Hadasa Rubin, Rays nisht op di blum ("Don't Tear Up the Flower"); Israel Yankev Tsvi Shargel, Tsum eygenem shtern ("To My Own Star"); translations and original poems; Israel Other Gerrit Komrij, Kijken is bekeken worden; Netherlands Wang Huairang, Zhongguoren: buguide ren ("Chinese: A People Not on Its Knees"), China Krystyna Rodowska, Na dole płomień W górze płomień, Poland Tadeusz Różewicz, Zawsze fragment, Poland Hilmi Yavuz, Çöl (“Desert”); Turkey Awards and honors Nobel prize: Wislawa Szymborska Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek - Night ReversingCanada Gerald Lampert Award: Maureen Hynes, Rough Skin Archibald Lampman Award: Gary Geddes, The Perfect Cold Warrior 1996 Governor General's Awards: E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (English); Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Quatuor de l'errance / La Traversée du désert (French) Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Everything Arrives at the Light Prix Alain-Grandbois: Hélène Dorion, Sans bord, sans bout du monde Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce Prix Émile-Nelligan: Carle Coppens, Poèmes contre la montreUnited Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Elizabeth Bartlett, Dorothy Nimmo, Peter Scupham, Iain Crichton Smith Eric Gregory Award: Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Jane Griffiths, Jane Holland, Chris Jones, Sinéad Morrissey, Kate Thomas Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus) Orange Prize for Fiction: Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Redgrove T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems Whitbread Award for poetry and for book of the year (United Kingdom): Seamus Heaney, The Spirit LevelUnited States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night AML Award for poetry to Leslie Norris for Collected Poems Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: John Voiklis, "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately) Sarah Arvio, "Visits from the Seventh" Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Kenneth Koch, One Train National Book Award for poetry: Hayden Carruth, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Gerald Stern Wallace Stevens Award: Adrienne Rich Whiting Awards: Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Elizabeth Spires, Patricia Storace Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Jay Wright Awards and honors elsewhere Denmark: Golden Laurels: Henrik Nordbrandt Critics' Prize: