1982 in poetry

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Events

• March 1 – Dylan Thomas posthumously honoured by a floor plaque in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
• September – The New Criterion founded in New York City
• Final edition of This magazine published in Canada

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:

Australia

• M. Duwell, editor, A Possible Contemporary Poetry (scholarship)^[1]
• Chris Mansell, Head, Heart & Stone (Fling Publishers)
• Les Murray:
  • Equanimities
  • The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988^[2]
• A. Paolucci and L. Dobrez, editors, Review of National Literatures: Australia (scholarship)

Canada

• Margaret Atwood, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (anthology)^[3]
• Margaret Avison, Winter Sun /The Dumbfounding: Poems 1940-66
• Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive
• Don Domanski, War in an Empty House
• Robert Finch, Twelve for Christmas.^[4]
• Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers
• Irving Layton, A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945-82 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[5]
• Gwendolyn MacEwen:
  • The Fire Eaters.^[6]
  • The T. E. Lawrence Poems^[7]
  • Earth-Light: Selected Poetry 1963-1982. Toronto: General Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7736-1117-7
• Elizabeth Smart, Eleven Poems
• Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,^[8] ISBN 0-393-01637-4, ISBN 0-7710-6884-0
• Wilfred Watson, Mass on Cowback.
• Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems^[7]

India, in English

• Keki Daruwalla, The Keeper of the Dead ( Poetry in English ), winner of the Central Sahitya Academy Award in 1984;^[9] Delhi: Oxford University Press^[10]
• Nissim Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms ( Poetry in English ),^[11]
• Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Distance in Statute Miles ( Poetry in English ),^[12]
• Suniti Namjoshi, The Authentic Lie ( Poetry in English ), Fredericton, New Brunswick: Fiddlehead, ISBN 0-86492-010-5^[13]

Ireland

• Dermot Bolger, No Waiting America
• Harry Clifton, Comparative Lives, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-904011-33-3
• Pearse Hutchinson, Selected Poems, including "Malaga" and "Gaeltacht", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[14]
• Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia,^[15] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
• Derek Mahon:
  • The Hunt by Night, including "Courtyards in Delft", "Rathlin", and "Tractatus", Oxford University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[14]
  • Translator, The Chimeras, Gallery Press, translation from the French of Les Chimères by Nerval
• John Montague, Selected Poems, including "A Drink of Milk", "Family Conference", and "The Cave of Night"^[14]

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press^[16]
• Allen Curnow, You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979–81^[17]
• W. Ihimaera and D. S. Long, Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing^[18]
• Bill Manhire, Good Looks, New Zealand
• Cilla McQueen, Homing In,^[19] winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1983 Jessie MacKay Award
• W. H. Oliver, Poor Richard: Poems, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, New Zealand

United Kingdom

• Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London^[15]
• James Berry, Lucy's Letters and Loving^[15]
• Sir John Betjeman, Uncollected Poems
• Patric Dickinson, A Rift in Time^[15]
• Carol Ann Duffy, Fifth Last Song, Headland^[20]
• Douglas Dunn, Europa's Lover^[15]
• Gavin Ewart, More Little Ones (see All My Little Ones, 1978)^[15]
• U. A. Fanthorpe, Standing To^[15]
• James Fenton, The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982, Salamander Press,^[21]
• Geoffrey Grigson:
  • Collected Poems, 1963–1980^[15]
  • The Cornish Dancer, and Other Poems^[15]
• Thom Gunn, The Passages of Joy
• Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
• Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, editors, The Rattle Bag, Faber, anthology
• John Heath-Stubbs, Naming the Beasts
• Alan Hollinghurst, Confidential Chats with Boy^[15]
• Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1981^[15]
• Kathleen Jamie, Black Spiders^[15]
• Roger McGough, Waving at Trains^[15]
• Derek Mahon, The Hunt By Night. Oxford University Press
• Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia,^[15] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Nerval, The Chimeras, a version of Les Chimères, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Gallery Press
• Norman Nicholson, Selected Poems 1940–82^[15]
• Tom Rawling, Ghosts At My Back
• Jeremy Reed, A Man Afraid^[15]
• E. J. Scovell, The Space Between^[15]
• Muriel Spark, Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems^[15]

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Worldly Hopes^[22]
• Louise Simone Bennett, Selected Poems
• Hayden Carruth, The Sleeping Beauty^[22]
• Nicholas Christopher, On Tour with Rita^[22]
• Robert Creeley:
  • Echoes^[23]
  • The Collected Poems, 1945–1975^[23]
• James Dickey, Puella^[22]
• Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), Notes on Thought and Vision (posthumous), written in 1919
• Jack Gilbert, Monolithos
• Allen Ginsberg, Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977–1980^[22]
• Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
• Jane Hirshfield, Alaya
• Phyllis Janowitz, Visiting Rites
• Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems^[22]
• Denise Levertov, Candles in Babylon^[22]
• William Logan, Sad-faced Men
• James Merrill:
  • The Changing Light at Sandover,^[22] an epic poem
  • From the First Nine Poems^[22]
• W. S. Merwin, Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press^[24]
• Reynolds Price, Vital Provisions^[22]
• Peter Seaton, The Son Master (New York: Roof Books, The Segue Foundation)^[25]
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Portraits and Elegies
• Mona Van Duyn, Letters from a Father and Other Poems^[22]
• Theodore Weiss, Recoveries^[22]
• James Wright, This Journey^[22]
• Paul-Henri Campbell, German-American poet born.

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• William Meredith, Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism

Other in English

• Edward Brathwaite, Sun Poem, Caribbean poet living and publishing in the United States^[26]
• Mafika Gwala, No More Lullabies, South Africa
• Dennis Scott, Dreadwalk,^[26] Jamaica

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:

France

• Aimé Césaire, Moi, laminaire, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil
• Odysseus Elytis, Marie de Brumes translated by Xavier Bordes into French from the original Greek^[27]
• Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Rires de l'arbre à palabre from the original Arabic of Abdallah Zrika into French; Paris: L'Harmattan

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sare Sukhan Hamare, Indian, Urdu-language^[28]
• Gitaujali Badruddin, Poems of Gitaujali (posthumously published)
• Jayant Kaikini, Kotitirtha, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter^[29]
• K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language:
  • Janatayum Kavitayum, ("Poetry and the People"); criticism^[30]
  • Venal Mazha, ("The Summer Rain")^[31]
• Rajendra Kishore Panda, Shailakalpa ("Mountainesque"), Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-language^[32]
• Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Soch ka Safar (The Journey of Thought) - published by R.K.Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1982. Urdu
• Saroop Dhruv, Mara Hathni Vat, Ahmedabad: Nakshatra Trust, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-language^[33]

Poland

• Ryszard Krynicki, Jeżeli w jakimś kraju ("If in Some Country). Underground publisher S.i.s.n.^[34]
• Ewa Lipska, Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek ("Death Is Not at Stake, But the White Cord"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie^[35]
• Czesław Miłosz, Hymn o Perle ("The Poem of the Pearl"); Paris: Instytut Literacki^[36]
• Tadeusz Różewicz, Pułapka ("The Trap"), Warszawa: Czytelnik^[37]
• Adam Zagajewski, List - Oda do wielosci ("Letter - An Ode to Quantity"), Kraków: Pólka Poetów, (republished in 1983, Paris: Instytut literacki)^[38]

Spain

• Matilde Camus:
  • Testimonio ("Testimony")
  • La preocupación de Miguel Ángel ("The concern of Miguel Angel")

Other

• Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας) (Greece)
• Ndoc Gjetja, E përditshme ("The Daily"); Albania^[39]
• Klaus Høeck, Eno Zebra, with Asger Schnack,; Denmark^[40]
• Alexander Mezhirov, Проза в стихах ("Prose in Verse") (winner of the USSR State Prize, 1986), Russia, Soviet Union^[41]
• Nizar Qabbani, A Poem For Balqis, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
• Rajendra Shah, Prasang-Spatak (Indian, writing in Gujarati)^[42]
• Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Ukendt under den samme måne ("Unknown Under the Same Moon"), Denmark
• Marie Uguay, Autoportraits French-Canadian (posthumous)
• Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik (scholarship), West Germany^[43]

Awards and honors

Australia

• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell
• Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O'Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun

United States

• Academy of American Poets Fellowship: John Ashbery and John Frederick Nims
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One
• National Book Award: William Bronk for Life Supports (April 27)
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman"
• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Anthony Hecht appointed this year.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery
• North Carolina Poet Laureate: Sam Ragan appointed.

Deaths

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

• January 19 – Maria Zaturenska, 80, of heart failure
• March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83
• March 15 – Edgell Rickword (born 1898, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor who was one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s
• March 18 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (born 1903), Japanese, Showa period poet and children's fiction writer
• April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892), American
• June 5 – Nishiwaki Junzaburo 西脇順三郎 (born 1894), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
• June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905), of a heart ailment, American
• June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90, American writer and poet
• October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58, of leukemia
• November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87, American
• December 3 – Bishnu Dey (born 1909) Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic
• date not known – P'Bitek

See also

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

Notes

1. Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
2. Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
3. 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
4. "Robert Finch". Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011.
5. "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
6. "Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001.
7. 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
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