1998_in_poetry

1998 in poetry

Robert Gray, New Selected Poems
Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper)
Philip Salom, New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-1-86368-218-3
John Tranter, Late Night Radio, Polygon Press
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Don Domanski, Parish of the Psychic Moon
Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds, Canada
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999 ISBN 0375405593

Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press
Seamus Heaney:

Audenesque, Maeght
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999

Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Tales from Ovid, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"

Editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology
The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism

John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley

The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Wakefulness

Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair
Henri Cole, The Visible Man
Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning (ISBN 0-8229-4066-3)
Fanny Howe, Q
Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems, (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Lee Harwood, Morning Light
Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems, New York: Knopf
David Lehman, general editor, Harold Bloom, guest editor, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997
William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Michael Palmer, The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print
Carl Phillips, From the Devotions
Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Frederick Seidel Going Fast: Poems, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Mark Strand, Blizzard of One: Poems, (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete
James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press)

Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner
Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:

Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no award given in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea, Auckland University Press