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
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Years:	1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981

Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 2.1 English language 2.1.1 Canada 2.1.2 United Kingdom 2.1.3 United States 2.2 French language 2.2.1 France 2.2.2 Canada 2.3 German language 2.3.1 Germany 2.4 Hebrew language 2.5 Italy 2.6 Norway 2.7 Portuguese language 2.8 Spanish language 2.8.1 Spain 2.8.2 Latin America 2.9 Sweden 2.10 Yiddish 2.11 Other 3 Awards and honors 3.1 Canada 3.2 United Kingdom 3.3 United States 3.4 France 3.5 Other 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Notes 7 See also

[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

[edit] English language

[edit] Canada

• Earle Birney, Fall by Fury
• Leonard Cohen. Death of a Lady's Man
• 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
• Craig Powell, Rehersal for Dancers
• Al Purdy, Being Alive
• Peter Trower, Bush Poems
• Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
• Miriam Waddington, Mister Never

[edit] United Kingdom

• Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
• Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems
• Hugh MacDiarmid, Collected Poems, two volumes (posthumous)
• John Montague, The Great Cloak
• Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory
• R.S. Thomas, Frequencies
• Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire

[edit] United States

• Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
• Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
• Robert Creeley, Hello
• Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
• 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
• William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
• 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] French language

[edit] France

• Guillevic, Du Domaine
• Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
• Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
• Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin

[edit] Canada

• Marcel Bélanger:
  • Fragments paniques
  • Infranoir
• Normand de Bellefeuille, La Belle Conduite

[edit] German language

[edit] Germany

• 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
• Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
• Johannes Schenk, Zittern
• Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935

[edit] Hebrew language

• D. Avidan, a poetry book
• P. Sadeh, a poetry book
• E. Megged, a poetry book
• M. Ben-Shaul, a poetry book
• Zelda (poet), a poetry book

[edit] Italy

• Mario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversia
• Leonardo Sinisgalli, Dimenticatoio
• Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie
• Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973

[edit] Norway

• Hans Børli, Dag og Drøm: Dikt i utvalg ("Day and Dream") (Norway)
• Paal Brekke, Dikt 1949-1722 (Norway)
• Halldis Moren Vesaa, Dikt i samling (Norway)

[edit] Portuguese language

• Rui Knopfli, O Escriba Acocorado (Portugal)
• Waldimir Diniz, Até o 8° round (Brazilian)
• Cassiano Nunes, Madrugada (Brazilian)
• Accioly Lopes, his first volume of verse (Brazilian)

[edit] Spanish language

[edit] Spain

• 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] Latin America

• Oscar Hahn, Arte de morir
• Pablo Neruda, Para nacer he nacido, previously unpublished diary entries, memoirs and other writings (posthumous), put out by his widow, Matilde de Neruda and Miguel Otero Silva (of Venezuala)

[edit] Sweden

• Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
• Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
• Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter

[edit] Yiddish

• Shoyme Roitman, a poetry book
• Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
• Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
• Hayyim Plotkin, a poetry book

[edit] Other

• Odysseus Elytis, Μαρία Νεφέλη ("Maria Nefeli") Greece
• Joseph Brodsky, editor of two expatriate Russian poetry anthologies:
  • Konets prekrasnoy epokh: Stikhotvoreniya 1964-71
  • Chast' rechi: Stkikhotvoreniya 1972-76

[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: 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
• Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Miles

[edit] France

• Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silence

[edit] Other

• Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo

[edit] Births

• June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer

[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
• 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
• Date not known — Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (born 1919), Argentine author and poet

[edit] Notes

• 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)

[edit] See also

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