1983 in poetry

• April – Russian samizdat poet Irina Ratushinskaya is sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp for dissident activity; she continues to write poetry clandestinely in prison.
• June 2 – Francophone Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first black African writer elected as a member of the Académie française
• The Frogmore Press is founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone, England. The press publishes a magazine, The Frogmire Papers

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

• David Brooks, The Cold Front. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger
• Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 |date=2007-10-13 }} Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007
• Philip Salom: The Projectionist, A Sequence. (Fremantle Arts Centre) {{ISBN|978-0-909144-69-2}}
• John Tranter, Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger

• Dionne Brand, Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia
• George Elliott Clarke, Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield, {{ISBN|0-919001-12-2}}
• Robert Finch, The Grand Duke of Moscow's Favourite Solo."

[http://www.track0.com/ogwc/authors/finch_r.html Robert Finch]," Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011.

• Irving Layton, The Gucci Bag. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm Irving Layton: Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm |date=2011-07-14 }}," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
• Dorothy Livesay, The Phases of Love. Toronto: Coach House."[http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works"], Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
• Don McKay, Birding, or Desire[https://web.archive.org/web/20000818024226/http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/d_mckay.htm] Web page titled "Don McKay" at the "writing canada into the millennium" Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
• George McWhirter, Fire Before Dark
• Roy Miki, The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (critical study)
• Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions."[http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm Joe Rosenblatt: Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm |date=2011-08-14 }}," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
• Raymond Souster, Going the Distance. Ottawa: Oberon Press."[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html Notes on Life and Works] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html |date=2011-08-17 }}," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
• George Woodcock, Collected Poems, Victoria: Sono Nis Press, Canada[http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/bright/woodcock/woodbiblio.html Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock"] at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008

• Jayanta Mahapatra, Life Signs ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University PressPurnima Mehta, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7fsLY0b5aJAC "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim"], pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, {{ISBN|81-7625-111-9}}, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
• Dom Moraes, Absences ( Poetry in English ),
• Sudeep Sen, Leaning Against the Lamp-Post ( Poetry in English ),Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 "Sudeep Sen"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040921/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14009 |date=2012-03-25 }}, Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010

• Sebastian Barry, The Water-Colourist, Ireland
• Padraic Fallon, Poems and Versions (see also Poems 1974 in poetry, Collected Poems1990 in poetry)
• Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States:
• An Open Letter, Field Day
• Translator, Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
• Paul Muldoon, Quoof, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Tom Paulin, Liberty Tree, including "Desertmartin", "Off the Back of a Lorry" and "A Written Answer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, {{ISBN|0-85640-561-2}}

• Fleur Adcock(New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
• The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin poems, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books[http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm |date=2006-12-21 }} at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
• Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
• Leigh Davis, Willy's Gazette, Wellington: Jack Books
• Lauris Edmond, Catching It: PoemsRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
• M. P. Jackson and V. O'Sullivan, editors, Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837 1983
• Bill Manhire, Locating the Beloved and Other Stories, New Zealand
• W. H. Oliver, James K. Baxter: A Portrait, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1983; reprinted 1994, Godwit Press/Bridget Williams Books, biography
• Bob Orr, Cargo[http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2001/orrnote.html Web page titled "Bob Orr"] at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008

• Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
• The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin poems, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
• Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
• George Barker, Anno DominoCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
• George Mackay Brown, Voyages
• Alan Brownjohn, Collected Poems 1952–1983
• John Cooper Clarke, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
• Helen Dunmore, The Apple Fall
• Gavin Ewart, Capital Letters
• Padraic Fallon, Poems and Versions (see also Poems 1974 in poetry, Collected Poems1990 in poetry), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• James Fenton, Memory of War and Children in Exile
• Roy Fuller, As From the Thirties
• Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States:
• An Open Letter, Field Day
• Translator: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
• Adrian Henri, Penny Arcade
• Geoffrey Hill, The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy
• Frances Horovitz, Snow Light, Water Light
• Ted Hughes, River
• Jenny Joseph, Beyond Descartes
• Peter Levi, The Echoing Green
• Christopher Middleton, 111 Poems, Carcanet Press, {{ISBN|978-0-85635-457-1}}
• Pete Morgan, A Winter VisitorSalter, Miles, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jul/15/pete-morgan-obituary "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries"], July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010
• Andrew Motion, Secret Narratives
• Paul Muldoon, Quoof, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Grace Nichols, I is a Long-Memoried Woman, Caribbean Cultural International
• Sean O'Brien, The Indoor Park (Bloodaxe)
• Tom Paulin, Liberty Tree, including "Desertmartin", "Off the Back of a Lorry" and "A Written Answer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• J. H. Prynne, The Oval Window
• Carol Rumens, Star Whisper
• Peter Scupham, Winter Quarters

