1985_in_poetry

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published in English 2.1 Canada 2.2 New Zealand 2.3 United Kingdom 2.4 United States 2.5 Other in English 3 Works published in other languages 3.1 Spain 3.2 Other languages 4 Awards and honors 4.1 Australia 4.2 Canada 4.3 United Kingdom 4.4 United States 5 Deaths 6 See also

Events

• The term "New Formalism" was first used in the article "The Yuppie Poet" in the May 1985 issue of the AWP Newsletter in an attack on the poetry movement. The term was adopted as the name of the movement by those in it.
• A memorial to Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland.
• Boulevard magazine founded at St. Louis University by Richard Burgin.
• Canadian Poetry Association was founded on January 16, 1985 and just celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Works published in English

Canada

• Roo Borson, The Transparence of November / Snow, ISBN 0-919627-30-7 (with Kim Maltman) American-Canadian
• Elizabeth Smart, In the Meantime

New Zealand

• Alistair Campbell, Soul Traps, Pukerua Bay: Te Kotare Press
• Kendrick Smithyman, Stories About Wooden Keyboards, winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
• Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen, editors, Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse

United Kingdom

• Seamus Heaney: From the Republic of Conscience, Amnesty International, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• John Heath-Stubbs, The Immolation of Aleph
• Derek Mahon, Antarctica. Gallery Press
• Stephen Spender, Collected Poems 1947-80
• R.S. Thomas, Ingrowing Thoughts

United States

• John Ashbery, April Galleons
• Paul Blackburn, The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn
• Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together With Other Water
• Maxine Chernoff, New Faces of 1952 (Ithaca House)
• Amy Clampitt, What the Light was Like
• Robert Hayden, Collected Poems (posthumously published)
• Seamus Heaney: From the Republic of Conscience, Amnesty International, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
• William Logan, Difficulty
• James Merrill, Late Settings
• Lorine Niedecker, From This Condensery and The Granite Pail (posthumous)
• Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Lamplit Answer

Other in English

• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Amorous Cannibal, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia
• Robert Gray, Selected poems 1963-1983, Australia

Works published in other languages

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Cristales como enigmas ("Glasses as enigma")

Other languages

• Haim Gouri, Mahbarot Elul ("Summer\'s End"), Israeli writing in Hebrew[1]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
• Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Traces, Greece

Awards and honors

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Kevin Hart, Your Shadow; Rosemary Dobson, The Three Fates
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Kevin Hart, Your Shadow
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Doris Brett, The Truth about Unicorns

Canada

• Gerald Lampert Award
• See 1985 Governor General\'s Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Pat Lowther Award

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Dannie Abse, Peter Redgrove, Brian Taylor
• Eric Gregory Award: Graham Mort, Adam Thorpe, Pippa Little, James Harpur, Simon North, Julian May

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Liz Rosenberg, The Fire Music
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Robert Penn Warren
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler, "A Few Days"
• Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Gwendolyn Brooks appointed this year.
• Frost Medal: Robert Penn Warren
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: Yin
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Amy Clampitt and Maxine Kumin

Deaths

• January 31 — F. R. Scott, 85
• January 16 — Robert Fitzgerald, 74, American poet and translator of ancient Greek and Latin.
• April 17 — Basil Bunting, 85
• May 25 — Robert Nathan, 91, of kidney failure
• August 14 — Alfred Hayes, 74, of menengitis, poet of the labor song "Joe Hill"
• October 31 — Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek
• November 25 — Geoffrey Grigson, 80
• December 2 — Philip Larkin, 63, of throat cancer, English poet
• December 7 — Robert Graves, 90, English writer and poet
• date not known — Josephine Miles, of pneumonia, poet and literary critic
• date not known — J.V. Cunningham

See also

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