Events
- January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton
- T. S. Eliot Prize created.
- March 31–April 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.
- 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.
Works published in English
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press[1]
- 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
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press[1]
- Barbara Bleiman editor, Five Modern Poets: Fleur Adcock, U.A. Fanthorpe, Tony Harrison, Anne Stevenson, Derek Walcott, Harlow, England: Longman[1]
- Ciarán Carson: First Language: Poems, Gallery Books, Wake Forest University Press, 1993
- Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, The Last Rock Eagle, a translation of several of her poems
- Thom Gunn, Collected Poems
- Seamus Heaney:
- Keeping Going, Bow and Arrow Press
- Translator: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Gallery Press
- Jackie Kay, Other Lovers
- Labi Siffre, Nigger
- John Heath-Stubbs, Sweet-Apple Earth
- Sean O'Brien, A Rarity (Carnivorous Arpeggio)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Ai, Greed
- A.R. Ammons, Garbage, a book-length poem about American trash and its implications, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry this year and the 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Geoffrey Dearmer, A Pilgrim's Song: Selected Poems
- Mark Doty, My Alexandria
- Petya Dubarova, Here I Am, in Perfect Leaf Today (posthumous), translated from Bulgarian to English by Don D. Wilson
- Margaret Gibson, The Vigil
- Donald Hall, Life Work, memoir
- John Hollander:
- Selected Poetry
- Tesserae and Other Poems
- Daniel Halpern, editor, The Inferno by Dante, 21 living American poets wrote their versions of the cantos
- Meto Jovanovski, Faceless Men and Other Macedonian Stories, translated from Macedonian to English by Charles Simic in collaboration with Milne Holton and Jeffrey Folks.
- Susan Ludvigson, Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming
- Jack Marshall, Sesame
- Lorine Niedecker and Louis Zukofsky, Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970, edited by Jenny Penberthy (Cambridge University Press)
- Ed Ochester & Peter Oresick, Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Jim Powell, translator, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments of the 6th-century BC poet
- Lawrence Raab, What We Don't Know About Each Other
- Adrienne Rich, Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970
- David Rosenberg, translator, The Lost Book of Paradise, a verse translation of Genesis
- Sherod Santos, The City of Women, a sequence of poems and prose
- Sappho, Sappho: A Garland, new translations of the poems and fragments, translated by Jim Powell
- James Schuyler, Collected Poems
- Frederick Seidel, My Tokyo
- Charles Simic, translator, The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, from Serbian into English, including Serbian poets Ivan V. Lalic, Vasko Popa, Momcilo Nastasijevic, and Nina Zivancevic.
- Sande Stojcevski, A Gate in the Cloud, translated by David Bowen and others from Macedonian to English, with more than 50 of the poet's lyrics.
- Mark Strand, Dark Harbor
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of the Excluded Middle (Tender Buttons)
- Rosanna Warren, Stained Glass
- Eliot Weinberger, editor, American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (Marsilio Publishers)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Anthologies in the United States
- John Hollander, editor, American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century, two volumes (Library of America)
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1993, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Louise Glück:
Other in English
Works published in other languages
French language
Portuguese language
Other
Awards and honors
Deaths
- April 23 — Bertus Aafjes, 89, Dutch poet
- June 19 — William Golding, 82, English novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature
- August 28 — William Stafford, 79, American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford
- September 16 — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 71, Australian poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
- October 27 — Peter Quennell, 88, English biographer, historian and poet
- October (exact date not known) — Gu Cheng, Chinese poet, by suicide
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ "Publications" Web page at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2
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