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1978
 
    
English author Andrew Motion publishes his first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers       
1981
 
    
War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad       
1984
 
   
US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante      
1985
 
     
British Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair        
1987
 
     
English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall        
1990
 
    
West Indian author Derek Walcott publishes Omeros, an epic poem of the Caribbean       
1992
 
     
English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS        
1993
 
    
US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper       
1994
 
 
The Italian film Il Postino brings poetry into the life of a postman who delivers mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda    
1995
 
    
US poet Philip Levine wins a Pulitzer Prize with his volume of poems Simple Truth