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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

April – First issue of o•blék: a journal of language arts (pronounced "oblique") is published in the United States, founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edits it with Connell McGrath. The magazine stops publishing in 1993.
August 30 – Poets Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz marry.^[1]
October 16 – Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke released today.
October – Tony Harrison's poem "V" is broadcast in a filmed version on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.
Joseph Brodsky, a Russian exile who has become a United States citizen, resigns his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in protest over the honorary membership of the Russian poet Evgenii Evtushenko, regarded by Brodsky as a Soviet "yes man".
Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, an elegy about suffering of Soviet people under the Great Purge, composed 1935–61 and first published in the West in 1963, is first openly published complete in book form in the Soviet Union.
In his 'Notes on the New Formalism', Dana Gioia writes: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."^[2]
The Dolmen Press in Portlaoise, Ireland, founded in 1951 to provide a publishing outlet for Irish poetry, ceases operations after the death of founder Liam Miller.^[3]

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:

Canada

Patrick Lane, Selected Poems
Irving Layton, Fortunate Exile. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[4] ISBN 0-7710-4947-1.
Irving Layton, Final Reckoning: Poems, 1982-1986. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.^[4]
Dennis Lee, The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan.^[5]
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.^[6] ISBN 978-0-7710-5428-0
Don McKay, Sanding Down the Rocking Chair on a Windy Night
Raymond Souster, The Eyes of Love. Ottawa: Oberon Press.^[7]
George Woodcock:
- Beyond the Blue Mountains, An Autobiography, Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canada^[8]
- Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, scholarship^[8]^[9]

India, in English

Keki Daruwalla, Landscapes ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press^[10]
Dom Moraes, Collected Poems 1957-1987 ( Poetry in English ) ^[11]
Jayanta Mahapatra, Selected Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press^[12]
Bruce King, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English - Historical Perspective (first edition), Delhi: Oxford University Press (anthology)

Ireland

Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, including "Cocktails",^[13] Oldcastle: The Gallery Press Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and the United States
Michael Coady, Oven Lane, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-1-85235-020-8
Paul Durcan, Going Home to Russia, Belfast: The Blackstaff Press^[13]
Eamon Grennan, What Light There Is, including "Totem" and "Four Deer", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[13]
Michael Hartnett, A Necklace of Wrens, including "Sneachta Gealai '77" and "Moonsnow '77", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press^[13]
Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,^[14] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,^[14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, including "Something Else", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[13]
Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,^[14] Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[15]
Janet Charman, 2 deaths in 1 night: poems, Auckland: New Women's Press^[16]
Allen Curnow, Look Back Harder: Critical Writings 1935–1984 (Auckland University Press), edited by Peter Simpson, criticism^[17]
Kendrick Smithyman, Are You Going to the Pictures?
Ian Wedde, Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems, New Zealand

Anthologies in New Zealand

Murray Edmond and Mary Paul, editors, The New Poets^[18]
V. O'Sullivan, editor, Anthology of 20th Century New Zealand Poetry, anthology, third edition^[19]
Mark Williams, Caxton Press Anthology of New Zealand Poetry

United Kingdom

Peter Ackroyd, The Diversions of Purley, and Other Poems^[14]
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963), The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, edited by Fleur Adcock. London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[15]
Alan Brownjohn, The Old Flea-Pit^[14]
Ciarán Carson: The Irish for No, Gallery Press, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
David Constantine, Madder^[14]
Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan^[14]
Gavin Ewart, Late Pickings^[14]
U. A. Fanthorpe, A Watching Brief^[14]
James Fenton, Partingtime Hall (written with John Fuller, 1987), Viking / Salamander Press, comical poems,^[20]
Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson
Philip Gross, Cat's Whisker^[14]
Tony Harrison, Anno Forty-Two^[14]
Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern,^[14] Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
John Heath-Stubbs, Cat's Parnassus, Aldgate Press, ISBN 1-870841-00-X
Kathleen Jamie, The Way We Live^[14]
P. J. Kavanagh, Presence^[14]
Thomas Kinsella, Out of Ireland,^[14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper^[14]
Andrew Motion, Natural Causes^[14]
Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British,^[14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Sean O'Brien, The Frighteners (Bloodaxe)
Tom Paulin, Fivemiletown,^[14] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Private Parts^[14]
Ruth Pitter, A Heaven to Find^[14]
Peter Porter, The Automatic Oracle^[14]
Peter Redgrove:
- In the Hall of the Saurians, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
- The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954-1987
Carol Rumens, Plato Park^[14]
C. H. Sisson, God Bless Karl Marx^[14]
R.S. Thomas, Welsh Airs
Anthony Thwaite, Letter from Tokyo^[14]
Charles Tomlinson, The Return^[14]
John Wain, Open Country^[14]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom

Elaine Feinstein, A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva, Hutchinson

United States

A.R. Ammons, Sumerian Vistas
Maya Angelou, Now Sheba Sings the Song
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, autobiography, poetry, political, historical and cultural analysis^[21]
John Ashbery, April Galleons
Marvin Bell, New and Selected Poems, Athenaeum
Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks
Amy Clampitt, Archaic Figure
Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty
Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
Paul Hoover, The Figures
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, editor, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press
Lincoln Kirstein, The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein (Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-11923-2
Harry Mathews, a collection
Robert McDowell, Quiet Money
William Meredith, Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize)
George Frederick Morgan, Poems: New and Selected, University of Illinois Press
Mary Oliver, Provincetown (limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor)
Gregory Orr, a collection
Octavio Paz, Collected Poems, 1957–1987, English translation from Spanish
Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
Mark Rudman, By Contraries and other poems
W.D. Snodgrass, Selected Poems: 1957-1987
Rosmarie Waldrop, The Reproduction of Profiles (New Directions)
Theodore Weiss, a collection
C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood
Jay Wright, Selected Poems
Stephen Yenser, The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, criticism, scholarship

Other in English

Edward Brathwaite, X/Self, Jamaica^[22]
Les Murray, The Daylight Moon, Australia^[23]

Works published in other languages

Denmark

Klaus Høeck, Blackberry Winter, with Asger Schnack,; publisher: Gyldendal; Denmark^[24]
Klaus Rifbjerg, Byens tvelys ("Twilight of the City"), Denmark^[25]
Søren Ulrik Thomsen, New Poems

French language

Canada, in French

Jean Royer:
- Depuis l'amour: Poème, Montréal: l'Hexagone / Paris: La Table rase^[26]
- Le Québec en poésie, Saint-Laurent: Lacombe^[26]
- La poésie québécoise contemporaine (anthologie), Montréal: l'Hexagone/Paris: La Découverte; anthology^[26]

France

Yves Bonnefoy:
- Ce qui fut sans lumière
- Récits en rêve
Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Autobiographie du voleur de feu, translated from the original Arabic of Abdelwahab al-Bayati into French; Paris: Unesco/Actes Sud

India

Listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Chandrakanta Murasingh, Haping Garingo Chibuksa Ringo, Agartala: Shyamlal Debbarma, Kokborok Sahitya Sanskriti Samsad; India, Kokborok-language^[27]
Jayant Kaikini, Shravana Madhyahna, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language^[28]
K. Satchidanandan, Ivanekkoodi, ("Him, too"); Malayalam-language^[29]
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghumiye Porar Aage, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language^[30]
Rituraj, Surat Nirat, Jaipur: Panchscheel Prakashan; Hindi-language^[31]
Vasant Abaji Dahake, Shubha-vartaman; Marathi-language^[32]

Other languages

Juliusz Erazm Bolek, Miniatury; Poland^[33]
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Jürgen Becker, guest editor, Luchterhand Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1987/88 ("Luchterhand Poetry Yearbook 1987/88"), publisher: Luchterhand Literaturverlag; anthology; Germany^[34]
Odysseus Elytis, Κριναγόρας ("Krinagoras"), Greece
Ndoc Gjetja, Poezi ("Poetry"); Albania^[35]
Hamid Ismailov, Сад ("Garden") Uzbek language
Czesław Miłosz, Kroniki ("Chronicles"); Paris: Instytut Literacki; Poland^[36]
Nizar Qabbani, Love Shall Remain, Sir, Syrian, Arabic-language
M. Swales, editor, German Poetry, anthology with poems in German^[37]
Maire Mhac an tSaoi, An Cion go Dti Seo, including "Caoineadh" and "Ceathruinti Mhaire Ni Ogain", Gaelic-language, Ireland^[13]

Awards and honors

Australia

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone
Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope