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

Events

• release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll
• May — "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasted until 7 a.m.^[1]
• First issue of Tapia (later named the Trinidad & Tobago Review) published^[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 Canticles on the Skin
• B. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthology^[3]
• John Tranter, Parallax, South Head Press

Canada

• Joan Finnigan, 'It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out
• Gail Fox, Dangerous Season
• R.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and Portuguese
• John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse
• Michael Ondaatje:
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: Anansi^[4] ISBN 0887840183 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975
  • Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart^[4]

Anthologies in Canada

• Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poems
• John Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E.J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songs

India in English

• Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen More Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop (see also Seventeen Poems 1965)^[5]
• Margaret Chatterjee, Towards the Sun, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[5]
• Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Glass King and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[5]
• Keki N. Daruwalla, Under Orion, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[5]
• Deb Kumar Das, The Fire Canto, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[5]
• Gauri Deshpande, Lost Love^[5]
• Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Peacock Smiles, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[5]

Ireland

• Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
  • Night Drive, Gilbertson
  • A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press
• Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head,^[6] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Sonnets
• Bill Manhire, Malady
• F. McKay, New Zealand Poetry, scholarship^[7]
• Vincent O'Sullivan, editor, An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Verse
• J. E. Weir, The Poetry of James K. Baxter, a critical study

United Kingdom

Seamus Heaney in 1970

• Dannie Abse, Selected Poems
• Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie
• George Barker, At Thurgarton Church
• R. H. Bowden, Poems from Italy
• Frederick Broadie, My Findings
• Michael Dennis Browne, The Wife of Winter
• Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin
• Donald Davie, Six Epistles to Eva Hesse
• C. Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots^[6]
• Patric Dickinson, More Than Time^[6]
• Clifford Dyment, Collected Poems
• D.J. Enright, Selected Poems
• W.S. Graham, Malcolm Mooney's Land
• Ian Hamilton, The Visit
• Tony Harrison, The Loiners^[6]
• Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
  • Night Drive, Gilbertson
  • A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press
• Glyn Hughes, Neighbours
• Ted Hughes, A Crow Hymn
• C. Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots
• George MacBeth, The Burning Cone^[6]
• Norman MacCaig, A Man in My Position
• Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poems
• Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head^[6] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Walter de la Mare, The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare
• Stuart Montgomery, Circe
• Brian Patten, The Homecoming^[6]
• Christopher Pilling, Snakes and Girls, won the new Poets Award sponsored by Leeds university and the Yorkshire Post
• Peter Porter, The Last of England^[6]
• Burns Singer, Collected Poems (posthumous)
• Iain Crichton Smith, Selected Poems
• Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World
• John Wain, Letters to Five Artists
• Ted Walker, The Night Bathers
• Hugo Williams, Sugar Daddy^[6]
• Mary Wilson (wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson), Selected Poems, "easily the 'best selling'" poetry book of the year.^[8]

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• Alan Bold, editor, The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
• Peter Robins, editor, Doves for the Seventies
• Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, British Poetry since 1945, Penguin
• F.E.S. Finn, editor, Poems of the Sixties
• Howard Sergeant, editor, Poetry of the 1940s

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Uplands
• John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring
• Paul Blackburn:
  • The Assassination of President McKinley
  • Three Dreams and an Old Poem
  • Gin: Four Journal Pieces
• Louise Bogan, A Poet's Alphabet
• Philip Booth, Margins
• Stanley Burnshaw, The Seamless Web
• Gwendolyn Brooks, Family Pictures
• Raymond Carver, Winter Insomnia
• Clark Coolidge, Space, Harper & Row
• L. Sprague deCamp, Demons and Dinosaurs
• James Dickey, The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy
• Ed Dorn:
  • Gunslinger I & II, Fulcrum Press^[9]
  • Songs Set Two: a Short Count, Frontier Press,^[9] ISBN 978-0686050520
• Michael S. Harper, Dear John, Dear Coultrane,^[10] nominated for the National Book Award^[10]
• John Hollander, Images of Voice, criticism
• David Ignatow, Poems: 1934-1969
• LeRoi Jones, It's Nation Time
• Shirley Kaufman, the Floor Keeps Turning
• Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet
• William Meredith, Earth Walk
• W.S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
• Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (Fulcrum Press)
• Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
• Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX to CXVII
• Mark Strand, Darker, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
• May Swenson, Iconographs
• Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
• Reed Whittemore, Fifty Poems Fifty
• William Carlos Williams, Imaginations (posthumous)

