1973 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 |
| Years in literature: | 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 |
| 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: | 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 |
Contents |
[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]
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] Australia
- 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
[edit] Canada
- 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
[edit] New Zealand
- James K. Baxter, Two Obscene Poems, posthumous,
- Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Allen Curnow, An Abominable Temper & Other Poems[3]
- Winston Curnow, editor, Essays on New Zealand Literature, Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books (scholarship)[4]
- Keith Sinclair, The Firewheel Tree
[edit] United Kingdom
- Dannie Abse, Funland and Other Poems
- Martin Booth, Coronis, including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix
- Edwin Brock, a book of poetry[5]
- Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom[6]
- Cal Clothier, Behind Heslington Hall
- Tony Curtis, Walk Down a Welsh Wind
- Patric Dickinson, a book of poetry[5]
- D. J. Enright, The Terrible Shears
- Elaine Feinstein, The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson
- Michael Fried, Powers
- Geoffrey Holloway, To Have Eyes
- Paul Muldoon, New Weather
- Geoffrey Grigson, a book of poetry[5]
- Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry[5]
- Thomas Kinsella, a book of poetry[5]
- Brian Patten, a book of poetry[5]
- Peter Redgrove, a book of poetry[5]
- Anne Ridler, a book of poetry[5]
- Michael Schmidt, It Was My Tree
- Sydney Tremayne, Selected and new Poems
- Derek Walcott, Another Life
[edit] Anthologies
- Philip Larkin, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse anthology of poets from the British Isles or who spent time there, ISBN 0-19-812137-7
- Jon Silkin, editor, Poetry of the Committeed Individual
- John Bishop and Virginia Broadbent, editors, London Between the Lines
- Howard Sergeant, editor, African Voices
[edit] United States
- Frank Bidart, Golden State
- Robert Bly, Sleepers Joining Hands
- Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis[7] 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
- Adrienne Rich, "Rape"
- Muriel Rukeyser, Breaking Open
- Patti Smith, Witt
- W.S. Merwin, Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
- Joyce Carol Oates, Angel Fire
- Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
[edit] Works published in other languages
[edit] French language
[edit] Canada
- Michel Bealieu:
- Variables
- Pulsions
- Yves-Gabriel Brunet, Poésies I, collected poems from 1958 to 1962
- Gilles Constantineau, Nouveaux Poèmes
- Roland Giguère, La Main au feu, collected poems from 1949 to 1968
- Gilbert Langevin:
- Les Ecrits de Zéro Legel
- Novembre
- Raymond LeBlanc, Cri de terre
- Luc Racine, Le Pays saint
[edit] France
- George es-Emmanuel clancier, Peut-Être une demeure
- Philippe Soupault, Poèmes et poésies
- François Pradelle, Les Naïves Amours
- Jean Loisy, Le Double Jeu
- Katia Granoff Méditerranée
- Pierrette Sartin, Le Destin accepté
- Denis Roche, Le Mécrit
- Michel Deguy, Tombeau de Du Bellay
[edit] German language
[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
- Peter Huchel, Gezähte Tage
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Kein Zauberspruch
- Eric Fried, Die Freiheit den Mund aufzumachen
- Günter Herburger, Operette
- J. P. Stössel, Friedenserklärung
[edit] Italy
- Almanacco dello Specchio for 1973, an anthology of poetry, including translated poetry
- Franco Fortini, Questo muro, collected poems from 1962 to 1972
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, Trasumanar e organizzar
- Libero De Libero, Scempio e lusinga, collected poems written from 1930 to 1956
- Marino Moretti, Le poverazze
[edit] Russian poetry
- M. Bazhan, The Spark from Uman Recollections (translated into Russian from Ukrainian), 1973[8]
- P. Brovka, We Are Children of One Mother (translated into Russian from Belarusian)[8]
- B. Istru, Pain of a Shadow (translated into Russian from Moldavian)[8]
- R. Margiani, From the Book of Brotherhood (translated into Russian from Georgian)[8]
- S. Orlov, Loyalty[8]
[edit] Spanish language
- Matilde Camus, Bestiario poético (Poetic Book of animals)
[edit] Latin America
- Alvaro Mutis, Summa de magroll el Gaviero (Colombia)
- José Miguel Oviedo, Estos trece
- Ernesto Cardenal, Canto nacional (Nicaragua)
- Ulalume González de León, Plagio (Uruguay)
- Enrique Fierro, Mutaciones (Uruguay)
- José Emilio Pacheco, Irás y no volverás (Mexico)
- Gabriel Zaid,Práctica mortal (Mexico)
- José Carlos Becerra, El otoño recorre las islas, collected poetry from 1960 to 1970, edited by José Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Zaid
[edit] Other
- Odysseus Elytis, The Trills Of Love (Τα Ρω του Έρωτα) (Greece)
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] English language
[edit] Canada
- See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
- Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs
[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"): Daniel Hoffman appointed this year.
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Crowe Ransom
- Bollingen Prize: James Merrill
- National Book Award for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Collected Poems, 1951-1971
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. S. Merwin
[edit] French language
[edit] France
- Max Jacob prize: Hubert Juin for Le Cinquième Poème
- Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Marc Alyn
- Grand Priz of the French Academy: André Frénaud
- Grand Aigle d'Or: Eugène Guillevic
[edit] Births
- date not known:
- Ben Doyle
- Sonnet L'Abbé, Canadian poet
- Paul Vermeersch, Canadian poet
[edit] Deaths
- 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, 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
- date not known — Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h "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
- ^ 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 "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ 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
