1972 in poetry

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Events

 * John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
 * The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, went out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen.
 * The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 * May &mdash; Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.
 * W.H. Auden, now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States.
 * James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. Soon after, Baxter died. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths removed the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and sent them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxterâ€™s other papers.

Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Australia

 * A.D. Hope, Collected Poems
 * Les Murray, Poems Against Economics

Canada

 * Earle Birney, Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, Bill Bissett, Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poets
 * Leonard Cohen, The Energy of Slaves
 * David Helwig, The Best Name of Silence
 * George Johnston, Happy Enough: Poems 1935-1972.
 * Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies and Other Poems. Toronto: Anansi.
 * Kenneth Leslie, O'Malley to the Reds And Other Poems. Halifax: By the Author.
 * Dorothy Livesay, Collected Poems: The Two Seasons. Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson.
 * Gwendolyn MacEwen:
 * * The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan.
 * The Armies of the Moon. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. ISBN 9780770508685
 * Don McKay, Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada)
 * James Reaney, Poems.
 * Charles Sangster, The St Lawrence and the Saguenay and other poems; Hesperus and other poems and lyrics, intro. Gordon Johnston (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Buffalo, N.Y.)
 * Raymond Souster, Selected Poems of Raymond Souster. Michael Maklem ed. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
 * Wilfred Watson, The Sorrowful Canadians

Indian poetry in English

 * Meena Alexander, Without Place ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Ruskin Bond, It isn't Time That's Passing: Poems, 1970–71 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Margaret Chatterjee, The Sandalwood Tree ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
 * Dilip Chitre, Ambulance Ride ( Poetry in English ) ,
 * Gauri Deshpande, Beyond the Slaughter House ,( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
 * Shree Devi, Shades of Green ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
 * Mary Vasanti Erulkar, Mandala 2/5 ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
 * Samir Das Gupta, Paling Shadows Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
 * Nandita Haksar, Ego and Other Poems, Delhi: Orient Longman
 * Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Gesture of Fleshless Sound ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Dilip Kumar Roy, Hark! His Flute!, Poona: Hari Krishna Mandir
 * Syed Ameerudin:
 * Poems of Protest, Sumter, South Carolina, United States: Poetry Eastwest; Indian poet, writing in English published in the United States
 * What the Himalayas said and Other Poems, Madras: Kalaivendhan Publishers
 * Pritish Nandy, editor, Indian Poetry in English, anthology
 * Saleem Peerandina, editor, Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: An Assessment and Selection, anthology, Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.

Ireland

 * EilÃ©an NÃ­ ChuilleanÃ¡in, Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press
 * Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Pearse Hutchinson, Watching the Morning Grow, including "Sometimes Feel", Gallery Press
 * Thomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
 * W. R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumous

New Zealand

 * James K. Baxter:
 * Autumn Testament, not posthumous
 * Stonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumous
 * Alistair Campbell, ''Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch: Pegasus Press
 * Allen Curnow, Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects
 * Bill Manhire, The Elaboration
 * Kendrick Smithyman, Earthquake Weather

United Kingdom

 * James Aitchison, Sounds Before Sleep
 * Anne Beresford, Footsteps
 * Martin Booth, The Crying Embers
 * Alan Brownjohn, Warrior's Career
 * Florence Bull, Saint David's Day
 * Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Rain-Giver
 * Douglas Dunn, The Happier Life
 * D. J. Enright, Daughters of Earth
 * Elaine Feinstien, At the Edge, Sceptre Press
 * James Fenton, Terminal Moraine
 * Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
 * Michael Horovitz, The Wolverhampton Wanderer
 * Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1967 (see also Selectd Poems 1982, New Selected Poems'' 1995)
 * Thomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Liz Lochhead, Memo for Spring
 * George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70
 * Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
 * Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare
 * Edwin Morgan, Glasgow Sonnets
 * Norman Nicholson, A Local Habitation
 * Brian Patten, And Sometimes It Happens
 * Mervyn Peake, A Book of Nonsense
 * Peter Porter, Preaching to the Converted
 * Sally Purcell, The Holly Queen
 * Peter Redgrove, Dr Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit, and Other Poems
 * R. S. Thomas, H'm, Welsh
 * Norman Nicholson, A Local Habitation
 * Kathleen Raine, the Lost Country
 * W. R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumous
 * Vernon Scannell, Selected Poems
 * Peter Scupham, The Snowing Globe
 * Stevie Smith, Scorpion, and Other Poems, posthumous
 * Anthologies in the United Kingdom
 * Helen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller and Couch. 1972
 * John Heath-Stubbs, co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20

United States

 * A.R. Ammons:
 * Briefings: Poems Small and Easy
 * Collected Poems: 1951-1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973
 * John Ashbery, Three Poems
 * W. H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson
 * Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston Again
 * John Berryman, Delusions, Etc. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous
 * Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)
 * Harold Bloom, Yeats (criticism)
 * Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, Russian-American
 * Gwendolyn Brooks, Aurora
 * Robert Creeley, A Day Book
 * Stephen Dobyns, Concurring Beasts
 * Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Hermetic Definition
 * Ed Dorn:
 * The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Wine Press
 * Gunslinger, Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone, Frontier Press
 * Michael S. Harper, Song: "I want a Witness"
 * LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka, Spirit Reach
 * Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion
 * Archibald MacLeish, The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926-1972, selected poems
 * James Merrill, Braving the Elements
 * Ned O'Gorman, The Flag the Hawk Flies
 * Mary Oliver, The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems
 * George Oppen, Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's Eye
 * Michael Palmer, Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press)
 * Kenneth Rexroth:
 * 100 Poems from the French, (translator)
 * Orchard Boat, (translator)
 * Theodore Roethke, Straw for Fire, posthumous selections made by David Wagoner from the poet's notebooks
 * Louis Simpson, Adventures of the Letter I, including "American Dreams" and "Doubting"
 * Patti Smith, Seventh Heaven
 * James Tate, Absences
 * Eleanor Ross Taylor, Welcome Eumenides
 * Rosmarie Waldrop, The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House)
 * Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (Argentine), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, translated into English as The Temple of Iconoclasts

Other in English

 * Wayne Brown (poet), On the Coast, Caribbean
 * Zulfikar Ghose, The Violent West, a Pakistani poet, lecturing in Texas
 * Anthony McNeill, Reel from "The Life Movie", Jamaica
 * Wole Soyinka,  A Shuttle in the Crypt

Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canadian poetry in French

 * Paul Chamberland, Ã‰clats de la pierre noire d'oÃ» rejaillit ma vie
 * Gilles HÃ©nault, complete works
 * Gustave Lamarche, complete works
 * Rina Lasnier, complete works
 * Fernand Ouellette, complete works
 * Suzanne Paradis, Il y eut un matin
 * Jean-Guy Pilon, Silences pour une souveraine, Ottawa: Ã‰ditions de l'UniversitÃ© d'Ottawa
 * FÃ©lix A. Savard, Le Bouscueil
 * Gemma Tremblay, Souffles du midi
 * Pierre Trottier, Sainte-MÃ©moire

France

 * Marc Alyn, Infini au delÃ 
 * Philippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuit
 * AndrÃ©e Chedid, Visage premier
 * Maurice Courant, Soliel de ma mÃ©moire
 * Micheline Dupray, L'Herbe est trop douce
 * GÃ©rard Genette, Figures III, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works &mdash; the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966, Figures II 1969)
 * EugÃ¨ne Guillevic, Encoches
 * Edmond JabÃ¨s, AÃ©ly
 * Pierre LoubiÃ¨re, MÃ©moire buisonniÃ¨re
 * Pierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps prÃ©sent
 * Marie NoÃ«l, Chants des quatre temps (posthumous)
 * HÃ©lÃ¨ne Parmelin, De Songe et de silence
 * Saint-John Perse, Å’uvres ComplÃ¨tes, Paris: Gallimard
 * Denis Roche, Le MÃ©crit
 * Claude Royet-Journoud, Le Renversement
 * Claire de Soujeole, Pas dans la rosÃ©e

Germany

 * Heinrich BÃ¶ll, Gedichte, nine poems
 * Andreas Okopenko, Orte wechselnden Unbehagens
 * Reiner Kunze, ZimmerlautstÃ¤rke
 * Peter Huchel, Neue Gedichte
 * GÃ¼nter Kunert, Offenere Ausgang
 * Beat BrechbÃ¼hl, Der gechlagene Hund pisst an die SaÃ¼le des Tempels
 * Heiner Bastian, Tod im Leben, a long poem

Hebrew

 * Abraham Shlonsky, Ketavim
 * David Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis, edited by Y. Cohen
 * E. Zussman, Atzai Tamid
 * T. Ribner, Ain Lehashiv
 * Yair Hurvitz, Narkisim le-Malhut Madmena
 * Abba Kovner, Lahakat ha-Katzav

India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
 * Chandranath Mishra, Unata pal, humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of Maithili", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (a revised and expanded edition of Yugacakra 1952)
 * Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Piraha Ji Bakha, Sindhi-language
 * Hiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"), Assamese language
 * Namdeo Dhasal, Golpitha; Marathi-language
 * Niranjan Bhagat, Kavina Ketlak Prashno (Indian, writing in Gujarati), criticism
 * Vasant Abaji Dahake, Yogabhrashta, (translated into English by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni as A Terrorist of the Spirit;New Delhi: Harper Collins/Indus, 1992); Marathi-language
 * Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Shingnaba Vol. I & II, Imphal; Manipuri-language

Italy

 * Riccardo Bacchelli, La stella del mattino
 * Marino Moretti, Tre anni e un giorno
 * Aldo Palazzeschi, Via dalle cento stelle
 * Tommaso Landolfi, Viola di morte, winner of the Fiuggi Prize
 * Edoardo Sanguineti, Wirrwarr
 * Giorgio Manganelli, Agli Dei ulteriori
 * Ferdinando Camon, La vita eterna

Norway

 * Hans BÃ¸rli, Kyndelsmesse
 * Per Arneberg, Oktobernetter
 * Ernst Orvil, Nok sagt

Russia

 * Konstantin Simonov, Vietnam. Summer 1970
 * Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poems
 * David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the Intellect

Spain

 * Matilde Camus, Manantial de amor (Love Spring)
 * Pedro Salinas, PoesÃ­a, selected by Julio CortÃ¡zar
 * Ãngel GonzÃ¡lez, Palabra sobre palabra
 * Saul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesÃ­a latinoamericana, a collection of studies published in Spain by an Argentinian
 * Darie Novaceanu and J.M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, PoesÃ­a rumana contemporÃ¡nea, a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish.

Latin America

 * AÃ­da Vitale, Oidor andante
 * Idea VilariÃ±o, Poemas de amor
 * Hugo Achugar, Con bigote triste

Yiddish language

 * Asya, Quiver of Boughs
 * Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Footpaths Between Walls
 * Zyameh Telesin, Cries of Memory
 * Rachel Baumwoll, Longed For
 * Israel's President Shazer:
 * During a Mission
 * For Myself
 * Rivkah Bassman, Bright Stones
 * Malkah Chefetz-Tuzman, Leaves Do Not Fall
 * Rachel H. Korn, On the Edge of a Moment
 * Joshuah Rivin, Rainbow of Song
 * Saul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers)

Other

 * Jurgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg, selected poems from 1953 to 1971, Denmark
 * Odysseus Elytis, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Î¤Î¿ Ï†Ï‰Ï„ÏŒÎ´ÎµÎ½Ï„ÏÎ¿ ÎºÎ±Î¹ Î· Î´Î­ÎºÎ±Ï„Î· Ï„Î­Ï„Î±ÏÏ„Î· Î¿Î¼Î¿ÏÏ†Î¹Î¬) and The Monogram (Î¤Î¿ ÎœÎ¿Î½ÏŒÎ³ÏÎ±Î¼Î¼Î±) Greece
 * Nizar Qabbani, Poems Against The Law, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
 * WisÅ‚awa Szymborska: Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), Poland
 * Johannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Vi som er hinanden, collected poems from 1928 to 1970, Denmark

Awards and honors

 * Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich BÃ¶ll, West Germany

Canada

 * See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

 * Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
 * Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon

United States

 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems
 * National Book Award for Poetry: Frank O'Hara, The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
 * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. D. Snodgrass

Births

 * Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and author
 * Rie Yasumi ã‚„ã™ã¿ ã‚Šãˆ pen name of Reiko Yasumi ä¼‘ ç†è‹±å­, Japanese SenryÅ« poet (a woman)

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 7 – John Berryman, 57, American poet, from suicide (jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River)
 * January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
 * January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish-American poet
 * February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer
 * March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist
 * May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
 * August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack
 * August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
 * October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63
 * October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
 * November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
 * November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
 * December 10 – Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
 * December 20 – GÃ¼nter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author
 * Also:
 * Eileen Duggan
 * Andrew John Young