1982 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- March 1 – Dylan Thomas posthumously honoured by a floor plaque in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
- September – The New Criterion founded in New York City
- October – Canadian documentary film Poetry in Motion released
- Final edition of This magazine published in Canada
Works published in English
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">Australian literature">Australia
- M. Duwell, editor, A Possible Contemporary Poetry
- Chris Mansell, Head, Heart & Stone
- Les Murray:
- * Equanimities
- * The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and Angus & Robertson, 1988
- A. Paolucci and L. Dobrez, editors, ''Review of National Literatures: Australia''
Canada">Canadian literature">Canada
- Margaret Atwood, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English
- Margaret Avison, Winter Sun /The Dumbfounding: Poems 1940-66
- Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive
- Don Domanski, War in an Empty House
- Robert Finch, Twelve for Christmas.
- Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers
- Irving Layton, A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems, 1945-82 Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
- Gwendolyn MacEwen:
- * The Fire Eaters.
- * The T. E. Lawrence Poems
- * Earth-Light: Selected Poetry 1963-1982. Toronto: General Publishing.
- Elizabeth Smart, Eleven Poems
- Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,,
- Wilfred Watson, Mass on Cowback.
- Phyllis Webb, ''The Vision Tree: Selected Poems''
India">Indian poetry">India, in English">Indian poetry in English">in English
- Keki Daruwalla, The Keeper of the Dead, winner of the Central Sahitya Academy Award in 1984; Delhi: Oxford University Press
- Nissim Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms,
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Distance in Statute Miles,
- Suniti Namjoshi, The Authentic Lie, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Fiddlehead,
Ireland">Irish poetry">Ireland
- Dermot Bolger, No Waiting America
- Harry Clifton, Comparative Lives, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press,
- Pearse Hutchinson, Selected Poems, including "Malaga" and "Gaeltacht", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
- Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Derek Mahon:
- * The Hunt by Night, including "Courtyards in Delft", "Rathlin" and "Tractatus", Oxford University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- * Translator, The Chimeras, Gallery Press, translation from the French of Les Chimères by Nerval
- John Montague, Selected Poems, including "A Drink of Milk", "Family Conference" and "The Cave of Night"
New Zealand">New Zealand literature">New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock, editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press
- Allen Curnow, You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979–81
- W. Ihimaera and D. S. Long, Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing
- Bill Manhire, Good Looks, New Zealand
- Cilla McQueen, Homing In, winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1983 Jessie MacKay Award
- W. H. Oliver, Poor Richard: Poems, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, New Zealand
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London
- James Berry, Lucy's Letters and Loving
- Sir John Betjeman, Uncollected Poems
- Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
- Patric Dickinson, A Rift in Time
- Carol Ann Duffy, Fifth Last Song, Headland
- Douglas Dunn, Europa's Lover
- Gavin Ewart, More Little Ones
- U. A. Fanthorpe, Standing To
- James Fenton, The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982, Salamander Press,
- Geoffrey Grigson:
- * Collected Poems, 1963–1980
- * The Cornish Dancer, and Other Poems
- Thom Gunn, The Passages of Joy
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, editors, The Rattle Bag, Faber, anthology
- John Heath-Stubbs, Naming the Beasts
- Alan Hollinghurst, Confidential Chats with Boy
- Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1981
- Kathleen Jamie, Black Spiders
- Roger McGough, Waving at Trains
- Derek Mahon, The Hunt By Night. Oxford University Press
- Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Nerval, The Chimeras, a version of Les Chimères, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Gallery Press
- Norman Nicholson, Selected Poems 1940–82
- Tom Rawling, Ghosts At My Back
- Jeremy Reed, A Man Afraid
- E. J. Scovell, The Space Between
- Muriel Spark, ''Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems''
United States">American poetry">United States
- A. R. Ammons, Worldly Hopes
- Louise Simone Bennett, Selected Poems
- Hayden Carruth, The Sleeping Beauty
- Nicholas Christopher, On Tour with Rita
- Robert Creeley:
- *Echoes
- *The Collected Poems, 1945–1975
- James Dickey, Puella
- Jack Gilbert, Monolithos
- Allen Ginsberg, Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977–1980
- H.D., Notes on Thought and Vision
- Seamus Heaney: Poems and a Memoir, Limited Editions Club, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States
- Jane Hirshfield, Alaya
- Phyllis Janowitz, Visiting Rites
- Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems
- Denise Levertov, Candles in Babylon
- William Logan, Sad-faced Men
- James Merrill:
- * The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic poem
- * From the First Nine Poems
- W. S. Merwin, Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press
- Reynolds Price, Vital Provisions
