Robert Moore (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian poet, actor, director, playwright, and professor.
 He has written over a dozen plays that have been performed across Canada, and he has published three books of poetry: "Figuring Ground" (2009), "Museum Absconditum" (2006), and "So Rarely in Our Skins" (2002).
 "So Rarely in Our Skins" was a finalist for the 6th Annual Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and, along with his two subsequent books, was long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry.
 Moore’s poetry has been published in literary journals such as "Descant", "The Fiddlehead", "Wascana Review", "Ink Magazine", "Canadian Author", "The New Quarterly", "Maissoneuve", "Pottersfield Portfolio", "Gaspereau Review", "Prairie Fire", "Quadrant Magazine", and "Contemporary Verse II".
 He has been the recipient of the "Edmonton Journal" Literary Award for poetry (1987) as well as a finalist for the "Pottersfield Portfolio" Short Poetry Award (1997) and The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize (2001).
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.
 His first book of poetry, "The North Ship", was published in 1945, followed by two novels, "Jill" (1946) and "A Girl in Winter" (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, "The Less Deceived", followed by "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964) and "High Windows" (1974).
 He contributed to "The Daily Telegraph" as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered in "All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71" (1985), and he edited "The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse" (1973).
 His many honours include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
 He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman.
Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor (née Deichmann ) is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
 She was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of studio potters Kjeld and Erica Deichmann.
 Harvor grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula.
 She married architect Stig Harvor in 1957.
 The couple had two sons before they divorced in 1977.
 Harvor enrolled at Concordia University in 1983, receiving an M.A. in creative writing in 1986.
 She has also won many awards for her fiction and poetry.
 Harvor's short story collection "Let Me Be the One" was a finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Literary Award.
 "Fortress of Chairs," her first book of poems, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry written by a Canadian writer in 1992.
 Her second poetry book, "The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring," was a finalist for the Lowther Award in 1997, and her first novel, "Excessive Joy Injures the Heart", was chosen one of the ten best books of the year by The Toronto Star in 2000.
 Also in 2000 Harvor won the Alden Nowlan Award, in 2003 the Marian Engel Award, and in 2004 the Malahat Novella Prize for "Across Some Dark Avenue of Plot He Carried Her Body."
Lindita Arapi (born 30 June 1972) is an Albanian writer and journalist.
 She is cited as a noteworthy example of a generation of female Albanian writers.
 Together with her contemporaries, Ervin Hatibi, Agron Tufa, and Rudian Zekthi, Arapi is one of Albania's present-day literary avant-garde writers.
 She has been living in Germany since the late 1990s, where she has published several volumes of poetry.
 Her first book of poetry, "Am Meer, nachts" ("By the sea, at night"); 2007) was the first book of poetry written by a female Albanian poet in German.
 Her first novel, "Vajzat me çelës në qafë" (2010), translated into German in 2012, was awarded a Book of the Year prize in Albania.
Amy Newman is an American poet, critic and professor.
 She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently "On This Day in Poetry History" (Persea Books).
 Her other books include "Dear Editor", winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, "fall", "Camera Lyrica," winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and her first book, "Order, or Disorder," which received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize.
 Newman has received fellowships in poetry from the MacDowell Colony and the Ohio and Illinois Arts Councils.
 Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including "The Kenyon Review", "The Missouri Review", "Hotel Amerika", "The Ohio Review", "Colorado Review", "Denver Quarterly", "The Gettysburg Review", "Hayden's Ferry Review", "Willow Springs", "Indiana Review", "The Carolina Quarterly", and "The Connecticut Poetry Review", and in anthologies, including "The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries", "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets In Discussion and Practice", "An Introduction To The Prose Poem", "Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books", and "The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry".
 Her poetry has been translated and published in Italy and Romania.
Richard Jones is an American poet.
 He was born in London, England, received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
 He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently "The Correct Spelling & Exact Meaning" (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), as well as a number of limited edition volumes.
 His first book, "Country of Air", won the Posner Award in 1986.
 "The Blessing: New and Selected Poems", a selection of poems from six of his books, received the Midland Authors Award for Poetry for 2000.
 He is also the editor of the critical anthology "Poetry and Politics" (William Morrow and Company, 1985).
 In 2000, he published a compact disc, "Body and Soul", in which he discusses the art of poetry.
 In 2011, he published "Thunder on the Mountain" (East of Eden Press), a nonfiction book that explores the relationship between poetry and painting.
 He is editor of the literary journal "Poetry East" and its many anthologies, including "The Last Believer in Words" and "Bliss".
 He is currently professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, where he has taught since 1987.
 He lives north of Chicago with his wife and three children.
Stig Riemmbe Gaelok is born July 7, 1961 in Divtasvuodna / Tysfjord.
 He is an Sáme author, who writes his books in Lule Sáme language (julevsámegiella) and Norwegian language (norsk).
 His first book, the poetry collection "O, Oarjjevuodna", which was published in 1983, was the first collection of poems ever in Lule Sáme language, and also the first book in Lule Sáme language since ´s book "Jåhttee saamee viessom", which was published 46 years earlier, in 1937, and was the first book ever written of a Lule Sáme in Lule Sáme language.
Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet.
 He received a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001 and has been the recipient of fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
 He is the author of three chapbooks, "Amigos" , "Something about a Black Scarf" and "Wish You Were Here", and two full-length poetry collections.
 His first book, "All-American Poem", was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by "American Poetry Review" and distributed by Copper Canyon Press.
 He was also the winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
 His second full collection of poetry, "Mayakovsky's Revolver," was published by Norton in 2012.
 He is also the coauthor, with his twin brother Michael Dickman, of the 2012 poetry collection "50 American Plays", published by Copper Canyon Press.
Allyssa Wolf (born 1971) is an American poet.
 Her first book of poems "Vaudeville" was published in 2006 under the imprint Seismicity Editions, by the Otis College of Art and Design.
 She is the recipient of a 2006 Gertrude Stein Award and was 1st Runner-Up for the Robin Blaser Award in 2015.
 Her poetry was part of the Bunker Poetico installation and anthology for the 49th Venice Bienalle.
 Her second tract, "Loquela", was published in 2011 by Insert Blanc Press.
 Her third book of poetry, "The Book of Coming and Going Forth by Day" was pulled from circulation by the author, as she refused to write or publish poetry for three years for political reasons, only then publishing one poem in a magazine out of Singapore, and submitting 3 to the Canadian Robin Blaser Award.
 She has said she is working on a novel called ''The Murder of the Real" and has reportedly resumed writing poetry.
The Mower is a 1979 poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written on 12 June 1979.
 It was first published in "Humberside", the Hull Literary Club magazine, in Autumn 1979.

Question: What was the first book of poetry by the author of The Mower?
Answer: The North Ship