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==Events==
* January 20 &mdash; [[Maya Angelou]] reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.
* March 31&ndash;April 3 &mdash; ''Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry'' held at the [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|State University of New York at Buffalo]]. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of ''[[O-blek|o•blék]]'' magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference.
* December 8 &mdash; Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the [[POETICS list]], one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the contents of list postings or the list itself with "outsiders." People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved.
* [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] created.
* [[Reality television]] contest ''[[Million's Poet]]'' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: '''شاعر المليون''') is launched in the [[United Arab Emirates]].
* ''[[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 (1993 film)|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.
* American literary magazine [[O-blek|o•blék]] (pronounced "oblique"), founded in [[1987 in poetry|1987]] by [[Peter Gizzi]] who co-edited it with Connell McGrath, stopped publishing.

==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:

===[[Australian literature|Australia]]===
* [[Jennifer Maiden]], ''Acoustic Shadow'', Penguin
* [[Philip Salom]]: ''Feeding the Ghost'', Penguin, {{ISBN|978-0-14-058692-3}}
* [[John Tranter]]:
** ''Under Berlin'', University of Queensland Press
** ''The Floor of Heaven'', HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson
* [[Chris Wallace-Crabbe]], ''Rungs of Time'', Oxford University Press

===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[George Bowering]]:
** ''The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe''
** ''George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961&ndash;1992''
* [[Marilyn Bowering]], ''Love as It Is''
* [[Leonard Cohen]], ''[[Stranger Music|Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs]]'', selected from works written between 1956 and 1992
* [[Sheree Fitch]], ''In This House Are Many Women''
* [[Judith Fitzgerald]]:
** ''Walkin' Wounded'', including a cycle of baseball poems
** "Habit of Blues", a prose poem meditating on the fate of the late novelist [[Juan Butler]].
* [[Bryan Gooch]] and [[Maureen Niwa]], editors, ''The Emergence of the Muse: Major Canadian Poets from Crawford to Pratt'', Toronto: Oxford University Press (scholarship)<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca">[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/bibliography_2001.html "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228024118/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/bibliography_2001.html |date=2008-12-28 }} web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009</ref>
* [[Irving Layton]], '' Fornalutx''
* [[Dennis Lee (author)|Dennis Lee]], ''Riffs'' London, Ont.: Brick Books.<ref>"[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/lee/pub.htm Dennis Lee: Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409172935/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/lee/pub.htm |date=2011-04-09 }}", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.</ref>
* [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]]:
** [[Margaret Atwood|Atwood, Margaret]] and [[Barry Callaghan]], eds. ''The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: [https://books.google.com/books?id=j7-yfNmHyjkC The Early Years (Volume One)]''. Toronto: Exile Editions. {{ISBN|978-1-55096-543-8}}
** Atwood, Margaret and Barry Callaghan, eds. ''The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: [https://books.google.com/books?id=LNhTQZs4CIkC The Later Years (Volume Two)]''. Toronto: Exile Editions. {{ISBN|978-1-55096-547-6}}
* [[A. F. Moritz]], ''The Ruined Cottage''<ref name=nrctcp>Roberts, Neil, editor, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VUFI53dBmFAC ''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</ref>
* [[bp Nichol]]:
** ''Truth: A Book of Fictions''
** ''First Screening''
* [[Hernert Rosengarten]] and [[Amanda Goldrick-Jones]], editors, ''[[Broadview Anthology of Poetry]]'', anthology of American, British and Canadian poetry; {{ISBN|978-1-55111-006-6}}
* [[Raymond Souster]], ''Old Bank Notes''. Ottawa: Oberon.<ref name=rpo>"[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html Notes on Life and Works] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html |date=2011-08-17 }}", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.</ref>
* [[Raymond Souster]], ''Riding the Long Black Horse'', Ottawa: Oberon.<ref name=rpo/>

===[[Indian poetry|India]], [[Indian poetry in English|in English]]===
* [[Sudeep Sen]], ''Parallel'' ( Poetry in English ), with compact disc/audio cassette; [[Edinburgh]]: The Scottish Poetry Library<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 "Sudeep Sen"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040921/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 |date=2012-03-25 }}, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010</ref>
* [[Arundhathi Subramaniam]], editor, ''In Their Own Voice: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets'', anthology; [[New Delhi]]: Penguin, {{ISBN|0-14-015643-7}}.<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14723 "Vaidehi"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234011/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14723 |date=2012-04-06 }} at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010</ref>
* [[Makarand Paranjape]], editor, ''Indian Poetry in English'', [[Madras]]: Macmillan India Ltd.<ref>J. G. Bhuva, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7fsLY0b5aJAC "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla"], p 208, in ''Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives'', edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, {{ISBN|81-7625-111-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010</ref>

===[[Irish poetry|Ireland]]===
* [[Fergus Allen]], ''The Brown Parrots of Providencia'', including "Elegy for Faustina" and "The Fall", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the [[English poetry|United Kingdom]]<ref name=pcmip>Crotty, Patrick, ''Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology'', Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, {{ISBN|0-85640-561-2}}</ref>
* [[Pat Boran]], ''Familiar Things'', publisher: Dedalus<ref name=pbcom>[http://www.patboran.com/ "Publications" Web page] at Pat Boran's Web site, accessed May 2</ref>
* [[Ciaran Carson]], ''First Language'', including "Ovid: ''Metamorphoses'', V, 529&ndash;550" and "Bagpipe Music", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,<ref name=pcmip/> {{ISBN|978-1-85235-128-1}}
* [[Michael D. Higgins]], ''The Season of Fire''
* [[Medbh McGuckian]], ''The Flower Master and Other Poems'', including "The Seed-picture", "Gateposts" and "The Flower Master", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press<ref name=pcmip/>
* [[Martin Mooney]], ''Grub'', including "[[Anna Akhmatova]]'s Funeral", Belfast: The Blackstaff Press<ref name=pcmip/>
* [[W. R. Rodgers]], ''Poems'', including "Lent", "The Net" and "Stormy Night", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press<ref name=pcmip/>

===[[New Zealand literature|New Zealand]]===
* [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), ''Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-soprano and Clarinet'', by [[Dorothy Quita Buchanan|Dorothy Buchanan]], with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press<ref name=faua>[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm |date=2006-12-21 }} at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008</ref>
* [[Andrew Johnston (writer)|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 literature|New Zealand]]
* [[Keith Sinclair]], ''Moontalk''
* [[Ian Wedde]], ''The Drummer''

===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Fleur Adcock]] (New Zealand poet who moved to England in [[1963 in poetry|1963]]), ''Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-soprano and Clarinet'', by [[Dorothy Quita Buchanan|Dorothy Buchanan]], with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press<ref name=faua/>
* [[Fergus Allen]], ''The Brown Parrots of Providencia'', including "Elegy for Faustina" and "The Fall", Faber and Faber, [[Irish poetry|Irish]] poet published in the United Kingdom<ref name=pcmip/>
* [[Moniza Alvi]], ''The Country at my Shoulder''<ref name=cocel>Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}</ref>
* [[Simon Armitage]], ''Book of Matches''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Barbara Bleiman]] editor, ''Five Modern Poets: [[Fleur Adcock]], [[U. A. Fanthorpe]], [[Tony Harrison]], [[Anne Stevenson]], [[Derek Walcott]]'', Harlow, England: Longman<ref name=faua/>
* [[Ciarán Carson]]: ''First Language: Poems'', Gallery Books, Wake Forest University Press, [[Irish poetry|Irish]] poet published in the United Kingdom
* [[Gillian Clarke]], ''The King of Britain's Daughter''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Blaga Dimitrova]], [[Bulgarian literature|Bulgaria's]] popular vice president, ''The Last Rock Eagle'', a translation of several of her poems
* [[Carol Ann Duffy]], ''Mean Time'',<ref name=cocel/> Anvil Press Poetry<ref name=cadcp>O'Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page), [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth104 "Carol Ann Duffy"]at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009. 2009-05-08.</ref>
* [[Douglas Dunn]], ''Dante's Drum-Kit''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Paul Durcan]], ''A Snail in my Prime''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[D. J. Enright]], ''Old Men and Comets''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[James Fenton]], ''Out of Danger''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Roy Fuller]], ''Last Poems''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[W. S. Graham]], ''Aimed at Nobody'' (posthumous)
* [[Thom Gunn]], ''Collected Poems''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Tony Harrison]], ''Black Daisies for the Bride''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Seamus Heaney]]:
** ''Keeping Going'', Bow and Arrow Press
** Translator: ''The Midnight Verdict'': Translations from the Irish of [[Brian Merriman]] and from the ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]'' of [[Ovid]],  Gallery Press
* [[John Heath-Stubbs]], ''Sweet-Apple Earth''
* [[Jackie Kay]], ''Other Lovers''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[James Kirkup]], ''Blue Bamboo''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Jamie McKendrick]], ''The Kiosk on the Brink''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[E. A. Markham]], ''Letter from Ulster and the Hugo Poems''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Anna Mendelssohn]] (as Grace Lake), ''Viola Tricolor''
* [[Sean O'Brien (writer)|Sean O'Brien]], ''A Rarity'' (Carnivorous Arpeggio)
* [[Tom Rawling]], ''The Names of the Sea-Trout''
* [[Carol Rumens]], ''Thinking of Skins''<ref name=cocel/>
* [[Labi Siffre]], ''Nigger''
* [[R. S. Thomas]], ''Collected Poems, 1945&ndash;1990''<ref name=cocel/>

====Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom====
* [[Elmer Andrews]], editor, ''The Poetry of [[Seamus Heaney]]'', {{ISBN|0-231-11926-7}}
* [[Thomas N. Corns]], editor, ''Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca"/>
* Michael Parker, ''[[Seamus Heaney]]: The Making of the Poet'', {{ISBN|0-333-47181-4}}

===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Ai (poet)|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 in poetry|1994]] [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]
* [[Jared Carter (poet)|Jared Carter]], ''After the Rain'', winner of the Poets' Prize for 1994
* [[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]]
* Jerry Estrin, ''Rome, A Mobile Home''
* [[Margaret Gibson (poet)|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 (writer)|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 (poet)|Jack Marshall]], ''Sesame''
* [[W. S. Merwin]]:
** ''The Second Four Books of Poems'', Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
** [[W. S. Merwin]], ''Travels: Poems'', New York: Knopf<ref name=pfwsm>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4676 "W. S. Merwin (1927- )"] at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010</ref>
* [[Lorine Niedecker]] and [[Louis Zukofsky]], ''Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931&ndash;1970'', edited by Jenny Penberthy (Cambridge University Press)
* [[Ed Ochester]] & [[Peter Oresick]], ''[[Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry]]'' (University of Pittsburgh Press)
* [[Jim Powell (poet)|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&ndash;1970''
* [[David Rosenberg (poet)|David Rosenberg]], translator, ''The Lost Book of Paradise'', a verse translation of [[Book of Genesis|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 (poet)|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. Lalić]], [[Vasko Popa]], [[Momčilo Nastasijević]], and [[Nina Zivancevic]].
* [[Sande Stojcevski]], ''A Gate in the Cloud'', translated by [[David Bowen (translator)|David Bowen]] and others from Macedonian to English, with more than 50 of the poet's lyrics.
* [[Mark Strand]], ''Dark Harbor'', [[Canadian poetry|Canadian]] native living in and published in the United States
* [[Luci Tapahonso]], ''Saanii Dahataal''<ref>Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=I3_cSqmbXd8C&dq=Timeline+poetry&pg=PA25 ''The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature''], p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-521-82283-1}}, retrieved February 9, 2009</ref>
* [[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====
* [[Donald Hall]], ''Life Work'', a memoir
* [[Jay Parini]], editor, ''The Columbia History of American Poetry''<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca"/>
* [[Alex Preminger]], and [[T. V. F. Brogan]], editors, ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca"/>
* [[Adrienne Rich]], ''What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics''
* [[Delmore Schwartz]] and [[James Laughlin]], ''Selected Letters'', correspondence between the poet and his publisher

