Canada, in French Suzanne Jacob, La part de feu, Montréal: Boréal, winner of the prix de la Société Radio-Canada, and prix du Gouverneur général Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves, Montréal: Le Noroît Hebrew Aharon Shabtai, Be-xodesh May ha-nifla’ ("In the Wonderful Month of May") Rami Saari, Maslul Ha-k'ev Ha-no"az ("The Route of the Bold Pain") India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Bengali Joy Goswami, Kabita-Songroho, Vol. 2, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, (third reprint in 2002) Nirendranath Chakravarti, Shondharaater Kobita, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers Udaya Narayana Singh, Ashru o Parihaas, Kolkata: Pritoniya Subrata Bandyopadhyay, Saodāgara o The final judgement ("Saudagar and the Final Judgement"), Kalakata: De'ja Pābaliśiṃ Other in India Jiban Narah, Dhou Khela Loralir San, Guwahati, Assam: Nibedon; Indian, Assamese-language Jayant Kaikini, Neelimale, Bangalore: Patrike Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter K. G. Sankara Pillai, K.G. Shankara Pillayude Kavithakal 1969-1996, Kottayam, Kerala: D C Books; Malayalam-language K. Siva Reddy, Naa Kalala Nadi Anchuna, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle; Telugu-language Kanaka Ha Ma, Papanashini, Puttur, Karnataka: Kannada Sangha; Kannada language Namdeo Dhasal, Andhale Shatak, Mumbai: Ambedkara Prabodhini; Marathi-language Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Zimy i podroze ("Winter and Journeys"), Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie Ewa Lipska, Ludzie dla poczatkujacych, ("People for Beginners"); Poznan: a5 Tomasz Różycki, Vaterland, Łódź: Stowarzyszenie Literackie im. K.K. Baczyńskiego Piotr Sommer, Nowe stosunki wyrazów. Wiersze z lat siedemdziesiątych i osiemdziesiątych Wisława Szymborska: Sto wierszy - sto pociech ("100 Poems - 100 Happinesses") Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Liber mortuorum Spain Matilde Camus, Mundo interior ("Inner World") Other Mario Benedetti, La vida ese paréntesis, Uruguay Attilio Bertolucci, La lucertola di Casarola, previously unpublished poems, many written in his youth; Italy Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Ror Wolf, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1997/98 ("Poetry Yearbook 1997/98"), publisher: Beck; anthology Chen Kehua, Bie ai moshengren ("Don’t Make Love to Strangers") Chinese (Taiwan) Alexander Mezhirov: Позёмка ("Drifting"), Russia Apologii︠a︡ t︠s︡irka: kniga novykh stikhov ("Apologia of the Circus"), including a version of "Blizzard", St. Petersburg, Russia Wang Xiaoni, Wode zhili baozhe wo de huo ("My paper wraps my fire"), China Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: Joint winners Dragons in their Pleasant Places by Peter Porter The Wild Reply by Emma Lew Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Marilyn Dumont, A Really Good Brown Girl Archibald Lampman