• A.R. Ammons, Lake Effect CountryLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
• Maya Angelou, Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
• Elizabeth Bishop, Collected Poems 1927-1979, posthumous (died 1979)
• Amy Clampitt, Kingfisher
• James Dickey, The Central Motion
• Alice Fulton, Dance Script with Electric Ballerina
• Nikki Giovanni, Those Who Ride the Nightwinds
• Frank Graziano, editor, Georg Trakl: A Profile, Logbridge-Rhodes, criticism
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Collected Poems, 1912–1944, posthumous (died 1961)
• Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland native living at this time in the United States:
• An Open Letter, Field Day
• Translator: Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish, Field Day
• Joy Harjo, She Had Some HorsesPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=I3_cSqmbXd8C&dq=Timeline+poetry&pg=PA25 The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature], p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-521-82283-1}}, retrieved February 9, 2009
• John Hollander, Powers of Thirteen
• Paul Hoover, Somebody Talks a Lot (The Yellow Press)
• Richard Howard, Lining Up
• W. S. Merwin, Opening the Hand, New York: AtheneumWeb page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4676 "W. S. Merwin (1927- )"] at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
• Gary Miranda, Grace Period
• Mary Oliver, American Primitive
• Carl Rakosi, Spiritus I
• James Reiss, Express
• Adrienne Rich, Sources
• William Saroyan, My Name Is Saroyan, a miscellany of fiction, nonfiction, drama and verse; published posthumously (died 1981)
• James Schevill, The American Fantasies: Collected Poems, 1945–1981
• Peter Seaton, Crisis Intervention (Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press)available complete and online courtesy of [http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/authors.html Eclipse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704135830/http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/authors.html |date=2010-07-04 }}. This takes you to a list of authors published at the Eclipse site, scroll down for the Seaton publications
• Ntozake Shange, A Daughter's Geography
• Louis Simpson, The Best Hour of the Night
• Gary Snyder, Axe Handles
• Eleanor Ross Taylor, New and Selected PoemsNews release, [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_041310.html?id=186210 "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609012327/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_041310.html?id=186210 |date=June 9, 2010 }}, April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 9, 2010
• David Wagoner, First Light
• Robert Penn Warren, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

• M. Nourbese Philip, Salmon Courage, Caribbean[https://books.google.com/books?id=-jzJb96uTdQC&dq=Timeline+poetry&pg=PR17 "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry"] in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-313-31747-7}}, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

• Claude Esteban, Conjoncture du corps et du jardin suivi de Cosmogonie, Flammarion; France
• Abdellatif Laabi, translator, Rien qu'une autre année translated from the original Arabic of Mahmoud Darwich into French; Paris: Unesco/Éditions de Minuit
• Pierre Nepveu, Mahler et autres matières, Montréal: Le Noroît; CanadaWeb page titled [http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/pierre_nepveu.html "Pierre Nepveu"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125133033/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/pierre_nepveu.html |date=2009-11-25 }} at L'Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010

• H. Bender, Deutsche Gedichte 1930-1960, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
• Hiltrud Gnüg, Entstehung und Krise lyrischer subjektivität. Vom Klassischen Lyrischen Ich zur Modernen Erfahrungswirklichkeit, Stuttgart (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
• Walter Hinderer, editor, Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Stuttgart (scholarship), called "indispensable" by the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993)
• Klaus Weissenberger, editor, Die deutsche Lyrik, 1945-1975 (scholarship)

In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

• Kedarnath Singh, Yahan Se Dekho, Delhi: Radhakrishan Prakashan; HindiWeb page titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20120325035905/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2724 "Kedarnath Singh"] at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
• Rituraj, Abacus, Hapur: Sambhavana PrakashanWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12940 "Rituraj"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234851/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12940 |date=2012-04-06 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010
• Teji Grover, Yahan Kucch Andheri Aur Tikhi Hai Nadi, New Delhi: Bharati Bhasha PrakashanWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17742 "Teji Grover"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011224/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=17742 |date=2012-04-20 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010

• Ajmer Rode, Chubhchintan, Amritsar: Nanak Singh Pustakmala; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11767] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011408/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11767 |date=2012-04-20 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
• Dilip Chitre, Daha by Daha, Mumbai: Pras Prakashan, Mumbai; Marathi-languageWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13518 "Dilip Chitre"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213612/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13518 |date=2012-02-14 }}, Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
• K. Satchidanandan; Malayalam-language:
• Randu Deergha Kavyangal, ("Two Long Poems")Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 "K. Satchidanandan"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 |date=2011-07-21 }}, Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
• Satchidandandante Kavithakal 1962-82, ("Poems (1962-82)")
• K. Siva Reddy, Bharamiti, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-languageWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 "K. Siva Reddy"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919122233/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 |date=September 19, 2011 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
• Mallika Sengupta, Challish Chander Ayu, Virus publication; Bengali-languageWeb page title [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 "Mallika Sengupta"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092657/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2728&x=1 |date=2012-02-25 }}, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
• Manushya Puthiran, Manushya Puthiranin Kavithaigal, Chennai: Manimegalai Prasuram, Tamil languageWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2729 "Manushya Puthiran"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050744/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2729 |date=2011-07-21 }} at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 15, 2010
• Namdeo Dhasal, Khel Marathi-languageWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10525 "Namdeo Dhasal"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213641/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10525 |date=2012-02-14 }}, Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
• Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ghor-duwar, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageWeb page title [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 "Nirendranath Chakravarti"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 |date=2012-02-14 }}, at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
• Prathibha Nandakumar, Navu Hudugiyare Heege ("We Girls Are Thus"), Bangalore: Kannada Sangha, Christ College; Kannada-languageWeb page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2734 "Prathibha Nandakumar"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310083134/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2734 |date=2012-03-10 }} at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010

