1980 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell started the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry.
- Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions. Poets solicited for the publication promised to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine was planned. Morrow then started the magazine, financing the first few issues himself.
- Three new Hebrew literary journals appear this year in Israel: Mahbarot, edited by Y. Kenaz, Rosh a poetry journal edited by O. Bartena, and Hazerem hehadash, founded by a group of young ex-soldiers.
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:
- Roo Borson (American-Canadian):
- In the Smoky Light of the Fields, ISBN 0-88823-024-9
- Rain, ISBN 0-920806-19-8
- Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship
- Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press.[1]
- Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter
- Robert Finch, Variations and Theme.[2]
- Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things
- Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain
- Irving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.[3]
- Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon Press.[4]
- Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions.[5]
- Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected ten-volume collection)
- Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country. Don Mills, ON: Academic Press.[6]
- Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry
- Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels
- Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition
- Phyllis Webb, Wilson's Bowl[7]
- Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, [14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Dermot Bolger, The Habit of Flesh
- Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973,[14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left[14] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[15]
- James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumous
- Charles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington ; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiography[16]
- Alistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
- Lauris Edmond:
- Wellington Letter: A Sequence of Poems[17]
- Seven: Poems[17]
- Salt from the North[17]
- W. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand
- Alistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthology[18]
- Ian Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973–1977
- Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, [14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Alan Brownjohn, A Night in the Gazebo[14]
- David Constantine, A Brightness to Cast Shadows[14]
- Wendy Cope, Across the City[14]
- Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems[14]
- Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. Brigham
- Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990)[14]
- Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice,[14] Faber & Faber/Next Editions
- James Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet[19]
- Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980[14]
- John Fuller, The January Divan[14]
- Roy Fuller, The Reign of Sparrows[14]
- Geoffrey Grigson, History of Him[14]
- Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Adrian Henri, From the Loveless Matel[14]
- Frances Horovitz, Water Over Stone[14]
- Elizabeth Jennings, A Dream of Spring[14]
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch[14]
- Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973,[14] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Laurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers,[14] South African native living and published in the United Kingdom
- George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death[14]
- Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies[14]
- Pete Morgan, One Greek Alphabet[20]
- Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left,[14] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum,[14] Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
- Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978[14]
- Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street[14]
- Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils[14]
- Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices[14]
- John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979[14]
- Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collection
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above)
- Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement
- Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation
- Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse
- Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse
- Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
United States
- Meena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States[21]
- A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer Poems[22]
- Ted Berrigan:
- So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems (ISBN 0-912652-61-6)
- Carrying a Torch
- Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979)[22]
- Philip Booth, Before Sleep[22]
- Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux[23] Russian-American
- Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman
- George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, California[24]
- Billy Collins, Video Poems
- Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980[22]
- Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love[22]
- Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words[22]
- James McMichael, Four Good Things
- William Meredith, The Cheer[22]
- James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant[22]
- Howard Nemerov, Sentences[22]
- Molly Peacock, And Live Apart
- James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
- Frederick Seidel, Sunrise[22]
- Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral[22]
- Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States
- Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press)
- Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980[22]
- Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press)
- Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic)[25]
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Other in English
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:
- Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
- Bowie, Bowie, with Asger Schnack, publisher: Gyldendal[26]
- Eno One, with Asger Schnack, publisher: Albatros[26]
- Nul (med Asger Schnack og F.P.Jac), publisher: Sommersko[26]
- Renaldo & Clara (med Asger Schnack), publisher: Virkelyst[26]
- Klaus Rifbjerg, Livsfrisen
French language
- Yves Bonnefoy, Entretiens sur la poésie, France
- Philippe Denis:
- Carnet d'un aveuglement[31]
- Surface d'écueil
- Emmanuel Hocquard, Une journée dans le détroit[31]
- Edmond Jabès, L'Ineffacable L'Inaperçu[31]
- Abdellatif Laabi, Moroccan author writing in and published in France:
- Le Règne de barbarie. Seuil, Paris (épuisé)
- Histoire des sept crucifiés de l'espoir. La Table rase, Paris
- Jean Max Tixier, editor, Vers une logoqie poétique, publisher: La Table Rase
West Germany
- Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Christoph Meckel, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2 ("Poetry Yearbook 2"), publisher: Claassen; anthology[32]
- Ernst Jandl, Der gelbe Hund
- Johanna Moosdorf, Sieben Jahr sieben Tag
- W. Schubert and K. H. Höfer, editors, Ansichten über Lyrik, anthology, poems and prose since Opitz[33]
East German exiles
- Natan Sach, Tsfonit misrahit
- Dan Pagis, editor, an anthology of medieval Hebrew love poetry
- Mavet ve' ahava, an anthology of Egyptian poetry in Hebrew translation
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Gulzar, Kuch Aur Nazme, New Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan; Hindi-language[34]
- Kedarnath Singh, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan; Hindi[35]
- M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Mulaka Mahasayaru, India, Kannada-language[36]
- Nilmani Phookan, Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Barua Book Agency, Assamese-language[37]
- Rajendra Kishore Panda, Nija Pain Nanabaya,Samabesha, Bhubaneswar: Prakashani, Oraya-language[38]
- Panna Nayak, Philadelphia; Gujarati-language[39]
- Prabhu Chugani, Surkh Gulab Suraha, a collection of five-line poems in a form invented by him; the book received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981, Indian, Sindhi-language[36]
- Piero Bigongiari, Moses
- Eugenio Montale, L'opera in versi, the Bettarini-Contini edition (published in 1981 as Altri verse e poesie disperse), publisher: Mondadori; Italy[40]
- Edoardo Sanguineti, Stracciafoglio
- Antonio Porta, Passi passaggi
- Maurizio Cucchi, Le meraviglie dell'acqua
- Ugo Reale, Il cerchio d'ombra
- Stanisław Barańczak, Tryptyk z betonu, zmeczenia i sniegu ("Triptych with Concrete, Fatigue and Snow"), Krakow: KOS[41]
- M. Korolko, editor, Średniowieczna pieśn religina polska, second edition, anthology[42]
- A. Lam, editor, Ze struny na strune, anthology[42]
- Bronisław Maj, Wiersze ("Poems"); Warsaw: NOWA[43]
- Piotr Sommer, Pamiątki po nas[44]
- Jan Twardowski,Niebieskie okulary ("Blue Sunglasses"), Krakow: Znak[45]
- Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921), much of his poetry was republished in this year, his centenary, including a six-volume edition of his collected works and Blok in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries
Spain
- Matilde Camus, Perfiles ("Profiles")
- Antonio Colinas, Astrolabio
- Leopoldo Azancot, La novia judia
Other languages
Awards and honors
- Premios de la Crítica awards in poetry:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 – G. S. Fraser (born 1915), Scotts poet and critic,
- February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attack
- February 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment
- March 25 – James Wright, 52, of cancer
- March 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech
- April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painter
- April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician
- June 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poet
- July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat
- July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet, actor
- August 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911) New Zealand poet and publisher
- September 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), Australian[46]
- October 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacher[47]
- October 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist
- November 21 – A.J.M. Smith (born 1902), Canadian poet
- November 28 – Julia Reynolds (poet), 98
See also
Notes
- ^ "Louis Dudek: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011.
- ^ " Robert Finch," Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011.
- ^ "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ "Books by former English Department Students," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011.
- ^ "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
- ^ "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ a b c d "Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 9780313317477, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Meena Alexander", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Dilip Chitre", Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla", Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010
- ^ a b Web page titled "E.V. Ramakrishnan", Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010
- ^ [1] Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
- ^ Web page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008
- ^ a b c Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ [2] Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ Salter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Meena Alexander", Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ [3] Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007
- ^ Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d Web page titled [stage=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck"], website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Suzanne Jacob" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Pierre Nepveu" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Edmond Robillard" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Jean Royer" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010
- ^ a b c 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
- ^ Web page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010
- ^ 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, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ Web page titled "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010
- ^ a b Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ 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
- ^ Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998, ISBN 0374125546
- ^ Web page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp 959-960
- ^ Web pages titled "Maj Bronisław" (both English version and Polish version), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography" section, retrieved March 2, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Piotr Sommer", "Poetry International" website, retrieved February 19, 2010
- ^ Web page titled "Jan Twardowski", at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ^ "Macartney, Frederick Thomas Bennett (Fred) (1887-1980)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150188b.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
- ^ "Haley, Martin Nelson (1905 - 1980)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140404b.htm?hilite=born%3B1980%3Bpoet. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
- Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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