- Source: 1997 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration.
Regeneration (titled Behind the Lines in the United States), a film about World War I poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, is released. It is based on the novel Regeneration by Pat Barker.
Jacket online literary magazine founded.
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:
= Canada
=Michael Barnholden, On the Ropes (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-002-4
Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
Clint Burnham, Be Labour Reading (ECW Press) ISBN 978-1-55022-344-6
Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane.
Louis Dudek, The Caged Tiger. Montreal: Empyreal Press.
John Glassco, Selected Poems with Three Notes on the Poetic Process. Ottawa: Golden Dog Press)
Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki
A.M. Klein, Selected Poems. Selected Poems Seymour Mayne, Zailig Pollock, Usher Caplan ed. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997. ISBN 0-8020-0734-1 ISBN 0802077536
Laura Lush:
Darkening In, Montreal: Véhicule Press
Fault Line, Montreal: Véhicule Press
Don McKay, Apparatus
George McWhirter, Incubus: The Dark Side of the Light
John Reibetanz:
Midland Summer
Near Finisterre
= India, in English
=R. Parthasarathy Rough Passage ( Poetry in English ). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, India 1977. ISBN 0-19-560690-6
Jeet Thayil, Apocalypso ( Poetry in English ), London: Aark Arts, 1997, ISBN 1-899179-01-1
Sudeep Sen, Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: HarperCollins, ISBN 81-7223-269-1
Eunice de Souza, editor, Nine Indian Women Poets, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-564077-2
Svami Bhumananda Sarasvati, editor and translator, Anthology of Vedic Hymns: Being a Collection of Hymns from the Four Vedas, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad: Kusum Lat Arya Pratishthan, India.
= Ireland
=Moya Cannon, The Parchment Boat, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-201-1
Michael Coady, All Souls (poems and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-212-7
Aidan Murphy, Stark Naked Blues, New Island Books, ISBN 978-1-874597-67-4
William Wall, Mathematics And Other Poems, Collins Press, Cork ISBN 1-898256-26-8
= New Zealand
=Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, and Mark Williams, editors, An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Auckland: Oxford University Press New Zealand (anthology)
Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems
Diane Brown, Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press
Alan Brunton, Years Ago Today, documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper Books
Allen Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997
Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous
Paula Green, Cookhouse, Auckland University Press
= United Kingdom
=Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
Simon Armitage, CloudCuckooLand (sic.)
Charles Causley, Collected Poems (see also Collected Poems 1975)
Gillian Clarke, Collected Poems, Carcanet Press, ISBN 1-85754-335-1
Elaine Feinstein, Daylight, Carcanet
Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly, Faber and Faber
Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1998
Elizabeth Jennings, In the Meantime
Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly
Anne MacLeod, Standing by Thistles (Scottish poet)
Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book. Gallery Press
Andrew Motion, Salt Water
Sean O'Brien, The Ideology (Smith/Doorstep)
Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
Peter Reading, Work in Regress
Peter Redgrove:
Orchard End
What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry
Robin Robertson, A Painted Field
Labi Siffre, Monument
Anthony Thwaite, Selected Poems 1956–1996
Charles Tomlinson, Selected Poems 1955–1997
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
Thomas Rain Crowe with Gwendal Denez and Tom Hubbard, Writing the Wind: A Celtic resurgence: The New Celtic Poetry: Welsh, Breton, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press
Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin
Iona Opie and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom
R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-288085-3
= United States
=Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita (BOA Editions) 1997
Agha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post Office (Indian-born poet of Kashmiri heritage)
Dick Allen, Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected (Sarabande)
A.R. Ammons, Glare
Marvin Bell, Ardor (The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2) (Copper Canyon Press)
Wendell Berry, Entries (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint)
Frank Bidart, Desire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Allison Hedge Coke, [Dog Road Woman (Coffee House Press), "American Book Award"
Alfred Corn, Present (Washington: Counterpoint Press)
Tess Gallagher, At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Amy Clampitt, The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf), published posthumously, a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Jorie Graham, The Errancy: Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Beth Gylys, Balloon Heart (Wind Publications), Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Award.
