1987 in poetry

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

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• April – First issue of o•blék: a journal of language arts (pronounced "oblique") is published, founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edits it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stops publishing in 1993.
• October 16 – Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke released today.
• October – Tony Harrison's poem v. is broadcast in a filmed version on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.
• Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who has become a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
• In his 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia writes: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."^[1]
• The Dolmen Press in Portlaoise, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.^[2]

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

• Patrick Lane, Selected Poems
• Irving Layton, Fortunate Exile. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[3] ISBN 0-7710-4947-1.
• Irving Layton, Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982-1986. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.^[3]
• Dennis Lee, The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan.^[4]
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[5] ISBN 978-0-7710-5428-0
• Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night
• Raymond Souster, The Eyes of Love. Ottawa: Oberon Press.^[6]
• George Woodcock:
  • Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography, Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canada^[7]
  • Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship^[7][8]

India, in English

• Keki Daruwalla, Landscapes ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press^[9]
• Dom Moraes, Collected Poems 1957-1987 ( Poetry in English ) ^[10]
• Jayanta Mahapatra, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press^[11]
• Bruce King, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English - Historical Perspective (first edition), Delhi: Oxford University Press (anthology)

Ireland

• Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, including "Cocktails",^[12] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States
• Michael Coady, Oven Lane, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-020-8
• Paul Durcan, Going Home to Russia, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press^[12]
• Eamon Grennan, What Light There Is, including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[12]
• Michael Hartnett, A Necklace of Wrens, including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[12]
• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,^[13] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,^[13] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[12]
• Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,^[13] Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[14]
• Janet Charman, 2 Deaths in 1 Night: Poems, Auckland: New Women's Press^[15]
• Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism^[16]
• Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures?
• Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand

Anthologies in New Zealand

• Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, The New Poets^[17]
• V. O'Sullivan, editor, Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry, anthology, third edition^[18]
• Mark Williams, Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry

United Kingdom

• Peter Ackroyd, The Diversions of Purley, and Other Poems^[13]
• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[14]
• Alan Brownjohn, The Old Flea-Pit^[13]
• Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• David Constantine, Madder^[13]
• Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan^[13]
• Gavin Ewart, Late Pickings^[13]
• U. A. Fanthorpe, A Watching Brief^[13]
• James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems,^[19]
• Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
• Philip Gross, Cat's Whisker^[13]
• Tony Harrison, Anno Forty-Two^[13]
• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,^[13] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press, ISBN 1-870841-00-X
• Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live^[13]
• P. J. Kavanagh, Presence^[13]
• Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,^[13] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper^[13]
• Andrew Motion, Natural Causes^[13]
• Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British,^[13] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe)
• Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,^[13] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Private Parts^[13]
• Ruth Pitter, A Heaven to Find^[13]
• Peter Porter, The Automatic Oracle^[13]
• Peter Redgrove:
  • In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
  • The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987
• Carol Rumens, Plato Park^[13]
• C. H. Sisson, God Bless Karl Marx^[13]
• R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs
• Anthony Thwaite, Letter from Tokyo^[13]
• Charles Tomlinson, The Return^[13]
• John Wain, Open Country^[13]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

• Elaine Feinstein, A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva, Hutchinson

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas
• Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song
• Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysis^[20]
• John Ashbery, April Galleons
• Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks
• Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure
• Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty
• Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• Paul Hoover, The Figures
• Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press
• Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-11923-2
• Harry Mathews, a collection
• Robert McDowell, Quiet Money
• William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
• George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press
• Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
• Gregory Orr, a collection
• Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957–1987, English translation from Spanish
• Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
• W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987
• Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions)
• Theodore Weiss, a collection
• C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood
• Jay Wright, Selected Poems
• Stephen Yenser, The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, criticism, scholarship

Other in English

• Edward Brathwaite, X/Self, Jamaica^[21]
• Les Murray, The Daylight Moon, Australia^[22]

Works published in other languages

Denmark

• Klaus Høeck, Blackberry Winter, with Asger Schnack,; publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark^[23]
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Byens tvelys ("Twilight of the City"), Denmark^[24]
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen, New Poems

French language

Canada, in French

• Jean Royer:
  • Depuis l'amour: Poème, Montréal: l'Hexagone / Paris: La Table rase^[25]
  • Le Québec en poésie, Saint-Laurent: Lacombe^[25]
  • La poésie québécoise contemporaine (anthologie), Montréal: l'Hexagone/Paris: La Découverte; anthology^[25]

France

• Yves Bonnefoy:
  • Ce qui fut sans lumière
  • Récits en rêve
• Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Autobiographie du voleur de feu, translated from the original Arabic of Abdelwahab al-Bayati into French; Paris: Unesco/Actes Sud

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Chandrakanta Murasingh, Haping Garingo Chibuksa Ringo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language^[26]
• Jayant Kaikini, Shravana Madhyahna, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language^[27]
• K. Satchidanandan, Ivanekkoodi, ("Him, too"); Malayalam-language^[28]
• Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghumiye Porar Aage, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language^[29]
• Rituraj, Surat Nirat, Jaipur: Panchscheel Prakashan; Hindi-language^[30]
• Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shubha-vartaman; Marathi-language^[31]

Other languages

• Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Miniatury; Poland^[32]
• Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Jürgen Becker, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1987/88 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1987/88"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology; Germany^[33]
• Odysseus Elytis, Κριναγόρας ("Krinagoras"), Greece
• Ndoc Gjetja, Poezi ("Poetry"); Albania^[34]
• Hamid Ismailov, Сад ("Garden") Uzbek language
• Czesław Miłosz, Kroniki ("Chronicles"); Paris: Instytut Literacki; Poland^[35]
• Nizar Qabbani, Love Shall Remain, Sir, Syrian, Arabic-language
• M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in German^[36]
• Maire Mhac an tSaoi, An Cion go Dti Seo, including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain", Gaelic-language, Ireland^[12]

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• Archibald Lampman Award
• See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
• Commonwealth Prize for Poetry: Edward Brathwaite of Jamaica^[21]
• Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, Torque
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov
• AML Award for poetry to Robert A. Christmas for "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young"
• Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Richard Wilbur
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Philip Levine
• Whiting Awards: Mark Cox, Michael Ryan
• William Carlos Williams Award: Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Jacobsen and Alfred Corn

Deaths

Grave of Czech poet Ladislav Stehlík.

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

• January 14 – Ewart Milne, 83 (born 1903), Irish poet and radical
• February 22 – Glenway Wescott, 85 (born 1901), American novelist and poet, from a stroke
• June 22 – John Hewitt, 79 (born 1907), Irish poet
• August 23 – Samar Sen, 70 (born 1916), Bengali poet and journalist
• September 11 – Ladislav Stehlík (born 1908), Czech poet, writer and painter
• September 16 – Howard Moss, 65 (born 1922), poetry editor of The New Yorker, from a heart attack
• November 6 – John Logan (born 1923), American poet
• November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46 (born 1941) Canadian poet and novelist, alcohol-related
• December 29 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa, 88 (born 1899), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
• Also – Vaughan Morgan (born 1907), New Zealand shepherd-poet

See also

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

Notes

1. The Hudson Review (40, 3, 1987)
2. Web page titled "Dolmen Press Collection" at the Wake Forest University Web site, accessed October 20, 2007
3. "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
4. "Dennis Lee: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
5. "Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
6. "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
7. Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
8. Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
9. Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla", Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
10. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 250, Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010
11. Purnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, 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
12. Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
13. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
14. 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, pp. 75-76, "Janet Charman" article
16. Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
17. Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Janet Charman" article
18. Preminger, 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837
19. Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
20. Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009
21. "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
22. Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
23. Web page titled [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
24. "Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
25. Web page titled "Jean Royer" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
26. Web page titled "Chandrakant Shah" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
27. Web page titled "Jayant Kaikini" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
28. Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
29. Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
30. Web page titled "Rituraj" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
31. Web page titled "Vasant Abaji Dahake", Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010
32. Web page titled "Juliusz Erazm Bolek był gościem wczorajszego Wieczoru w "Arce" (zdjęcia)" (in Polish; Google translation: "Julius Erasmus Bolek was a guest last night in the "Ark" (photos)") at the "moja-ostroleka" website, retrieved February 19, 2010
33. Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
34. "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
35. Web pages titled "Miłosz Czesław" (both English version [for translated titles] and Polish version [for diacritical marks]), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
36. 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