Events
Works published in English
- Les Murray, Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
- For Crying Out Loud, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Poetry and Belief (scholarship), Hobart: University of Tasmania
- Bill Manhire, The Old Man\'s Example
- Frank McKay, Life of James K. Baxter, Auckland: Oxford University Press; called the "standard biography" of New Zealand\'s "probably New Zealand\'s best-known poet"
[[1]Web psge titled "James K. Baxter" at "Best of New Zealand Poetry 2001" Web site, accessed October 11, 2007]
- Cilla McQueen, Berlin Diary, winner of the 1991 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
- Ciarán Carson: Belfast Confetti, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, 1990
- Elaine Feinstein, City Music, Hutchinson
- John Heath-Stubbs, Selected Poems
- Derek Mahon, The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush: Selected Poems. Gallery Press
- Peter Redgrove, Dressed as for a Tarot Pack
- Seamus Heaney:
- R.S. Thomas, Counterpoint
- Derek Walcott, Omeros
- Maya Angelou, I Shall Not be Moved
- Philip Booth, Selves, Viking Penguin
- Maxine Chernoff, Leap Year Day: New & Selected Poems (Another Chicago Press)
- David Graham, Second Wind, Texas Tech University Press
- David Lehman, Operation Memory, Princeton University Press
- Thomas Lux, The Drowned River, Houghton Mifflin
- Grace Nichols (Guyanian poet and author writing in the United Kingdom), Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems, Random House (New York, NY); originally published in the United Kingdom by Virago Press (London, England) in 1989
- Mary Oliver, House of Light
- Rosmarie Waldrop, Peculiar Motions (Kelsey St. Press)
- Reed Whittemore, The Past, the Future, the Present: Poems Selected and New
These 75 poets were included in The Best American Poetry 1990, edited by David Lehman with Jorie Graham, guest editor:
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Spanish language
- Matilde Camus, El color de mi cristal ("The colour of my glasses")
Awards and honors
Deaths
- May 14 — Mary Oppen, 82, American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife of George Oppen
- November 7 — Lawrence Durrell, 78, Englishnovelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- November 11 — Yannis Ritsos, Greek
- dates not known:
See also
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