- Peter Seaton, The Son Master
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Portraits and Elegies
- Mona Van Duyn, Letters from a Father and Other Poems
- Theodore Weiss, Recoveries
- James Wright, ''This Journey''
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- William Meredith, ''Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism''
Other in English
- Edward Brathwaite, Sun Poem, Caribbean poet living and publishing in the United States
- Mafika Gwala, No More Lullabies, South Africa
- Dennis Scott, Dreadwalk, Jamaica
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:France">French poetry">France
- Aimé Césaire, Moi, laminaire, Martinique author published in France; Paris: Editions du Seuil
- Odysseus Elytis, Marie de Brumes translated by Xavier Bordes into French from the original Greek
- Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Rires de l'arbre à palabre from the original Arabic of Abdallah Zrika into French; Paris: L'Harmattan
India">Indian poetry">India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:- Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sare Sukhan Hamare, Indian, Urdu-language
- Gitaujali Badruddin, Poems of Gitaujali
- Jayant Kaikini, Kotitirtha, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter
- K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language:
- * Janatayum Kavitayum, ; criticism
- * Venal Mazha,
- Rajendra Kishore Panda, Shailakalpa, Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-language
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Soch ka Safar - published by R.K.Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1982. Urdu
- Saroop Dhruv, Mara Hathni Vat, Ahmedabad: Nakshatra Trust, Ahmedabad; Gujarati-language
Poland">Polish poetry">Poland
- Ryszard Krynicki, Jeżeli w jakimś kraju. Underground publisher S.i.s.n.
- Ewa Lipska, Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek, selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
- Czesław Miłosz, Hymn o Perle ; Paris: Instytut Literacki
- Tadeusz Różewicz, Pułapka, Warszawa: Czytelnik
- Adam Zagajewski, List - Oda do wielosci, Kraków: Pólka Poetów,
Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain
- Matilde Camus:
- * Testimonio
- * ''La preocupación de Miguel Ángel''
Other
- Arturo Corcuera, Puente de los Suspiros, Peru
- Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience , Greece
- Ndoc Gjetja, E përditshme, Albania
- Klaus Høeck, Eno Zebra, with Asger Schnack, Denmark
- Alexander Mezhirov, Проза в стихах, Russia, Soviet Union
- Nizar Qabbani, A Poem For Balqis, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
- Rajendra Shah, Prasang-Spatak, Indian, writing in Gujarati
- Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Ukendt under den samme måne, Denmark
- Marie Uguay, Autoportraits, French-Canadian
- Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik, West Germany
Awards and honors
Australia">Australian poetry">Australia
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, ''Kaddish and Other Poems''
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Gerald Lampert Award: Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber and Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams
- 1982 Governor General's Awards: Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems ; Michel Savard, Forages
- Pat Lowther Award: Rona Murray, Journey
- Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jocelyne Felx, Orpailleuse and Philippe Haeck - ''La Parole verte''
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell
- Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O'Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun
United States">American poetry">United States
- Academy of American Poets Fellowship: John Ashbery and John Frederick Nims
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One
- National Book Award: William Bronk for Life Supports
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman"
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress : Anthony Hecht appointed this year.
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery
- North Carolina Poet Laureate: Sam Ragan appointed.
Births
- January 14
- * Joe Dunthorne, Welsh novelist and poet
- * Luke Wright, English performance poet
- April 27 – Patricia Lockwood, American poet
- Paul-Henri Campbell, German American poet
- Roger Robinson, British dub poet
- Chris Tse, New Zealand poet, short story writer and editor
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 19 – Marya Zaturenska, 80, American lyric poet, of heart failure
- March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83, American poet
- March 15 – Edgell Rickword, 83, English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor, a leading communist intellectual active in the 1930s
- March 18 – Yao Kitabatake 北畠 八穂, 78, Japanese, Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
- April 20
- * Archibald MacLeish, 89, American poet
- * Aco Šopov, 59, Macedonian poet
- June 5 – Junzaburō Nishiwaki 西脇順三郎, 88, Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
- June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76, American poet, of a heart ailment
- June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90, American writer and poet
- July 20 – Okot p'Bitek, 51, Ugandan poet
- October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58, American poet, of leukemia
- November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87, American poet
- December 3 – Bishnu Dey, 73, Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic