1995 in poetry

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Events

February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered.
February 17 – Sotheby's announce discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks.
March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea (Wales) is opened by Jimmy Carter.
May 26 – Cannes Film Festival première of 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

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

Jennifer Harrison: Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems (Black Pepper)
Chris Mansell, Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin, Melbourne) ISBN 978-0-14-024540-0
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Selected Poems 1956-1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia

Canada

Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart
Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Knopf
Roy Miki, Random Access File, Canada
John Reibetanz, Morning Watch
Joe Rosenblatt, A Tentacled Mother. (in the original plus new sonnets) Exile.
Joe Rosenblatt,The Rosenblatt Reader. (selected poems and prose, 1962–1995) Exile.
Raymond Souster, No Sad Songs Wanted Here. Ottawa: Oberon Press.

India, in English

Meena Alexander, River and Bridge ( Poetry in English ), Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India
Sujata Bhatt, The Stinking Rose ( Poetry in English ), Carcanet Press and New Delhi: Penguin
Keki Daruwalla, A Summer of Tigers ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Indus
A. K. Ramanujan, The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press; posthumously published
Sudeep Sen, Dali’s Twisted Hands ( Poetry in English), New York City: White Swan Books; Leeds: Peepal Tree, ISBN 0-948833-84-X
Tejdeep, Caught in a Stampede ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited
K. Satchidanandan, Summer Rain: Three Decades of Poetry, edited by R. D. Yuyutsu; New Delhi: Nirala Publishers

Ireland

Patrick Crotty (editor), editor, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., ISBN 0-85640-561-2
Gerald Dawe, Heart of Hearts, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-154-0
John Montague, Collected Poems, including "Small Secrets", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki, including "Milk", "A Word from the Loki" and "Time Out"", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jenny Bornholdt, How We Met, New Zealand
Janet Charman, end of the dry, Auckland: Auckland University Press
Robin Hyde, The Victory Hymn, 1935-1995, with an essay by Michele Leggott; Auckland: Holloway Press, New Zealand
Mark Williams and Michele Leggott, editors, Opening the Book : New Essays on New Zealand Writing Auckland: Auckland University Press, criticism

United Kingdom

Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) and Jacqueline Simms, editors, The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press
James Berry, Hot Earth, Cold Earth
Alison Brackenbury, 1829, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-85754-122-9
Gerry Cambridge, The Shell House, Scottish Cultural Press, ISBN 1-898218-34-X
Flora Garry, Collected poems
Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima
Ted Hughes, New Selected Poems 1957–1994
Jan Kochanowski: Laments, a cycle of Polish Renaissance elegies, translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanisław Barańczak, Faber & Faber
Michael Longley, The Ghost Orchid
Derek Mahon, The Hudson Letter. Gallery Press
Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
Peter Reading, Collected Poems 1970–1984
Maurice Riordan, A Word from the Loki Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Carol Rumens, Best China Sky
Labi Siffre, Blood on the Page
R.S. Thomas, No Truce with the Furies
Charles Tomlinson, Jubilation

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Sean O'Brien, Penguin Modern Poets 5 (Penguin)
Eavan Boland, Carol Ann Duffy and Vicki Feaver, Penguin Modern Poets 2, Penguin
Roderick Watson, editor, The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English, 1380–1980, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (anthology)
Stella Chipasula and Frank Chipasula, editors, The Heinemann book of African women's poetry, London: Heinemann (anthology)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

Robert F. Garratt, editor, Critical essays on Seamus Heaney, ISBN 0-7838-0004-5

United States

Meena Alexander, River and Bridge, Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India
Meena Alexander, River and Bridge, Toronto: TSAR Press and New Delhi: Rupa, by an Indian writing living in and published in the United States and India
Ralph Angel, Nether World
John Ashbery, Can You Hear, Bird?
Matthew Rohrer, ‘’A Hummock in the Malookas’’
Joseph Brodsky: On Grief and Reason: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American
Henri Cole, The Look of Things
Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, For a Living (University of Illinois Press)
Alice Fulton, Sensual Math
Michael S. Harper, Honorable Amendments
Fanny Howe, O'Clock
Walter K. Lew, editor, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American poetry, New York: Kaya Productions
James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts (his last book)
Carl Rakosi, Poems, 1923-1941
Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures
Michael Palmer, At Passages
Molly Peacock, Original Love
Carl Phillips, Cortége
Giorgos Seferis, Complete Poems (in English), translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Helen Vendler, The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Harvard University Press
John Hollander, The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, criticism

Richard Howard is the guest editor for The Best American Poetry 1995 (David Lehman, series editor). Howard changes the rules of inclusion for this year: "[P]oets whose work has appeared three or more times in this series are here and now ineligible, as are all seven former editors of the series." A total of 75 poems are included.

Poems from these 75 poets were in this year's anthology:

Other in English

Aharon Shabtai, Ha-lev ("The Heart"), Hebrew
The Labourers of Herakles

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:

Denmark

Katrine Marie Guldager, Styrt, publisher: Gyldendal
Klaus Høeck:
- 1001 Digt, publisher: Gyldendal
- Hommage, publisher: Basilisk

French language

Andree Chedid, Par dela les mots (Lebanese resident of France, writing in French)
Michel Deguy, A ce qui n'en finite pas; France
Denise Desautels, Cimetières: La rage muette, autour de photographies de Monique Bertrand, Montréal: Éditions Dazibao; Canada
Claude Esteban, Quelqu'un commence à parler dans une chambre, Flammarion; France

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Amarjit Chandan, Jarhan, Aesthetic Publications, Ludhiana; Punjabi-language
Basudev Sunani, Aneka Kichhi Ghatibaara Achhi, Nuapada: Eeshan-Ankit Prakashani; Oraya-language
Chandrakanta Murasingh, Holong Kok Sao Bolong Bisingo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language
Debarati Mitra, Kavitasamagra, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
Dilip Chitre, Ekoon Kavita – 2, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan; Marathi-language
Kedarnath Singh, Uttar Kabir aur Anya Kavitayen, Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Hindi
Namdeo Dhasal, Ya Sattet Jeev Ramat Nahi; Marathi-language
Nirupama Dutt, Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi ("A Stream Somewhat Dark"); Panchkula: Aadhar Prakashan; Punjabi-language
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Shotyo Shelukash, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
Saroop Dhruv, Salagti Havao, Ahmedabad: Samvedan Sanskritic Manch, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-language
Udayan Vajpeyi; Hindi-language:
- Kuchh Vakya, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan
- Pagal Ganitagya Ki Kavitayen, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan

Spain

Matilde Camus, Vuelo de la mente ("Mind flight")

Other languages

Stanisław Barańczak, Slon, traba i ojczyzna ("The Elephant, the Trunk, and the Polish Question"), light verse; Kraków: Znak; Poland
Mario Benedetti, El olvido está lleno de memoria ("Oblivion Is Full of Memory"), published in Spain, Uruguay
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Joachim Sartorius, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1995/96 ("Poetry Yearbook 1995/96"), publisher: Beck; anthology; Germany
Chen Kehua, Qiankantou shi ("Head-hunting Poems") Chinese (Taiwan)
Limaza tarakt al-hissan wahidan (Why did you leave the horse alone?), 1995. English translation 2006 by Jeffrey Sacks ( ISBN 0976395010)

Awards and honors

Nobel prize: Seamus Heaney