June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London.Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye.October 10 — Sir John Betjeman is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.November — The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.W. H. Auden, now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States for the winter.The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, goes out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen. Heaney moves from Belfast to work in Dublin and live in County Wicklow.James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene. Soon after, Baxter dies. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths remove the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and send them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter's other papers.Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
A.D. Hope, Collected PoemsLes Murray, Poems Against EconomicsEarle Birney, Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, bill bissett, Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poetsLeonard Cohen, The Energy of SlavesDavid Helwig, The Best Name of SilenceGeorge Johnston, Happy Enough: Poems 1935–1972.Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies and Other Poems. Toronto: Anansi.Kenneth Leslie, O'Malley to the Reds And Other Poems. Halifax: By the Author.Dorothy Livesay, Collected Poems: The Two Seasons. Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson.Gwendolyn MacEwen:* The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan.The Armies of the Moon. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972. ISBN 978-0-7705-0868-5Don McKay, Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada)James Reaney, Poems.Charles Sangster, The St Lawrence and the Saguenay and other poems; Hesperus and other poems and lyrics, intro. Gordon Johnston (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Buffalo, N.Y.)Raymond Souster, Selected Poems of Raymond Souster. Michael Maklem ed. Ottawa: Oberon Press.Wilfred Watson, The Sorrowful CanadiansMeena Alexander, Without Place, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Ruskin Bond, It isn't Time That's Passing: Poems, 1970–71, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Margaret Chatterjee, The Sandalwood Tree, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaDilip Chitre, Ambulance Ride,Gauri Deshpande, Beyond the Slaughter House, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaShree Devi, Shades of Green, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaMary Vasanti Erulkar, Mandala 2/5, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaSamir Das Gupta, Paling Shadows, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaNandita Haksar, Ego and Other Poems, Delhi: Orient LongmanGopal R. Honnalgere, A Gesture of Fleshless Sound, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Dilip Kumar Roy, Hark! His Flute!, Poona: Hari Krishna MandirSyed Ameerudin:Poems of Protest, Sumter, South Carolina, United States: Poetry Eastwest; Indian poet, writing in English published in the United StatesWhat the Himalayas said and Other Poems, Madras: Kalaivendhan PublishersPritish Nandy, editor, Indian Poetry in English, anthologySaleem Peerandina (ed.), Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: An Assessment and Selection, Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.Ireland
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery PressSeamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomPearse Hutchinson, Watching the Morning Grow, including "Sometimes Feel", Gallery PressThomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United KingdomDerek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomJohn Montague, The Rough FieldW. R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumousNew Zealand
James K. Baxter:Autumn Testament, not posthumousStonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumousAlistair Campbell, Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch: Pegasus PressAllen Curnow, Trees, Effigies, Moving ObjectsBill Manhire, The ElaborationKendrick Smithyman, Earthquake WeatherJ. R. Ackerley (died 1967), Micheldever and Other PoemsJames Aitchison, Sounds Before SleepAnne Beresford, FootstepsMartin Booth, The Crying EmbersAlan Brownjohn, Warrior's CareerFlorence Bull, Saint David's DayKevin Crossley-Holland, The Rain-GiverDouglas Dunn, The Happier LifeD. J. Enright, Daughters of EarthElaine Feinstien, At the Edge, Sceptre PressJames Fenton, Terminal MoraineSeamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomMichael Horovitz, The Wolverhampton WandererTed Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1967 (see also Selected Poems 1982, New Selected Poems 1995)Thomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United KingdomLiz Lochhead, Memo for SpringGeorge MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomAdrian Mitchell, Ride the NightmareEdwin Morgan, Glasgow SonnetsNorman Nicholson, A Local HabitationBrian Patten, And Sometimes It HappensMervyn Peake, A Book of NonsensePeter Porter, Preaching to the ConvertedSally Purcell, The Holly QueenPeter Redgrove, Dr Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit, and Other PoemsR. S. Thomas, H'm, WelshNorman Nicholson, A Local HabitationKathleen Raine, the Lost CountryW. R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumousVernon Scannell, Selected PoemsPeter Scupham, The Snowing GlobeStevie Smith, Scorpion, and Other Poems, posthumousCharles Tomlinson, Written on WaterHelen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller-Couch. 1972John Heath-Stubbs, co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20A.R. Ammons:Briefings: Poems Small and EasyCollected Poems: 1951–1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973John Ashbery, Three PoemsW. H. Auden, Epistle to a GodsonTed Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston AgainJohn Berryman, Delusions, Etc. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumousElizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press)Harold Bloom, Yeats (criticism)Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, Russian–AmericanGwendolyn Brooks, AuroraRobert Creeley, A Day BookStephen Dobyns, Concurring BeastsHilda Doolittle (H.D.), Hermetic DefinitionEd Dorn:The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Wine PressGunslinger, Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone, Frontier PressMichael S. Harper, Song: "I want a Witness"LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka, Spirit ReachPhilip Levine, They Feed They LionArchibald MacLeish, The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926–1972, selected poemsJames Merrill, Braving the ElementsNed O'Gorman, The Flag the Hawk FliesMary Oliver, The River Styx, Ohio, and Other PoemsGeorge Oppen, Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's EyeMichael Palmer, Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press)Kenneth Rexroth:100 Poems from the French (translator)Orchard Boat (translator)Theodore Roethke, Straw for Fire, posthumous selections made by David Wagoner from the poet's notebooksLouis Simpson, Adventures of the Letter