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[edit] Events
- With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned, and this year many began publishing in that country.
[edit] Works published
[edit] English language
- Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa (published in the United Kingdom)
- Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems
- Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems
- Edwin Brock, a book of poetry[1]
- Allen Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life
- Charles Causley, Collected Poems
- John Fuller, a book of poetry[1]
- Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop
- Roger Garfitt, West of Elm
- Robert Graves, a book of poetry[1]
- Michael Ivens, Born Early
- Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points
- George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come
- Christopher Middleton, a book of poetry[1]
- Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
- Ruth Pitter, End of Drought
- Peter Porter, a book of poetry[1]
- James Reeves, Collected Poems
- Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems
- Alan Ross, a book of poetry[1]
- Vernon Scannell, a book of poetry[1]
- Henry Shore, Selected Poems
- Alan Sillitoe, a book of poetry[1]
- Stevie Smith, Collected Poems
- R.S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit
- John Wain, a book of poetry[1]
[edit] Anthologies
- John Barrell and John Bull, editors, The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse
- J.M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse
- Peter Redgrove, editor, Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon
- Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series
- Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)
- A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems
- Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well
- John Ashbery:
- Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving
- Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings
- Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh
- Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox"
- Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece
- Erica Jong, Loveroot
- Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts
- George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions)
- Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous)
- Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night
- Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust
- Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950-1974
- Charles Wright, Bloodlines
- Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria
- Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems?[1] (Palestine)
- Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems?[1] (Iraq)
- Amal Dankal, a book of poems?[1] (Egypt)
- Thorkild Bjørnvig:
- Delfinen
- Stoffets krystalhav
[edit] French language
- Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille
- Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit
- Pierre Loubière, Poèmes à la craie
- Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soliel et la croix
- Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine
- Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris
- Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française
- volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century
- volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
[edit] German language
- Frank Geerk, Notwehr
- Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grünen Eck
- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwärts 1 und 2 (posthumous)
- Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Gala
- Kostas Varnalis, Orgi laou
- Nikiforos Vrettakos, Diamartiria
- Kostas Stergiopoulos, Eklipsi
- Yiorgos Yeralis, Elliniki nikhta
- Yannis Ritsos:
- Kodonostasio
- O tikhos mesa ston kathrefti
- Hartina
- Petrinos khronos (written in the Makronisos concentration camp in 1949)
- Imnos kai thrinos yia tin Kipro, about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
- Meletes, a book of essays
- Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously:
- Y. Tan-Pai, Olam Kazeh Olam Kaba
- I. Pinkas, Al Kav Hamashveh
- A. Trainin, Ha-Shaar Hasotum
- D. Rokeah, Ir Shezemana Kayitz
- M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman
- Nathan Yonathan, Shirim
[edit] Anthology
- Marco Forti, editor, Almanacco dello Specchio for 1975, an anthology (from Arnoldo Mondadori's publishing house) which included poems by Eugenio Montale, Mario Luzi, Albino Pierro, Vasco Pratolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Testori, Giovanni Guiducci, Rossana Ombres
[edit] Portuguese language
- A. Ramos Rosa, Animal Olhar
- Fiama Brandão, Novas Visões do Passado
- A.-F. Alexandre, Sem Palavras nem Coisas
- N. Dorizo, The Sword of Victory. Verses, Poems and Songs
- Yu. Drunina, The Star of the Trenches. New Poems
- K. Vanshenkin, Campfire Reminiscences. Wartime Lyrics
- Ya. Smelyakov, Verses of Many Years
- B. Kunyayev, Devotion. Poems
- I. Molchanov, Half a Century. Verses
- G. Korshak, The Stellar Hour
- I. Ulyanova, Birch Tree Rain
- A. Roshka, Steel and Flint (translated into Russian from Moldavian)
- S. Eraliyev, Herald's Word (translated into Russian from Kirgiz)
[edit] Soviet anthology
- Winds of Different Colors
[edit] Spanish language
- Vicente Gaos, Diez siglos de poesía
- Luis Cernuda, Antología poetica, introduction and selection by Philip Silver
- Juan Gonzalo Rose, Obra poética (Peru)
- Javier Sologuren, translator from Swiss, Italian and French, Las uvas del racimo (Peru)
- Raúl Gonzáles Tuñón, Antología poética (Argentina), posthumous
- Juan Gelman, Obra poética (Argentina)
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Tierra que habla (Nicaragua)
- Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuaderno paralelo (Cuba)
- Jorge Enrique Adoum, Informe personal sobre la situación (Ecuador)
- Olga Orozco, Museo salvage (Argentina)
- Hernán Levín, El que a hierro mata (Chile)
- Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, text of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard for 1971-1972
- José Coronel Urteche, Rápido tránsito, critical essays
- Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklórico, anthology of popular poetry
- Kjell Espmark, Det obevekliga paradiset, the last volume of a trilogy
- Claes Andersson, Rums kamrater
- Ylva Eggehorn, Han Kommer
- Hirsh Osherovitch, The World of Sacrifices
- Arie Shamri, Rings in Stem
- Hillel Shargel, A Tree in the Window
- M. Shklar, In Imagination Sealed
- Moshe Nadir, A Day in a Garden
- Alef Katz, Morning Star
- Yakov Friedman, Poems and Songs, three volumes (posthumous)
- Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975 (Poland)
- Julian Przybos, Poems and Notes (posthumous) (Poland)
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] English language
[edit] French language
- Prix Appolinaire: Charles Le Quintrec, jeunesse de Dieu
- Grand Prix de poésie of the French Academy: Gabriel Audisio, Racine de tout
[edit] Spanish language
- Casa de las Américas prizes:
- Omar Lara (Chile), ¡Oh buenas maneras!
- Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama), Dar la cara
- A Soviet state prizes for poetry:
- K. Kuliyev, The Book of the Earth
- L. Martynov, Hyperboles
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 — Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
- February 10 — Nikos Kavadias, Greek
- March 3 — Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, 87, Welsh poet, translator and academic
- May 10 — Roque Dalton, 39, (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed
- September 20 — Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960
- November 2 — Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet
- November 23 — Francis Webb
- Dates not known:
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p This is as much information as was available in The Britannica Book of the Year 1976 (for events of 1975), published by The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1976
- Britannica Book of the Year 1976 ("for events of 1975"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1976 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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