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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004).
Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas.
Tony Harrison's film-poem Prometheus is released in the United Kingdom.
John Montague named the first Irish professor of poetry.

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

Robert Gray, New Selected Poems
Jennifer Harrison, Dear B (Black Pepper)
Frieda Hughes, Wooroloo, English-born Australian poet, originally published in United States by Harper Flamingo
John Leonard, editor, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, Melbourne: Oxford University Press (anthology)
Philip Salom, New and Selected Poems. (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-1-86368-218-3
John Tranter, Late Night Radio, Polygon Press
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Whirling, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Canada

Gary Barwin, Outside the Hat, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-030-7
Stephen Cain, dislexicon (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-027-7
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Margaret Christakos, The Moment Coming (Oakville: ECW)
Don Domanski, Parish of the Psychic Moon
Louis Dudek, The Poetry of Louis Dudek. Ottawa: The Golden Dog.^[1]
Paul Dutton, Aurealities, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-0-88910-414-3
Michael Holmes, Satellite Dishes from the Future Bakery, (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-004-8
Sylvia Legris, Iridium Seeds
Dorothy Livesay, Archive for Our Times: Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay, Irvine Dean ed. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.^[2]
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999^[3] ISBN 0-375-40559-3
E.J. Pratt, Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt, Sandra Djwa, W.J. Keith, and Zailig Pollock ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.^[4]

Canadian anthologies

Allan Forrie, Patrick O'Rourke, and Glen Sorestad, editors, In the Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology, Saskatoon: Thistledown Press
Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane

India, in English

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Transfiguring Places ( Poetry in English ), Ravi Dayal, New Delhi, ISBN 81-7530-019-1^[5]
K. Satchidanandan, How to go to the Tao Temple, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi.^[6]
Dilip Chitre, The Mountain, Pune: Vijaya Chitre^[7]

Ireland

Dermot Bolger, Taking my Letters Back: New and Selected Poems, Dublin: New Island Books^[8]
Ciaran Carson:
- The Alexandrine Plan, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-218-9
- The Twelfth of Never, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-235-6
Peter Fallon, News of the World, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-214-1

New Zealand

Raewyn Alexander, Concrete, Auckland: Penguin^[9]
Alan Brunton, Moonshine, Bumper Books^[10]
Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, editors, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Melbourne; Auckland: Oxford University Press

United Kingdom

Ciarán Carson: The Alexandrine Plan, (adaptations of sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud); Gallery :Press, Wake Forest University Press
Carol Ann Duffy, The Pamphlet,^[11] Anvil Press Poetry^[12]
Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
Seamus Heaney:
- Audenesque, Maeght
- Translator, Beowulf^[11]
- Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, Faber & Faber; in the United States, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux; a New York Times "notable book of the year" for 1999
Paul Henry, The Milk Thief, Seren
Ted Hughes:
- Birthday Letters, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a verse chronicle of the author's relationship with Sylvia Plath, his late wife; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Translator, Phedre^[11]
Jackie Kay, Off Colour United Kingdom
Peter Levi, Reed Music^[11]
Kevin MacNeil, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish poet published in Scotland
Andrew Motion, Selected Poems 1976–1997^[11]
Paul Muldoon, Hay^[11]
Carol Rumens, Holding Pattern^[11]
Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep^[11]
Jon Stallworthy, Rounding the Horn^[11]

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford, editors, Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-86829-2
Sean O'Brien, editor, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (Picador), anthology
Lloyd Searwar, editor, They Came in Ships: An Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry,Leeds: Peepal Tree

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

Sean O'Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe), criticism
John Heath-Stubbs, The literary essays of John Heath-Stubbs, edited by A.T. Tolley
Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson

United States

John Ashbery:
- The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco) collection of the poet's work from 1956 to 1972; a New York Times "notable book of the year"
- Wakefulness
Renée Ashley, The Various Reasons of Light
Ted Berrigan, Great Stories of the Chair
Henri Cole, The Visible Man
Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning (ISBN 0-8229-4066-3)
Fanny Howe, Q
Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win: And Other Poems, (Random House); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Lee Harwood, Morning Light
Kenneth Koch, Straits: Poems, New York: Knopf ^[13]
William Logan, Vain Empires: Poems, (Penguin, paper); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
W. S. Merwin:
- Translator, East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf^[14]
Michael Palmer, The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995 (New Directions), first retrospective of Palmer's work selected by the author himself reprinting much work that had gone out of print
Carl Phillips, From the Devotions^[15]
Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Frederick Seidel Going Fast: Poems, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Mark Strand, Blizzard of One: Poems, (Knopf); a New York Times "notable book of the year"; by a Canadian native long living in and published in the United States
Patti Smith, Patti Smith Complete
James Tate, Shroud of the Gnomes: Poems, (Ecco); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
Richard Tayson, The Apprentice of Fever, winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Well Well Reality (The Post-Apollo Press)

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

Laurence Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, scholarship^[16]
Kenneth Koch, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry, New York: Scribner^[13]
Eric L. Haralson, editor, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn
Mary Oliver, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Anthologies in the United States

Barbara Tran, Monique T. D. Truong, and Luu Truong Khoi, editors, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop

Poets in The Best American Poetry 1998

Poems from these 75 poets were in The Best American Poetry 1999, general editor David Lehman, guest editor John Hollander:

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

Klaus Høeck; Denmark:
- Hjem, publisher: Gyldendal^[17]
- Honeymoon, publisher: Gyldendal^[17]
Inger Christensen, Samlede digte ("Collected Poems")^[18]

French language

France

Olivier Barbarant, Odes dérisoires et quelques autres un peu moins, publisher: Editions Champ Vallon, ISBN 978-2-87673-272-8
Salah Stetie, Fievre et guerison de l'icone
Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Domaine public

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Amarjit Chandan, Chhanna, Navyug, New Delhi; Punjabi-language^[19]
Anamika, Anushtup, Delhi: Kitab Ghar; Hindi-language^[20]
Gagan Gill, Yah Akanksha Samay Nahin, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, New Delhi, 1998, Bharatiya Jnanpith; Hindi-language^[21]
K. Satchidanandan, Apoornam, ("Imperfect"); Malayalam-language^[6]
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, Ban Sngewthuh ia ka Poitri ("Understanding Poetry"), Shillong: Gautam Brothers; Khasi-language^[22]
Mallika Sengupta; Hindi-language:
- Meyeder Aa Aaa Ka Kha, Kolkata: Prativas Publication^[23]
- Translator, Akaler Madhye Saras, translation from the original Hindi of Kedarnath Singh, Kolkata: Sahitya Akademi^[23]
Manushya Puthiran, Itamum Iruppum, Nagercoil: Kalachuvadu Pathipagam, Tamil language^[24]
Prathibha Nandakumar, Kavadeyata ("Game of Cowry"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College^[25]
Raghavan Atholi, Mozhimattam, Kottayam: Sahitya Pravarthaka Cooperative Society (SPCS)^[26]
Rajendra Bhandari, Kshar/Akshar ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan; Nepali-language^[27]
Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Aa Rojulu ("Those Days"), Hyderabad: Akruti Printers^[28]^[29]

Poland

Stanisław Barańczak, Chirurgiczna precyzja ("Surgical Precision"), Krakow: a5^[30]
Zbigniew Herbert:
- 89 wierszy, ("89 Poems"), Kraków: a5^[31]
- Epilog burzy ("Epilogue to a Storm"), Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie^[31]
Ewa Lipska:
- Godziny poza godzinami ("Hours Beyond Hours"), selected poems, Warsaw: PIW^[32]
- Życie zastępcze, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie^[32]
Jan Twardowski:
- Bóg prosi o miłość - Gott fleht um Liebe, Krakow, Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie^[33]
- Niebo w dobrym humorze, Warsaw: PIW^[33]
Adam Zagajewski, Trzej aniołowie, Three Angels (sic) Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie^[34]

Serbia

Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling),^[35] Second Edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd

Spain

Matilde Camus, Fuerza creativa ("Creative strength")

Other languages

Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Marcel Beyer, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1998/99 ("Poetry Yearbook 1998/99"), publisher: Beck; anthology^[36]
Ndoc Gjetja, Dhjata ime ("My Testament"); Albania^[37]
Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew^[38]
Chen Kehua, Yinwei siwang er jingying de fanfu shipian ("Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death ") Chinese (Taiwan)^[39]
Maria Luisa Spaziani, La traversata dell'oasi, Italy
Rahman Henry, Banbhojoner Moto Aundhokar ( Darkness as Picnic is), Bengali

Awards and honors