I, including "American Dreams" and "Doubting"Patti Smith, Seventh HeavenJames Tate, AbsencesEleanor Ross Taylor, Welcome EumenidesRosmarie Waldrop, The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House)J. Rodolfo Wilcock (Argentine), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, translated as The Temple of IconoclastsWayne Brown, On the Coast, CaribbeanZulfikar Ghose, The Violent West, Pakistani poet lecturing in TexasAnthony McNeill, Reel from "The Life Movie", JamaicaJames Matthews and Gladys Thomas, Cry Rage!, South AfricaWole Soyinka, A Shuttle in the Crypt, NigeriaListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Paul Chamberland, Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vieGilles Hénault, complete worksGustave Lamarche, complete worksRina Lasnier, complete worksFernand Ouellette, complete worksSuzanne Paradis, Il y eut un matinJean-Guy Pilon, Silences pour une souveraine, Ottawa: Éditions de l'Université d'OttawaFélix A. Savard, Le BouscueilGemma Tremblay, Souffles du midiPierre Trottier, Sainte-MémoireMarc Alyn, Infini au delàPhilippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuitAndrée Chedid, Visage premierMaurice Courant, Soleil de ma mémoireMicheline Dupray, L'Herbe est trop douceGérard Genette, Figures III, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966, Figures II 1969)Eugène Guillevic, EncochesEdmond Jabès, AélyPierre Loubière, Mémoire buisonnièrePierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps présentMarie Noël, Chants des quatre temps (posthumous)Hélène Parmelin, De Songe et de silenceSaint-John Perse, Œuvres Complètes, Paris: GallimardDenis Roche, Le MécritClaude Royet-Journoud, Le RenversementClaire de Soujeole, Pas dans la roséeHeinrich Böll, Gedichte, nine poemsAndreas Okopenko, Orte wechselnden UnbehagensReiner Kunze, ZimmerlautstärkePeter Huchel, Neue GedichteGünter Kunert, Offenere AusgangBeat Brechbühl, Der gechlagene Hund pisst an die Saüle des TempelsHeiner Bastian, Tod im Leben, a long poemAbraham Shlonsky, KetavimDavid Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis, edited by Y. CohenE. Zussman, Atzai TamidT. Ribner, Ain LehashivYair Hurvitz, Narkisim le-Malhut MadmenaAbba Kovner, Lahakat ha-KatzavListed in alphabetical order by first name:
Chandranath Mishra, Unata pal, humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of Maithili", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (a revised and expanded edition of Yugacakra 1952)Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Piraha Ji Bakha, Sindhi-languageHiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"), Assamese languageNamdeo Dhasal, Golpitha; Marathi-languageNiranjan Bhagat, Kavina Ketlak Prashno (Indian, writing in Gujarati), criticismVasant Abaji Dahake, Yogabhrashta (translated into English by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni as A Terrorist of the Spirit;New Delhi: Harper Collins/Indus, 1992); Marathi-languageYumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Shingnaba Vol. I & II, Imphal; Meitei languageRiccardo Bacchelli, La stella del mattinoMarino Moretti, Tre anni e un giornoAldo Palazzeschi, Via dalle cento stelleTommaso Landolfi, Viola di morte, winner of the Fiuggi PrizeEdoardo Sanguineti, WirrwarrGiorgio Manganelli, Agli Dei ulterioriFerdinando Camon, La vita eternaHans Børli, KyndelsmessePer Arneberg, OktobernetterErnst Orvil, Nok sagtKonstantin Simonov, Vietnam. Summer 1970Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poemsDavid Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the IntellectMatilde Camus, Manantial de amor (Love Spring)Pedro Salinas, Poesía, selected by Julio CortázarÁngel González, Palabra sobre palabraSaul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana, a collection of studies published in Spain by an ArgentinianDarie Novaceanu and J.M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, Poesía rumana contemporánea, a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish.Hugo Achugar, Con bigote tristeRosario Castellanos, Poesía no eres tú: Obra poética, 1948–1971Rafael Méndez Dorich, editor, Profundo Centro, an anthology (Lima), PeruAída Vitale, Oidor andanteIdea Vilariño, Poemas de amorAsya, Quiver of BoughsBeyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Footpaths Between WallsZyameh Telesin, Cries of MemoryRachel Baumwoll, Longed ForIsrael's President Shazer:During a MissionFor MyselfRivkah Bassman, Bright StonesMalkah Chefetz-Tuzman, Leaves Do Not FallRachel H. Korn, On the Edge of a MomentJoshuah Rivin, Rainbow of SongSaul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers)Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg, selected poems from 1953 to 1971, DenmarkOdysseus Elytis, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά) and The Monogram (Το Μονόγραμμα) GreeceNizar Qabbani, Poems Against The Law, Syrian poet writing in ArabicKarl Ristikivi, Inimese teekond ("The journey of a man"), Estonian poet published in SwedenWisława Szymborska: Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), PolandJohannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Vi som er hinanden, collected poems from 1928 to 1970, DenmarkAwards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich Böll, West GermanySee 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia WhittakerEric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Berengarten, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul MuldoonPulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected PoemsNational Book Award for Poetry: Frank O'Hara, The Collected Works of Frank O'HaraFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. D. SnodgrassMarch 1 – Rie Yasumi やすみ りえ pen name of Reiko Yasumi 休 理英子, Japanese Senryū poet (a woman)August 18 – Adda Djørup, Danish poet and fiction writer (a woman)Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and authorAlissa Quart, American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor and poetBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, 65 (born 1906), German playwright and poetJanuary 7 – John Berryman, 57 (born 1914), American poet, from suicide (jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River)January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attackJanuary 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish–American poetFebruary 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writerMarch 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelistMay 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poetAugust 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attackAugust 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writerOctober 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63 (born 1909), American poetOctober 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poetNovember 1 – Ezra Pound, 87 (born 1885), American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockageNovember 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, American "cowboy poet" of "Don't Fence Me In"December 10Eileen Duggan, 78, New Zealand poet and journalistMark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and criticDecember 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author 
