1995 in poetry

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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

=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 Press [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
* Jenny Bornholdt, "How We Met", New Zealand
* Janet Charman, "End of the Dry", Auckland: Auckland University Press [Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", 1998, "Janet Charman" article]
* 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 Press [http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008]
* Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien, "Penguin Modern Poets 5" (Penguin)
* 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)
* 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 & Giroux [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-bibl.html] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007] 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 Amendments" [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/277 Web page titled "Michael S. Harper"] at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008]
* 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, "Cortége" [McClatchy, J. D., editor, "The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry", second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003]
* 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. [Howard, Richard, "Introduction", page 16]

Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology:
*Margaret Atwood
*Sally Ball
*Catherine Bowman
*Stephanie Brown
*Lewis Buzbee
*Cathleen Calbert
*Rafael Campo
*William Carpenter
*Nicholas Christopher
*Jane Cooper
*James Cummins
*Olena Kalytiak Davis
*Lynn Emanuel
*Elaine Equi
*Irving Feldman
*Donald Finkel
*Aaron Fogel
*Richard Frost
*Allen Ginsberg
*Peter Gizzi
*Jody Gladding
*Elton Glaser
*Albert Goldbarth
*Beckian Fritz Goldberg
*Laurence Goldstein
*Barbara Guest
*Marilyn Hacker
*Judith Hall
*Anthony Hecht
*Edward Hirsch
*Janet Holmes
*Andrew Hudgins
*T. R. Hummer
*Brigit Pegeen Kelly
*Karl Kirchwey
*Carolyn Kizer
*Wayne Koestenbaum
*John Koethe
*Yusef Komunyakaa
*Maxine Kumin
*Lisa Lewis
*Rachel Loden
*James Longenbach
*Robert Hill Long
*Gail Mazur
*J. D. McClatchy
*Heather McHugh
*Susan Musgrave
*Charles North
*Geoffrey O'Brien
*Jacqueline Osherow
*Molly Peacock
*Carl Phillips
*Marie Ponsot
*Bin Ramke
*Katrina Roberts
*Michael J. Rosen
*Kay Ryan
*Mary Jo Salter
*Tony Sanders
*Stephen Sandy
*Grace Schulman
*Robyn Selman
*Alan Shapiro
*Reginald Shepherd
*Angela Sorby
*Laurel Trivelpiece
*Paul Violi
*Arthur Vogelsang
*David Wagoner
*Charles H. Webb
*Ed Webster
*David Wojahn
*Jay Wright
*Stephen Yenser

Other in English

* Roy Miki, "Random Access File", Canada
* Aharon Shabtai, "Ha-lev" ("The Heart"), Hebrew

Works published in other languages

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

Awards and honors

* Nobel prize: Seamus Heaney

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

* 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

ee also

*Poetry
*List of years in poetry
*List of poetry awards