Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [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: - 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]
- 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
- 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:
- Ed Dorn:
- 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
[edit] Other in English [edit] 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: - 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
[edit] French language - 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]
[edit] German language - 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
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany [edit] Hebrew language [edit] Spanish language - 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
[edit] Awards and honors - Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
[edit] Births [edit] 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
- ^ a b Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies", obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ 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)
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