- Source: 1996 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States.
Summer/Autumn – Ledbury Poetry Festival established in England.
November 11 – A memorial to John Betjeman is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Lady Wilson.
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
=Raewyn Alexander, Fat, Auckland: Penguin
Robert Gray, Lineations
Jennifer Harrison: Cabramatta/Cudmirrah (Black Pepper)
Les Murray:
Late Summer Fires
Subhuman Redneck Poems, Carcanet and Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize
Peter Porter, editor, The Oxford book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne: Oxford University Press
Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3
= Canada
=Roo Borson, Water Memory, ISBN 0-7710-1589-5 American-Canadian
Cyril Dabydeen, editor, Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States, Toronto: TSAR
Kristjana Gunnar, Exiles Among You
Dennis Lee, Nightwatch: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1996
Sylvia Legris:
ash petals (chapbook)
Circuitry of Veins
Steve McCaffery, The Cheat of Words
George McWhirter, A Staircase for All Souls
Erín Moure, Search Procedures
Janis Rapoport, After Paradise
Joe Rosenblatt, The Voluptuous Gardener. (new poetry and selected drawings from Carleton University Art Gallery permanent collection) Beach Holme Press.
Stephen Scobie, Taking the Gate: A Journey Through Scotland
Raymond Souster, Close to Home. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
= India, in English
=Keki N. Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press
Kamala Das, My Story, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers; autobiography
= Ireland
=Pat Boran, The Shape of Water (Dedalus), Ireland
Ciaran Carson, Opera Et Cetera, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-188-5
Seán Dunne, Time and the Island, Oldcastle: Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-181-6
Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
Thomas McCarthy, The Lost Province, Anvil Press, London
Ulick O'Connor, Poems of the Damned, a translation of Les Fleurs du mal from the original French of Charles Baudelaire
Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom
= New Zealand
=James K. Baxter, posthumous, Cold Spring : Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited by Paul Millar, Auckland: Oxford University Press
Alan Brunton, Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Bumper Books
Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
Allen Curnow, New and Collected Poems 1941-1995
Maurice Gee, Loving Ways
Bill Manhire:
My Sunshine
Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982
= United Kingdom
=John Agard and Grace Nichols, A Caribbean Dozen: A Collection of Poems, London: Walker Books (children's book)
James Berry, Playing a Dazzler
Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Carol Ann Duffy:
Salmon - Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems, Salmon Poetry
Editor, with Trisha Rafferty, Stopping for Death, Viking (anthology)
T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917, early unpublished verse that the author had said he never wanted published; edited by Christopher Ricks; posthumous
Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level Faber & Faber; Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad
Tobias Hill, Midnight in the City of Clocks
Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title), London: Virago Press
Bernard O'Donoghue, Gunpowder, Irish poet living in and published in the United Kingdom
Iona Opie, editor, My Very First Mother Goose, a collection of nursery rhymes
Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5
Craig Raine, Clay: Whereabouts Unknown
Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1985–1996
Peter Redgrove:
Assembling a Ghost
The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson
Iain Sinclair, editor, Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology, anthology of poets associated with or seen as precursors to the British Poetry Revival; Picador
Benjamin Zephaniah, Propa Propaganda
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom
Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" for 1997, when it was published in the United States (Irish poet and scholar published in the United Kingdrom)
= United States
=Elizabeth Alexander, Body of Life
A.R. Ammons, Brink Road
Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon, the author's first book of poems, at age 83
Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American
Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems
Juliana Chang, editor, Quiet Fire: A Historical Anthology of Asian American poetry, 1892-1970, New York: The Asian American Writers' Workshop
Ed Dorn, High West Rendezvous
Robert Fagles, translator, The Odyssey, from the original Ancient Greek of Homer
Donald Hall, The Old Life, four short poems, a long poem and three elegies
Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood, lyric poems
Louise Glück, Meadowlands
Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7
Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren
Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
Ronald Johnson, ARK (Albuquerque: Living Batch Press & University of New Mexico Press)
Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)
Maxine Kumin, Connecting the Dots
James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996
W. S. Merwin
Editor, Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology, Washington: Counterpoint
Translator, Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf
Robert Pinsky, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
James Reiss, The Parable of Fire
Patti Smith, The Coral Sea
Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End
Brian Swann, editor, Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, New York: Random House
Henry Taylor, Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996
C. K. Williams, The Vigil
Poets in The Best American Poetry 1996
Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich:
= Other in English
=Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), a philosophical poetry book in Urdu; M.A.K. Khalil translation into English of the 1923 work
Works published in other languages
Listed by language or nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
= Arabic
=Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati, "The Dragon", Iraq
Books of poetry by:
in Egypt: Muhammad Salih (poet), Rif'at Sallam, Imad Abu-Salih, and Muhammad Mutawalli
in Lebanon: Yahya Jabir, 'Abduh Wazin, and Bassam Hajjar
in Syria: Nuri al-Jarrah
in Morocco: 'Abd al-Latif Lu'abi, Muhammad Binnis, M. Bin Talhah, Mahdi Khuraif, and Tiraibaq Ahmad
= Denmark
=Naja Marie Aidt, Huset overfor
Niels Frank, Tabernakel
Katrine Marie Guldager, Blank, publisher: Gyldendal
Klaus Høeck, Skovene (døden), publisher: Gyldendal
Per Højholt, Anekdoter, the end of the author's Praksis series in poetry and prose
Klaus Rifbjerg, Leksikon
Søren Ulrik Thomsen; Denmark:
Det skabtes vaklen: Arabesker ("The Shaking of Creation"), poetry"
En dans på gloser, ("Dancing Attendance on the Word,"), critical essays
= French language
=Canada, in French
Denise Desautels, «Ma joie», crie-t-elle ("'My joy', she cried"), illustrated with drawings by Francine Simonin, Montréal: Le Noroît
Suzanne Jacob, Les écrits de l'eau, Montréal: l'Hexagone
Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Traversée du désert
Switzerland, in French
Markus Hediger, Ne retournez pas la pierre, Editions de l'Aire, Vevey
France
Michel Butor, A la frontière
Bertrand Degott, Éboulements et Taillis
Claude Esteban, Sur la dernière lande, Fourbis
Michel Houellebecq, Le Sens du combat, poèmes, Flammarion
Abdellatif Laabi, Le Spleen de Casablanca. La Différence, Paris, Moroccan author writing in French and published in France
Dominique Pagnier, La Faveur de l'obscurité
Esther Tellermann, Pangeia
Joël Vernet, Totems de sable
= Germany
=Christoph Buchwald, general editor, Michael Brown and Michael Buselmeier, guest editors, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1996/97 ("Poetry Yearbook 1996/97"), publisher: Beck; anthology
Sarah Kirsch, Bodenlos, winner of the Büchner-Preis
Inge Müller, Irgendwo: noch einmal möcht ich sehn, poetry, prose, diary, edited and with commentary by Ines Geipel
Bert Papenfuß, Berliner Zapfenstreich: Schnelle Eingreifsgesänge
= Hebrew
=Ory Bernstein, Zman shel aherim ("Temps des autres")
Roni Somek, Gan eden le-orez ("Rice Paradise")
Avner Treinin, Ma`a lot Ahaz ("The Dial of Ahaz")
Nathan Zach, Mikhevan she`ani baSviva ("Because I'm Around")
= India
=Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Amarjit Chandan, Beejak, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-language
Gagan Gill, Andhere men Buddha, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1996, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language
Jiban Narah, Tumi Poka Dhanar Dore, Guwahati, Assam: Puthiniketan; Indian, Assamese-language
Kedarnath Singh, Bagh, Delhi: Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language
K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam; Malayalam-language
Nilmani Phookan, Cheena Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Students’ Store, Assamese-language
Raghavan Atholi, Kandathi, Thrissur: Current Books; Malayalam-language
Saleel Wagh, Nivadak Kavita, Pune: Time and Space Communications; Marathi-language
Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shunah-shepa; Marathi-language
= Italy
=Eugenio Montale, Diario postumo: 66 poesie e altre, edited by Annalisa Cima; publisher: Mondadori
Maria Luisa Spaziani, I fasti dell’ortica
Andrea Zanzotto, Meteo
= Latin America
=Sergio Badilla Castillo, Nordic Saga Monteverdi Editions. 1996, Santiago de Chile.
= Norway
=Erling Aadland, Poetisk tenkning i Rolf Jacobsens lyrikk, analysis of the verse of Rolf Jacobsen; criticism
Inger Hagerup, a book of poetry
Gunvor Hofmo, Samlede dikt
Sigmund Mjelve, a book of poetry
= Poland
=Stanisław Barańczak, Poezja i duch uogolnienia. Wybor esejow 1970-1995 ("Poetry and the Spirit of Generalization: Selected Essays"), criticism; Kraków: Znak
Urszula Koziol, Wielka pauza (“The Great Pause”)
Ryszard Krynicki, Magnetyczny punkt. Wybrane wiersze i przeklady ("The Magnetic Point: Selected Poems and Translations"); Warsaw: CiS
Ewa Lipska, Wspólnicy zielonego wiatraczka. Lekcja literatury z Krzysztofem Lisowskim ("Partners of the Green Fan: Literature Lesson with Krzysztofem Lisowskim"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
Czeslaw Milosz:
Legendy nowoczesnoshci (“Legends of Modernity”), wartime essays and wartime correspondence with Jerzy Andrzejewski
Cóz to za goshcia mielishmy ("What a Guest We Had"), a biography of his friend, the late poet Anna Swirszczynska
Tadeusz Różewicz, Zawsze fragment. Recycling ("Always a Fragment: Recycling"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie
Wisława Szymborska: Widok z ziarnkiem piasku ("View with a Grain of Sand"), the author was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature this year
Jan Twardowski, Rwane prosto z krzaka ("Torn Straight From the Bush") Warsaw: PIW
= Russian
=Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Trinadtsat" ("The Thirteen"), a long poem alluding to "Dvenadtsat" ("The Twelve") by Aleksandr Blok, about the Russian Revolution
Books of poetry were published by Bella Akhmadulina, Sergey Biryukov, Oleg Chukhontsev, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Vladimir Gandelsman, Sergey Gandlevsky, Yelena Kabysh, Svetlana Kekova, Aleksandr Kushner, Ilya Kutik, Aleksey Parshchikov, Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinshtein, Yelena Shvarts, Genrikh Sapgir, Vladimir Sokolov, and Andrey Voznesensky
= Spain
=Matilde Camus, Reflexiones a medianoche ("Midnight thoughts")
Ánchel Conte, O tiempo y os días
= Sweden
=Lars Gustafsson, Variationer över ett tema av Silfverstolpe
Gunnar D. Hansson, AB Neanderthal
Juris Kronbergs, Vilks vienacis ("Wolf One-Eye", Latvian)
Lukas Moodysson, Souvenir
Göran Sonnevi, Mozarts tredje hjärna
Jesper Svenbro, Vid budet att Santo Bambino di Aracœli slutligen stulits av maffian
Tomas Tranströmer, Sorgegondolen
= Yiddish
=Yoysef Bar-El, Di shire fun Yankev Fridman ("The Poetry of Yankev Fridman"), criticism
Yoysef Kerler and Boris Karlov (poet), Shpigl-ksav ("Mirror-writing"); the authors are father and son; Israel
Yitskhok Niborski, Vi fun a pustn fas ("As Though out of an Empty Barrel"); Israel
Hadasa Rubin, Rays nisht op di blum ("Don't Tear Up the Flower"); Israel
Yankev Tsvi Shargel, Tsum eygenem shtern ("To My Own Star"); translations and original poems; Israel
= Other
=Gerrit Komrij, Kijken is bekeken worden; Netherlands
Wang Huairang, Zhongguoren: buguide ren ("Chinese: A People Not on Its Knees"), China
Krystyna Rodowska, Na dole płomień W górze płomień, Poland
Tadeusz Różewicz, Zawsze fragment, Poland
Hilmi Yavuz, Çöl (“Desert”); Turkey
Awards and honors
Nobel prize: Wislawa Szymborska
= Australia
=C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon
Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing
= Canada
=Gerald Lampert Award: Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin
Archibald Lampman Award: Gary Geddes, The Perfect Cold Warrior
1996 Governor General's Awards: E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (English); Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Quatuor de l'errance / La Traversée du désert (French)
Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light
Prix Alain-Grandbois: Hélène Dorion, Sans bord, sans bout du monde
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce
Prix Émile-Nelligan: Carle Coppens, Poèmes contre la montre
= United Kingdom
=Cholmondeley Award: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith
Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinéad Morrissey, Kate Thomas
Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)
Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove
T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level
= United States
=Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night
AML Award for poetry to Leslie Norris for Collected Poems
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Voiklis, "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately) Sarah Arvio, "Visits from the Seventh"
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Koch, One Train
National Book Award for poetry: Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern
Wallace Stevens Award: Adrienne Rich
Whiting Awards: Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Elizabeth Spires, Patricia Storace
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jay Wright
= Awards and honors elsewhere
=Denmark:
Golden Laurels: Henrik Nordbrandt
Critics' Prize: Per Højholt
Japan: Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize in Poetry: Masao Tsuji for Haikai Tsuji shu ("Poems of Haikai Tsuji")
Spain: Cervantes Prize: José García Nieto
Turkey: President's Award: Cahit Külebi
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, 55 (born 1940), Russian-American poet and essayist, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991–1992), of a heart attack
February 11 – Amelia Rosselli, 66 (born 1950), Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.
March 18 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek
April 13 – George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist
May 8 – Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attack
May 11 – Sam Ragan (born 1915), American poet, journalist; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1982–1996
August 18 – Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, English poet
September 25 – Mina Loy, 83, artist, poet, Futurist, actor
November 13 – Margaret Steuart Pollard (Peggy Pollard), 93 (born 1904), English bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist, oriental scholar and eccentric
November 24 – Sorley MacLean, 85, Scottish
December 10 – Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet
December 14 – Gaston Miron, 68 Canada
Date not known:
Haermann Kesten (born 1900), German
Tom Rawling (born 1916), English poet and angler
Constance Urdang, American poet and novelist, wife of Donald Finkel
See also
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of poetry awards
References
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Last Man Standing (1996)
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Lone Star (1996)
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Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
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David R. Ellis
The Apartment (1996)
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Gilles Mimouni
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
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Lauren Lazin
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