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Events[]
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published
- Stevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released
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:
Canada[]
- Margaret Avison, Sunblue[1]
- Earle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[2]
- Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: Poems
- William Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press.[3]
- Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man[1]
- Don Domanski, Heaven
- Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
- George Benson Johnston, Taking a Grip: Poems 1971-78.[4]
- Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions.[5]
- Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[5]
- Dennis Lee, The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press.[6]
- Pat MacKay, The Pat Lowther Poem
- Sean O'Huigin, The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking Back
- Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980[7]
- Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
- Al Purdy, Being Alive
- Joe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss.[8]
- A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected Poems
- Peter Trower, Bush Poems
- Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
- Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
- Wilfred Watson, I Begin With Counting
- George Woodcock:
Indian poetry in English[]
- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop , India .[10]
- Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop , India.[10]
- Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann[10]
Ireland[]
- Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in Dublin
- Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral"[11] Dublin: Dolmen Press[12]
- Tom Paulin, Personal Column,[13] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand[]
- Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole[14]
United Kingdom[]
- Peter Ackroyd, Country Life[13]
- Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976[13]
- Gillian Clarke, The Sundial,[13] Welsh
- D.J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated[13]
- Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)[13]
- James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications[15]
- Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan[13]
- Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems[13]
- Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems[13]
- Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
- Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae,[13] including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
- Ted Hughes:
- A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948[16]
- Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart[13]
- Philip Larkin, Femmes Damnees[13]
- Liz Lochhead, Islands[13]
- George MacBeth, Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977)[13]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Collected Poems 1920–1976,[13] two volumes (posthumous)
- John Montague, The Great Cloak
- Andrew Motion, The Pleasure Steamers[13]
- Norman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black Combe[13]
- Tom Paulin, Personal Column,[13] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory[13]
- Carol Rumens, A Necklace of Mirrors[13]
- Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree[13]
- D.M. Thomas, The Honeymoon Voyage[13]
- R.S. Thomas, Frequencies[13]
- Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire
United States[]
- Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
- Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
- Joseph Payne Brennan, As Evening Advances (Crystal Visions Press)
- Robert Creeley:
- Hello
- Later[17]
- Ed Dorn:
- Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press,[18] ISBN 978-0-914728-24-5
- Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press[18]
- Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)[17]
- Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
- John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
- James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
- James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
- W. S. Merwin, Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[19]
- Eugenio Montale, The Storm & Other Poems, translated by Charles Wright into English from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, ISBN 0-932440-01-0
- Mary Oliver:
- The Night Traveler
- Twelve Moons
- George Oppen, Primitive (Black Sparrow Press)
- Mary Oppen (George Oppen's wife), Meaning a Life, a memoir (Black Sparrow Press)
- Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
- Peter Seaton, Agreement (New York: Asylum's Press)[20]
- Patti Smith, Babel
- William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
- Mark Strand, The Late Hour, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Rosmarie Waldrop, The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body (Open Places)
- James Wright, To a Blossoming Pear Tree
- Louis Zukofsky:
- A (University of California Press)
- 80 Flowers
Other in English[]
- Jennifer Maiden, Birthstones, Angus & Robertson, Australia
Works 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:
Arabic language[]
- Nazir Qabbani, Syrian:
- I Love You, and the Rest is to Come
- To Beirut the Feminine, With My Love
- May You Be My Love For Another Year
French language[]
France[]
- Yves Bonnefoy, Poèmes (1947–1975)
- Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
- Jean Daive, Le cri-cerveau[21]
- Philippe Denis, Revif[21]
- Emmanuel Hocquard, Les Dernieres nouvelles de l'expédition sont datées du 15 février 17 [...][21]
- Edmond Jabès, Le Soupçon Le Désert[21]
- Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
- Robert Marteau, Traité du blanc et des tientures[21]
- Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
- Claude Royet-Journoud, La Notion d'obstacle[21]
- Jean Max Tixier, editor, Poètes de sud, anthology; publisher: Rijois
- Alain Veinstein, Vers l'absence de soutien[21]
Canadian poetry in French[]
- Marcel Bélanger:
- Fragments paniques
- Infranoir
- Normand de Bellefeuille, La Belle Conduite
German language[]
Germany[]
- Alfred Andersch, ''Empōrt euch der Himmel ist blau
- Ingeborg Bachmann, works, in a four-volume edition
- Konrad Beyer, Gesamtwerk
- Nicolas Born, Gedichte 1967-1978
- Erich Fried, Die bunten Getûme
- J. Hans, U. Herms, and R. Thenior, Lyrik-Katalog Bundesrepublik, anthology[22]
- Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
- Johannes Schenk, Zittern
- Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935
- Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
- Walter Hinck, Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess (scholarship)[23]
- Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)[23]
- William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-7988-0520-2 (scholarship)[23]
Hebrew language[]
- D. Avidan, a poetry book
- P. Sadeh, a poetry book
- E. Megged, a poetry book
- M. Ben-Shaul, a poetry book
- Zelda (poet), a poetry book
India[]
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Buddhidhari Singha, Smrti-Sahasri, a kavya, Maithili-language[24]
- Debarati Mitra, Jubaker Snan, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata; Bengali-language[25]
- Dilip Chitre, Kavitenantarchya Kavita, Vacha Prakashan, Aurangabad; Marathi-language[26]
- Jaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in Gujarati[27]
- K. Satchidanandan, Indian Sketchukal, ("Indian Sketches"); Malayalam-language[28]
- K. Siva Reddy, Netra Dhanussu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language[29]
- Nirendranath Chakravarti, Aaj Shokaaley, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language[30]
- Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Moe-n jo dado poems read on cassette; Gujarati-language[31]
- Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Swechcha or Svecha ("Freedom"), Hyderabad: Yuga Prachuranalu; Telugu-language[32]
Italy[]
- Mario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversia
- Leonardo Sinisgalli, Dimenticatoio
- Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie
- Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973
Norway[]
- Hans Børli, Dag og Drøm: Dikt i utvalg ("Day and Dream") (Norway)
- Paal Brekke, Dikt 1949-1722 (Norway)
- Halldis Moren Vesaa, Dikt i samling (Norway)
Poland[]
- Stanisław Barańczak, Sztuczne oddychanie ("Artificial Respiration"), London: Aneks[33]
- Ryszard Krynicki, Nasze zycie rośnie. Wiersze ("Our Life is Growing: Poems"); Paris: Instytut Literacki[34]
- Ewa Lipska, Piaty wybor wierszy, ("Fifth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: Czytelnik[35]
- Z. Jarosiński and H. Zawarska, editors, Antologia polskiego futuryzmu i Nowej Sztuki, anthology[36]
- Adam Zagajewski, List ("A Letter"), Poznañ: Od Nowa[37]
Portuguese language[]
- Rui Knopfli, O Escriba Acocorado (Portugal)
- Waldimir Diniz, Até o 8° round (Brazilian)
- Cassiano Nunes, Madrugada (Brazilian)
- Accioly Lopes, his first volume of verse (Brazilian)
Spanish language[]
Spain[]
- Eduardo Haro Ibars, Perdiddas blancas
- Féliz de Asúa, Pasar y siete canciones (he also published a novel this year, Les lecciones suspendidas)
- Luis Antonio de Villena, Viaje a Bizancio
- Pere Gimferrer, a collection of his verse translated from Catalan to Castilian by the author
- García Hortelano, editor, anthology of verse by the Generation of the '50s, including Caballero Bonald, Ángel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral
Latin America[]
- Alfonso Calderón, Poemas para Clavecin ("Poems for Harpsichord"), Chile[38]
- Oscar Hahn, Arte de morir
- Pablo Neruda, Para nacer he nacido, previously unpublished diary entries, memoirs and other writings (posthumous), put out by his widow, Matilde de Neruda and Miguel Otero Silva (of Venezuela)
Sweden[]
- Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
- Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
- Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter
Yiddish[]
- Shoyme Roitman, a poetry book
- Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
- Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
- Hayyim Plotkin, a poetry book
Other[]
- Odysseus Elytis, Μαρία Νεφέλη ("Maria Nefeli") Greece
- Joseph Brodsky, editor of two expatriate Russian poetry anthologies:
- Konets prekrasnoy epokh: Stikhotvoreniya 1964-71
- Chast' rechi: Stkikhotvoreniya 1972-76
- Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
Awards and honors[]
Canada[]
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
United Kingdom[]
- Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas
- Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
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"): William Meredith appointed this year.
- National Book Award for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
- Walt Whitman Award: Karen Snow, Wonders
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Miles
France[]
- Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silence
Other[]
- Cuba: Casa de las Américas prize for poetry: Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
- Soviet Union: USSR State Prize: Andrei Voznesensky[40]
Births[]
- June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer
- Also
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Gilbert Highet, 71, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian, of cancer
- February 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905, American children's story writer and poet
- March 19 – Faith Baldwin, 84
- March 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
- April 14 – F.R. Leavis, 82, English literary critic
- May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
- May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
- July 2 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek
- June 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
- September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
- Also
See also[]
References[]
- Britannica Book of the Year 1979 ("for events of 1978"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1979 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ↑ "Earle Birney: Published Works," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
- ↑ "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ James Steele, "Johnston, George Benson," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1114.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ "Dennis Lee: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
- ↑ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ↑ "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ↑ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
- ↑ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 13.23 13.24 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ↑ [1] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ↑ "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ↑ Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
- ↑ available complete and online courtesy of Eclipse. This takes you to a list of authors published at the Eclipse site, scroll down for the Seaton publications
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52197-8
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ↑ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ↑ Web page title "Debarati Mitra", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ↑ Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Web page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti", at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Sitanshu Yashaschandra" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Varavara Rao" at the "Poetry International" website; and Gopal, Venu, [http://www.varavararao.org/en/about/venu_sketch.html "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal (December 15, 2005)", December 15, 2005, Venu Gopal website, retrieved August 2, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version and Polish version), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
- ↑ Web pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English and Polish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp 959-960
- ↑ Web page titled "Some information about Adam Zagajewski" http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/arts_culture/literature/poetry/zagajewski/bio/adzag.htm], cached page from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts website, cached on February 24, 2005 by the "Info-Poland" website, retrieved February 25, 2010
- ↑ "Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies", obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 Web page titled [stage=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
- ↑ "Famed Russian poet Voznesensky dies at 77", June 1, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved June 3, 2010
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
External links[]
- "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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