Winter — This magazine founded in the United States by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten
March — Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Alberto Moravia, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa (who saya he continues to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales
April 8 — Release of Right On!, a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York city streets
April 21 — The 13th century Codex Regius is returned from Denmark to Iceland under naval escort.
July 2 — Release of The Canterbury Tales, a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Counter/measures magazine is founded in the United States by X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patterns and is an influence in the later creation of the New Formalism movement.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Margaret Atwood, Power Politics
bill bissett, Nobody Owns the Earth
George Bowering, Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970
Louis Dudek, Collected Poetry. Montréal: Delta Canada.
Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden (scholarship)
John Glassco, Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Bill Howell, The Red Fox
Irving Layton, The Collected Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Irving Layton, Nailpolish. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Kenneth Leslie, The Poems of Kenneth Leslie [Ed. Sean Haldane.] Ladysmith, Quebec: Ladysmith Press.
Richard Lewis, editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by Eskimos
Dorothy Livesay:
Plainsongs. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.
Plainsongs Extended. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.
Disasters of the Sun. Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press.
Anne Marriott, Countries, Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.
George McWhirter, Catalan Poems (winner of the 1972 Commonwealth Poetry Prize)
Alden Nowlan, Between Tears and Laughter
Michael Ondaatje, editor, The Broken Ark, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as A Book of Beasts, 1979 (anthology) ISBN 0-88750-050-1
Andreas Schroeder, File of Uncertainties, a chapbook (Sono Nis Press)
Raymond Souster, The Years.Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Phyllis Webb, Selected Poems 1954-65
Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes
Jayanta Mahapatra:
Close the Sky, Ten by Ten ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Dialogue Publications
Svayamvara and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Pomes / Poemes / Poemas ( Poetry in English ),
G. S. Sharat Chandra, April in Nanjangud ( Poetry in English ), London: London Magazine
Michael Chacko Daniels, Split into Two ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Keki N. Daruwalla, Apparition in April ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Amaresh Datta, Captive Moments ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Subhoranjan Das Gupta, Bodhisattva and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Wad of Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Suniti Namjoshi:
More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Cyclone in Pakistan ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five volumes, published this year through 1976; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency
Subhas Chandra Saha, editor, Modern Indo-Anglian Love Poetry, anthology; Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
New Zealand
Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Daybook
Bob Orr, Blue Footpaths
Ian Wedde, Homage to Matisse
Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, New Zealand native living in and published in the United Kingdom
George Barker, Poems of Places and People
Frances Bellerby, a book of selected poems
George Mackay Brown
Fishermen with Ploughs
Poems New and Selected
Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley
John Cotton, Old Movies
Maureen Duffy, Love Child
Michael Ffinch, Voices Round a Star
Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Language-Games
Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree, Hutchinson
Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, The Big Music, and Other Poems
Thom Gunn, Moly, with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it
Adrian Henri, Autobiography
Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns, prose poems
James Kirkup, The Body Servant
Paul Muldoon, Knowing My Place, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom
Sylvia Plath, American poet published in the United Kingdom (posthumous):
Crossing the Water, published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961
Winter Trees
Jeremy Robson, editor, The Young British Poets anthology
Vernon Scannell, a book of selected poems
Jon Silkin, Amana Grass
Stephen Spender, The Generous Days
Donald Ward, The Dead Snake
Patricia Whittaker (poet), The Flying Men
Dick Allen, Anon and Various Time Machine Poems
