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Events
- February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T. Coleridge have been discovered
- February 17 — Sotheby's announces discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks
Works published
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 Harrison: Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems (Black Pepper)
- Chris Mansell, Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin, Melbourne) ISBN 9780-14-024540-0
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Selected Poems 1956-1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia
New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press1
- Jenny Bornholdt, How We Met, New Zealand
- Janet Charman, End of the Dry, Auckland: Auckland University Press2
- Robin Hyde, The Victory Hymn, 1935-1995, with an essay by Michele Leggott; Auckland: Holloway Press, New Zealand
- Mark Williams and Michele Leggott, editors, Opening the Book : New Essays on New Zealand Writing Auckland: Auckland University Press, criticism
United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press1
- Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien, Penguin Modern Poets 5 (Penguin)
- Alison Brackenbury, 1829, Carcanet Press, ISBN 9781857541229
- Gerry Cambridge, The Shell House, Scottish Cultural Press, ISBN 189821834X
- Jan Kochanowski: Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies, translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanisław Barańczak, Faber & Faber
- Derek Mahon, The Hudson Letter. Gallery Press
- Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
- Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Labi Siffre, Blood on the Page
- R.S. Thomas, No Truce with the Furies
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Robert F. Garratt, editor, Critical essays on Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0-7838-0004-5
United States
- Ralph Angel, Nether World
- John Ashbery, Can You Hear, Bird?
- Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux4 Russian-American
- Henri Cole, The Look of Things
- Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, For a Living (University of Illinois Press)
- Alice Fulton, Sensual Math
- Michael S. Harper, Honorable Amendments5
- Fanny Howe, O'Clock
- James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts (his last book)
- Carl Rakosi, Poems, 1923-1941
- Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures
- Michael Palmer, At Passages
- Molly Peacock, Original Love
- Carl Phillips, Cortége6
- Giorgos Seferis, Complete Poems (in English), translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Helen Vendler, The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Harvard University Press
- John Hollander, The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, criticism
The Best American Poetry 1995
Richard Howard is the guest editor for The Best American Poetry 1995 (David Lehman, series editor). Howard changes the rules of inclusion for this year: "[P]oets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series." A total of 75 poems are included.7
Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology:
Other in English
- Gerald Dawe, Heart of Hearts, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9781852351540 Ireland
- Roy Miki, Random Access File, Canada
- Aharon Shabtai, Ha-lev ("The Heart"), Hebrew
- Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
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:
French language
France
- Michel Deguy, A ce qui n'en finit pas
- Andree Chedid, Par dela les mots (Lebanese resident of France, writing in French)
Spain
- Matilde Camus, Vuelo de la mente ("Mind flight")
Other languages
- Chen Kehua, Qiankantou shi ("Head-hunting Poems") Chinese (Taiwan)8
Awards and honors
Australia
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Bruce Beaver - Anima and Other Poems
- Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Selected poems 1956-1994 by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Peter Boyle, Coming Home From the World
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jordie Albiston - Nervous Arcs
Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Archibald Lampman Award
- See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Pat Lowther Award
- Prix Alain-Grandbois
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: U.A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C. H. Sisson, Kit Wright
- Eric Gregory Award: Colette Bryce, Sophie Hannah, Tobias Hill, Mark Wormald
- Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
- Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Jane Duran, Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon Press)
- T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Mark Doty, My Alexandria
- Whitbread Award for poetry: Bernard O’Donoghue, Gunpowder
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sandy Solomon, Pears, Lake, Sun
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Vijay Seshadri, "Lifeline"
- Bollingen Prize: Kenneth Koch
- National Book Award for poetry: Stanley Kunitz, Passing Through: The Later Poems
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Hass appointed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: A.R. Ammons
- Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Denise Levertov
New Zealand
- Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, Pieces of Music
- New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, Dia
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 28 — George Woodcock (born 1912), Canadian poet, biographer, academic and prominent anarchist
- February 6 — James Merrill, 68, of a heart attack
- April 14 — Brian Coffey (born 1905), Irish poet and publisher
- April 22 - Jane Kenyon, 47, of leukemia
- May 11 - David Avidan, 61, Israeli poet.
- July 7 — Helene Johnson, after osteoporosis
- July 16 —
- May Sarton, 83, of breast cancer
- Stephen Spender 86, (born 1909), English poet and essayist, of a heart ailment
- September 3 — Earle Birney, 91, Canadian poet
- September 18 — Donald Davie, 73, of cancer
- October 22 — Kingsley Amis, 73, after an accidental fall
- November 5 — Essex Hemphill, 38, American poet and gay activist, from complications relating to AIDS
- December 30 — Heiner Muller (born 1929), German
Notes
- ^ a b Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
- ^ "Publications" page, Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
- ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
- ^ Howard, Richard, "Introduction", page 16
- ^ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008
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