1977 in poetry

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

Events

 * January – James Dickey, composed a poem he read at new United States President Jimmy Carter's inaugural gala although not at the inauguration itself.
 * British publication Gay News successfully prosecuted in the United Kingdom for blasphemy and libel for publishing James Kirkup's "The Love that Dares to Speak its Name"
 * Poet Sarah Kirsch leaves her native East Germany for the West.
 * In Israeli the literary journal Keshet goes defunct, while Itton and Proza are founded.

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

 * Robert Adamson Cross The Border
 * Jennifer Maiden, Mortal Details, Rigmarole
 * Les Murray, Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson
 * John Tranter, Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, Makar Press

Canada

 * Earle Birney:
 * The Damnation of Vancouver. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. A satire on the modern city.
 * Ghost in the Wheels: selected poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
 * Roo Borson, Landfall, ISBN 0-920110-32-0 American-Canadian.
 * Fred Cogswell, Against Perspective.
 * Leonard Cohen, Death of a Ladies' Man.
 * Isabella Valancy Crawford, Hugh and Ion, Glenn Clever ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). ISBN 9780919594777
 * Irving Layton, The Poems of Irving Layton. Eli Mandel ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Also published, with an introduction by Hugh Kenner, as The Selected Poems of Irving Layton. New York: New Directions, 1977. ISBN 0811206424
 * Irving Layton, The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
 * Dorothy Livesay, Right Hand Left Hand. Erin, ON: Porcepic.
 * Pat Lowther, A Stone Diary
 * Miriam Mandel, Station 14. Edmonton: NeWest Press. ISBN 0920316085 ISBN 978-0920316085
 * Charles Sangster, The Angel Guest and Other Poems and Lyrics, edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)
 * Raymond Souster, Extra Innings. Ottawa. Oberon Press.
 * George Woodcock, Anima, or, Swann Grown Old. A Cycle of Poems by George Woodcock, Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss Press, Canada
 * Anthologies
 * F.R. Scott, Poems of French Canada. Translated by F. R. Scott. Burnaby, B.C.: Blackfish Press.

Indian poetry in English

 * R. Parthasarathy, Rough Passage ( Poetry in English ), Delhi: Oxford University Press
 * Meena Alexander, I Root My Name ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.

Ireland

 * Samuel Becket, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom
 * EilÃ©an NÃ­ ChuilleanÃ¡in: The Second Voyage, including "Deaths and Engines", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
 * Harry Clifton, The Walls of Carthage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-51-9
 * Paul Muldoon, Mules, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Frank Ormsby, A Store of Candles, including "Passing the Crematorium", Oldcastle: Gallery Press
 * Tom Paulin, A State of Justice, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

 * Bill Manhire, How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic
 * Lauris Edmond, The Pear Tree: Poems 
 * R. Ensing, editor, Private Gardens, anthology of New Zealand women poets
 * Kendrick Smithyman, Dwarf with a Billiard Cue, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press
 * Ian Wedde, Spells for Coming Out, New Zealand

United Kingdom

 * Samuel Becket, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom
 * Edward Braithwaite, Mother Poem
 * Joseph Brodsky: Poems and Translations, Keele: University of Keele Russian-American (but published in the United Kingdom; see United States section for a book published there)
 * Donald Davies, To Scorch or Freeze
 * Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Henri, Beauty and the Beast
 * Elaine Feinstein:
 * Some Unease and Angels, Hutchinson
 * Selected Poems, University Center, Michigan, Green River Press
 * Michael Hamburger, Real Estate
 * Adrian Henri, City Hedges
 * Ted Hughes, Gaudete, derived from an abandoned film scenario, the book has elements of a poetic novel, narrative poem and verse play
 * Elizabeth Jennings, Consequently I Rejoice
 * Norman MacCaig, Tree of Strings
 * Sorley MacLean, pen name of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Spring Tide and Neap Tide [Reothairt is Contraigh], in Gaelic and English
 * Paul Muldoon, Mules, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Tom Paulin, A State of Justice, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
 * Kathleen Raine, The Oval Portrait, and Other Poems
 * Peter Scupham, The Hinterland
 * R.S. Thomas, The Way of It
 * Anthony Thwaite, A Portion for Foxes

United States

 * A.R. Ammons:
 * Highgate Road
 * The Selected Poems: 1951-1977
 * The Snow Poems
 * John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
 * Ted Berrigan:
 * Clear The Range
 * Nothing For You
 * John Berryman, Henry's Fate and Other Poems, 1967-1972, with 45 previously unpublished "Dream Songs" (posthumous)
 * Joseph Payne Brennan, The Riddle (Fantome Press)
 * Frank Bidart, The Book of the Body
 * Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, which includes "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and the villanelle, "One Art"
 * Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech Russian-American (see United Kingdom section for a book published there)
 * Robert Bly, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood
 * Billy Collins, Pokerface
 * Frank Belknap Long, In Mayan Splendor
 * Michael S. Harper, Images of Kin (1977), won the Melville-Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America; nominated for the National Book Award
 * Robert Lowell, Day by Day
 * W. S. Merwin:
 * The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum
 * Translator, Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press)
 * W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Mason, translators, Sanskrit Love Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press)
 * Michael Palmer, Without Music (Black Sparrow Press)
 * Carl Rakosi, My Experience in Parnassus
 * Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1937-1975 (published posthumously)
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into English from the original Russian by Robert Conquest; first written in 1951; first published in 1974
 * Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin

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

Denmark

 * Vita Andersen, Tryghedsnarkomaner
 * JÃ¸rgen Gustava Brandt, Ophold
 * Klaus HÃ¸eck:
 * Projekt Perseus, publisher: Gyldendal
 * Ulrike Marie Meinhof, publisher: Gyldendal
 * Vagn Lundbye, Digte 1977
 * Jess Ornsbo, Digte uden arbejde
 * Charlotte Strandgaard, Naesten kun om kaerlighed

Canada, in French

 * Denise Boucher and Madeleine Gagnon, Retailles
 * Claude Gavreau, Ouvres crÃ©atrices complÃ¨tes (posthumous)
 * Michel Leclerc, La TraversÃ©e du rÃ©el
 * Pierre Nepveu, Ã‰pisodes, MontrÃ©al: l'Hexagone

France

 * Samuel Becket, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom
 * Yves Bonnefoy, Rue TraversiÃ¨re
 * AndrÃ© du Bouchet, Air (1950–1953)
 * Alain Delahaye, L'etre perdu
 * Philippe Denis, MalgrÃ© la bouche
 * Roger Giroux, published posthumously (died 1973):
 * S
 * L'arbre le Temps suivi le Lieu-Je et de Lettre
 * Eugene Guilleveic, Du domaine
 * Emmanuel Hocquard, Album d'images de la Villa Harris
 * Georges PÃ©rec, Alphabets
 * Jacques Roubaud, Autobiographie chapitre dix
 * Alain Veinstein, Recherche des dispositions anciennes

East Germany

 * Sarah Kirsch, RÃ¼ckenwind, love poems
 * Paul GÃ¼nter Krohn, Alle meine Namen

West Germany

 * Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Farewell
 * Gotthard de Beauclair, Zeit, Ãœberzeit
 * Rolf Haufs, Die Geschwindigkeit eines einzigen Tages
 * Karl Krowlow, Der Einfachheit halber
 * Norbert Mecklenburg, Naturlyrik und Gesellschaft Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (scholarship)

Hebrew

 * Nathan Alterman, a posthumous book of poems
 * O. Bernstein, a book of poems
 * Simon Halkin, a book of the collected poems and works
 * Hurvitz, a book of poems
 * Shimshon Meltzer, a book of the collected poems and works
 * Gabriel Preil, a book of poems
 * Dalia Ravikovitch, a book of poems
 * Yonatan Ratosh, a book of poems
 * Shin Shalom, a book of poems
 * Y. Wallach, a book of collected poems
 * Meir Wieseltier, a book of poems
 * Avot Yeshurun, a book of poems
 * Zussman, a posthumous book of poems

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

Oriya

 * Mohan Upendra Thakur, Baji Uthal Murali
 * Rajendra Kishore Panda:
 * Satadru Anek, Cuttack: Agradoot
 * Ghunakshara, Cuttack: Cuttack Students' Store

Sindhi

 * Hari Daryani, Pala Pala Jo Parlau
 * Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Cikha
 * Parsram Rohra, O Nava Halaina Vara

Other languages in India

 * K. Satchidanandan, Kavita, ("Poetry"); Malayalam-language
 * Nilmani Phookan; Assamese-language:
 * Golapi Jamur Lagna, Guwahati, Assam: Bani Prakash
 * Editor, Kuri Satikar Asomiya Kavita, an anthology of modern Assamese poetry; Guwahati, Assam: Asom Prakashan Parishad
 * Siddayya Puranika, Vacanodyana, modern vachana poetry, Kannada-language

Italy

 * Bartolo Cattafi, Marzo e le sue idi
 * Giovanni Guidici, Il male de creditori
 * Tommaso Landolfi, Il tradimento
 * Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie, publisher: Mondadori (enlarged edition published posthumously in 1984)
 * Maria Luisa Spaziani, Transito con catene

Norway

 * Hans BÃ¸rli, Vinden ser aldri pa veviserne
 * Jan Magnus Bruheim, Lyrespelaren
 * Gunvor Hofmo, Hva fanger natten
 * Peter R. Holm, I disse bilder
 * Stein Mehren, Det trettende stjernebilde
 * Sigmund Skard, Ord mot mÃ¸rkret
 * Helge Vatsend, Livets bok

Portugal

 * Herberto Helder, Cobra
 * AntÃ³nio Ramos Rosa, Boca Incompleta
 * Sophia Andresen, O Nome das Coisas
 * Fiama BrandÃ£o, Homenagem Ã  Literatura
 * Liberto Cruz, DistÃ ncia
 * Vitorino NemÃ©sio, Sapateia AÃ§oriana

Brazil

 * Carlos Nejar, Ãrvore do mundo
 * DÃ©cio Pignatari
 * Poesia / Pois Ã© / Poesia (poems)
 * Comunicacao poÃ©tica (critical theory about poetry)
 * Murilo Mendes, a posthumous collection of poems edited by JoÃ£o Cabral de Melo Neto, with a study by JosÃ© Guilherme Merquior

Russia

 * Arkadi Kuleshov, a book of poems
 * Bella Akhmadulina:
 * Candle
 * Dreams of Georgia
 * Alexander Mezhirov, ÐžÑ‡ÐµÑ€Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð²ÐµÑ‰ÐµÐ¹ ("Outline of things"), Russia, Soviet Union
 * Valentin Sorokin, a book of poems
 * Stepan Shchipachev, a book of poems
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, narrative poem, much of which was composed in his head when he was in concentration camps
 * Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a book of poems
 * "[L]esser-known poets who attracted attention":
 * Konstantin Vanshenkin
 * Anatoly Zhigulin
 * Rimma Kazakova
 * Viktor Bokov
 * Maya Borisova
 * Stanslav Zlotsev

Spain

 * Francisco Brines, Insistencia en Luzbel
 * Matilde Camus, Cancionero de LiÃ©bana ("Collection of verse of Liebana")
 * JosÃ© MarÃ­a Valverde, Ser de palabra

Latin America

 * Mario Benedetti, La casa y el ladrillo ("The House and the Brick"), Uruguay
 * Antonio Cisneros, el libro de dios y de los hÃºngaros (Peru)
 * Jaime Sabines, Nuevo recuento de poemas (Mexico)
 * EfraÃ­n Huerta, Circuito interior (Mexico)
 * David Huerta, Cuadernos de noviembre (Mexico)

Yiddish

 * David Hofshteyn, a two-volume selection of poems
 * Josl Lerner, Till Dawn Breaks, partly written in a German-Romanian death camp during World War II
 * Chaim Maltinsky, My Mother's Resemblance
 * Hirsh Osherovitch, Song in a Labyrinth
 * Shloyme Roitman, My Israel Shofar
 * Efraim Roitman, The Earth Sings
 * Motl Saktzier, With a Burned Pencil, about his experiences in Soviet gulags
 * M.M. Shaffir, Words of Endearment
 * Avrom Sutzkever, Poems from My Diary
 * Rajzel Zychlinska, The Sun of November

Other languages

 * StanisÅ‚aw BaraÅ„czak, Ja wiem, ze to niesluszne ("I Know It's Not Right"), Paris: Instytut Literacki; Polish
 * Chen Yi, Selected Poems; China
 * Odysseus Elytis, Signalbook (Î£Î·Î¼Î±Ï„Î¿Î»ÏŒÎ³Î¹Î¿Î½); Greece
 * Ndoc Gjetja, QÃ«ndresa ("Center"); Albania
 * Gozo Yoshimasu, river, Written in Cursive Characters; Japan
 * Lars Gustafsson, Sonetter; Sweden
 * Per E. Rundquist, Men stÃ¶rst av allt Ã¤r kÃ¤rleken till vem; (Sweden
 * Piotr Sommer, W krzeÅ›le; Poland
 * Wen Wu-pin, Battle Songs of Tachai; China
 * Yasuo Irisawa, Moon and Other Poems; Japan

Awards and honors

 * Nobel Prize in Literature: Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)

Canada

 * 1977 Governor General's Awards

United Kingdom

 * Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson

United States

 * Bollingen Prize: David Ignatow
 * National Book Award for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems, 1930-1976
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
 * Walt Whitman Award: Lauren Shakely, Guilty Bystander
 * Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louis Coxe

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 11 &mdash; Jacques PrÃ©vert, French
 * September 12 &mdash; Robert Lowell, 60, American, from a heart attack;
 * December 18 &mdash; Louis Untermeyer, 92, American author, poet, anthologist, and editor
 * December 30 &mdash; Katherine C. Biddle, 87
 * Also:
 * Elizabeth Daryush, daughter of Robert Bridges (born 1885), English poet
 * Gitaujali Badruddin