1978 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 |
| Years in literature: | 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 |
Contents |
[edit] 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
[edit] Works published
- Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
- Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 (United States): 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
[edit] Deaths
- January 20: Gilbert Highet, 71, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian, of cancer
- February 22: Phyllis McGinley, at 72
- March 19: Faith Baldwin, 84
- March 22: John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
- May 1: Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
- May 12: Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
- June 3: Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
- September 9: Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
