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

Events

• Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell started the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry.
• Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions. Poets solicited for the publication promised to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine was planned. Morrow then started the magazine, financing the first few issues himself.
• Three new Hebrew literary journals appear this year in Israel: Mahbarot, edited by Y. Kenaz, Rosh a poetry journal edited by O. Bartena, and Hazerem hehadash, founded by a group of young ex-soldiers.

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

Canadian poet John Newlove in June of this year

• Roo Borson (American-Canadian):
  • In the Smoky Light of the Fields, ISBN 0-88823-024-9
  • Rain, ISBN 0-920806-19-8
• Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship
• Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain
• Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter
• Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things
• Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected four-volume collection)
• Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry
• Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels
• Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition
• Phyllis Webb, Wilson's Bowl^[1]

Caribbean

• A. J. Seymour, A Treasury of Guyanese Poetry^[2]
• Pamela Mordecai, Mervyn Morris, editors, Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems, Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books^[2]
• Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season^[2]
• Mutabaruka, The First Poems: 1970–1979^[2]
• Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States

Ireland

• Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, ^[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Dermot Bolger, The Habit of Flesh
• Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973,^[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left^[3] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom^[4]

New Zealand

• James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumous
• Charles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington ; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiography^[5]
• Alistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
• Lauris Edmond:
  • Wellington Letter: A Sequence of Poems^[6]
  • Seven: Poems^[6]
  • Salt from the North^[6]
• W. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand
• Alistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthology^[7]
• Ian Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973–1977

United Kingdom

• Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, ^[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Alan Brownjohn, A Night in the Gazebo^[3]
• David Constantine, A Brightness to Cast Shadows^[3]
• Wendy Cope, Across the City^[3]
• Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems^[3]
• Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. Brigham
• Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990)^[3]
• Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice,^[3] Faber & Faber/Next Editions
• James Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet^[8]
• Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980^[3]
• John Fuller, The January Divan^[3]
• Roy Fuller, The Reign of Sparrows^[3]
• Geoffrey Grigson, History of Him^[3]
• Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Adrian Henri, From the Loveless Matel^[3]
• Frances Horovitz, Water Over Stone^[3]
• Elizabeth Jennings, A Dream of Spring^[3]
• Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch^[3]
• Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973,^[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
• Laurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers,^[3] South African native living and published in the United Kingdom
• George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death^[3]
• Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies^[3]
• Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left,^[3] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum,^[3] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
• Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978^[3]
• Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street^[3]
• Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils^[3]
• Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices^[3]
• John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979^[3]

Anthologies in the United Kingdom

• D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above)
• Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement
• Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation
• Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse
• Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse
• Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse

United States

• A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer Poems^[9]
• Ted Berrigan:
  • So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems (ISBN 0-912652-61-6)
  • Carrying a Torch
• Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979)^[9]
• Philip Booth, Before Sleep^[9]
• Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux^[10] Russian-American
• Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman
• George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, California^[11]
• Billy Collins, Video Poems
• Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980^[9]
• Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love^[9]
• Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words^[9]
• James McMichael, Four Good Things
• William Meredith, The Cheer^[9]
• James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant^[9]
• Howard Nemerov, Sentences^[9]
• Molly Peacock, And Live Apart
• James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
• Frederick Seidel, Sunrise^[9]
• Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral^[9]
• Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
• Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States
• Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press)
• Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980^[9]
• Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press)
• Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic)^[12]

Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States

• Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman (biography)
• Lew Welch, I Remain (letters; Grey Fox Press), posthumous

Other in English

• Jayanta Mahapatra, India:
  • The False Start^[13] Bombay: Clearing House
  • Relationship^[13]
• Philip Salom: The Silent Piano. (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-0-909144-31-9, Australia
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, editor, The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology

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:

Denmark

• Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
  • Bowie, Bowie, with Asger Schnack, publisher: Gyldendal^[14]
  • Eno One, with Asger Schnack, publisher: Albatros^[14]
  • Nul (med Asger Schnack og F.P.Jac), publisher: Sommersko^[14]
  • Renaldo & Clara (med Asger Schnack), publisher: Virkelyst^[14]
• Klaus Rifbjerg, Livsfrisen

France

• Yves Bonnefoy, Entretiens sur la poésie, France
• Philippe Denis:
  • Carnet d'un aveuglement^[15]
  • Surface d'écueil
• Emmanuel Hocquard, Une journée dans le détroit^[15]
• Edmond Jabès, L'Ineffacable L'Inaperçu^[15]

Germany

West Germany

• Ernst Jandl, Der gelbe Hund
• Johanna Moosdorf, Sieben Jahr sieben Tag
• W. Schubert and K. H. Höfer, editors, Ansichten über Lyrik, anthology, poems and prose since Opitz^[16]

East German exiles

• Roger Loewig, Ein Vogel bin ich ohne Flügel
• Thomas Brasch, Der Schöne 27. September
• Günter Kunert, Abtötungsverfahren

Hebrew

• Natan Sach, Tsfonit misrahit
• Dan Pagis, editor, an anthology of medieval Hebrew love poetry
• Mavet ve' ahava, an anthology of Egyptian poetry in Hebrew translation

Italian

• Piero Bigongiari, Moses
• Edoardo Sanguineti, Stracciafoglio
• Antonio Porta, Passi passaggi
• Maurizio Cucchi, Le meraviglie dell'acqua
• Ugo Reale, Il cerchio d'ombra

Norway

• Ernst Orvil, Nær nok (Norwegian)
• Harald Sverdrup, Fugleskremsel (Norwegian)
• Marie Takvam, Falle og reise seg att (Norwegian)

Portuguese language

Portugal

• Mário Cláudio, Estáncias
• Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Primavera Autónomia das Estradas

Brazilian

• Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Esquecer para lembrar (the third volume of his poetic autobiography)
• Mário Chamie
• Astrid Cabral
• Liane dos Santos
• Tarik de Sousa
• Dante de Milano, complete poems
• Paulo Mendes Campos, complete poems
• Afonso Félix de Sousa, book of poems

Russia

• Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921), much of his poetry was republished in this year, his centenary, including a six-volume edition of his collected works and Blok in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries

Spanish language

Spain

• Matilde Camus, Perfiles ("Profiles")
• Antonio Colinas, Astrolabio
• Leopoldo Azancot, La novia judia

Sweden

• Lars Forssell, Stenar
• Ylva Eggehorn, Hjärtats Knytnãvsslag
• Tobias Berggren, Threnos
• Begt Emil Johnson, Vinterminne

Other languages

• Leyzer Aichenrand of Switzerland, Landscape of Fate, Yiddish
• Panna Nayak, Philadelphia; Indian poet writing in Gujarati^[17]
• Mairtin O Direain, Danta, including "Deiradh Re", "Cuimhne an Domhnaigh", and "Cranna Foirtil", Gaelic-language, Ireland^[4]

Awards and honors

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, and (since 1951) exile.

Australia

• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle

Canada

• See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller
• Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian

United States

• Academy of American Poets Fellowship: Mona Van Duyn
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, Selected Poems (April 14)
• American Academy of Arts and Letters: John Ashbery elected a member of the Literature Department
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mona Van Duyn

Spanish

• Premios de la Crítica awards in poetry:
  • Castilian: Luis Rosales, Diario de una resurrección
  • Catalan: Miquel Martí i Pol, Estimada Marta
  • Galician: Eduardo Moreiras, O libro dos mortos
  • Basque: Juan Mari Lekuona, Ilargiaren eskolan

Deaths

Vladimir Holan's grave

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

• January 3 – G. S. Fraser (born 1915), Scotts poet and critic,
• February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attack
• February 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment
• March 25 – James Wright, 52, of cancer
• March 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech
• April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painter
• April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician
• June 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poet
• July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat
• July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet, actor
• August 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911) New Zealand poet and publisher
• September 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), Australian^[18]
• October 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacher^[19]
• October 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist
• November 21 – A.J.M. Smith, Canadian
• November 28 – Julia Reynolds (poet), 98

See also

Poetry portal

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

Notes

1. ^ 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. ^ ^{a b c d} "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. ^ ^{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 z aa ab ac} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. ^ ^{a b} Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
5. ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
6. ^ ^{a b c} Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
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, "Anthologies" section, p 837
8. ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
9. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
10. ^ [2] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
11. ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
12. ^ Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521822831, retrieved February 9, 2009
13. ^ ^{a b} [3]Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
14. ^ ^{a b c d} 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
15. ^ ^{a b c} 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
16. ^ 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
17. ^ 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
18. ^ "Macartney, Frederick Thomas Bennett (Fred) (1887-1980)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150188b.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-02.  
19. ^ "Haley, Martin Nelson (1905 - 1980)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140404b.htm?hilite=born%3B1980%3Bpoet. Retrieved 2007-12-21.  

• 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)