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:

Arabic language

• Nizar Qabbani, Syrian:
  • Savage Poems
  • Book of Love
  • 100 Love Letters

Denmark

• Thorkild Bjørnvig, a book of "collected or selected works"^[11]
• Regin Dahl, Ærinde uden betydning
• Ivan Malinovski, a book of "collected or selected works"^[11]
• Jess Ørnsbo, a book of "collected or selected works"^[11]
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi, Denmark^[12]

French language

Canada

• Gaston Miron, L'Homme Rapaillé
• Yves Préfontaine:
  • Débâcle
  • À l'Orée des travaux
• Fernand Dumont, Parler de septembre
• Raoul Duguay, Manifeste de l'Infonie
• Nicole Brossard, Suite logique
• Louis-Philippe Hébert, Les Mangeurs de terre

France

• M. Béalu, La Nuit nous garde
• Alain Bosquet and Pierre Seghers, Poèmes de l'année
• L. Brauquier, Feux d'épaves
• Mohammed Dib, Formulaires^[13]
• Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Jacob^[13]
• Andre Frenaud, Depuis toujours déja^[14]
• Eugene Guilleveic, Paroi^[14]
• Michel Leiris, Mots sans mémoire
• C. Le Quintrec, La Marche des arbres
• M. Manoll, Incarnada
• J.L. Moreau, Sous le masque des mots
• J. Tardieu, Poèmes à jouer
• Vandercammen, Horizon de la vigie

Germany

• Paul Celan, Lichtzwang (Romanian, writing in German)

Hebrew

• M. Temkin, Shirai Yerushalayim
• A. Broides, Tahana ve-Derech
• Z. Gilead, Or Hozer
• I. Shalev, Naar Shav Min ha-Tzava
• Abba Kovner, Hupahba-Midbar
• T. Carmi, Davar Ahed
• Avot Yeshurun, Ze Shaim ha-Sefere

Italy

• Nelo Risi, Di certe cose
• Maria Luisa Spaziani, L'occhio del ciclone
• Sandro Penna, Tutte le poesie
• Alfredo Giuliani, Il tautofono
• Dino Buzzati, Poema a fumetti
• Giovanni Testori, Erodiade
• Carmelo Bene, Lorecchio mancante

Norway

• Rolf Jacobsen, Headlines
• Stein Mehren, Aurora
• Ragnvald Skrede, Lauvfall
• Simen Skjønsberg, Flyttedag
• Tarjei Vesaas, Liv ved straumen (posthumous)

Portuguese language

Brazil

• Augusto de Campos, Equivocábulos, collection of "semantic-visual texts, photo-poems, and 'Viagem via linguagem', a collapsible environment-poem resembling an architect's model"^[15]
• Affonso Avila, Código de Minas
• Silviano Santiago, Salto

Russian

• Andrei Voznesenski, The Shadow of Sound
• Y. Smelyakov, December
• Boris Slutski, Tales for Today
• Evgeni Vinokurov, Shows
• Leonid Martynov, Peoples' Names
• Leonid Vasilyev, Ognevistsa
• Evgeni Yevtushenko, a collection, including some new poems and omitting some "controversial earlier ones"^[16]

Spanish language

Spain

• Jorge Guillén, Obra poética
• José Caballero Bonald, Vivar para contarlo ("Live to Tell It"), including "Zauberlehrling"

Peru

• Washington Delgado, Un mundo dividado
• C.G. Belli, Sextinas
• J.G. Rose, Informe al rey
• M. Martos, Cuaderno de quejas y contentamientos
• C. Bustamante, El nombre de las cosas

Elsewhere in Latin America

• Julio Cortázar, Último round, miscellany of stories, poems, essays and collage games (Argentina)
• Alberto Girri, Antología temática (Argentina)
• Alberto Vanasco, Canto rodado (Argentina)
• I. López Vallecillo, Puro asombro (El Salvador)
• Ernesto Cardenal, Salmos (Nicaragua)
• R. Fernández Retamar, Que veremos arder (Cuba)
• Nicanor Parra, Obra gruesa (Chile)
• Enrique Lihn, La musiquilla de las pobres esferas (Chile)

