NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1992 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Years in literature:	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Decades in poetry:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

1 Events
2 Works published
3 Honors and awards
4 Deaths
5 See also

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Events

Works published

Honors and awards

Nobel prize: Derek Walcott

Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ... Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was in the vanguard of the post-colonial school of English language writing. ...

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Harris, Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems
Mary Gilmore Prize: Alison Croggon - This is the Stone

The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. ... Robert Harris may refer to the following people: Rob Harris (curler), a Canadian curler. ... The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the N. S. W. Premiers Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Alison Croggon, author of the Pellinor books. ...

Canada

See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Each winner of the 1992 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. ...

United Kingdom

Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis
Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford
Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber)
Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber)
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine
Whitbread Award for poetry: Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the Gorgon

The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ... Thomas Allen Munro Curnow (1911-2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist. ... Donald Alfred Davie (1922-1995) was an English poet and critic. ... Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet born in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ... The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991. ... Thom Gunn (August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004) was a British poet. ... The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991. ... Simon Armitage Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963 in Huddersfield) is a British poet, playwright and novelist. ... The Gold Medal for Poetry, originally instituted by King George V, is awarded in some years on 23 April, for a book of verse written by a United Kingdom or British Commonwealth citizen; before 1985 it was awarded only to British writers (this rule clearly not having hardened by 1940). ... Kathleen Jessie Raine (June 14, 1908 – July 6, 2003) was a British poet, critic and independent scholar writing in particular on William Blake and W. B. Yeats. ... The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ... Tony Harrison (born April 30, 1937) is an English poet. ...

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Hunt Hawkins, The Domestic Life
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Tony Sanders, "The Warning Track"
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life
Frost Medal: Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow
National Book Award for poetry: Mary Oliver, New & Selected Poems
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Mona Van Duyn
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: John Ashbery
William Carlos Williams Award: Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. ... The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. ... Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 â€“ December 3, 2000) was an award-winning African American woman poet. ... The Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry is given by the Paris Review for the finest poem over 200 lines published in The Paris Review in a given year, according to the magazine. ... The Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is a biennial prize given by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years. ... Louise Elisabeth GlÃ¼ck (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet. ... Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American poet, born in Canada. ... The Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement. ... Image:AdrienneRich. ... David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. ... National Book Awards are annual literary awards presented since 1950 for the best American book published in the preceding year, presently in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young peoples literature. ... Mary Oliver (1935 â€“) is an American poet. ... The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35,000 a year. ... Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 - December 2, 2004) was an American poet. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... James Tate James Vincent Tate (b. ... The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the Foundation also publishes Poetry. ... John Ashbery John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. ... The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America. ... Louise Elisabeth GlÃ¼ck (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet. ...

Deaths

February 16 — George MacBeth, 60, Scottish poet and novelist, of motor neuron disease
April 11 — Eve Merriam, (née Moskowitz), 75, American poet, playwright and teacher, of cancer
November 17 — Audre Lorde (aka Gamba Adisa), 58, a writer, poet and political activist, of liver cancer
November 19 — Kenneth Burke, a major American literary theorist and philosopher
date not known — Robert W. V. Gittings

February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... George Mann MacBeth (January 19, 1932-February 16, 1992) was a Scottish poet and novelist. ... Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... Eve Merriam (1916-April 11, 1992) was an American author. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - November 17, 1992) was a writer and an activist. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Kenneth Burke (May 5, 1897â€“November 19, 1993) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ...

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