1975 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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.
- Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks.[1]
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:
- Earle Birney, The collected poems of Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[2]
- Don Domanski, The Cape Breton Book of the Dead
- Louis Dudek. Selected Poems. Ottawa: Golden Dog, 1975.[3]
- Archibald Lampman, * Lampman's Kate: Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis).
- Irving Layton, The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945–1968. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[4]
- Irving Layton, The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969–1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[4]
- Dorothy Livesay, Ice Age. Erin, ON: Porcepic.[5]
- James Reaney, Selected Shorter Poems, Erin: Porcepic.
- Joe Rosenblatt, Dream Craters. Press Porcepic.[6]
- Joe Rosenblatt, Virgins & Vampires. McClelland & Stewart.[6]
- Raymond Souster, Double Header: As Is; Lost & Found. Ottawa: Oberon Press.[7]
- Raymond Souster, Rain Check. Ottawa:Oberon Press.[7]
- Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. These Loved, These Hated Lands. Toronto: Doubleday.[7]
- George Woodcock, Notes on Visitations: Poems 1936-75, Toronto: Anansi, Canada[8]
- Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: Lyric Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .[9]
- G. S. Sharat Chandra, Offsprings of Servagna ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.[9]
- Rita Dalmiya, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[9]
- Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Circus of Love ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[9]
- Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Beginnings ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India[9]
- Pranab Bandyopadhyay, The Voice of the Indian Poets: An Anthology of Indian Poetry, Calcutta: United Writers[10]
- Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems
- Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems
- Eavan Boland, The War Horse[11] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Edwin Brock, a book of poetry[14]
- Allen Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life[11]
- Charles Causley, Collected Poems 1951–1975 (see also Collected Poems 1997)[11]
- Maureen Duffy, Evesong[11]
- Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor[11] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- John Fuller, a book of poetry[14]
- Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop[11]
- Roger Garfitt, West of Elm
- Robert Graves, a book of poetry[14]
- Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
- John Heath-Stubbs, a Parliament of Birds[11]
- Adrian Henri, The Best of Henri: Selected Poems 1960–70, London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0-224-01148-8
- Geoffrey Hill, Somewhere is Such a Kingdom[11]
- Michael Ivens, Born Early
- Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points[11]
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, Beat and' Blood[11]
- George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come
- Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Christopher Middleton, a book of poetry[14]
- Adrian Mitchell, The Apeman Cometh[11]
- Norman Nicholson, Cloud on Black Combe[11]
- Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
- Ruth Pitter, End of Drought[11]
- Peter Porter, Living in a Calm Country[11]
- J. H. Prynne, High Pink on Chrome[11]
- James Reeves, Collected Poems
- Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems
- Alan Ross, Open Sea[11]
- Vernon Scannell, a book of poetry[14]
- Peter Scupham, Prehistories[11]
- Henry Shore, Selected Poems
- Iain Sinclair, Lud Heat[11]
- Stevie Smith, Collected Poems
- R.S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit,[11] Welsh
- John Wain, a book of poetry[14]
- Hugo Williams, Some Sweet Day[11]
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- 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
- Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., ISBN 978-0-436-47820-8, published in April (also published in the United States, in May)
- Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series
- Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- 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
- Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press[15]
- Ed Dorn, Collected Poems: 1956–1974, Four Seasons Foundation[15]
- Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox"
- Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece
- Michael S. Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility[16]
- John Hollander, Tales Told of the Fathers
- Erica Jong, Loveroot
- Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love
- W. S. Merwin, The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[17]
- 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
Anthologies in the United States
- Duane Niatum, editor, Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthology[18] ISBN 0-06-451151-0
- Kenneth Rosen, Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press, anthology[18]
- Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, published in May (published in April in the United Kingdom), ISBN 978-0-8090-7747-2
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Other in English
- Jennifer Maiden, Australia:
- The Problem of Evil, Prism
- The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle
- Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar, Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in Pakistan[19]
- Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., ISBN 978-0-436-47820-8 (also published in the United States this year)
Works published 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:
- Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria
- Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems?[14] (Palestine)
- Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems?[14] (Iraq)
- Amal Dankal, a book of poems?[14] (Egypt)
- Thorkild Bjørnvig:
- Delfinen
- Stoffets krystalhav
- Henrik Nordbrandt, Ode til blæksprutten og andre kærlighedsdigte ("Ode to Cephalopods and Other Love Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 55 pages[20]
French language
- Anne-Marie Albiach:
- Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille
- Yves Bonnefoy, Dans le leurre du seuil ("The Lure of the Threshold"), long poem with an epic tone and allusions to classical literature[22]
- Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soleil et la croix
- Philippe Denis, Les Cendres de la voix[21]
- Robert Desnos, Destinée arbitraire, published posthumously (died 1945)[21]
- Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit
- Jacques Dupin, Debors[21]
- Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine
- Pierre Loubière, Poèmes à la craie
- Saint-John Perse, Chant pour un équinoxe , Paris: Gallimard[23]
- Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris
Criticism and scholarship
- Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française
- volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century
- volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
German language
- Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Gala
- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwärts 1 und 2 (posthumous)
- Frank Geerk, Notwehr
- Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grünen Eck
- Kaspar H. Spinner, Zur Struktur des lyrischen Ich Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (scholarship)[24]
- 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
- M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman
- Haim Gouri, Ad Kav Ha-Nesher ("The Eagle Line"), by an Israeli writing in Hebrew[25]
- Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously
- I. Pinkas, Al Kav Hamashveh
- Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously
- D. Rokeah, Ir Shezemana Kayitz
- Y. Tan-Pai, Olam Kazeh Olam Kaba
- A. Trainin, Ha-Shaar Hasotum
- Nathan Yonathan, Shirim
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Amarjit Chandan, Kauan Nahin Chahega, Rangshala, Chandigarh; Punjabi-language[26]
- K. Siva Reddy, Charya, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language[27]
- Namdeo Dhasal, Moorkha Mhatarayane Dongar Halavile; Marathi-language[28]
- Nilmani Phookan, Kaint Golap Aru Kaint, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua, Assamese-language[29]
- Rajendra Kishore Panda, Gouna Devata, Patanagarh, Orissa: Varnamala, Oraya-language[30]
- Suresh Joshi, Pratyancha, Indian, Gujarati-language[31]
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
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)
Soviet anthology
- Winds of Different Colors
Spanish language
- 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
- Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklórico, anthology of popular poetry
- 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
- 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)
Other
- Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975; Poland
- Ndoc Gjetja, Shqiponja rreh krahët, ("Beats Eagle Wings"), Albania[32]
- Miroslav Holub, a book of poetry?[14] Czecholslovakia: Czech
- Julian Przybos, Poems and Notes (posthumous), Poland
- Jan Skacel, a book of poetry?[14] Czechoslovakia: Czech
- Nichita Stănescu, selected poems[14] Romania
- Ion Alexandru, selected poems[14] Romania
Awards and honors
English language
French language
Spanish language
- Casa de las Américas prizes:
- Omar Lara (Chile), ¡Oh buenas maneras!
- Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama), Dar la cara
Other
- A Soviet state prizes for poetry:
- K. Kuliyev, The Book of the Earth
- L. Martynov, Hyperboles
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
- February 10 – Nikos Kavadias, Greek
- February 14 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
- March 3 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, 87, Welsh poet, translator and academic
- April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (born 1940) German poet
- May 10 – Roque Dalton, 39, (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed
- September 4 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (born 1897) Japanese
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960
- October 27 – Vayalar Rama Varma (born 1928), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter[33]
- November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet
- November 23 – Francis Webb, 52, Australian poet
- Also:
Notes
- ^ Web page titled "About / Brick Books" at the Brick Books website, retrieved January 3, 2008
- ^ "Earle Birney: Published Works", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Louis Dudek: Publications", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
- ^ a b "Irving Layton: Publications", Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ "Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011.
- ^ a b "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications", Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Notes on Life and Works", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ 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 e Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ Search results page, WorldCat website, retrieved August 10, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m This is as much information as was available in The Britannica Book of the Year 1976 (for events of 1975), published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1976
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
- ^ a b Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009
- ^ Abbasi, Reema, "Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead", article, Dawn newspaper, June 26, 2009, retrieved June 27, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010
- ^ a b c d e 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 0-394-52197-8
- ^ Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1025, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 ISBN 0-674-61565-4
- ^ Web page titled "Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. Archived 2009-07-24.
- ^ 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
- ^ [1] Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007
- ^ Web page titled "Amarjit Chandan" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "K. Siva Reddy" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Namdeo Dhasal", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Nilmani Phookan" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Rajendra Kishore Panda" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010
- ^ 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 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ "Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010
- ^ 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 1976 ("for events of 1975"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1976 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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