. Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
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  38. Web page titled "Teji Grover" Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010
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  46. Web page titled "Some information about Adam Zagajewski" Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine, cached page from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts website, cached on February 24, 2005 by the "Info-Poland" website, retrieved February 25, 2010
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  48. Web page/article titled "Wang Xiaoni" Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
  49. Web page/article titled "Yi Sha" Archived 2008-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008

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