("My Testament"); Albania Haim Gouri Ha-Shirim ("The Poems"), in two volumes by an Israeli writing in Hebrew Chen Kehua, Yinwei siwang er jingying de fanfu shipian ("Engaging in a Complicated Poetry for the Sake of Death ") Chinese (Taiwan) Maria Luisa Spaziani, La traversata dell'oasi, Italy Rahman Henry, Banbhojoner Moto Aundhokar ( Darkness as Picnic is), Bengali Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, Broken Land Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory ShellCanada Archibald Lampman Award: Sandra Nicholls, Woman of Sticks, Woman of Stones Atlantic Poetry Prize: Carmelita McGrath, To the New World Gerald Lampert Award: Mark Sinnett, The Landing 1998 Governor General's Awards: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (English); Suzanne Jacob, La Part de feu / Le Deuil de la rancune (French) Pat Lowther Award: Barbara Nickel, The Gladys Elegies Prix Alain-Grandbois: Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth Prix Émile-Nelligan: Tony Tremblay, Rue Pétrole-OcéanIndia Sahitya Akademi Award : Arun Kamal for Naye Ilake Mein Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : K. Srilata for In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no award given in poetry category this year) First-book award for poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea, Auckland University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (Picador) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber) Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber) National Poetry Competition : Caroline Carver for Horse Underwater United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote American Academy of Arts and Letters: Robert Fagles elected a member of the Literature Department American Book Award: Angela Y. Davis,