1978 in poetry
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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
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:
Canada
- Margaret Avison, Sunblue[1]
- Earle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[2]
- Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: Poems
- William Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press.[3]
- Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man[1]
- Don Domanski, Heaven
- Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
- George Benson Johnston, Taking a Grip: Poems 1971-78.[4]
- Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions.[5]
- Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.[5]
- Dennis Lee, The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press.[6]
- Pat MacKay, The Pat Lowther Poem
- Sean O'Huigin, The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking Back
- Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980[7]
- Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
- Al Purdy, Being Alive
- Joe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss.[8]
- A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected Poems
- Peter Trower, Bush Poems
- Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
- Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
- Wilfred Watson, I Begin With Counting
- George Woodcock:
India in English
- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .[10]
- Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.[10]
- Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann[10]
Ireland
- Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in Dublin
- Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral"[11] Dublin: Dolmen Press[12]
- Tom Paulin, Personal Column,[13] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
- Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole[14]
United Kingdom
- Peter Ackroyd, Country Life[13]
- Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976[13]
- Gillian Clarke, The Sundial,[13] Welsh
- D. J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated[13]
- Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)[13]
- James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications[15]
- Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan[13]
- Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems[13]
- Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems[13]
- Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
- Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae,[13] including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
- Ted Hughes:
- A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948[16]
- Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart[13]
- Philip Larkin, Femmes Damnees[13]
- Liz Lochhead, Islands[13]
- George MacBeth, Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977)[13]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Collected Poems 1920–1976,[13] two volumes (posthumous)
- John Montague, The Great Cloak
- Andrew Motion, The Pleasure Steamers[13]
- Norman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black Combe[13]
- Tom Paulin, Personal Column,[13] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory[13]
- Carol Rumens, A Necklace of Mirrors[13]
- Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree[13]
- D. M. Thomas, The Honeymoon Voyage[13]
- R.S. Thomas, Frequencies[13]
- Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire
United States
- Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
- Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
- Joseph Payne Brennan, As Evening Advances (Crystal Visions Press)
- Robert Creeley:
- Hello
- Later[17]
- Ed Dorn:
- Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press,[18] ISBN 978-0-914728-24-5
- Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press[18]
- Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)[17]
- Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
- John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
- James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
- James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
- W. S. Merwin, Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[19]
- Eugenio Montale, The Storm & Other Poems, translated by Charles Wright into English from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, ISBN 0-932440-01-0
- 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
- Peter Seaton, Agreement (New York: Asylum's Press)[20]
- Patti Smith, Babel
- William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
- Mark Strand, The Late Hour, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
- 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
Other in English
- Jennifer Maiden, Birthstones, Angus & Robertson, Australia
Works 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:
Arabic language
- Nazir Qabbani, Syrian:
- I Love You, and the Rest is to Come
- To Beirut the Feminine, With My Love
- May You Be My Love For Another Year
French language
France
- Noureddine Aba, Gazelle au petit matin, Algerian writer[21]
- Yves Bonnefoy, Poèmes (1947–1975)
- Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
- Jean Daive, Le cri-cerveau[22]
- Philippe Denis, Revif[22]
- Emmanuel Hocquard, Les Dernieres nouvelles de l'expédition sont datées du 15 février 17 [...][22]
- Edmond Jabès, Le Soupçon Le Désert[22]
- Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
- Robert Marteau, Traité du blanc et des tientures[22]
- Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
- Claude Royet-Journoud, La Notion d'obstacle[22]
- Jean Max Tixier, editor, Poètes de sud, anthology; publisher: Rijois
- Alain Veinstein, Vers l'absence de soutien[22]
Canada
- Marcel Bélanger:
- Fragments paniques
- Infranoir
- Normand de Bellefeuille, La Belle Conduite
German language
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
- J. Hans, U. Herms, and R. Thenior, Lyrik-Katalog Bundesrepublik, anthology[23]
- Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
- Johannes Schenk, Zittern
- Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
- Walter Hinck, Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess (scholarship)[24]
- Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)[24]
- William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-7988-0520-2 (scholarship)[24]
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
India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
- Buddhidhari Singha, Smrti-Sahasri, a kavya, Maithili-language[25]
- Debarati Mitra, Jubaker Snan, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata; Bengali-language[26]
- Dilip Chitre, Kavitenantarchya Kavita, Vacha Prakashan, Aurangabad; Marathi-language[27]
- Jaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in Gujarati[28]
- K. Satchidanandan, Indian Sketchukal ("Indian Sketches"); Malayalam-language[29]
- K. Siva Reddy, Netra Dhanussu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language[30]
- Nirendranath Chakravarti, Aaj Shokaaley, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language[31]
- Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Moe-n jo dado poems read on cassette; Gujarati-language[32]
- Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Swechcha or Svecha ("Freedom"), Hyderabad: Yuga Prachuranalu; Telugu-language[33]
Italy
- Mario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversia
- Leonardo Sinisgalli, Dimenticatoio
- Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie
- Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973
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)
Poland
- Stanisław Barańczak, Sztuczne oddychanie ("Artificial Respiration"), London: Aneks[34]
- Ryszard Krynicki, Nasze zycie rośnie. Wiersze ("Our Life is Growing: Poems"); Paris: Instytut Literacki[35]
- Ewa Lipska, Piaty wybor wierszy ("Fifth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: Czytelnik[36]
- Z. Jarosiński and H. Zawarska, editors, Antologia polskiego futuryzmu i Nowej Sztuki, anthology[37]
- Adam Zagajewski, List ("A Letter"), Poznañ: Od Nowa[38]
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)
Spanish language
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, Ángel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral
Latin America
- Alfonso Calderón, Poemas para Clavecin ("Poems for Harpsichord"), Chile[39]
- 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 Venezuela)
- Luis Alberto Spinetta, Guitarra Negra (Black Guitar) - first edition of the only book written by the singer Luis Alberto Spinetta of Argentina.
Sweden
- Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
- Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
- Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter
Yiddish
- Shoyme Roitman, a poetry book
- Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
- Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
- Hayyim Plotkin, a poetry book
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
- Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
- Seán Ó Ríordáin, Tar éis mo Bháis ("After my Death"), Ireland[41]
Awards and honors
Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
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
United States
- AML Award for "Poetry Honorable Mention" Clinton F. Larson for "The Western World " and Marden J. Clark for "God's Plenty" and Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown for "Grandmother"
- 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
France
- Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silence
Other
- Cuba: Casa de las Américas prize for poetry: Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
- Soviet Union: USSR State Prize: Andrei Voznesensky[42]
Births
- June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer
- Also:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Gilbert Highet, 71, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian, of cancer
- February 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905, American children's story writer and poet
- 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
- Also:
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roberts, Neil (ed.), 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 January 3, 2009
- ↑ "Earle Birney: Published Works," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, May 3, 2011.
- ↑ "Notes on Life and Works," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ James Steele, "Johnston, George Benson," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1114.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Irving Layton: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
- ↑ "Dennis Lee: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
- ↑ "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ↑ "Joe Rosenblatt: Publications," Canadian Poetry Online. March 22, 2011.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives: "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
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved June 12, 2009
- ↑ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0-85640-561-2
- ↑ "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 13.17 13.18 13.19 13.20 13.21 13.22 13.23 13.24 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ↑ "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ↑ "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ↑ "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
- ↑ available complete and online courtesy of Eclipse. This takes you to a list of authors published at the Eclipse site, scroll down for the Seaton publications
- ↑ Hayes, Jarrod (2003). "Aba, Noureddine". In Gikandi, Simon. Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-23019-5.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 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
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp. 473-74.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p. 474.
- ↑ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved December 23, 2008
- ↑ "Debarati Mitra" at Poetry International; retrieved July 8, 2010
- ↑ "Dilip Chitre", Poetry International; retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson (eds), Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ↑ "K. Satchidanandan", Poetry International; retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ "K. Siva Reddy" at Poetry International; retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ "Nirendranath Chakravarti" at Poetry International; retrieved July 15, 2010
- ↑ "Sitanshu Yashaschandra" at Poetry International; retrieved July 27, 2010
- ↑ "Varavara Rao" at Poetry International; and Gopal, Venu, "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal (December 15, 2005)", December 15, 2005, Venu Gopal website, retrieved August 2, 2010
- ↑ "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek", Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
- ↑ "Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version and Polish version), Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute"), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
- ↑ "Lipska Ewa" (in English and Polish), Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp. 959-60.
- ↑ "Some information about Adam Zagajewski" , cached page from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts website, cached on February 24, 2005 by the "Info-Poland" website, retrieved February 25, 2010
- ↑ "Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies", obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 [http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[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
- ↑ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography (3rd ed.). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 350. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
- ↑ "Famed Russian poet Voznesensky dies at 77", June 1, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved June 3, 2010
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M. (ed), Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp. 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- 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)
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