1986 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 4 — Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Dissident Russian poet Dmitri Prigov is arrested by the K.G.B for distributing his samizdat poetry and briefly confined in a psychiatric hospital before being freed after protests by other poets such as Bella Akhmadulina New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago English poet Wendy Cope's Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis is a best-seller Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Don Domanski, Hammerstroke Canada Louis Dudek, Zembla's Rocks. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1986. Archibald Lampman, The Story of an Affinity, D.M.R. Bentley ed. (London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press). Irving Layton, Dance With Desire: Love Poems. Toronto:McClelland & Stewart. Dennis Lee, editor, The New Canadian Poets (anthology) Dorothy Livesay, The Self-Completing Tree: Selected Poems. Victoria: Porcepic. Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Man with Three Violins. HMS Press (Toronto) Anne Marriott, Letters from Some Island: New Poems, Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press. Michael Ondaatje: All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadian published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland Pattern Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie Raymond Souster, It Takes All Kinds. Ottawa: Oberon Press, Wilfred Watson, Collected Poems (introduction by Thomas Peacocke) Jayanta Mahapatra, Dispossessed Nests ( Poetry in English ), Jaipur: Nirala Publications Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse Suniti Namjoshi, Flesh and Paper, (with Gillian Hanscombe), Jezebel Tapes and Books, Devon, and Ragweed, V.

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2008 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 18 – Release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, concerning Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys (as Thomas). September – A United Kingdom examination board, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, asks schools to withdraw copies of its anthology which contain the poem, Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy after some teachers complained about the poem's reference to knives.

1988 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year. During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you".

1982 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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 Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: M.