Robert Fagles (translator), The Odyssey by Homer (Viking), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Susan Hahn, Confession (University of Chicago Press)
Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls
Paul Hoover, Viridian (University of Georgia Press)
Fanny Howe, One Crossed Out
Jane Kenyon, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (Norton), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco), a New York Times "notable book of the year"
John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (Columbia University Press)
Maxine Kumin, Selected Poems, 1960-1990 (W.W. Norton)
Philip Levine, Unselected Poems (Greenhouse Review Press)
Sarah Lindsay, Primate Behavior (Grove Press), National Book Award finalist
William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
W. S. Merwin, Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)
Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (which wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize)
Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
Carl Rakosi, The Earth Suite 1997
Kenneth Rexroth, Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems
Rosmarie Waldrop, Another Language: Selected Poems (Talisman House)
C. K. Williams, The Vigil (Farrar Straus), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
David Wojahn, The Falling Hour (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Charles Wright, BlackZodiac (Farrar Straus)
Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States
Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1997 American Book Award
Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism)
Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship)
Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
Anthologies in the United States
Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)
= The Best American Poetry 1997 =
Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:
= Other in English
=Margaret Avison, Not Yet but Still, Australia
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
Olivier Barbarant, Aragon: la mémoire et l'excès, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, ISBN 978-2-87673-226-1
Yves Bonnefoy, L'Encore Aveugle,
Seyhmus Dagtekin, Artères-solaires, publisher: L'Harmattan; Kurdish Turkish poet writing in French, living in and published in France
Canada, in French
Suzanne Jacob, La part de feu, Montréal: Boréal, winner of the prix de la Société Radio-Canada, and prix du Gouverneur général
Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves, Montréal: Le Noroît
= Hebrew
=Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
Rami Saari, Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az ("The Route of the Bold Pain")
= India
=In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Bengali
Joy Goswami, Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 2, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, ISBN 81-7215-750-9 (third reprint in 2002)
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Shondharaater Kobita, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers
Udaya Narayana Singh, Ashru o Parihaas, Kolkata: Pritoniya
Subrata Bandyopadhyay, Saodāgara o The final judgement ("Saudagar and the Final Judgement"), Kalakata: De'ja Pābaliśiṃ
Other in India
Jiban Narah, Dhou Khela Loralir San, Guwahati, Assam: Nibedon; Indian, Assamese-language
Jayant Kaikini, Neelimale, Bangalore: Patrike Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter
K. G. Sankara Pillai, K.G. Shankara Pillayude Kavithakal 1969-1996, Kottayam, Kerala: D C Books; Malayalam-language
K. Siva Reddy, Naa Kalala Nadi Anchuna, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-language
Kanaka Ha Ma, Papanashini, Puttur, Karnataka: Kannada Sangha; Kannada language
Namdeo Dhasal, Andhale Shatak, Mumbai: Ambedkara Prabodhini; Marathi-language
= Poland
=Stanisław Barańczak, Zimy i podroze ("Winter and Journeys"), Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie
Ewa Lipska, Ludzie dla poczatkujacych, ("People for Beginners"); Poznan: a5
Tomasz Różycki, Vaterland, Łódź: Stowarzyszenie Literackie im. K.K. Baczyńskiego
Piotr Sommer, Nowe stosunki wyrazów. Wiersze z lat siedemdziesiątych i osiemdziesiątych
Wisława Szymborska: Sto wierszy - sto pociech ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses")
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Liber mortuorum
= Spain
=Matilde Camus, Mundo interior ("Inner World")
= Other
=Mario Benedetti, La vida ese paréntesis, Uruguay
Attilio Bertolucci, La lucertola di Casarola, previously unpublished poems, many written in his youth; Italy
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Ror Wolf, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1997/98 ("Poetry Yearbook 1997/98"), publisher: Beck; anthology
Chen Kehua, Bie ai moshengren ("Don’t Make Love to Strangers") Chinese (Taiwan)
Alexander Mezhirov:
Позёмка ("Drifting"), Russia
Apologii︠a︡ t︠s︡irka: kniga novykh stikhov ("Apologia of the Circus"), including a version of "Blizzard", St. Petersburg, Russia
Wang Xiaoni, Wode zhili baozhe wo de huo ("My paper wraps my fire"), China
Awards and honors
= Australia
=C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Joint winners
Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter
The Wild Reply by Emma Lew
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder
Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply
= Canada
=Gerald Lampert Award: Marilyn Dumont, A Really Good Brown Girl
Archibald Lampman Award: Diana Brebner, Flora & Fauna
1997 Governor General's Awards: Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (English); Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves (French)
Pat Lowther Award: Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
Prix Alain-Grandbois: Claude Beausoleil, Grand hôtel des étrangers
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings
Prix Émile-Nelligan: Patrick Lafontaine, L’Ambition du vide
= India
=Sahitya Akademi Award : Leeladhar Jagudi for Anubhav Ke Aakash Mein Chaand
Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Ranjit Hoskote for Portrait of a Lady
= New Zealand
=Montana New Zealand Book Awards, First Book Award for Poetry: Diane Brown, Before the Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press
= United Kingdom
=Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
Whitbread Award for poetry and book of the year: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
National Poetry Competition : Neil Rollinson for The Constellations
= United States
=Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
AML Award for poetry to Susan Elizabeth Howe for Stone Spirits
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Drury, "Burning the Aspern Papers"
Bollingen Prize: Gary Snyder
National Book Award for poetry: William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Robert Pinsky appointed
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Live Together: New and Selected Poems
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: William Matthews
Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
Whiting Awards: Connie Deanovich, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Mark Turpin
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Haines
North Carolina Poet Laureate: Fred Chappell appointed.
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 19 – James Dickey, 73 (born 1923), American
April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, 70 (born 1926), of liver cancer, American
April 27 – Dulce María Loynaz, 94 (born 1902), Cuban
May 15 – Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter
August 27 – Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish
October 19 – Stella Sierra, 80, (born 1917), Panamanian
November 12:
James Laughlin, 83, American poet, publisher and man of letters
William Matthews, 55, American poet and essayist, of a heart attack
November 17 – David Ignatow, 83, American poet
November 30 – Kathy Acker, 53, American postmodernist experimental novelist and punk poet
December 13 – Claude Roy, pen name of Claude Orland (born 1915), French poet, novelist, essayist, art critic and journalist; an activist in the Communist Party until his expulsion in 1956
December 20 – Denise Levertov, 74, of lymphoma
See also
Poetry
List of years in poetry
List of poetry awards