1973 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in New York in 1974 and in London, England in 1984.
 * White Pine Press founded in Buffalo, New York. The publisher is a nonprofit organization putting out poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation.
 * The journal L'Ã©phÃ©mÃ¨re a French journal founded in 1966, ceased publication this year; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin and AndrÃ© du Bouchet

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

 * John Tranter:
 * Red Movie and other poems, Angus & Robertson
 * The Blast Area, Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar Press
 * Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
 * Selected Poems, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
 * Vinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, St.Lucia

Canada

 * Alfred Bailey, Thanks for a Drowned Island.
 * Earle Birney:
 * The Bear on the Delhi Road: selected poems. London: Chatto & Windus.
 * what's so big about GREEN?. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
 * Fred Cogswell, The House Without a Door.
 * Shirley Gibson, I Am Watching
 * John Glassco, Montreal. Montreal: DC Books.
 * Irving Layton, Lovers and Lesser Men. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
 * Dorothy Livesay, Nine Poems of Farewell. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press.
 * Eli Mandel, Crusoe: Poems Selected and New
 * Miriam Mandel, Lions at Her Face. Edmonton: White Pelican Publications.
 * John Metcalf, editor, The Speaking Earth, anthology
 * Michael Ondaatje, Rat Jelly, Toronto: Coach House Press
 * Al Purdy, Sex and Death
 * F.R. Scott, The Dance Is One. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
 * Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times. Ten Elephants on Yonge Street. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
 * Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Sights and Sounds. Toronto: Macmillan.

Caribbean

 * Mervyn Morris, The Pond, Jamaica
 * Andrew Salkey, editor, Breaklight, Doubleday, anthology
 * Dennis Scott, Uncle Time, Jamaica
 * Derek Walcott, Another Life, St. Lucia

Indian poetry in English

 * Kamala Das:
 * The Old Playhouse and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Orient Longman
 * Alphabet of Love ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Orient Paper Backs
 * Richard L. Bartholomew, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
 * Brooks Frederick, Rocket to the Moon ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
 * Alokeranjan Das Gupta, Poems, Calcutta: Dialogue Pub.
 * A. K. Ramanujan, Speaking of Siva, Penguin

Ireland

 * Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
 * Thomas Kinsella:
 * Selected Poems 1956–1968, including "Chrysalides"
 * New Poems 1973, including "Notes from the Land of the Dead"
 * Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

 * James K. Baxter, Two Obscene Poems, posthumous,
 * Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Allen Curnow, An Abominable Temper & Other Poems
 * Winston Curnow, editor, Essays on New Zealand Literature, Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books (scholarship)
 * Keith Sinclair, The Firewheel Tree

United Kingdom

 * Dannie Abse, Funland, and Other Poems
 * Peter Ackroyd, London Lickpenny
 * Martin Booth, Coronis, including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix''
 * Edwin Brock, a book of poetry
 * Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Cal Clothier, Behind Heslington Hall
 * Tony Curtis, Walk Down a Welsh Wind, Welsh
 * Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Carol Ann Duffy, Fleshweathercock
 * Lawrence Durrell, Vega, and Other Poems
 * D. J. Enright, The Terrible Shears
 * Elaine Feinstein, The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson
 * Michael Fried, Powers
 * Roy Fuller, Tiny Tears
 * Geoffrey Grigson, Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose
 * Michael Hamburger, Ownerless Earth
 * Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom
 * Ted Hughes, Prometheus on his Crag
 * Thomas Kinsella, a book of poetry Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Geoffrey Holloway, To Have Eyes
 * Michael Longley, An Exploded View
 * George MacBeth, Shrapnel
 * Edwin Morgan, From Glasgow to Saturn
 * Pete Morgan, The Grey Mare Being the Better Steed
 * Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom
 * Brian Patten, The Unreliable Nightingale
 * Peter Redgrove, a book of poetry
 * Alan Ross, The Taj Express
 * Anne Ridler, a book of poetry
 * Carol Rumens, A Strange Girl in Bright Colours
 * Vernon Scannell, The Winter Man
 * Michael Schmidt, It Was My Tree
 * Sydney Tremayne, Selected and new Poems
 * Derek Walcott, Another Life
 * Anthologies
 * Philip Larkin, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse anthology of poets from the British Isles or who spent time there, ISBN 0-19-812137-7
 * Jon Silkin, editor, Poetry of the Committeed Individual
 * John Bishop and Virginia Broadbent, editors, London Between the Lines
 * Howard Sergeant, editor, African Voices

United States

 * Frank Bidart, Golden State
 * Robert Bly, Sleepers Joining Hands
 * Joseph Payne Brennan, A Sheaf of Snow Poems
 * Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis Russian-American
 * Victor Hernandez Cruz, Mainland
 * Irving Feldman, Lost Originals
 * Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Open Eye, Open Heart
 * Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America
 * John Logan, The Anonymous Lover, including "New Poem" and "Heart to Heart Talk with My Liver"
 * Robert Lowell:
 * The Dolphin, containing 103 new poems
 * History, containing 360 poems, including more than 80 new ones and many revised
 * For Lizzie and Harriet, 67 old poems, all revised
 * W. S. Merwin, Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum
 * Joyce Carol Oates, Angel Fire
 * Adrienne Rich, "Rape"
 * Muriel Rukeyser, Breaking Open
 * Patti Smith, Witt
 * Mark Strand, The Story of Our Lives, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
 * Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems

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

 * Michel Bealieu:
 * Variables
 * Pulsions
 * Yves-Gabriel Brunet, PoÃ©sies I, collected poems from 1958 to 1962
 * Gilles Constantineau, Nouveaux PoÃ¨mes
 * Roland GiguÃ¨re, La Main au feu, collected poems from 1949 to 1968
 * Gilbert Langevin:
 * Les Ecrits de ZÃ©ro Legel
 * Novembre
 * Raymond LeBlanc, Cri de terre
 * Luc Racine, Le Pays saint

