From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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
• Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man^[1]
• Don Domanski, Heaven
• Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
• Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer
• 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^[2]
• Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
• Al Purdy, Being Alive
• Peter Trower, Bush Poems
• Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
• Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
• George Woodcock:
  • The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, Canada^[3]
  • Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism^[3]

India in English

• Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Angles of Retreat, year of publication uncertain, New Delhi: Samkaleen Prakashan^[4]
• Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann^[4]
• Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]
• K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop^[4]

Ireland

• Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in Dublin
• Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral"^[5] Dublin: Dolmen Press^[6]
• Tom Paulin, Personal Column,^[7] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom

New Zealand

• Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole^[8]

United Kingdom

• Peter Ackroyd, Country Life^[7]
• Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976^[7]
• Gillian Clarke, The Sundial,^[7] Welsh
• D. J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated^[7]
• Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)^[7]
• James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications^[9]
• Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan^[7]
• Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems^[7]
• Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems^[7]
• Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
• Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae,^[7] including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
• Ted Hughes:
  • Cave Birds^[7]
  • Moon-Bells, and Other Poems, for children^[7]
• A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948^[10]
• Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart^[7]
• Philip Larkin, Femmes Damnees^[7]
• Liz Lochhead, Islands^[7]
• George MacBeth, Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977)^[7]
• Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Collected Poems 1920–1976,^[7] two volumes (posthumous)
• John Montague, The Great Cloak
• Andrew Motion, The Pleasure Steamers^[7]
• Norman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black Combe^[7]
• Tom Paulin, Personal Column,^[7] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
• Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory^[7]
• Carol Rumens, A Necklace of Mirrors^[7]
• Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree^[7]
• D. M. Thomas, The Honeymoon Voyage^[7]
• R.S. Thomas, Frequencies^[7]
• 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^[11]
• Ed Dorn:
  • Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press,^[12] ISBN 978-0914728245
  • Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press^[12]
• Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)^[11]
• Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
• John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
• James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
• James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
• 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
• 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^[13]
• Philippe Denis, Revif^[13]
• Emmanuel Hocquard, Les Dernieres nouvelles de l'expédition sont datées du 15 février 17 [...]^[13]
• Edmond Jabès, Le Soupçon Le Désert^[13]
• Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
• Robert Marteau, Traité du blanc et des tientures^[13]
• Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
• Claude Royet-Journoud, La Notion d'obstacle^[13]
• Alain Veinstein, Vers l'absence de soutien^[13]

Canada

• 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^[14]
• 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)^[15]
• Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)^[15]
• William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 3798805202 (scholarship)^[15]

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

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)

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, Angel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral

Latin America

• Alfonso Calderón, Poemas para Clavecin ("Poems for Harpsichord"), Chile^[16]
• 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:
  • Skygger, publisher: Swing^[17]
  • Topia eller Che Guevara^[17]
• Jaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in Gujarati^[18]

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

• Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo

Births

• June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer

• Also:
  • Jen Hadfield, English

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:
  • Sankara Kurup (born 1901), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[19]
  • P. Kunhiraman Nair (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[19]
  • Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (born 1919), Argentine author and poet

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
2. ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
3. ^ ^{a b} 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
4. ^ ^{a b c d} 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. ^ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
6. ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
8. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
9. ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
10. ^ "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
11. ^ ^{a b} Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
12. ^ ^{a b} Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
13. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} 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
14. ^ 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
15. ^ ^{a b c} 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
16. ^ "Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies", obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009
17. ^ ^{a b} 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
18. ^ 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
19. ^ ^{a b} 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

• 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)

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of years in poetry