Maya Angelou, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Gwendolyn Brooks:
Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
Aloneness
Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, Memorial Day
Ted Berrigan, Train Ride
Paul Blackburn, The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries
John Ciardi, Lives of X
Cid Corman, Sun Rock Man (New Directions)
Ed Dorn:
Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook, Athanor Books
By the Sound, Frontier Press; republished with a new preface by the author, Black Sparrow Press, 1991
A Poem Called Alexander Hamilton, Tansy/Peg Leg Press
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions)
Robert Fitzgerald, Spring Shade, collected poems and translations, 1931-1970 (New Directions)
Donald S. Fryer, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
Michael S. Harper, History Is Your Own Heartbeat, won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetry
John Hollander, The Night Mirror
Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (University of California Press), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism
Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares
Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree
James McMichael, Against the Falling Evil
Carl Rakosi, Ere-Voice
Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change
Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert
Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence
Clark Ashton Smith, Selected Poems
Richard Wilbur, translator, The School for Wives by Molière (in verse)
James Wright, Collected Poems, including 30 new poems
Kofi Awoonor, Night of My Blood, Ghana
John Figeuroa, editor, Caribbean Voices, anthology, Evans Brothers, Caribbean
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum, South Africa
Geoff Page and Philip Roberts, Two Poets, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, Australia
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Australia:
Editor: Australian Poetry 1971, anthology, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Where the Wind Came, Sydney: Angus and Robertson
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Jørgen Leth, Eventyret om den sædvanlige udsigt
Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi
Jacques Brault, La Poésie ce matin (published in Paris)
Raoul Duguay, L'Apokalypso
Paul-Marie Lapointe, Le Réel absolu (Editions de l'Hexagone)
Gilbert Langevin:
Ouvrir le feu
Stress
Rina Lasnier, La Salle des rêves
Olivier Marchand, Par Détresse et tendresse (Editions de l'Hexagone)
Pierre Nepveu, Voies rapides, Montréal: HMH
Claude Péloquin, Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme
Anne-Marie Albiach, Etat
M. Bataille, Le Cri dans le mur
L. Bérimont, L'Évidence même
Yves Bonnefoy, ' 'Traité du pianiste
René Char:
L'Honneur devant Dieu
Le nu perdu ("Nakedness Lost")
P. Damarix, L'Expérience magique
Alain Delahaye, L'Eveil des traversees
Jean Follain, Éspaces d'instants, the poet was killed in an accident days after publication
Robert Marteau, Sibylles
Francis Ponge, La Fabrique du Pré
Jacques Roubaud, Octavio Paz, Charles Tomlinson and Edoardo Sanguineti, Renga
Anthologies
J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie Surréaliste
Pierre Seghers, editor, La Poésie symboliste
Leah Goldberg, Shearit ha-Chaim (posthumous)
I. Efros, Shirim, collected poems
D. Avidan, Shirim Hitzoniim
Y. Amichai, Al Menat Lo Lizkor
N. Yonatan, Shirim ba-Arov ha-Yam
D. Pagis, Gilgul
R. Adi, Mishaa le-Shaa
A. Eldon, Levado ba-Zerem ha-Koved
R. Shani, Shalom la-Adoni ha-Melech
M. Meir, ha-Aretz Hahi Mitahat la-Mayim
M. Oren, Adam Muad
M. Megged, editor, Shirim Liriim, anthology of modern Hebrew poetry
E. Silberschlag, Igrotai le-Dorot Aherim
R. Avinoam, be-Misholai
R. Lee, El Parvarai ha-Shemesh
György Petri, Magyarázatok M. számára
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Hiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"); Assamese language
Nilmani Phookan; Assamese language:
Japani Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Barua Book Agency, Assamese-language
Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Pine ("Towards the Blooming Sunflower")
K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language:
Anchu Sooryan, ("Five Suns")
Kurukshetram, ("Studies in Modern Poetry"); scholarship
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ulongo Raja, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
Udaya Narayana Singh, Amrtasya Putraah, Calcutta: Lok Sahitya Parishad, Maithili-language
Vinod Kumar Shukla, Lagbhag Jai Hind, Sindhi: Ashok Vajpeyi; Hindi-language
Attilio Bertolucci, Viaggio d'inverno ("Winter Voyage"), marking a change of style in the author's poetry
Libero De Libero, Di brace in brace
Eugenio Montale:
Satura (1962–1970) (published in January); Italy
Diario del '71 e del '72 (poetry) a private edition of 100 copies; a second, nonprivate edition was published in 1973; Italy
Hans Borli, Isfuglen
Alfred Hauge, Det evige sekund