====Anthologies in the United States====
* [[Don Burness]], editor, ''Echoes of the Sunbird: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry'', Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca"/>
* [[John Hollander]], editor, ''American Poetry, the Nineteenth Century'', two volumes (Library of America)<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca"/>
* [[Garrett Hongo]], editor, ''The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America'', New York: Doubleday<ref name="rpo.library.utoronto.ca"/>

=====Poets included in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1993]]''=====
Poems from these 75 poets were in ''[[The Best American Poetry 1993]]'', edited by [[David Lehman]], guest editor [[Louise Glück]]:
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*[[A. R. Ammons]]
*[[John Ashbery]]
*[[Michael Atkinson (poet)|Michael Atkinson]]
*[[Stephen Berg]]
*[[Sophie Cabot Black]]
*[[Stephanie Brown (poet)|Stephanie Brown]]
*[[Charles Bukowski]]
*[[Hayden Carruth]]
*[[Tom Clark (poet)|Tom Clark]]
*[[Killarney Clary]]
*[[Marc Cohen (poet)|Marc Cohen]]
*[[Billy Collins]]
*[[Peter Cooley]]
*[[Carolyn Creedon]]
*[[Barbara Cully]]
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*[[Carl Dennis]]
*[[Tim Dlugos]]
*[[Stephen Dobyns]]
*[[Denise Duhamel]]
*[[Stephen Dunn]]
*[[Roger Fanning]]
*[[Alice B. Fogel]]
*[[Tess Gallagher]]
*[[Albert Goldbarth]]
*[[Jorie Graham]]
*[[Allen Grossman]]
*[[Thom Gunn]]
*[[Donald Hall]]
*[[Mark Halliday]]
*[[Daniel Halpern]]
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*[[Paul Hoover (poet)|Paul Hoover]]
*[[David Ignatow]]
*[[Josephine Jacobsen]]
*[[Mark Jarman]]
*[[Rodney Jones (poet)|Rodney Jones]]
*[[Donald Justice]]
*[[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]]
*[[Robert Kelly (poet)|Robert Kelly]]
*[[Jane Kenyon]]
*[[Pamela Kircher]]
*[[Kenneth Koch]]
*[[Phyllis Koestenbaum]]
*[[Stanley Kunitz]]
*[[Denise Levertov]]
*[[Lisa Lewis]]
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*[[Thomas Lux]]
*[[Elizabeth Macklin]]
*[[Tom Mandel (poet)|Tom Mandel]]
*[[James L. McMichael|James McMichael]]
*[[Sandra McPherson]]
*[[W.S. Merwin]]
*[[Susan Mitchell]]
*[[A. F. Moritz]]
*[[Mary Oliver]]
*[[Ron Padgett]]
*[[Michael Palmer (poet)|Michael Palmer]]
*[[Lucia Maria Perillo]]
*[[Wang Ping (author)|Wang Ping]]
*[[Lawrence Raab]]
*[[Adrienne Rich]]
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*[[Laura Riding]]
*[[Gjertrud Schnackenberg]]
*[[Hugh Seidman]]
*[[Charles Simic]]
*[[Louis Simpsom]]
*[[Gary Snyder]]
*[[Gerald Stern]]
*[[Ruth Stone]]
*[[Mark Strand]]
*[[James Tate (writer)|James Tate]]
*[[John Updike]]
*[[Ellen Bryant Voigt]]
*[[Susan Wheeler]]
*[[C. K. Williams]]
*[[Dean Young (poet)|Dean Young]]
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==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 literature|Denmark]]===
* [[Kirsten Hammann]], ''Jeg er så træt af min krop (Mellem tænderne)'', publisher: Gyldendal; [[Danish poetry|Denmark]]<ref>Lambæk Nielsen, Michael, translated by Russell Dees, [http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2&#91;stage&#93;=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2&#91;uid&#93;=40&tx_lfforfatter_pi2&#91;lang&#93;=_eng "Bibliography of Kirsten Hammann"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010</ref>
*[[Pia Tafdrup]], ''Krystalskoven''
*[[Henrik Nordbrandt]], ''Støvets tyngde''
*[[Thorkild Bjørnvig]], ''Siv vand og måne''
*[[Kirsten Hammann]], ''Vera Vinkelvir'', a cross between a prose poem and a novel

===French language===

====[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]====
* [[Claude Beausoleil]], ''L'Usage du temps''
* [[Louise Dupré]], ''Noir déjà''
* [[Madeleine Gagnon]], ''La Terre est remplie de langage''
* [[Serge-Patrice Thibodeau]], ''Le Cycle de Prague''

====[[French poetry|France]]====
* [[Olivier Barbarant]], ''Douze lettres d'amore au soldat inconnu'', publisher: Editions Champ Vallon; {{ISBN|978-2-87673-164-6}}
* [[Yves Bonnefoy]]:
** ''La vie errante''
** ''Une autre époque de l'écriture''
* [[Claude Esteban]], ''Sept jours d'hier'', Fourbis
* [[Abdellatif Laabi]], ''L'Étreinte du monde''; Paris; [[Moroccan poetry|Moroccan]] author writing in French and published in France
* [[Yves Leclair]], ''L'or du commun''

===[[German literature|Germany]]===
* [[Christoph Buchwald]], general editor, and [[Robert Gernhardt]], guest editor, ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik 9'' ("Poetry Yearbook 9"), publisher: [[Luchterhand Literaturverlag|Luchterhand]]; anthology<ref>Web page titled [http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf |date=2011-07-17 }} at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010</ref>
* [[Heinz Czechowski]], ''Nachtspur''
* [[Wulf Kirsten]], ''Stimmenschotter''
* [[Richard Wagner]], ''Heisse Maroni''

===[[Hebrew literature|Hebrew]]===
* [[Mordechai Geldman]], ''A'yin'' ("Eye")
* [[Israel Eliraz]], ''Pe Karu'a'' ("A Torn Mouth")
* [[Tamir Greenberg]], ''Dyokan Atzmi Im Qvant veHatul Met'' ("Self Portrait with Quantum and Dead Cat")
* [[Zvika Shternfeld]], ''Hamarkiza miGovari'' ("The Marquise of Govari")
* [[Shimon Shloush]], ''Tola Havui shel Asham'' ("A Hidden Worm of Guilt")

===[[Indian poetry|India]]===
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
* [[Gulzar]], ''Chand Pukhraj Ka''; [[Urdu poetry|Urdu]]-language<ref>Web page titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234554/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11042 "Gulzar"] at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010</ref>
* [[K. Satchidanandan]], ''Ente Satchidanandan Kavitakal'', selected poems; [[Malayalam poetry|Malayalam]]-language<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 "K. Satchidanandan"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 |date=2011-07-21 }}, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010</ref>
* [[Kanaka Ha Ma]], ''Holebagilu'', Sagara, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana; [[Kannada poetry|Kannada]] language<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7951 "Kanaka Ha. Ma."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919112740/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7951 |date=2011-09-19 }} at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010</ref>
* [[Kunwar Narain]], ''Koee Doosra Naheen'', New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, {{ISBN|81-267-0007-6}}; [[Hindi poetry|Hindi]]-language<ref>Web page titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20110920055309/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2726 "Kunwar Narain"] at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010</ref>
* [[Mallika Sengupta]], ''Ardheke Prithivi'', Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; [[Bengali poetry|Bengali]]-language<ref>Web page title [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 "Mallika Sengupta"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092657/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 |date=2012-02-25 }}, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010</ref>
* [[Manushya Puthiran]], ''En Padukai araiyil yaroo olithirukirargal'', Chennai: South Asian Books, [[Tamil poetry|Tamil]] language<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2729 "Manushya Puthiran"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050744/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2729 |date=2011-07-21 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010</ref>
* [[Nilmani Phookan]], editor, ''Aranyar Gan'', an anthology of Indian tribal love poems; Guwahati, Assam: Students' Store, [[Assamese poetry|Assamese]]-language<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 "Nilmani Phookan"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052731/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 |date=2011-07-21 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010</ref>
* [[Prabodh Parikh]], ''Kaunsman'' ("Between Parentheses/In Brackets"), winner of several awards, including Best Poetry Collection of 1993-94 from the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi and the G.F. Saraf Award for Best Gujarati Book in 1992&ndash;1995; Mumbai: R.R. Sheth Publishers; [[Gujarati poetry|Gujarati]]-language<ref>Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6773 "Prabodh Parikh"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213937/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=6773 |date=2012-02-14 }} at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 19, 2010</ref>

===[[Polish poetry|Poland]]===
* [[Ewa Lipska]], ''Wakacje mizantropa. Utwory wybrane'' ("Misanthrope Holidays: Selected Work"), Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie<ref name=eliik>Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php English] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php |date=2011-09-16 }} and [http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php Polish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php |date=2011-07-18 }}), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010</ref>
* [[Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz]], ''Moje dzielo posmiertne'' ("My Posthumous Works") Kraków: Znak<ref name=jmrik>Web page titled [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php |date=2011-09-16 }}, at the Institute Książki website {{in lang|pl}}, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010</ref>
* [[Wisława Szymborska]]: ''Koniec i początek'' ("The End and the Beginning")
* [[Jan Twardowski]]:
** ''Kasztan dla milionera: Wiersze dla dzieci'', Warsaw: Nasza Księgarnia<ref name=tjik>Web page titled [http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php "Jan Twardowski"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063117/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php |date=2011-07-18 }}, at the Institute Książki website {{in lang|pl}}, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010</ref>
** ''Krzyżyk na drogę'' ("Cross the Road"), Kraków: Znak<ref name=tjik/>

===Portuguese language===

====[[Portuguese literature|Portugal]]====
* [[Joaquim Manuel Magalhães]], ''A poeira levada pelo vento''

====[[Brazilian literature|Brazil]]====
* [[Waly Salamão]], ''Armarinho da miudezas'', which reflects native Bahian traditions
* [[Sebastião Uchoa Leite]], published a poetry book
* [[Felipe Fortuna]] published a poetry book
* [[Adão Ventura]], ''Texturaafro'',

===[[Serbian literature|Serbia]]===
[[File:Dejan Stojanovic, 1981.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Dejan Stojanović (writer)|Dejan Stojanović]] in [[Belgrade]], 1981]]
* [[Miodrag Pavlović]]:
** ''Knjiga horizonta'' ("The Book of Horizon")<ref name=vil06>Web page titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20071109145422/http://www.vilenica.si/2006/ENG/Miodrag_Pavlovic_en.html "Vilenica 2006 Prize/Prize-winner Vilenica 2006, Miodrag Pavlović"], at the Vilenica International Literary Festival website, retrieved August 27, 2010</ref>
** ''Nebo v pećini'' ("The Sky in the Rocks")<ref name=vil06/>
** ''Ogledi o narodnoj i staros srpskoj poeziji'' ("A Treatise on Folk and Old Serbian Poetry"), scholarship<ref name=vil06/>
* [[Dejan Stojanović (writer)|Dejan Stojanović]], ''Krugovanje: 1978–1987'' ("Circling"),<ref>Web page titled [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2389740W/Krugovanje Krugovanje: 1978-1987 (First Edition)] by [[Dejan Stojanović (writer)|Dejan Stojanović]] at the [[Open Library]]</ref> first edition, [[Narodna knjiga–Alfa]], Beograd

===[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]===
* [[Matilde Camus]], ''Amor dorado'' ("Golden Love")
* [[Ángel González Muñiz|Ángel González]], ''Poemas''<ref>Web page titled [http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=402 "Ángel González"]{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 27, 2010</ref>
* [[Xavier Sabater]], editor, ''Poesía experimental 93'', a visual poetry anthology; Barcelona: Sedicions<ref>Laura López Fernández, [http://www.cornermag.org/corner05/page08.htm "Experimental Poetry in Spain"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616040648/http://cornermag.org/corner05/page08.htm |date=2010-06-16 }}, ''Corner'' magazine, Fall 2001/Spring 2002, retrieved August 27, 2010</ref>

===[[Swedish literature|Sweden]]===
* [[Jesper Svenbro]]:
** ''Blått'' ("Blue")<ref name=sajs>Web page titled [http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Jesper_Svenbro_2.aspx "Chair No. 8 - Jesper Svenbro"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818033104/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/Jesper_Svenbro_2.aspx |date=2010-08-18 }}, at the Svenska Akademein (Swedish Academy) website, retrieved August 27, 2010</ref>
** ''Samisk Apollon och andra dikter'' ("The Sami Apollo and Other Poems")<ref name=sajs/>
* Henrik Nilsson, ''Utan skor''

===[[Yiddish literature|Yiddish]]===
* [[Yisroel Khaym Biletski]], ''[[Uri Tsvi Grinberg]] der yidish-dikhter'' ("Uri Tsvi Grinberg: The Yiddish Poet") biography on the poet

===Other===
* [[Lindita Arapi]], ''Kufomë lulesh'', [[Albanian literature|Albania]]
* [[Blaga Dimitrova]], [[Bulgarian literature|Bulgaria's]] popular vice president, ''Noshten dnevnik'' ("Night Diary"), 70 poems written from 1989 to 1992
* [[Lo Fu (poet)|Lo Fu]] (Luo Fu), ''Hidden Title Poems'', [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]] (Taiwan)<ref>Balcom, John, [http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 "Lo Fu"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 |date=2011-01-01 }}, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008.</ref>
* [[Cathal Ó Searcaigh]], ''Homecoming/An Bealach 'na Bhaile'', including "Bo Bhradach", "Na Piopai Creafoige", and "Caoineadh", [[Gaelic poetry|Gaelic]]-language, [[Irish poetry|Ireland]]<ref name=pcmip/>
* [[Novica Tadić]], ''Night Mail: Selected Poems'', [[Macedonian literature|Macedonia]]
* [[Yu Jian]], ''Dui yi zhi wuya de mingming'', [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]]<ref name=yjpip>Patten, Simon, [http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=977 "Yu Jian"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709091425/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=977 |date=2007-07-09 }}, article at Poetry International retrieved November 22, 2008</ref>

==Awards and honors==

===[[Australian poetry|Australia]]===
* [[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''Translations from the Natural World''
* [[The Age Book of the Year|Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize]]: ''At the Florida'' by [[John Tranter]]
* [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''Translations from the Natural World''
* [[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Jill Jones (poet)|Jill Jones]] - ''The Mask and Jagged Star''

===[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]===
* [[Gerald Lampert Award]]: [[Elisabeth Harvor]], ''Fortress of Chairs'' and [[Roberta Rees]], ''Eyes Like Pigeons''
* [[Archibald Lampman Award]]: [[Marianne Bluger]], ''Summer Grass''
* [[1993 Governor General's Awards]]: [[Don Coles]], ''Forests of the Medieval World'' (English); [[Denise Desautels]], ''Le Saut de l'ange''
* [[Pat Lowther Award]]: [[Lorna Crozier]], ''Inventing the Hawk''
* [[Prix Alain-Grandbois]]: [[Anne Hébert]], ''Le Jour n'a d'égal que la nuit''
* [[Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize]]: [[Bill Bissett]], ''{{sic|inkorrect thots}}''
* [[Prix Émile-Nelligan]]: [[Martin-Pierre Tremblay]], ''Le Plus Petit Désert''

===[[Indian poetry|India]]===
* [[The Poetry Society (India)|Poetry Society India]] National Poetry Competition : [[Shampa Sinha]] for [[Siesta (poem)|Siesta]]

===[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]===
* [[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Patricia Beer]], [[George Mackay Brown]], [[P. J. Kavanagh]], [[Michael Longley]]
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best Collection: [[Carol Ann Duffy]], ''Mean Time'' (Anvil Press)
* [[Forward Poetry Prize]] Best First Collection: [[Don Paterson]], ''Nil Nil'' (Faber and Faber)
* [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] (United Kingdom and Ireland): [[Ciaran Carson]], ''First Language: Poems''
* [[Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Award]] for poetry: [[Carol Ann Duffy]], ''Mean Time''
* [[National Poetry Competition]] : [[Sam Gardiner (poet)|Sam Gardiner]] for ''Protestant Windows''

===[[American poetry|United States]]===
* [[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Natasha Sajé]], ''Red Under the Skin''
* [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[George Starbuck]]
* [[AML Award]] for poetry to [[Linda Sillitoe]] for "Crazy Living"
* [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[Stephen Yenser]], "Blue Guide"
* [[Bollingen Prize]] (United States): [[Mark Strand]]
* [[Frost Medal]]: [[William Stafford (poet)|William Stafford]]
* [[National Book Awards#Poetry|National Book Award]] for poetry (United States): [[A.R. Ammons]], ''Garbage'' (will also win [[1994 in poetry|1994]] [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]])
* [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]]: [[Rita Dove]] appointed
* [[Pulitzer Prize for poetry]] (United States):  [[Louise Glück]], ''The Wild Iris''
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Louise Glück]], ''The Wild Iris''
* [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]: [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]]
* [[Whiting Awards]]: [[Mark Levine (poet)|Mark Levine]], [[Nathaniel Mackey]], [[Dionisio D. Martinez]], [[Kathleen Peirce]]
* [[Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets]]: [[Gerald Stern]]

==Deaths==
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* April 23 &ndash; [[Bertus Aafjes]], 89 (born [[1914 in poetry|1914]]), [[Dutch literature|Dutch]] poet
* June 19 &ndash; [[William Golding]], 82 (born [[1919 in poetry|1919]]), [[English poetry|English]] novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]
* June 22 &ndash; Jerry Estrin, 46 (born [[1947 in poetry]]), [[American poetry|American]] poet (''Rome, A Mobile Home'') and magazine editor (''Vanishing Cab'')
* August 28 &ndash; [[William Stafford (poet)|William Stafford]], 79, [[American poetry|American]]  poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist [[Kim Stafford]]
* September 16 &ndash; [[Oodgeroo Noonuccal]], 71, [[Australian literature|Australian]] poet, actress, writer, teacher, artist and campaigner for Aboriginal causes
* September 26 &ndash; [[Nina Berberova]], Нина Николаевна Берберова (born [[1901 in poetry|1901]]), [[Russian poetry|Russian]]-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic who lived in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
* October 27 &ndash; [[Peter Quennell]], 88, English biographer, historian and poet
* October (exact date not known) &ndash; [[Gu Cheng]], [[Chinese poetry|Chinese]] poet, by suicide
* Exact date not known &ndash; [[Parijat (writer)|Parijat]], पारिजात, Bishnu Kumari Waiba, c.56 (born [[1937 in poetry|1937]]), [[Nepali literature|Nepalese]] novelist and poet

==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of years in poetry]]
*[[List of poetry awards]]

==Notes==
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