los Suspiros, Peru Odysseus Elytis, Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience (Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας), Greece Ndoc Gjetja, E përditshme ("The Daily"), Albania Klaus Høeck, Eno Zebra, with Asger Schnack, Denmark Alexander Mezhirov, Проза в стихах ("Prose in Verse") (winner of the USSR State Prize, 1986), Russia, Soviet Union Nizar Qabbani, A Poem For Balqis, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Rajendra Shah, Prasang-Spatak, Indian, writing in Gujarati Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Ukendt under den samme måne ("Unknown Under the Same Moon"), Denmark Marie Uguay, Autoportraits, French-Canadian (posthumous) Silvia Volckmann, Zeit der Kirschen? Das Naturbild in der deutschen Gegenwartslyrik (scholarship), West Germany Awards and honors Australia Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Abraham Boyarsky, Schielber and Edna Alford, A Sleep Full of Dreams 1982 Governor General's Awards: Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (English); Michel Savard, Forages (French) Pat Lowther Award: Rona Murray, Journey Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jocelyne Felx, Orpailleuse and Philippe Haeck - La Parole verte United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O'Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun United States Academy of American Poets Fellowship: John Ashbery and John Frederick Nims Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One National Book Award: William Bronk for Life Supports (April 27) Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Gerald Stern, "Father Guzman" Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Anthony Hecht appointed this year. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: John Frederick Nims and John Ashbery North Carolina Poet Laureate: Sam Ragan appointed. Births January 14 – Luke Wright, English performance poet April 27 – Patricia Lockwood, American poet Paul-Henri Campbell, German American poet Roger Robinson, British dub poet Chris Tse, New Zealand poet, short story writer and editor Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 19 – Marya Zaturenska, 80 (born 1902), American lyric poet, of heart failure March 11 – Horace Gregory, 83 (born 1898), American poet March 15 – Edgell Rickword, 83 (born 1898), English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor, a leading communist intellectual active in the 1930s March 18 – Yao Kitabatake 北畠 八穂, 78 (born