A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers, South African native living and published in the United Kingdom George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies Pete Morgan, One Greek Alphabet Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978 Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979 Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collection Anthologies in the United Kingdom D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above) Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse United States Meena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer Poems Ted Berrigan: So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems () Carrying a Torch Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979) Philip Booth, Before Sleep Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-American Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, California Billy Collins, Video Poems Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980 Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words James McMichael, Four Good Things William Meredith, The Cheer James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant Howard Nemerov, Sentences Molly Peacock, And Live Apart James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem Frederick Seidel, Sunrise Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press) Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press) Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman (biography) Lew Welch, I