1988 in poetry

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Years:	1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

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Ciarán Carson: The New Estate and Other Poems, Gallery Press
Helen Dunmore, The Raw Garden
Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson
Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems
Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
John Heath-Stubbs:
- Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press
- A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Poems for the Twelve Days of Christmas
- Time Pieces, Hearing Eye. ISBN 1-870841-02-6
Philippe Jaccottet, The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, translated from French by Derek Mahon, Viking
Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow
Nika Turbina, First Draft: Poems by Nika Turbina, translated by Elaine Feinstein and Antonina W. Bouis, Marion Boyars

The New British Poetry, a poetry anthology, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Afro-Caribbean, younger and British poetry revival poets, all writing from 1968 to 1988
Elaine Feinstein, editor, PEN New Poetry II, Quartet

Ted Berrigan, A Certain Slant of Sunlight
Joseph Brodsky: To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965-1985, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[1] Russian-American
Gwendolyn Brooks, Winnie
Raymond Carver, In a Marine Light: Selected Poems
Maxine Chernoff, Japan (Avenue B Press)
Billy Collins, The Apple That Astonished Paris
Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States
Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity & Angels
Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan (posthumous), translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani
Federico García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York first translation into English as "A Poet in New York" this year (written in 1930, first published posthumously in 1940)
William Logan, Sullen Weedy Lakes
James Merrill, The Inner Room
Michael Palmer, Sun
Marie Ponsot, The Green Dark
Rosmarie Waldrop, Shorter American Memory (Paradigm Press)

The 75 poets included in The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman, co-edited this year by John Ashbery:

Haim Gouri, Heshbon Over ("Current Account, Selected Poems"), Israeli writing in Hebrew^[2]
Rami Saari, Hinne, Matzati Et Beyti ("Behold, I Found My Home"), Israeli writing in Hebrew^[3]
Robert Gray, Piano, Australia
Jayanta Mahapatra, Burden of Waves & Fruit, India^[4]
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, I'm Deadly Serious, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Australia