# 1982 in poetry

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## 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

* M. Duwell, editor, A Possible Contemporary Poetry (scholarship)
* Chris Mansell, Head, Heart & Stone (Fling Publishers)
* Les Murray:
** Equanimities
** The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988
* A. Paolucci and L. Dobrez, editors, Review of National Literatures: Australia (scholarship)

### Canada

* Margaret Atwood, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (anthology)
* 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. ISBN 978-0-7736-1117-7
* Elizabeth Smart, Eleven Poems
* Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, memoir, New York: W. W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-01637-4, ISBN 0-7710-6884-0
* Wilfred Watson, Mass on Cowback.
* Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems

### India, in English

* Keki Daruwalla, The Keeper of the Dead ( Poetry in English ), winner of the Central Sahitya Academy Award in 1984; Delhi: Oxford University Press
* Nissim Ezekiel, Latter-Day Psalms ( Poetry in English ),
* Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Distance in Statute Miles ( Poetry in English ),
* Suniti Namjoshi, The Authentic Lie ( Poetry in English ), Fredericton, New Brunswick: Fiddlehead, ISBN 0-86492-010-5

### Ireland

* Dermot Bolger, No Waiting America
* Harry Clifton, Comparative Lives, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-904011-33-3
* 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

* Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), 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

* 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 (see All My Little Ones, 1978)
* 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

* 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. (Hilda Doolittle, died 1961), Notes on Thought and Vision (written in 1919)
* 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 (New York: Roof Books, The Segue Foundation)
* 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

* 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

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
* Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sare Sukhan Hamare, Indian, Urdu-language
* Gitaujali Badruddin, Poems of Gitaujali (posthumously published)
* Jayant Kaikini, Kotitirtha, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter
* K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language:
** Janatayum Kavitayum, ("Poetry and the People"); criticism
** Venal Mazha, ("The Summer Rain")
* Rajendra Kishore Panda, Shailakalpa ("Mountainesque"), Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-language
* Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi, Soch ka Safar (The Journey of Thought) - 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

* Ryszard Krynicki, Jeżeli w jakimś kraju ("If in Some Country). Underground publisher S.i.s.n.
* Ewa Lipska, Nie o śmierć tutaj chodzi, lecz o biały kordonek ("Death Is Not at Stake, But the White Cord"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
* Czesław Miłosz, Hymn o Perle ("The Poem of the Pearl"); Paris: Instytut Literacki
* Tadeusz Różewicz, Pułapka ("The Trap"), Warszawa: Czytelnik
* Adam Zagajewski, List - Oda do wielosci ("Letter - An Ode to Quantity"), Kraków: Pólka Poetów, (republished in 1983, Paris: Instytut literacki)

### Spain

* Matilde Camus:
** Testimonio ("Testimony")
** La preocupación de Miguel Ángel ("The concern of Miguel Angel")

### Other

* Arturo Corcuera, Puente de los Suspiros, Peru
* Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας), Greece
* Ndoc Gjetja, E përditshme ("The Daily"), Albania
* Klaus Høeck, Eno Zebra, with Asger Schnack, Denmark
* Alexander Mezhirov, Проза в стихах ("Prose in Verse") (winner of the USSR State Prize, 1986), 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 ("Unknown Under the Same Moon"), Denmark
* Marie Uguay, Autoportraits, French-Canadian (posthumous)
* Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik (scholarship), West Germany

## Awards and honors
### Australia

* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems

### 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 (English); Michel Savard, Forages (French)
* Pat Lowther Award: Rona Murray, Journey
* Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jocelyne Felx, Orpailleuse and Philippe Haeck - La Parole verte

### 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

* 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 (April 27)
* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman"
* Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate 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 "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 19 – Marya Zaturenska, 80 (born 1902), American lyric poet, of heart failure
* March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83 (born 1898), American poet
* March 15 – Edgell Rickword, 83 (born 1898), English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor, a leading communist intellectual active in the 1930s
* March 18 – Yao Kitabatake 北畠 八穂, 78 (born 1903), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
* April 20
** Archibald MacLeish, 89 (born 1892), American poet
** Aco Šopov, 59 (born 1923), Macedonian poet
* June 5 – Junzaburō Nishiwaki 西脇順三郎, 88 (born 1894), Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
* June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, 76 (born 1905), American poet, of a heart ailment
* June 18 – Djuna Barnes, 90 (born 1892), American writer and poet
* July 20 – Okot p'Bitek, 51 (born 1931), Ugandan poet
* October 22 – Richard Hugo, 58 (born 1923), American poet, of leukemia
* November 13 – Babette Deutsch, 87 (born 1895), American poet
* December 3 – Bishnu Dey, 73 (born 1909), Bengali poet, prose writer and movie critic