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Contents |
Events
- The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed.
- Jahrbuch der Lyrik ("Poetry Yearbook"), an annual poetry anthology, is launched in Germany, nine years before the similar Best American Poetry series is begun. Each year's edition, containing 100 poems, is published in the spring by Beck, and is edited by Christoph Buchwald along with a guest editor.[1]
- Poetry Canada Review founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada, the publication folded in 1994.[2]
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 Where I Come From
- Robert Gray, Grass script
- Jennifer Maiden, The Border Loss, Angus & Robertson
- Les Murray, The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989
- John Tranter:
- Dazed in the Ladies Lounge, Island Press (Australia)
- Editor, The New Australian Poetry (anthology)[3]
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
- The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
- Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry (scholarship), Melbourne: Hutchinson
Canada
- Paul Dutton, Right Hemisphere, Left Ear
- Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do
- Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven
- Dennis Lee, The Gods
- Steven McCaffery and B.P. Nichol, In England Now That Spring
- Susan Musgrave, A Man to Bury, A Man to Marry
- Michael Ondaatje (also see "Anthologies in Canada" section below):
- There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978, New York: W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1979[4] ISBN 0393011917, ISBN 978-0-393-01191-3 (published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980)[4]
- Claude Glass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press[4]
Anthologies in Canada
- Michael Ondaatje:
- Editor, A Book of Beasts, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of The Broken Ark, 1971[4]
- Editor, The Long Poem Anthology, Toronto: Coach House[4] ISBN 0889101779
India in English
- Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Feeling Fossils[5]
- Sushil Kumar Gupta, Most Beloved, Calcutta: United Writers[5]
- Eunice D'Souza, Fix, Bombay: Clearing House[5]
- Jayanta Mahapatra, Waiting[6]
- Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Continuations, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[5]
- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Leaves from a Log: Fragments of a Journey, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann[5]
Ireland
- Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 9780902996847 Ireland
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Field Work,[7] Faber & Faber
- Hedge School, Janus Press
- Ugolino, Carpenter Press
- Gravities, Charlotte Press
- A Family Album, Byron Press
- Thomas Kinsella, One and Other Poems, including "Anniversaries"[8]
- Michael Longley, The Echo Gate.[7] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978, including "A Dying Art", "Ecclesiastes", "An Image from Beckett", "Lives", "The Snow Party", "A Refusal to Mourn" and "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom[8]
New Zealand
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Allen Curnow, An Incorrigible Music[10]
- Bill Manhire, Dawn/Water
- Bob Orr, Poems for Moira[11]
Anthologies
- John Jessop, editor, International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, vol. i
- George Swede, editor, The Canadian Haiku Anthology
United Kingdom
- Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
- Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems 1944–1979[7]
- James Berry, Fractured Circles[7]
- Robert Conquest, Forays
- Patric Dickinson, Our Living John, and Other Poems[7]
- Maureen Duffy, Memorials of the Quick and the Dead[7]
- Duglas Dunn, Barbarians[7]
- D. J. Enright, A Faust Book[7]
- John Fuller, Lies and Secrets[7]
- W. S. Graham, Collected Poems 1942–1977[7]
- Thom Gunn, Selected Poems 1950–1975 (see also Poems 1969 in poetry, Collected Poems 1993)[7]
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Field Work,[7] Faber & Faber
- Hedge School, Janus Press
- Ugolino, Carpenter Press
- Gravities, Charlotte Press
- A Family Album, Byron Press
- Ted Hughes:
- Elizabeth Jennings, Moments of Grace[7]
- P. J. Kavanagh, Life Before Death[7]
- Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Peter Avery
- Michael Longley, The Echo Gate[7]
- Roger McGough, Holiday on Death Row[7]
- Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978. Oxford University Press
- Brian Patten, Grave Gossip[7]
- Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home[7]
- Peter Reading, Fiction[7]
United States
- John Ashbery, As We Know
- Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Yo-Yo's With Money
- Joseph Payne Brennan, Webs of Time (Macabre House)
- Maxine Chernoff, Utopia TV Store (The Yellow Press)
- Robert Creeley, Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, edited by Donald Allen (Bolinas, California), criticism[12]
- Federico Garcia Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca Chosen by Paul Blackburn
- John Hollander, Blue Wine
- Paul Hoover, Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert (The Yellow Press)
- Stanley Kunitz, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
- Denise Levertov, Collected Earlier Poems
- F. A. Nettelbeck, Bug Death
- Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (chapbook)
- Frank Stanford, You, posthumous chapbook (Lost Roads Publishers)
- Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons
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:
Spain
- Matilde Camus, Corcel en el tiempo ("Steed of the time")
French
France
- Alain Bosquet, Poémes, un, his collected works up to 1967
- André du Bouchet, Laisses[13]
- Pierre Emmanuel, Una, ou la mort, la vie
- Guillevic, Etier
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues, L'ivre Oeil
- Patrick Reumaux, Repérages du vif
Canada
- Marie Uguay Signe et rumeur
Denmark
- Inger Christensen, Brev i April ("Letter in April")[14]
- Henrik Nordbrandt, Spøgelseslege
Other
- Haim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in Hebrew[15]
- Gita Parikh, Bhinash; Indian poet writing in Gujarati[16]
- Nizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
Awards and honors
Canada
- See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Alan Brownjohn, Andrew Motion, Charles Tomlinson
- Eric Gregory Award: Stuart Henson, Michael Jenkins, Alan Hollinghurst, Sean O'Brien, Peter Thabit Jones, James Lindesay, Walter Perrie, Brian Moses
United States
- Bollingen Prize: W.S. Merwin
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Archibald MacLeish
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Now and Then
- Walt Whitman Award: David Bottoms, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: May Swenson and Mark Strand
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
- October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
- December 7 — Nicolas Born, (born 1937), German
- Also:
- I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
- Ernst Meister (born 1911), German[17]
Notes
- ^ [1]Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108
- ^ a b c d e Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ a b c d e 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
- ^ [2]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ a b c d Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Inger Christensen (b. 1935)" at Pegasos website, retrieved January 7, 2009
- ^ [3]Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ 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 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Hofmann, Michael, editor, Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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