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Events

National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in April of 1996 as way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States.
The movie Dead Man, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody.

Works published in English

Australia

Raewyn Alexander, Fat, Auckland: Penguin

Robert Gray, Lineations

Jennifer Harrison: Cabramatta/Cudmirrah (Black Pepper)

Les Murray:

Late Summer Fires
Subhuman Redneck Poems, Carcanet and Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize

Philip Salom: Feeding the Ghost. (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-058692-3

Canada

Roo Borson, Water Memory, ISBN 0-7710-1589-5 American-Canadian

Sylvia Legris:

ash petals (chapbook)
Circuitry of Veins

New Zealand

James K. Baxter, posthumous, Cold Spring : Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection, edited by Paul Millar, Auckland: Oxford University Press

Alan Brunton, Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Bumper Books

Alistair Campbell, Pocket: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press

Bill Manhire:

My Sunshine
Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982

United Kingdom

Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, United Kingdom

T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (posthumous)

Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level Faber & Faber

Grace Nichols, Sunris (no "e" in the title), Virago Press (London, England)

John Heath-Stubbs, Galileo's Salad

Alice Oswald, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282513-5

Peter Redgrove:

Assembling a Ghost
The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry, edited by Jeremy Robinson

Criticism, scholarship, and biography in the United Kingdom

Anthony Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins), one of The New York Times "notable books of the year" for 1997, when it was published in the United States (Irish poet and scholar published in the United Kingdrom)

United States

Elizabeth Alexander, Body of Life

A.R. Ammons, Brink Road

Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon

Joseph Brodsky: So Forth : Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American

Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems

Ed Dorn, High West Rendezvous

Haim Gouri, Milim Be-Dami Holeh Ahavah ("Words in My Love-Sick Blood"), selected poems in English translation Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-2594-7

Paul Henry, Captive Audience, Seren

Mark Jarman and David Mason, editors, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism

Kenneth Koch, The Art of Poetry, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (criticism)

James McMichael, The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996

Patti Smith, The Coral Sea

Poets in The Best American Poetry 1996

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1996, edited by David Lehman, guest editor Adrienne Rich:

Katherine Alice Power

Gary Soto

Ray A. Young Bear

Other in English

Pat Boran, The Shape of Water (Dedalus), Ireland

Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Bang-i-Dara (The Call Of The Marching Bell), a philosophical poetry book in Urdu; M.A.K. Khalil translation into English of the 1923 work

Thomas McCarthy, The Lost Province, Anvil Press, London, Ireland

Works published in other languages

French language

France

Esther Tellermann, Pangeia

Spain

Matilde Camus, Reflexiones a medianoche ("Midnight thoughts")

Other

Wisława Szymborska: Widok z ziarnkiem piasku ("View with a Grain of Sand"), Poland

Awards and honors

Nobel prize: Wislawa Szymborska

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon

Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing

Canada

Gerald Lampert Award

Archibald Lampman Award

See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Pat Lowther Award

Prix Alain-Grandbois

United Kingdom

Cholmondeley Award: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith

Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinead Morrissey, Kate Thomas

Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)

Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)

Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove

T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems

Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night

Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Voiklis, "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately) Sarah Arvio, "Visits from the Seventh"

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Koch, One Train

National Book Award for poetry: Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern

Wallace Stevens Award: Adrienne Rich

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jay Wright

Deaths

January 28 — Joseph Brodsky, 55, a Russian-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992), of a heart attack

February 11 — Amelia Rosselli, 66, Italian poet and ethnomusicologist, from suicide, on the same date Sylvia Plath killed herself.

March 18 — Odysseus Elytis, Greek

April 13 — George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist

August 18 — Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet

September 25 — Mina Loy, 83, an artist, poet, Futurist, actor,

date not known — Larry Levis, 49, American poet, of a heart attackFurther Information

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