Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events - Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in New York in 1974 and in London, England in 1984.[1]
- White Pine Press founded in Buffalo, New York. The publisher is a nonprofit organization putting out poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation.[2]
[edit] 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: - John Tranter:
- Red Movie and other poems, Angus & Robertson
- The Blast Area, Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar Press
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
- Selected Poems, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
- Vinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, St.Lucia
- Shirley Gibson, I Am Watching
- Irving Layton, Lovers and lesser Men
- Eli Mandel, Crusoe: Poems Selected and New
- John Metcalf, editor, The Speaking Earth, anthology
- Michael Ondaatje, Rat Jelly, Toronto: Coach House Press[1]
- Al Purdy, Sex and Death
- F.R. Scott, The Dance Is One
- Mervyn Morris, The Pond, Jamaica[3]
- Andrew Salkey, editor, Breaklight, Doubleday, anthology[4]
- Dennis Scott, Uncle Time, Jamaica[3]
- Derek Walcott, Another Life, St. Lucia[3]
- James K. Baxter, Two Obscene Poems, posthumous,
- Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom[9]
- Allen Curnow, An Abominable Temper & Other Poems[10]
- Winston Curnow, editor, Essays on New Zealand Literature, Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books (scholarship)[11]
- Keith Sinclair, The Firewheel Tree
- Dannie Abse, Funland, and Other Poems[6]
- Peter Ackroyd, London Lickpenny[6]
- Martin Booth, Coronis, including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix
- Edwin Brock, a book of poetry[7]
- Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom[9]
- Cal Clothier, Behind Heslington Hall
- Tony Curtis, Walk Down a Welsh Wind, Welsh
- Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree,[6] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Carol Ann Duffy, Fleshweathercock[6]
- Lawrence Durrell, Vega, and Other Poems[6]
- D. J. Enright, The Terrible Shears
- Elaine Feinstein, The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson
- Michael Fried, Powers
- Roy Fuller, Tiny Tears[6]
- Geoffrey Grigson, Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose[6]
- Michael Hamburger, Ownerless Earth[6]
- Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry[7] Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom
- Ted Hughes, Prometheus on his Crag[6]
- Thomas Kinsella, a book of poetry[7] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Geoffrey Holloway, To Have Eyes
- Michael Longley, An Exploded View[6]
- George MacBeth, Shrapnel[6]
- Edwin Morgan, From Glasgow to Saturn[6]
- Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom
- Brian Patten, The Unreliable Nightingale[6]
- Peter Redgrove, a book of poetry[7]
- Alan Ross, The Taj Express[6]
- Anne Ridler, a book of poetry[7]
- Carol Rumens, A Strange Girl in Bright Colours[6]
- Vernon Scannell, The Winter Man[6]
- Michael Schmidt, It Was My Tree
- Sydney Tremayne, Selected and new Poems
- Derek Walcott, Another Life
[edit] Anthologies - Frank Bidart, Golden State
- Robert Bly, Sleepers Joining Hands
- Joseph Payne Brennan, A Sheaf of Snow Poems
- Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis[12] Russian-American
- Victor Hernandez Cruz, Mainland
- Irving Feldman, Lost Originals
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Open Eye, Open Heart
- Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America
- John Logan, The Anonymous Lover, including "New Poem" and "Heart to Heart Talk with My Liver"
- Robert Lowell:
- The Dolphin, containing 103 new poems
- History, containing 360 poems, including more than 80 new ones and many revised
- For Lizzie and Harriet, 67 old poems, all revised
- W.S. Merwin, Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
- Joyce Carol Oates, Angel Fire
- Adrienne Rich, "Rape"
- Muriel Rukeyser, Breaking Open
- Patti Smith, Witt
- Mark Strand, The Story of Our Lives, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
[edit] 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: [edit] French language - Jean Daive, Fut bâti, about the author's friendship with Paul Celan; part memoir, part prose-poem;[13]Gallimard[14]
- Michel Deguy, Tombeau de du Bellay[14]
- George es-Emmanuel clancier, Peut-Être une demeure
- Jean Loisy, Le Double Jeu
- Katia Granoff Méditerranée
- Eugene Guilleveic, Inclus[14]
- Edmond Jabès, (El, ou le drier livre)[14]
- Michel Leiris, Haut-mal[15]
- François Pradelle, Les Naïves Amours
- Denis Roche, Le Mécrit
- Pierrette Sartin, Le Destin accepté
- Philippe Soupault, Poèmes et Poésies: 1917–1973, publisher: Grasset[14]
[edit] East Germany - Wolf Biermann, a communist living in East Germany, he could only publish these works in the West:
- Für meine Genossen
- Deutschland: ein Wintermärchen, long satirical poem on the division of Germany
[edit] West Germany, Austria, Switzerland Including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname: [edit] Other in India - M. Bazhan, The Spark from Uman Recollections (translated into Russian from Ukrainian), 1973[18]
- P. Brovka, We Are Children of One Mother (translated into Russian from Belarusian)[18]
- B. Istru, Pain of a Shadow (translated into Russian from Moldavian)[18]
- R. Margiani, From the Book of Brotherhood (translated into Russian from Georgian)[18]
- S. Orlov, Loyalty[18]
[edit] Spanish language - José Carlos Becerra, El otoño recorre las islas, collected poetry from 1960 to 1970, edited by José Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Zaid
- Alfonso Calderón, Isla de los Bienaventurados ("Island of the Blessed"), Chile[19]
- Ernesto Cardenal, Canto nacional, Nicaragua
- Enrique Fierro, Mutaciones, Uruguay
- Ulalume González de León, Plagio, Uruguay
- Alvaro Mutis, Summa de magroll el Gaviero, Colombia
- José Miguel Oviedo, Estos trece
- José Emilio Pacheco, Irás y no volverás, Mexico
- Gabriel Zaid,Práctica mortal, Mexico
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] English language [edit] French language [edit] Births [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - March 26 – Noël Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack
- May 20 – Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor, and arts patron
- June 4 – Arna Bontemps, 70 (born 1902, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack
- August 17 – Conrad Aiken, 84, of a heart attack
- September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, poet, author and academic
- September 23 – Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia
- September 28 – W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century
- October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann (born 1926) Austrian poet and author
- November 22 – Ramon Guthrie, 77,
- November 23 – Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet
- November 24 – John G. Neihardt (born 1881), American author and poet
- date not known – Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "A World of Voices", White Pines Press website, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ a b c "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
- ^ Breiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, page 253, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780521587129, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f "Literature" article, Britannica Book of the Year 1974, covering events of 1973, published in 1974, pages 425-442, the article provides no information on this book's title
- ^ a b Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ a b Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Aukland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ [1] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Jean Davie: from Under the Dome: A Memoir of Paul Celan" at the Salt Magazine website, retrieved September 2, 2009. Archived 2009-09-04.
- ^ 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
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ a b c d e Britannica Book of the Year 1975, published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975, "Literature" article, "Russian" section, "Soviet Literature" subsection, page 465; although the book is for "Events of 1974" the article specifically cites each of these works as published in Russian in 1973
- ^ "Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies", obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009. Archived 2009-09-07.
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