Peter R. Holm, Synslinjer
Ernst Orvil, Dikt i utvalg
Sigmund Skard, Popel ved flypass
Joaquim Cardozo, De uma noite de festa
Murilo Mendes, Convergência
Henriqueta Lisboa, Nova lírica
Manuel Bandeira, Meus pemas perferidos, a selection from previous books
Foed Castro Chamma, O andarilho e a aurora
Anderson Braga Horta, Altiplano
Delmira Agustini, Poesías completas, prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor, Uruguayan poet published in Spain
Herberto Padilla, Por el momento, published before his arrest in Cuba (see Events above)
Roberto Fernández Retamar, A quien pueda interesar (Cuba)
José Lezama Lima, Poesía completa (Cuba)
Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, Estelas/homenajes (Nicaragua)
Carlos Solórzano, Las celdas (Guatemala)
Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario, Poesía joven de Panamá
M.L. Mendoza, Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres
Delmira Agustini, Poesías completas, prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor, Uruguayan poet published in Spain
Vicente Aleixandre, Poesía superrealista
Justo Jorge Padrón, Los oscuros fuegos
José Angel Valente, Las palabras de la tribu, essays
José María Valverde, Enseñanzas de la edad, 1945-70
Ylva Eggehorn, Ska vi dela
Bo Setterlind, Himlen har landat
Karl Vennberg, Sju ord pa tunnelbanan
Lars Forssell, Oktober dikter ("October Poems")
Gören Palm, Varför har nätterna inga namn?
Kerstin Thorvall, Följetong i skärt och svart
Brakha Coodley, Not on Bread Alone
Leo Kussman, Ballads of a Generation
Berl Siegal, Poems for Children
Mier Shtiker, Jewish Landscape, Volume 2
M.M. Saffir, Creator of Various Dreams
Menakhem Stern, Songs at Midnight
Rochelle Weprinski, The Only Star
Aaron Zeitlin, Poems of Destruction and Faith
Joseph Kerler, Song Between Teeth
Jacob Sternberg, The Circle of Years
Simin Behbahani, Rastakhiz ("Resurrection"), Persia
Paul Celan, Snow Part (Schneepart), German
Odysseus Elytis, Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας ("The Sovereign Sun"), Greece
Alan Llwyd, Y March Hud ("The Magic Horse"), Welsh
F. Pratz, Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart, anthology, German
Ndoc Gjetja, Rrezatim ("Radiation"), his first book of poetry; Albania
Seán Ó Ríordáin, Línte Liombó (Limbo Lines), Irish language in Ireland
Siegbert Prawer, editor, Seventeen Modern German Poets, anthology published by Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, poems in German
Awards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat
See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize: Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns
Cholmondeley Award: Charles Causley, Gavin Ewart, Hugo Williams
Eric Gregory Award: Martin Booth, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Warman, John Welch
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stephen Spender
First Whitbread Award for Poetry: Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Josephine Jacobsen appointed this year.
Bollingen Prize: Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn
Frost Medal: Melville Cane
National Book Award for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Wright
Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award for Poetry: Rosemary Rolleston, William & Mary Rolleston
September 27 – Petrus Akkordeon, German poet
Sophie Hannah, English poet and novelist
Jan Wagner, German poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 – E. V. Knox (born 1881), English poet and satirist
May 9 – Ogden Nash, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse
March 7 – Stevie Smith, 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor
March 9 – Jean Follain, French poet
March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), Japanese, late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
June 5 – Clifford Dyment (born 1914), British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist
June 6 – Edward Andrade (born 1887), English physicist and poet.
June 13 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (born 1890), Japanese, poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
June 25 – Charles Vildrac, French poet and playwright
July 3 – Jim Morrison, 27, American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors
July 13 – R. A. K. Mason (born 1905), New Zealand
September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer
September 9 – Lenore G. Marshall, 72
September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature
October 10 – J. C. Beaglehole (born 1901), New Zealand historian and poet
November 14 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一 京助 (born 1882), Japanese linguist and poet, father of linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi
November 19 – Jacob Glatstein, 75, American Yiddish poet and critic
November 25 – Andrew Young (born 1885), Scottish-born poet and clergyman
December 14 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident
December 18 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence
