1997 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)
In literature
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000

Events

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
  • Michael Barnholden, On the Ropes (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-002-4
  • Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
  • Clint Burnham, Be Labour Reading (ECW Press) ISBN 978-1-55022-344-6
  • Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane.
  • Louis Dudek, The Caged Tiger. Montreal: Empyreal Press.[1]
  • John Glassco, Selected Poems with Three Notes on the Poetic Process. Ottawa: Golden Dog Press)
  • Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
  • Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (posthumous), edited by Roy Miki
  • A.M. Klein, Selected Poems. Selected Poems Seymour Mayne, Zailig Pollock, Usher Caplan ed. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.[2] ISBN 0-8020-0734-1 ISBN 0802077536
  • Laura Lush:
    • Darkening In, Montreal: Véhicule Press
    • Fault Line, Montreal: Véhicule Press
  • Don McKay, Apparatus[3]
  • George McWhirter, Incubus: The Dark Side of the Light
  • John Reibetanz:
    • Midland Summer[4]
    • Near Finisterre[4]

India, in English
  • R. Parthasarathy Rough Passage ( Poetry in English ). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, India 1977. ISBN 0-19-560690-6
  • Jeet Thayil, Apocalypso ( Poetry in English ), London: Aark Arts, 1997, ISBN 1-899179-01-1[5]
  • Sudeep Sen, Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: HarperCollins, ISBN 81-7223-269-1[6]
  • Eunice de Souza, editor, Nine Indian Women Poets, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-564077-2[7]
  • Svami Bhumananda Sarasvati, editor and translator, Anthology of Vedic Hymns: Being a Collection of Hymns from the Four Vedas, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad: Kusum Lat Arya Pratishthan, India.

Ireland
  • Moya Cannon, The Parchment Boat, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-201-1
  • Michael Coady, All Souls (poems and prose), Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-212-7
  • Aidan Murphy, Stark Naked Blues, New Island Books, ISBN 978-1-874597-67-4
  • William Wall, Mathematics And Other Poems, Collins Press, Cork ISBN 1-898256-26-8

New Zealand
  • Fleur Adcock, Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)[8]
  • Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, and Mark Williams, editors, An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Auckland: Oxford University Press New Zealand (anthology)
  • Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems
  • Diane Brown, Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press
  • Alan Brunton, Years Ago Today, documentary essay on poetry in the 1960s, Bumper Books[9]
  • Allen Curnow, Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997
  • Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland: Auckland University Press, posthumous
  • Paula Green, Cookhouse, Auckland University Press

United Kingdom

Anthologies in the United Kingdom
  • Thomas Rain Crowe with Gwendal Denez and Tom Hubbard, Writing the Wind: A Celtic resurgence: The New Celtic Poetry: Welsh, Breton, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press
  • Michael Donaghy, Andrew Motion, Hugo Williams, poets in Penguin Modern Poets 11, Penguin
  • Iona Opie and Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

United States

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United States
  • Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
  • Joseph Blotner, Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. (Random House), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
  • Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller, editors, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
  • Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1997 American Book Award
  • Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (Peter Davison/Houghton Mifflin), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
  • Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Basic Books) "ruminations on the art of translation" with a 16th-century French poem as the prime example, one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
  • John Hollander, The Work of Poetry (criticism)
  • Sam McCready, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press (scholarship)
  • Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"
  • Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Belknap/Harvard University), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year"

Anthologies in the United States
  • Harold Bloom edits The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
  • Ross and Kathryn Petras, editors, Very Bad Poetry (Vintage)
The Best American Poetry 1997

Poems from these 75 poets are in The Best American Poetry 1997, edited by David Lehman, guest editor James Tate:

Other in English

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:

French language

France
  • Olivier Barbarant, Aragon: la mémoire et l'excès, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, ISBN 978-2-87673-226-1
  • Yves Bonnefoy, L'Encore Aveugle,
  • Seyhmus Dagtekin, Artères-solaires, publisher: L'Harmattan; Kurdish Turkish poet writing in French, living in and published in France

Canada, in French
  • Suzanne Jacob, La part de feu, Montréal: Boréal, winner of the prix de la Société Radio-Canada, and prix du Gouverneur général[14]
  • Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves, Montréal: Le Noroît[15]

Hebrew
  • Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May")
  • Rami Saari, Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az ("The Route of the Bold Pain")[16]

India

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Bengali
  • Joy Goswami, Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 2, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, ISBN 81-7215-750-9 (third reprint in 2002)[17]
  • Nirendranath Chakravarti, Shondharaater Kobita, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers[18]
  • Udaya Narayana Singh, Ashru o Parihaas, Kolkata: Pritoniya[19]
  • Subrata Bandyopadhyay, Saodāgara o The final judgement ("Saudagar and the Final Judgement"), Kalakata: De'ja Pābaliśiṃ[20]

Other in India
  • Jiban Narah, Dhou Khela Loralir San, Guwahati, Assam: Nibedon; Indian, Assamese-language[21]
  • Jayant Kaikini, Neelimale, Bangalore: Patrike Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter[22]
  • K. G. Sankara Pillai, K.G. Shankara Pillayude Kavithakal 1969-1996, Kottayam, Kerala: D C Books; Malayalam-language[23]
  • K. Siva Reddy, Naa Kalala Nadi Anchuna, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-language[24]
  • Kanaka Ha Ma, Papanashini, Puttur, Karnataka: Kannada Sangha; Kannada language[25]
  • Namdeo Dhasal, Andhale Shatak, Mumbai: Ambedkara Prabodhini; Marathi-language[26]

Poland

Spain

Other
  • Mario Benedetti, La vida ese paréntesis, Uruguay[32]
  • Attilio Bertolucci, La lucertola di Casarola, previously unpublished poems, many written in his youth; Italy
  • Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Ror Wolf, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1997/98 ("Poetry Yearbook 1997/98"), publisher: Beck; anthology[33]
  • Chen Kehua, Bie ai moshengren ("Don’t Make Love to Strangers") Chinese (Taiwan)[34]
  • Alexander Mezhirov:
    • Позёмка ("Drifting"), Russia
    • Apologii︠a︡ t︠s︡irka: kniga novykh stikhov ("Apologia of the Circus"), including a version of "Blizzard", St. Petersburg, Russia[35]
  • Wang Xiaoni, Wode zhili baozhe wo de huo ("My paper wraps my fire"), China[36]

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

New Zealand
  •  Montana New Zealand Book Awards, First Book Award for Poetry: Diane Brown, Before the Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press

United Kingdom

United States

Deaths

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

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See also

References
  1. "Louis Dudek: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
  2. "Selected Poems: A.M. Klein", Amazon.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
  3. ""Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site". Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved October 6, 2007.
  4. 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
  5. Web page titled "Jeet Thayil" Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010
  6. Web page titled "Sudeep Sen" Archived March 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
  7. Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" Archived September 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
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  10. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  11. "Contributors" section, pp 98-107, Poetry magazine, October–November 1997
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  16. Page titled "Rami Saari" at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon Archived January 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, 2007
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  18. Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" Archived February 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
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  37. Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
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