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1986 in poetry
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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,
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