France

 * Conseil international des femmes, Anthologie de la poÃ©sie fÃ©minine mondiale, Saint-Germain-des-PrÃ©s
 * Jean Daive, Fut bÃ¢ti, about the author's friendship with Paul Celan; part memoir, part prose-poem; Gallimard
 * Michel Deguy, Tombeau de du Bellay
 * Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Peut-ÃŠtre une demeure
 * Jean Loisy, Le Double Jeu
 * Katia Granoff MÃ©diterranÃ©e
 * Eugene Guilleveic, Inclus
 * Edmond JabÃ¨s, (El, ou le drier livre)
 * Michel Leiris, Haut-mal
 * FranÃ§ois Pradelle, Les NaÃ¯ves Amours
 * Denis Roche, Le MÃ©crit
 * Pierrette Sartin, Le Destin acceptÃ©
 * Philippe Soupault, PoÃ¨mes et PoÃ©sies: 1917–1973, publisher: Grasset

East Germany

 * Wolf Biermann, a communist living in East Germany, he could only publish these works in the West:
 * Fur meine Genossen
 * Deutschland: ein WintermÃ¤rchen, long satirical poem on the division of Germany

West Germany, Austria, Switzerland

 * Peter Huchel, GezÃ¤hte Tage
 * Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Kein Zauberspruch
 * Eric Fried, Die Freiheit den Mund aufzumachen
 * GÃ¼nter Herburger, Operette
 * J. P. StÃ¶ssel, FriedenserklÃ¤rung

India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Assamese

 * Maheswar Neog, Pracya Sasanavali
 * Nabakanta Barua, Mor Aru Prithivir ("Of Mine and the Earth")
 * Narayan Bezbarua, Punaruthan
 * Nilmani Phookan, Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Phale, Guwahati, Assam: Guwahati Book Stall

Other in India

 * Amrita Pritan, Kagaz te Kanvas, Punjabi
 * K. Siva Reddy, Raktam Suryudu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language
 * Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Sandrembi Thoraklo Nahum Ponjel Sabige, Imphal: V.I. Publications; Manipuri-language

Italy

 * Eugenio Montale, Diario del '71 e del '72 (poetry) Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (a private edition of 100 copies was published in 1971)
 * Almanacco dello Specchio for 1973, an anthology of poetry, including translated poetry
 * Franco Fortini, Questo muro, collected poems from 1962 to 1972
 * Pier Paolo Pasolini, Trasumanar e organizzar
 * Libero De Libero, Scempio e lusinga, collected poems written from 1930 to 1956
 * Marino Moretti, Le poverazze

Soviet Union

 * M. Bazhan, The Spark from Uman Recollections (translated into Russian from Ukrainian), 1973
 * P. Brovka, We Are Children of One Mother (translated into Russian from Belarusian)
 * B. Istru, Pain of a Shadow (translated into Russian from Moldavian)
 * R. Margiani, From the Book of Brotherhood (translated into Russian from Georgian)
 * S. Orlov, Loyalty

Spanish language

 * Matilde Camus, Bestiario poÃ©tico (Poetic Book of animals)

Latin America

 * JosÃ© Carlos Becerra, El otoÃ±o recorre las islas, collected poetry from 1960 to 1970, edited by JosÃ© Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Zaid
 * Alfonso CalderÃ³n, Isla de los Bienaventurados ("Island of the Blessed"), Chile
 * Ernesto Cardenal, Canto nacional, Nicaragua
 * Enrique Fierro, Mutaciones, Uruguay
 * Ulalume GonzÃ¡lez de LeÃ³n, Plagio, Uruguay
 * Alvaro Mutis, Summa de magroll el Gaviero, Colombia
 * JosÃ© Miguel Oviedo, Estos trece
 * JosÃ© Emilio Pacheco, IrÃ¡s y no volverÃ¡s, Mexico
 * Gabriel Zaid,PrÃ¡ctica mortal, Mexico

Other

 * Odysseus Elytis, The Trills Of Love (Î¤Î± Î¡Ï‰ Ï„Î¿Ï… ÎˆÏÏ‰Ï„Î±), Greece
 * Klaus HÃ¸eck, Rejse l-V, publisher: Grevas; Denmark

Canada

 * See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

 * Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
 * Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs

United States

 * Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Daniel Hoffman appointed this year.
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Crowe Ransom
 * Bollingen Prize: James Merrill
 * National Book Award for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Collected Poems, 1951-1971
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country
 * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. S. Merwin

France

 * Max Jacob prize: Hubert Juin for Le CinquiÃ¨me PoÃ¨me
 * Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Marc Alyn
 * Grand Priz of the French Academy: AndrÃ© FrÃ©naud
 * Grand Aigle d'Or: EugÃ¨ne Guillevic

Births

 * date not known:
 * Ben Doyle (pen name: "Ben Dollar")
 * Duo Yu, Chinese
 * Sonnet L'AbbÃ©, Canadian
 * Paul Vermeersch, Canadian

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 26 – NoÃ«l Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack
 * May 20 – Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor, and arts patron
 * June 4 – Arna Bontemps, 70 (born 1902, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack
 * August 17 – Conrad Aiken, 84, of a heart attack
 * September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, poet, author and academic
 * September 23 – Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia
 * September 28 – W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century
 * October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann (born 1926) Austrian poet and author
 * November 22 – Ramon Guthrie, 77,
 * November 23 – Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet
 * November 24 – John G. Neihardt (born 1881), American author and poet
 * date not known – Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold