Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

• March 4 — President Ronald Reagan publicly recites from memory lines from Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

• Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis a best-seller

• December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library

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

• Don Domanski, Hammerstroke Canada

• D. Lee, editor, The New Canadian Poets (anthology)

• Michael Ondaatje:

• * All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadan published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland PatternWeb page titled at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008

• *Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie

Ireland

• Eavan Boland, The Journey, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

• Dermot Bolger, Internal Exiles

• Seamus Heaney, Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Irish native at this time living in the United States

• Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems 1968–1983, including "Lunch with Pancho Villa", "Cuba", "Anseo", "Gathering Mushrooms", "The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612

• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery PressWeb page titled at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008

• Frank Ormsby, A Northern Spring, including "Home", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press

• James Simmons, Poems 1956–1986, including "One of the Boys", "West Strand Visions" and "From the Irish", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):

• * The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008

• * Selected Poems, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press

• Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United StatesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson

• Allen Curnow, The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983–1985, New Zealand

• Lauris Edmond, Seasons and CreaturesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article

• Cilla McQueen, Wild Sweets, New Zealand

• Les Murray, editor, Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry, Melbourne, Collins Dove (new edition, 1991)Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007

• Norman Simms, Silence and Invisibility: A Study of the New Literature from the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand, scholarshipPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837

United Kingdom

• Dannie Abse, Ask the Bloody HorseCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):

• * The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

• * Selected Poems, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press

• Eavan Boland, The Journey, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

• Charles Causley, Early in the Morning

• Jack Clemo, A Different Drummer

• Tony Connor, Spirits of Place

• Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

• Kevin Crossley-Holland, Waterslain

• Carol Ann Duffy, Thrown Voices

• Helen Dunmore, The Sea Skater

• Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson

• Roy Fuller, Outside the Canon

• Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States

• Adrian Henri, Collected Poems

• Ted Hughes, Flowers and Insects

• George MacBeth, The Cleaver Garden

• Edwin Morgan, From the Video Box

• Grace Nichols, Whole of a Morning Sky

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Sky Ray Lolly

• Peter Reading, Stet

• E. J. Scovell, Listening to Collared Doves

• Penelope Shuttle, The Lion From Rio

• Jon Silkin, The Ship's Pasture

• John Stallworthy, The Anzac Sonata

• R.S. Thomas, Experimenting with an Amen

• Abdullah al-Udhari, editor and translator, Modern Poetry of the Arab World, Penguin, anthology

United States

• A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition

• Ralph Angel, Anxious Latitudes

• Gwendolyn Brooks, The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

• Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United States

• Raymond Carver, Ultramarine

• Henri Cole, The Marble Queen

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Over All the Obscene Boundaries

• Alice Fulton, Palladium

• Marilyn Hacker, Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons

• Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States

• John Hollander, In Time and Place

• Paul Hoover, Nervous Songs, (L'Epervier Press)

• Jane Kenyon, The Boat of Quiet Hours

• Li-Young Lee, Rose

• Mary Oliver, Dream Work

• Michael Ondaatje:

• * All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadan published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland Pattern

• *Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie

• Carl Rakosi, Collected Poems published by the National Poetry Foundation

• Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse

• Rosmarie Waldrop, Streets Enough to Welcome Snow (Station Hill)

Anthologies in the United States

• Philip Dacey and David Jauss, editors of the New Formalist anthology, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms

• Ron Silliman, editor, In the American Tree, anthology of Language poets

Other in English

• Paula Burnett, Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, anthology in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009

• Jayanta Mahapatra, Dispossessed Nests, IndiaJayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007

• Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse, India

• Derek Walcott, Collected Poems,St. Lucia native living in the United States

Works published in other languages

• Mario Benedetti, Preguntas al azar ("Random Questions"), UruguayWeb page titled (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30.

• Matilde Camus, Sin teclado de fiebre ("Without a fever keyboard"), Spain

• Osman Durrani, editor, German Poetry of the Romantic Era (with poetry in German), anthology, Leamington Spa, England: Oswald, Wolf and Berg (publisher)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474;First name of editor and publishing information from Murray, Christopher John, Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Taylor & Francis, 2004, p 885

• Kama Sywor Kamanda, Chants de brumes, Congo native writing in French

• Nizar Qabbani, Poems Inciting Anger, Syrian poet writing in Arabic

• Wisława Szymborska: Ludzie na moście ("People on the Bridge"), Poland

• Marie Uguay, Poèmes (contains Signe et rumeur, L'Outre-vie, and Autoportraits) French-Canadian (posthumous)

• Wang Xiaoni, Wode shixuan ("My Selected Poems"), China

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Rhyll McMaster, Washing the Money and John A. Scott, St. Clair

• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray Selected Poems 1963-83

• Mary Gilmore Prize: Stephen Williams - A Crowd of Voices

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award

• Archibald Lampman Award

• See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

• Pat Lowther Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Lawrence Durrell, James Fenton, Selima Hill

• Eric Gregory Award: Mick North, Lachlan Mackinnon, Oliver Reynolds, Stephen Romer

• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman MacCaig

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Robley Wilson, Kingdoms of the Ordinary

• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Koethe, "Mistral"

• Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart

• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress appointed: Robert Penn Warren

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change

• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Adrienne Rich

• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Irving Feldman and Howard Moss

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 4 – Christopher Isherwood (born 1904), English-born American novelist and poet

• January 9 – W. S. Graham (born 1918), Scottish poet

• January 12 – Bob Kaufman, at 60 (born 1925), of emphysema

• March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, at 72 (born 1913), Canadian poet and novelist

• March 30 – John Ciardi, at 69 (born 1916), American poet, translator, and etymologist, of a heart attack

• April 21 – Salah Jahin, also spelled "Salah Jaheen" صلاح جاهين (born 1930), Egyptian, Arabic-language poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist

• June 24 – Rex Warner (born 1905), English classicist, author, poet and translator

• July 13 – Brion Gysin, at 70 (born 1916), English painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist

• August 20 – Milton Acorn, at 63 (born 1923), Canadian poet, writer, and playwright, of heart disease and diabetes

• August 31 – Elizabeth Coatsworth, at 93 (born 1893), American author of children's fiction and poetry

• December 8 – Henry Reed, at 72 (born 1914), English British poet, translator, radio playwright and journalist

• Also:

• * Laurence Collinson (born 1925), Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist and secondary school teacher

• * Atul Chandra Hazarika (born 1903), Indian, writing in Assamese; poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society

• * Audrey Longbottom (born c. 1922), Australian

See also

• Poetry

• List of years in poetry

• List of poetry awards