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Events

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Works published

Honors and awards

Australia

• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Certain Things
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Barry Hill, Ghosting William Buckley
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Aileen Kelly - Coming Up for Light

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Canada

• See 1994 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole
• Eric Gregory Award: Julia Copus, Alice Oswald, Steven Blyth, Kate Clanchy, Giles Goodland
• Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best Collection): Alan Jenkins, Harm (Chatto & Windus)
• Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree)
• T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile
• Whitbread Award for poetry: James Fenton, Out of Danger

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United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, "Vanessa", and (separately) Marilyn Hacker, "Cancer Winter"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Garbage
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Donald Hall
• Wallace Stevens Award inaugurated with first award this year: W. S. Merwin
• William Carlos Williams Award: Cyrus Cassells, The Mud Actor

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New Zealand

• Montana Book Award for Poetry: Bill Manhire, ed., 100 New Zealand Poems
• New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Andrew Johnston, How to Talk

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Deaths

• March 9 — Charles Bukowski, 73, American poet and novelist, of leukemia
• March 29 — Lynda Hull, 49, American poet, in an automobile accident;
• May 24 — John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke
• September 10 — Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet, of ovarian cancer
• date not known — Peter Quennel

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See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards