May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7 a.m.Release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis CarrollFirst issue of Tapia (later named the Trinidad & Tobago Review) publishedIn the United Kingdom, "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices", a poem by Pete Morgan, is set to music by Al Stewart and included in his "Zero She Flies" album this year.Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Robert Adamson Canticles on the SkinB. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthologyJohn Tranter, Parallax, South Head PressEarle Birney, Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart).Joan Finnigan, 'It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set OutGail Fox, Dangerous SeasonR.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and PortugueseJohn Glassco, Memoirs of MontparnasseMichael Ondaatje:The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: Anansi ISBN 0-88784-018-3 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & StewartJoe Rosenblatt, Bumblebee Dithyramb.Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poemsJohn Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songsRaymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. New Poems of the Seventies. Ottawa: Oberon Press.Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. Made in Canada. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970.Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Generation Now. Longman Canada.Shiv Kumar, Articulate Silences ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Keki N. Daruwalla, Under Orion ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . also New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt Ltd.;Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Glass King and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Gauri Deshpande, Lost Love ( Poetry in English ) ,Suniti Namjoshi, More Poems( Poetry in English ) ,Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . (see also Seventeen Poems 1965)Margaret Chatterjee, Towards the Sun ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Peacock Smiles ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .N. Prasad, Iconography of Time, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Monika Varma, Green Leaves & Gold ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Ireland
Leland Bardwell, The Mad CyclistSeamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:Night Drive, GilbertsonA Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre PressDerek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomNew Zealand
James K. Baxter, Jerusalem SonnetsBill Manhire, MaladyF. McKay, New Zealand Poetry, scholarshipVincent O'Sullivan, editor, An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand VerseJ. E. Weir, The Poetry of James K. Baxter, a critical studyDannie Abse, Selected PoemsMargaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna MoodieGeorge Barker, At Thurgarton ChurchR. H. Bowden, Poems from ItalyFrederick Broadie, My FindingsMichael Dennis Browne, The Wife of WinterCharles Causley, Figgie HobbinDonald Davie, Six Epistles to Eva HesseC. Day-Lewis, The Whispering RootsPatric Dickinson, More Than TimeClifford Dyment, Collected PoemsD.J. Enright, Selected PoemsW.S. Graham, Malcolm Mooney's LandIan Hamilton, The VisitTony Harrison, The LoinersSeamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:Night Drive, GilbertsonA Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre PressGlyn Hughes, NeighboursTed Hughes, CrowC. Day-Lewis, The Whispering RootsGeorge MacBeth, The Burning ConeNorman MacCaig, A Man in My PositionHugh MacDiarmid, Selected PoemsSorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, William Neill and Stuart MacGregor, Four Points of a Saltire (includes some poems in Scottish Gaelic)Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomWalter de la Mare, The Complete Poems of Walter de la MareStuart Montgomery, CirceBrian Patten, The HomecomingChristopher Pilling, Snakes and Girls, won the new Poets Award sponsored by Leeds university and the Yorkshire PostPeter Porter, The Last of EnglandBurns Singer, Collected Poems (posthumous)Iain Crichton Smith, Selected PoemsCharles Tomlinson, The Way of a WorldJohn Wain, Letters to Five ArtistsTed Walker, The Night BathersHugo Williams, Sugar DaddyMary Wilson (wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson), Selected Poems, "easily the 'best selling'" poetry book of the year.Clive Young, Ashdragons, Flowerdeath and SunAlan Bold, editor, The Penguin Book of Socialist VersePeter Robins, editor, Doves for the SeventiesEdward Lucie-Smith, editor, British Poetry since 1945, PenguinF.E.S. Finn, editor, Poems of the SixtiesHoward Sergeant, editor, Poetry of the 1940sA.R. Ammons, UplandsJohn Ashbery, The Double Dream of SpringPaul Blackburn:The Assassination of President McKinleyThree Dreams and an Old PoemGin: Four Journal PiecesLouise Bogan, A Poet's AlphabetPhilip Booth, MarginsStanley Burnshaw, The Seamless WebGwendolyn Brooks, Family PicturesRaymond Carver, Winter InsomniaClark Coolidge, Space, Harper & RowL. Sprague de Camp, Demons and DinosaursJames Dickey, The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and MercyEd Dorn:Gunslinger I & II, Fulcrum PressSongs Set Two: a Short Count, Frontier Press, ISBN 978-0-686-05052-0Michael S. Harper, Dear John, Dear Coultrane, nominated for the National Book AwardJohn Hollander, Images of Voice, criticismDavid Ignatow, Poems: 1934-1969LeRoi Jones, It's Nation TimeShirley Kaufman, the Floor Keeps TurningDenise Levertov, Relearning the AlphabetWilliam Meredith, Earth WalkW. S. Merwin:The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971)Signs, with graphics by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall PressLorine Niedecker, My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (Fulcrum Press)Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the KidEzra Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX to CXVIIMark Strand, Darker, Canadian native living in and published in the United StatesMay Swenson, IconographsMona Van Duyn, To See, To TakeReed Whittemore, Fifty Poems FiftyWilliam Carlos Williams, Imaginations (posthumous)Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Nizar Qabbani, Syrian:Savage PoemsBook of Love100 Love LettersThorkild Bjørnvig, a book of "collected or selected works"Regin Dahl, Ærinde uden betydningIvan Malinovski, a book of "collected or selected works"Jess Ørnsbo, a book of "collected or selected works"Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi, DenmarkGaston Miron, L'Homme RapailléYves Préfontaine:DébâcleÀ l'Orée des travauxFernand Dumont, Parler de septembreRaoul Duguay, Manifeste de l'InfonieNicole Brossard, Suite logiqueLouis-Philippe Hébert, Les Mangeurs de terreM. Béalu, La Nuit nous gardeAlain Bosquet and Pierre Seghers, Poèmes de l'annéeL. Brauquier, Feux d'épavesMohammed Dib, FormulairesEmily Dickinson, Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Guy Jean Forgue; Aubier-FlammarionPierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, JacobAndre Frenaud, Depuis toujours déjaEugene Guilleveic, ParoiMichel Leiris, Mots sans mémoireC. Le Quintrec, La Marche des arbresM. Manoll, IncarnadaJ.L. Moreau, Sous le masque des motsJ. Tardieu, Poèmes à jouerVandercammen, Horizon de la vigiePaul Celan, Lightduress (Lichtzwang, Romanian, writing in German)M. Temkin, Shirai YerushalayimA. Broides, Tahana ve-DerechZ. Gilead, Or HozerDan Pagis, Gilgul ("Transformations")I. Shalev, Naar Shav Min ha-TzavaAbba Kovner, Hupahba-MidbarT. Carmi, Davar AhedAvot Yeshurun, Ze Shaim ha-SefereCarmelo Bene, Lorecchio mancanteDino Buzzati, Poema a fumettiAlfredo Giuliani, Il tautofonoSandro Penna, Tutte le poesieNelo Risi, Di certe coseMaria Luisa Spaziani, L'occhio del cicloneGiovanni Testori, ErodiadeRolf Jacobsen, HeadlinesStein Mehren, AuroraRagnvald Skrede, LauvfallSimen Skjønsberg, FlyttedagTarjei Vesaas, Liv ved straumen (posthumous)Augusto de Campos, Equivocábulos, collection of "semantic-visual texts, photo-poems, and 'Viagem via linguagem', a collapsible environment-poem resembling an architect's model"Affonso Avila, Código de MinasSilviano Santiago, SaltoAndrei Voznesenski, The Shadow of SoundY. Smelyakov, DecemberBoris Slutski, Tales for TodayEvgeni Vinokurov, ShowsLeonid Martynov, Peoples' NamesLeonid Vasilyev, OgnevistsaEvgeni Yevtushenko, a collection, including some new poems and omitting some "controversial earlier ones"Jorge Guillén, Obra poéticaJosé Caballero Bonald, Vivar para contarlo ("Live to Tell It"), including "Zauberlehrling"Washington Delgado, Un mundo dividadoC.G. Belli, SextinasJ.G. Rose, Informe al reyM. Martos, Cuaderno de quejas y