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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
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