Kannada Sangha, Christ College; Kannada-language Poland Zbigniew Herbert, Raport z oblężonego Miasta i inne wiersze ("Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems"), Paris: Instytut Literacki Ryszard Krynicki, Ocalenie z nicości ("Salvation from Nothingness"); Krakow: Swit Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Ulica Mandelsztama ("Mandelstam Street") Piotr Sommer, Kolejny świat Jan Twardowski, Który stwarzasz jagody, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie Wiktor Woroszylski, Lustro. Dziennik internowania ("Mirror: An Internment Journal") Spain Matilde Camus: Tierra de palabras ("Land of words") Coral montesino ("Chorale of Monte") Other languages Mia Couto, Raiz de Orvalho, Mozambican Portuguese Luo Fu, Wine-Brewing Stone, Chinese (Taiwan) Klaus Høeck, Denmark:Eno High, with Asger Schnack, publisher: Schønberg Metamorphoses, publisher: Gyldendal Marlene van Niekerk, Groenstaar, South Africa Awards and honors Australia Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Vivian Smith, Tide CountryCanada 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 sanctifiésUnited Kingdom 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 womanUnited States 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 Births July 2 – Tao Lin 林韬, Chinese novelist and poet December 6 – Jason Reynolds, African American children's novelist and poet Sarah Howe, Hong Kong-born English poet Deaths 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