• Zbigniew Herbert, Raport z oblężonego Miasta i inne wiersze ("Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems"), Paris: Instytut LiterackiWeb page titled [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,193.php "Herbert Zbigniew"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418181922/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,193.php |date=2009-04-18 }}, at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website, retrieved February 27, 2010
• Ryszard Krynicki, Ocalenie z nicości ("Salvation from Nothingness"); Krakow: SwitWeb pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (both [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,172.php English version] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425224424/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,172.php |date=2009-04-25 }} and [http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,74.php Polish version] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062736/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,74.php |date=2011-07-18 }}), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
• Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Ulica Mandelsztama ("Mandelstam Street")Web page titled [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php |date=2011-09-16 }}, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
• Piotr Sommer, Kolejny światWeb page titled [http://poland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14531&x=1 "Piotr Sommer"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011221045/http://poland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14531&x=1 |date=October 11, 2010 }}, "Poetry International" website, retrieved February 19, 2010
• Jan Twardowski, Który stwarzasz jagody, Krakow: Wydawnictwo LiterackieWeb page titled [http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php "Jan Twardowski"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063117/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php |date=2011-07-18 }}, at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
• Wiktor Woroszylski, Lustro. Dziennik internowania ("Mirror: An Internment Journal")Web pages titled "Woroszylski Wiktor" (in [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,1286.php English] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005232559/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,1286.php |date=2011-10-05 }} and [http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,84.php Polish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062455/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,84.php |date=2011-07-18 }}), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 2, 2010

• Matilde Camus:
• Tierra de palabras ("Land of words")
• Coral montesino ("Chorale of Monte")

• Mia Couto, Raiz de Orvalho, Mozambican Portuguese
• Luo Fu, Wine-Brewing Stone, Chinese (Taiwan) Balcom, John, [http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 "Lo Fu"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101081326/http://china.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9223 |date=2011-01-01 }}, article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
• Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
• Eno High, with Asger Schnack, publisher: SchønbergWeb page titled [http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[stage]=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
• Metamorphoses, publisher: Gyldendal
• Marlene van Niekerk, Groenstaar, South Africa

• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Vivian Smith, Tide Country

• Gerald Lampert Award: Diana Hartog, Matinee Light
• 1983 Governor General's Awards: David Donnell, Settlements (English); Suzanne Paradis, Un goût de sel (French)
• Pat Lowther Award: Rhea Tregebov, Remembering History
• Prix Émile-Nelligan: Lucien Francœur, Les Rockeurs sanctifiés

• Cholmondeley Award: John Fuller, Craig Raine, Anthony Thwaite
• Eric Gregory Award: Martin Stokes, Hilary Davies, Michael O'Neill, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Deidre Shanahan
• Commonwealth Poetry Prize: Grace Nichols, i is a long memoried woman

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kate Daniels, The White Wave
• AML Award for poetry to Clinton F. Larson for "A Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems"
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Galway Kinnell - Selected Poems
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Schuyler and Philip Booth

• July 2 – Tao Lin 林韬, Chinese novelist and poet
• December 6 – Jason Reynolds, African American children's novelist and poet{{cite web|title=Jason Reynolds named Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-reynolds-library-of-congress-national-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature/|date=2020-01-13|work=CBS News|accessdate=2020-05-23|archive-date=2020-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523153726/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-reynolds-library-of-congress-national-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature/|url-status=live}}
• Sarah Howe, Hong Kong-born English poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 18 – Robert Payne, 71 (born 1911), English professor of English literature in the U.S., lecturer in naval architecture, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
• May 4 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (born 1935), Japanese avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
• May 21 – Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol (born 1940), Egyptian poet
• June 17 – Miron Białoszewski (born 1922), Polish poet and playwright
• June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason (born 1948), Icelandic politician, historian and poet, by suicide
• June 27 – Alden Nowlan, 50 (born 1933), Canadian poet and novelist
• July 4 – Ted Berrigan, 48 (born 1934), American poet
• July 12 – Edwin Denby, 80 (born 1903), American dance critic and poet, by suicide
• August 12 – Mikey Smith (born 1954), Jamaican dub poet, stoned to death
• October 2 – Frances Horovitz, 45 (born 1938), English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry

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• List of years in poetry
• List of poetry awards

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Category:20th-century poetry

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