1971 in poetry

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

Aleksandr Tvardovsky, who died this year, was a Soviet poet who, as editor of Novy Mir, fought for more independence and published Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962

Events

• This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten
• The Canterbury Tales, a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• March — Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protested Padilla's treatment and accused Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Alberto Moravia, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa (who said he continued to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina said he stood by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales.
• April 8 — release of Right On!, a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York city streets
• Counter/measures magazine is founded in the United States by X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patterns^[1] and is an influence in the later creation of the New Formalism movement.

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 Atwood, Power Politics
• Bill Bissett, Nobody Owns the Earth
• George Bowering, Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970
• Louis Dudek, Collected Poetry
• Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden (scholarship)^[2]
• Bill Howell, The Red Fox
• Irving Layton, The Collected Poems of Irving Layton
• Richard Lewis, editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by Eskimos
• Alden Nowlan, Between Tears and Laughter
• Michael Ondaatje, editor, The Broken Ark, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as A Book of Beasts, 1979 (anthology)^[3] ISBN 0887500501
• Andreas Schroeder, File of Uncertainties, a chapbook (Sono Nis Press)
• Raymond Souster, The Years
• Phyllis Webb, Selected Poems 1954-65
• Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes

India in English

• G. S. Sharat Chandra, April in Nanjangud, London: London Magazine^[4]
• Michael Chacko Daniels, Split into Two, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]
• Keki N. Daruwalla, Apparition in April, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]
• Amaresh Datta, Captive Moments, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]
• Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five volumes, published this year through 1976; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency^[4]
• Subhoranjan Das Gupta, Bodhisattva and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]
• Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Wad of Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]
• Jayanta Mahapatra:
  • Svayamvara and Other Poems^[5]
  • Close the Sky Ten by Ten^[5]

New Zealand

• Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)^[6]
• James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Daybook
• Bob Orr, Blue Footpaths^[7]
• Ian Wedde, Homage to Matisse

United Kingdom

• Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, New Zealand native living in and published in the United Kingdom
• George Barker, Poems of Places and People
• Frances Bellerby, a book of selected poems
• George Mackay Brown
  • Fishermen with Ploughs^[8]
  • Poems New and Selected
• Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley
• John Cotton, Old Movies
• Maureen Duffy, Love Child^[8]
• Michael Ffinch, Voices Round a Star
• Veronica Forrest-Thompson, Language-Games
• Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree, Hutchinson
• Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, The Big Music, and Other Poems^[8]
• Thom Gunn, Moly, with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it
• Adrian Henri, Autobiography^[8]
• Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns, prose poems^[8]
• James Kirkup, The Body Servant^[8]
• Paul Muldoon, Knowing My Place,^[8] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Sylvia Plath, American poet published in the United Kingdom (posthumous):
  • Crossing the Water, published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961
  • Winter Trees^[8]
• Jeremy Robson, editor, The Young British Poets anthology
• Vernon Scannell, a book of selected poems
• Jon Silkin, Amana Grass^[8]
• Stephen Spender, The Generous Days^[8]
• Donald Ward, The Dead Snake
• Patricia Whittaker (poet), The Flying Men

United States

• Dick Allen, Anon and Various Time Machine Poems
• Maya Angelou, Just Give Me a Cool Glass of Water 'Fore I Die
• Gwendolyn Brooks:
  • Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
  • The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Aloneness
• Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, Memorial Day
• Ted Berrigan, Train Ride
• Paul Blackburn, The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries
• John Ciardi, Lives of X
• Cid Corman, Sun Rock Man (New Directions)
• Ed Dorn:
  • Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook, Athanor Books^[9]
  • By the Sound, Frontier Press; republished with a new preface by the author, Black Sparrow Press, 1991^[9]
  • A Poem Called Alexander Hamilton, Tansy/Peg Leg Press^[9]
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions)
• Robert Fitzgerald, Spring Shade, collected poems and translations, 1931-1970 (New Directions)
• Donald S. Fryer, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
• Michael S. Harper, History Is Your Own Heartbeat, won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetry^[10]
• John Hollander, The Night Mirror
• Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (University of California Press), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism
• Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares
• Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree
• James McMichael, Against the Falling Evil
• Carl Rakosi, Ere-Voice
• Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change
• Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert
• Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence
• Clark Ashton Smith, Selected Poems
• Richard Wilbur, translator, The School for Wives by Molière (in verse)
• James Wright, Collected Poems, including 30 new poems

Other in English

• John Figeuroa, editor, Caribbean Voices, Evans Brothers, anthology, Caribbean^[11]
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Australia):
  • Editor: Australian Poetry 1971, Sydney: Angus & Robertson (anthology)
  • Where the Wind Came, Sydney: Angus and Robertson

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:

Denmark

• Jørgen Leth, Eventyret om den sædvanlige udsigt
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi

French language

Canada

• Paul-Marie Lapointe, Le Réel absolu (Editions de l'Hexagone)
• Olivier Marchand, Par Détresse et tendresse (Editions de l'Hexagone)
• Rina Lasnier, La Salle des rêves
• Jacques Brault, La Poésie ce matin (published in Paris)
• Gilbert Langevin:
  • Ouvrir le feu
  • Stress
• Raoul Duguay, L'Apokalypso
• Claude Péloquin, Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme

France

• Anne-Marie Albiach, Etat^[12]
• M. Bataille, Le Cri dans le mur
• L. Bérimont, L'Évidence même
• Yves Bonnefoy, ' 'Traité du pianiste
• René Char, L'Honneur devant Dieu
• P. Damarix, L'Expérience magique
• Alain Delahaye, L'Eveil des traversees^[12]
• Jean Follain, Éspaces d'instants, the poet was killed in an accident days after publication
• Robert Marteau, Sibylles^[12]
• Francis Ponge, La Fabrique du Pré^[12]
• Jacques Roubaud, Octavio Paz, Charles Tomlinson and Edoardo Sanguineti, Renga^[12]

Anthologies

• J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie Surréaliste
• Pierre Seghers, editor, La Poésie symboliste

Hebrew

• Leah Goldberg, Shearit ha-Chaim (posthumous)
• I. Efros, Shirim, collected poems
• D. Avidan, Shirim Hitzoniim
• Y. Amichai, Al Menat Lo Lizkor
• N. Yonatan, Shirim ba-Arov ha-Yam
• D. Pagis, Gilgul
• R. Adi, Mishaa le-Shaa
• A. Eldon, Levado ba-Zerem ha-Koved
• R. Shani, Shalom la-Adoni ha-Melech
• M. Meir, ha-Aretz Hahi Mitahat la-Mayim
• M. Oren, Adam Muad
• M. Megged, editor, Shirim Liriim, anthology of modern Hebrew poetry
• E. Silberschlag, Igrotai le-Dorot Aherim
• R. Avinoam, be-Misholai
• R. Lee, El Parvarai ha-Shemesh

Italy

• Libero De Libero, Di brace in brace^[13]

Norway

• Hans Borli, Isfuglen
• Alfred Hauge, Det evige sekund
• Peter R. Holm, Synslinjer
• Ernst Orvil, Dikt i utvalg
• Sigmund Skard, Popel ved flypass

Portuguese language

Brazil

• Joaquim Cardozo, De uma noite de festa
• Murilo Mendes, Convergência
• Henriqueta Lisboa, Nova lírica
• Manuel Bandeira, Meus pemas perferidos, a selection from previous books
• Foed Castro Chamma, O andarilho e a aurora
• Anderson Braga Horta, Altiplano