contentamientosC. Bustamante, El nombre de las cosasJulio Cortázar, Último round, miscellany of stories, poems, essays and collage games (Argentina)Alberto Girri, Antología temática (Argentina)Alberto Vanasco, Canto rodado (Argentina)I. López Vallecillo, Puro asombro (El Salvador)Ernesto Cardenal, Salmos (Nicaragua)R. Fernández Retamar, Que veremos arder (Cuba)Nicanor Parra, Obra gruesa (Chile)Enrique Lihn, La musiquilla de las pobres esferas (Chile)Werner Aspenström, Inre ("Inner")Gören Sonnevi, Det Måste gå ("It Must Be Possible")Maja Ekelöf, Rapport från en skurhink ("Report from a Scrub Bucket")Henry Olsson, Vinlövsranka och hagtornskrans, a study of the poet Gustaf Fröding (died 1911)Abraham Sutzkever, Ripened Faces"Yaakov Zvi Shargel, Sunny DoorstepsAryeh Shamri, Song in the BarnDavid Rodin, Young and Younger, for young readersLeizer Eichenrand, Thirst for DurationJoseph Rubeinstein, Exodus from Europe, third volume of a narrative trilogyWolf Pasmanik, My PoemsKadya Molodovsky, Marzipans, for children and adultsMoshe Shifris, Under One RoofMelekh Ravitch, Post Scriptus (Canada)Jacob Sternberg, Poem and Ballad on the Carpathians (France)Izzy Kharik, With Body and Life (Russia)Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),River Without Banks, Chinese (Taiwan)Rituraj, Kitna Thora Waqt; India, Hindi-languageSee 1970 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.Cholmondeley Award: Kathleen Raine, Douglas Livingstone, Edward BrathwaiteEric Gregory Award: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard TibbittsQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Roy FullerConsultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): William Stafford appointed this year.Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard, Untitled SubjectsNational Book Award for Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete PoemsFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Howard NemerovPrix Max Jacob: Daniel Boulanger for Tchadiennes and RetouchesFrench Academy's Grand Prix de Poèsie: Jean FollainLenin Prize: Nikolai TikhonovSeptember 10 – Phaswane Mpe (died 2004), South African novelist and poetSeptember 16 – Nick Sagan, American poet, novelist and screenwriterSeptember 24 – Gemma Moraleja Paz, Spanish poet and novelistAlso:Victoria Chang, American poetTim Kendall, English poet, editor, critic and academicDavid Roderick, American poetBrenda Shaughnessy, Japanese-born American poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 10 – Charles Olson, 59 (born 1910), American poet, of cancerJanuary 15 – Leah Goldberg, 58 (born 1911), Israeli poet who wrote in HebrewJanuary 24 – Caresse Crosby, also known as "Mary Phelps Jacob", 78 (born 1891), American poet and New York socialite, who, in 1927, founded Black Sun Press with her husband Harry Crosby (also a poet) and who in 1910 invented the first modern bra to receive a patent and gain wide acceptanceFebruary 4 – Louise Bogan, 72 (born 1897), American poet, United States Poet LaureateFebruary 19 – Edsel Ford, 41 (born 1928), American poetMarch 28 – Nathan Alterman, 59 (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translatorMarch 29 – Vera Brittain, 76 (born 1893) English novelist and poetabout April 20 – Paul Celan, 49 (born 1920), Romanian-born poet who wrote in German and became a French citizen, suicideMay 12 – Nelly Sachs, 78 (born 1891), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966June 2 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, 82 (born 1888), Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academicJune 18 – N. P. van Wyk Louw, 64 (born 1906), South African Afrikaans poet and criticJuly 3 – James Douglas Morrison, 27August 18 – Humayun Kabir (Bengali: হুমায়ুন কবির), 63 (born 1906), Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopherSeptember 23 – John Gawsworth, 58 (born 1912), English poet, anthologist, Fitzrovian and King Juan I of RedondaSeptember 28 – John Dos Passos, 74 (born 1896), American novelist, poet and artistNovember 25 – Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫, pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka 平岡 公威, 45 (born 1925), Japanese author, poet and playwright, by public ritual suicideDecember 11 – Arthur Nortje, 27 (born 1942), South African poet, of a drug overdoseDecember 31 – Lorine Niedecker, 67 (born 1903), American Objectivist poet 