Sweden

• Werner Aspenström, Inre ("Inner")
• Gören Sonnevi, Det Måste gå ("It Must Be Possible")
• Maja Ekelöf, Rapport från en skurhink ("Report from a Scrub Bucket")
• Henry Olsson, Vinlövsranka och hagtornskrans, a study of the poet Gustaf Fröding (died 1911)

Yiddish

Israel

• Abraham Sutzkever, Ripened Faces"
• Yaakov Zvi Shargel, Sunny Doorsteps
• Aryeh Shamri, Song in the Barn
• David Rodin, Young and Younger, for young readers
• Leizer Eichenrand, Thirst for Duration

United States

• Joseph Rubeinstein, Exodus from Europe, third volume of a narrative trilogy
• Wolf Pasmanik, My Poems
• Kadya Molodovsky, Marzipans, for children and adults
• Moshe Shifris, Under One Roof

Elsewhere

• Melekh Ravitch, Post Scriptus (Canada)
• Jacob Sternberg, Poem and Ballad on the Carpathians (France)
• Izzy Kharik, With Body and Life (Russia)

Other languages

• Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),River Without Banks, Chinese (Taiwan) ^[17]

Awards and honors

Canada

• See 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: Kathleen Raine, Douglas Livingstone, Edward Brathwaite
• Eric Gregory Award: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard Tibbitts
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Roy Fuller

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 Stafford appointed this year.
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled Subjects
• National Book Award for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Howard Nemerov

France

• Prix Max Jacob: Daniel Boulanger for Tchadiennes and Retouches
• French Academy's Grand Prix de Poèsie: Jean Follain^[13]

Soviet Union

• Lenin Prize: Nikolai Tikhonov

Births

• September 10 – Phaswane Mpe (died 2004), South African novelist and poet
• September 16 – Nick Sagan, American poet, novelist and screenwriter
• September 24 – Gemma Moraleja Paz, Spanish poet and novelist

• Also:
  • Victoria Chang, American poet^[18]
  • Alex Garland, novelist
  • Tim Kendall, English poet, editor, critic and academic
  • David Roderick, American poet

Deaths

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

• January 10 – Charles Olson, 59, of cancer
• January 15 – Leah Goldberg (born 1911), Israeli poet who wrote in Hebrew
• January 24 – Caresse Crosby, also known as "Mary Phelps Jacob" (born 1891), American poet and New York socialite, who, in 1927, founded Black Sun Press with her husband Harry Crosby (also a poet) and who in 1910^[19] invented the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance
• February 4 – Louise Bogan, 72
• February 19 – Edsel Ford, 41
• March 28 – Nathan Alterman (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
• March 29 – Vera Brittain, English novelist and poet
• about April 20 – Paul Celan, 49, Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, from suicide
• May 12 – Nelly Sachs (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
• June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82, Italian
• June 18 – Nicholaas Petrus Van Wyk Louw, 64, South African Afrikaans poet and critic
• September 28 – John Dos Passos (born 1896), American novelist, poet and artist
• November 25 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威 (born 1925), Japanese author, poet and playwright
• December 31 – Lorine Niedecker (born 1903), American

• Also:
  • Arthur Nortje (born 1942), South African poet
  • Humayun Kabir (Bengali: হুমায়ুন কবির) (born 1906) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer, philosopher

Notes and references

1. ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Canada" section, "French Language" subsection, page 457
2. ^ "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
3. ^ 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
4. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
5. ^ ^{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
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
7. ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
8. ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Literature" article, "English" section, "Poetry" subsection, page 460
9. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
10. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
11. ^ ^{a b c} 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, this is as much information about the book as is given in the "Literature" article, "Danish" subsection, page 456
12. ^ "Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
13. ^ ^{a b c} Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
14. ^ ^{a b} 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
15. ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970 (1970), "Literature" article, "Latin American" section, page 466
16. ^ 1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, page 469, the exact name of the book, even in translation, was not given
17. ^ Balcom, John, "Lo Fu", article on Poetry International website, retrieved November 22, 2008
18. ^ "Victoria Chang (1970 - )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 24, 2008
19. ^ "Caresse Crosby Photograph Collection, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale". http://www.lib.siu.edu/Plonetest/departments/speccoll/pinv2/Ph049. Retrieved 2007-12-18.  

• 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), "Literature" article and "Obituaries of 1970" article; source of many of the books in the "Works published" list and some deaths.

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
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• List of years in poetry