Spanish language

Latin America

• Herberto Padilla, Por el momento, published before his arrest in Cuba (see Events above)
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, A quien pueda interesar (Cuba)
• José Lezama Lima, Poesía completa (Cuba)
• Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, Estelas/homenajes (Nicaragua)
• Carlos Solórzano, Las celdas (Guatemala)
• Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario, Poesía joven de Panamá
• M.L. Mendoza, Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres

Spain

• José Angel Valente, Las palabras de la tribu, essays
• Vicente Aleixandre, Poesía superrealista
• José María Valverde, Enseñanzas de la edad, 1945-70

Sweden

• Ylva Eggehorn, Ska vi dela
• Bo Setterlind, Himlen har landat
• Karl Vennberg, Sju ord pa tunnelbanan
• Lars Forssell, Oktober dikter ("October Poems")
• Gören Palm, Varför har nätterna inga namn?
• Kerstin Thorvall, Följetong i skärt och svart

Yiddish

• Brakha Coodley, Not on Bread Alone
• Leo Kussman, Ballads of a Generation
• Berl Siegal, Poems for Children
• Mier Shtiker, Jewish Landscape, Volume 2
• M.M. Saffir, Creator of Various Dreams
• Menakhem Stern, Songs at Midnight
• Rochelle Weprinski, The Only Star
• Aaron Zeitlin, Poems of Destruction and Faith
• Joseph Kerler, Song Between Teeth
• Jacob Sternberg, The Circle of Years

Other

• Hiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"), Indian, Assamese language^[14]
• Odysseus Elytis, Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας ("The Sovereign Sun"), Greece
• F. Pratz, Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart, anthology, German^[15]
• Nilmani Phookan, Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Pine ("Towards the Blooming Sunflower"), Assamese language^[14]
• Siegbert Prawer, editor, Seventeen Modern German Poets, anthology published by Oxford University Press (published in the United Kingdom, poems in German)^[15]

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat

Canada

• See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Charles Causley, Gavin Ewart, Hugo Williams
• Eric Gregory Award: Martin Booth, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Warman, John Welch
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stephen Spender

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"): Josephine Jacobsen appointed this year.
• Bollingen Prize: Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
• Frost Medal: Melville Cane
• National Book Award for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Wright

Elsewhere

• Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award for Poetry: Rosemary Rolleston, William & Mary Rolleston

Births

• Jan Wagner, German poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 2 – E. V. Knox, English poet and satirist (born 1881)
• May 9 – Ogden Nash, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse
• March 7 – Stevie Smith, 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor
• March 9 – Jean Follain, French poet
• March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), Japanese, late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
• June 13 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (born 1890), Japanese, poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
• June 25 – Charles Vildrac, French poet and playwright
• September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer
• July 3 – Jim Morrison, 27, American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors
• September 9 – Lenore G. Marshall, 72
• September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature
• November 14 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一 京助 (born 1882), Japanese linguist and poet; his son is linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi
• November 19 – Jacob Glatstein, 75, American Yiddish poet and critic
• December 14 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
• December 18 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence

• Also:
  • J. C. Beaglehole (born 1901), New Zealand
  • Clifford Dyment, British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist
  • R. A. K. Mason (born 1905), New Zealand
  • Alexander Young (poet)

Notes

1. ^ Web page titled "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Joseph Charles Kennedy", at Bookrags website, retrieved March 6, 2009
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, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164
3. ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
5. ^ ^{a b} [1]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
6. ^ Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
7. ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
9. ^ ^{a b c} Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
10. ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
11. ^ Breiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, page 253, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521587129, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
12. ^ ^{a b c d e} 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 0394521978
13. ^ Britannica Book of the Year 1974 (for events of 1973), "Literature" article, "Italian" section, page 438, mentioned this book in passing, from an earlier year than the events covered in the volume
14. ^ ^{a b} George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: An Anthology: Surveys and Poems, p 65, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, ISBN 9788172013240, retrieved January 8, 2009
15. ^ ^{a b} 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

See also

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• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry