1995 in poetry

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

Events

• February 16 – Announcement that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered.
• February 17 – Sotheby's announce discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks.
• March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea (Wales) is opened by Jimmy Carter.^[1]
• May 26 – Cannes Film Festival première of movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody.

Works published

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

• Jennifer Harrison: Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems (Black Pepper)
• Chris Mansell, Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin, Melbourne) ISBN 978-0-14-024540-0
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Selected Poems 1956-1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia

Canada

• Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart
• Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Knopf
• Roy Miki, Random Access File, Canada
• John Reibetanz, Morning Watch^[2]
• Joe Rosenblatt, A Tentacled Mother. (in the original plus new sonnets) Exile.^[3]
• Joe Rosenblatt,The Rosenblatt Reader. (selected poems and prose, 1962-1995) Exile.^[3]
• Raymond Souster, No Sad Songs Wanted Here. Ottawa: Oberon Press.^[4]

India, in English

• Meena Alexander, River and Bridge ( Poetry in English ), Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India^[5]
• Sujata Bhatt, The Stinking Rose ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet Press and New Delhi: Penguin^[6]
• Keki Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Indus^[7]
• A. K. Ramanujan, The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press; posthumously published^[8]
• Sudeep Sen, Dali’s Twisted Hands ( Poetry in English), New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, ISBN 0-948833-84-X^[9]
• Tejdeep, Caught in a Stampede ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited^[10]
• K. Satchidanandan, Summer Rain: Three Decades of Poetry, edited by R. D. Yuyutsu; New Delhi: Nirala Publishers^[11]

Ireland

• Patrick Crotty (editor), editor, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., ISBN 0-85640-561-2^[12]
• Gerald Dawe, Heart of Hearts, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-154-0
• John Montague, Collected Poems, including "Small Secrets", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[13]
• Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki, including "Milk", "A Word from the Loki" and "Time Out"", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[13]

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^[14]
• Jenny Bornholdt, How We Met, New Zealand
• Janet Charman, End of the Dry, Auckland: Auckland University Press^[15]
• 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^[14]
• James Berry, Hot Earth, Cold Earth^[16]
• Alison Brackenbury, 1829, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-85754-122-9
• Gerry Cambridge, The Shell House, Scottish Cultural Press, ISBN 1-898218-34-X^[17]
• Flora Garry, Collected poems
• Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima^[16]
• Ted Hughes, New Selected Poems 1957–1994^[16]
• Jan Kochanowski: Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies, translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanisław Barańczak, Faber & Faber
• Michael Longley, The Ghost Orchid^[16]
• Derek Mahon, The Hudson Letter. Gallery Press
• Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train^[16] (Oxford University Press)
• Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1970–1984^[16]
• Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Carol Rumens, Best China Sky^[16]
• Labi Siffre, Blood on the Page
• R.S. Thomas, No Truce with the Furies
• Charles Tomlinson, Jubilation^[16]

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien, Penguin Modern Poets 5 (Penguin)
• Eavan Boland, Carol Ann Duffy and Vicki Feaver, Penguin Modern Poets 2, Penguin^[18]
• Roderick Watson, editor, The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English, 1380–1980, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (anthology)^[19]
• Stella Chipasula and Frank Chipasula, editors, The Heinemann book of African women's poetry, London: Heinemann (anthology)^[19]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

• Robert F. Garratt, editor, Critical essays on Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0-7838-0004-5

United States

• Meena Alexander, River and Bridge, Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India^[5]
• Meena Alexander, River and Bridge, Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India^[5]
• Ralph Angel, Nether World
• John Ashbery, Can You Hear, Bird?
• Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[20] 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^[21]
• Fanny Howe, O'Clock
• Walter K. Lew, editor, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American poetry, New York: Kaya Productions^[19]
• 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^[22]
• 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.^[23]

Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology:

Other in English

• Aharon Shabtai, Ha-lev ("The Heart"), Hebrew
• The Labourers of Herakles

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:

Denmark

• Katrine Marie Guldager, Styrt, publisher: Gyldendal^[24]
• Klaus Høeck:
  • 1001 Digt, publisher: Gyldendal^[25]
  • Hommage, publisher: Basilisk^[25]

French language

• Andree Chedid, Par dela les mots (Lebanese resident of France, writing in French)
• Michel Deguy, A ce qui n'en finite pas; France
• Denise Desautels, Cimetières: La rage muette, autour de photographies de Monique Bertrand, Montréal: Éditions Dazibao; Canada^[26]
• Claude Esteban, Quelqu'un commence à parler dans une chambre, Flammarion; France

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Amarjit Chandan, Jarhan, Aesthetic Publications, Ludhiana; Punjabi-language^[27]
• Basudev Sunani, Aneka Kichhi Ghatibaara Achhi, Nuapada: Eeshan-Ankit Prakashani; Oraya-language^[28]
• Chandrakanta Murasingh, Holong Kok Sao Bolong Bisingo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language^[29]
• Debarati Mitra, Kavitasamagra, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language^[30]
• Dilip Chitre, Ekoon Kavita – 2, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan; Marathi-language^[31]
• Kedarnath Singh, Uttar Kabir aur Anya Kavitayen, Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Hindi^[32]
• Namdeo Dhasal, Ya Sattet Jeev Ramat Nahi; Marathi-language^[33]
• Nirupama Dutt, Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi ("A Stream Somewhat Dark"); Panchkula: Aadhar Prakashan; Punjabi-language^[34]
• Nirendranath Chakravarti, Shotyo Shelukash, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language^[35]
• Saroop Dhruv, Salagti Havao, Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-language^[36]
• Udayan Vajpeyi; Hindi-language:
  • Kuchh Vakya, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan^[37]
  • Pagal Ganitagya Ki Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan^[37]

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Vuelo de la mente ("Mind flight")

Other languages

• Stanisław Barańczak, Slon, traba i ojczyzna ("The Elephant, the Trunk, and the Polish Question"), light verse; Kraków: Znak; Poland^[38]
• Mario Benedetti, El olvido está lleno de memoria ("Oblivion Is Full of Memory"), published in Spain, Uruguay^[39]
• Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Joachim Sartorius, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1995/96 ("Poetry Yearbook 1995/96"), publisher: Beck; anthology; Germany^[40]
• Chen Kehua, Qiankantou shi ("Head-hunting Poems") Chinese (Taiwan)^[41]
• Limaza tarakt al-hissan wahidan (Why did you leave the horse alone?), 1995. English translation 2006 by Jeffrey Sacks (ISBN 0976395010)

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
• AML Award for poetry to Marden J. Clark for "Snows"
• 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
• Whiting Awards: Lucy Grealy, James L. McMichael, Mary Ruefle
• 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

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

• 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 (born 1912), American poet, novelist, and memoirist, 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

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

Notes

1. ↑ "Dylan Thomas Centre: University of Wales leases Swansea building". BBC. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012. 
2. ↑ Roberts, Neil, editor, 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
3. 1 2 "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
4. ↑ "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
5. 1 2 3 Web page titled "Meena Alexander", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
6. ↑ Web page titled "Sujata Bhatt", Sawnet website, retrieved July 27, 2010
7. ↑ Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla", Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
8. ↑ Akshaya Kumar, "The Great Masquerade: Theory as Poetry in A.K. Ramanunan's Poetic Discourse", , 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
9. ↑ Web page titled "Sudeep Sen", Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
10. ↑ P. Hannah Padma, "25. The Making of the Self: A Study of Tejdeep's Poetry", p 277, 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
11. ↑ Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
12. ↑ Information from the book itself
13. 1 2 Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
14. 1 2 Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
15. ↑ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
17. ↑ "Publications" page, Gerry Cambridge website, retrieved December 1, 2008
18. ↑ O’Reilly, Elizabeth (either author of the "Critical Perspective" section or of the entire contents of the web page, titled "Carol Ann Duffy" Archived 2009-05-08 at WebCite at Contemporary Poets website, retrieved May 4, 2009
19. 1 2 3 "Select General Bibliography for Representative Poetry On-Line" web page for Representative Poetry On-Line website of the University of Toronto, retrieved January 1, 2009
20. ↑ Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
21. ↑ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
22. ↑ McClatchy, J. D., editor, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, second edition, Vintage Books (Random House), 2003
23. ↑ Howard, Richard, "Introduction", page 16
24. ↑ Lundtofte, Anne Mette, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte, "Author Profile: Katrine Marie Guldager", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, dated "2005", retrieved January 1, 2010
25. 1 2 Web page titled [http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
26. ↑ Web page titled "Denise Desautels" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
27. ↑ Web page titled "Amarjit Chandan" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
28. ↑ Web page titled "Basudev Sunani" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
29. ↑ Web page titled "Chandrakant Shah" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
30. ↑ Web page title "Debarati Mitra", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
31. ↑ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
32. ↑ Web page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
33. ↑ Web page titled "Namdeo Dhasal", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
34. ↑ Web page titled "Nirupama Dutt" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
35. ↑ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
36. ↑ Web page titled "Saroop Dhruv" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
37. 1 2 Web page titled "Udayan Vajpeyi" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 2, 2010
38. ↑ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
39. ↑ Web page titled "Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor" (in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. Archived 2009-05-30.
40. ↑ Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
41. ↑ Poetry International website Web page on Chen Kehua, retrieved November 22, 2008