Peregrynarz Tadeusz Różewicz, Nasz starszy brat ("Our Elder Brother") Wisława Szymborska: Lektury nadobowiązkowe ("Non-required Reading") Adam Zagajewski, Dzikie czeresnie, wybór wierszy ("Wild Cherries, a Selection of Poetry"), Kraków: Znak Other languages Han Dong, Baise de shitou ("The White Stone"), Shanghai: wenyi chubanshe China Gabriela Mistral, Lagar II, published posthumously, Santiago, Chile: Biblioteca Nacional Maria Luisa Spaziani, Torri di vedata, Italy Awards and honors Nobel prize: Derek Walcott Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Harris, Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems Mary Gilmore Prize: Alison Croggon - This is the StoneCanada Gerald Lampert Award: Joanne Arnott, Wiles of Girlhood Archibald Lampman Award: Blaine Marchand, A Garden Enclosed 1992 Governor General's Awards: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (English); Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra Pat Lowther Award: Kate Braid, Covering Rough Ground Prix Alain-Grandbois: Monique Bosco, Miserere Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Barry McKinnon, Pulplog Prix Émile-Nelligan: Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de PragueUnited Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine Whitbread Award for poetry: Tony Harrison, The Gaze of the GorgonUnited States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Hunt Hawkins, The Domestic Life Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks AML Award for poetry to Kathy Evans for "Wednesday Morning"; "Midweek"; "Eight Windows"; "Vows"; "Love to the Second Power" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Tony Sanders, "The Warning Track" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life Frost Medal: Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow National Book Award for poetry: Mary Oliver, New & Selected Poems Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Mona Van Duyn Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: John Ashbery Whiting Awards: Roger Fanning, Jane Mead, Katha Pollitt William Carlos Williams Award: Louise Glück, The Wild Iris'' Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Adrienne Rich Births October 5 – Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet and illustrator Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 16 Angela Carter, 51 (born 1940), English novelist and