The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman.
October 4, When Ann Sexton was having lunch with her friend, fellow poet and collaborator Maxine Kumin to review Sexton's most recent book, The Awful Rowing Toward God, without a note or any warning, Sexton went into her garage, started the ignition of her car, and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The dictatorship in Greece falls; exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there.
The dictatorship in Portugal falls in April; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work is published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling".
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 Gray, Creekwater Journal Australia
Maiden, Jennifer. Tactics. St Lucia, Qld.: UQP.
Les Murray, Lunch and Counter Lunch, Australia
George Bowering, In the Flesh
Matt Cohen, Peach Melba
A.M. Klein, The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein.Toronto; New York: McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
Patrick Lane, Beware the Months of Fire
Irving Layton, The Pole-Vaulter. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Irving Layton, Seventy-five Greek Poems, 1951-1974. Athens: Hermias Publications.
Dennis Lee, Not Abstract Harmonies But. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Magic Animals: Selected Poems Old and New. Toronto: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7705-1214-9
Jay Macpherson, Welcoming Disaster: Poems, 1970-74. Toronto: Saannes Publications.
P. K. Page, Poems Selected and New, selected and edited by Margaret Atwood
Joe Rosenblatt, Blind Photographer. Press Porcepic.
Raymond Souster, Change-Up: New Poems. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. 100 Poems of Nineteenth Century Canada. Toronto: Macmillan.
Annie Szumigalski, Woman Reading in the Bath
George Woodcock, editor, Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974, Toronto: Oxford University Press, scholarship
Shiv Kumar, Cobwebs in the Sun( Poetry in English ) ,
Keki N. Daruwalla:
Apparition in April ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Crossing of Rivers ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Oxford University Press
G. S. Sharat Chandra, Once or Twice (Poetry in English), Hippopotamus Press
Syed Ameeruddin, The Dreadful Doom to Come and Other Poems, Madras: Poet Press India.
Ireland
Austin Clarke, Collected Poems, including "The Lost Heifer", "The Young Woman of Beare", "The Planter's Daughter", "Celibacy", "Martha Blake", "The Straying Student", "Penal Law", "St Christopher", "Early Unfinished Sketch", "Martha Blake at Fifty-One", and "Tiresias" (died this year)
Padraic Fallon, Poems (see also Poems and Versions 1983, Collected Poems 1990) Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
John Montague, editor, The Faber Book of Irish Verse anthology (Faber and Faber) published in the United Kingdom
Richard Murphy, High Island, including "Seals at High Island" and "Stormpetrel", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Richard Ryan, Ravenswood Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Fleur Adcock, The Scenic Route, London and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
James K. Baxter, posthumous:
The Tree House, poems for children
The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944–72, edited by J. E. Weir
Charles Brasch: Home Ground: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press (published posthumously)
Allen Curnow, Collected Poems 1933–73
Kendrick Smithyman, The Seal in the Dolphin Pool, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press
Ian Wedde, Made Over
Dannie Abse, A Poet in the Family
Fleur Adcock, The Scenic Route, New Zealand native living in and published in the United Kingdom
Sir John Betjeman, A Nip in the Air
W. H. Auden, Thank You, Fog (posthumous)
Alasdair Clayre, A Fire by the Sea
Donald Davie, The Shires
Carol Ann Duffy, Fleshweathercock and Other Poems Outposts
Douglas Dunn, Love or Nothing
Odysseas Elytis, two English translations: The Axion Esti (trans. Edmund Keeley and G. Savidis) and The Sovereign Sun (trans. Kinom Friar)
Padraic Fallon, Poems (see also Poems and Versions 1983, Collected Poems 1990)
Flora Garry, Bennygoak and Other Poems.
William R. P. George - Grawn Medi
Karen Gershon, My Daughters, My Sisters
Robin Hamilton, Poems
John Heath-Stubbs, Artorius: A Heroic Poem in Four Books and Eight Episodes
Tom Holt, Poems by Tom Holt
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Voices of the Living and the Dead
David Jones, The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments
Jenny Joseph, Rose in the afternoon, and Other Poems
Susanne Knowles, The Sea-Bell and Other Poems
Philip Larkin, High Windows
Laurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. (see also A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A. 1980)
Edward Lucie-Smith, The Well-Wishers
John Montague (ed.), The Faber Book of Irish Verse (Faber and Faber)
Richard Murphy, High Island
John Pudney, Selected Poems, 1967-1973
Peter Reading, For the Municipality's Elderly
Richard Ryan, Ravenswood
Jon Silkin, The Principle of Water
Alan Sillitoe, Storm: New Poems, London: W.H. Allen, ISBN 978-0-491-01772-5
Joan Murray Simpson, In High Places
C. H. Sisson, In the Trojan Ditch, collected poems and selected translations
Iain Crichton Smith, Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe
John Stallworthy, The Apple Barrel
R. S. Thomas:
Selected Poems, 1946-1968
What is a Welshman?
Anthony Thwaite, New Confessions
Andrew Young, Complete Poems (posthumous)
Ai, Cruelty
A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion
Ted Berrigan, The Drunken Boat
Joseph Payne Brennan:
Death Poems
Edges of Night
Ed Dorn:
Recollections of Gran Apacheria, Turtle Island
Slinger (contains Gunslinger, Books I-IV and "The Cycle"), Wingbow Press
Jill Hoffman, Mink Coat
Galway Kinnell, The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World
Judith Kroll, In the Temperate Zone
James Merrill: "Lost in Translation", one of the most studied and celebrated of his shorter works, was originally published in The New Yorker magazine on April 8, and published in his 1976 book Divine Comedies.
Michael Palmer, The Circular Gates (Black Sparrow Press)
George Quasha, Word-Yum: Somapoetics 64-69: Seventh Series
James Reiss, The Breathers (Ecco Press)
Charles Reznikoff, By the Well of Living & Seeing: New & Selected Poems 1918-1973
Michael Ryan, Threats Instead of Trees (Yale University Press)
Anne Sexton, The Death Notebooks
Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
Reed Whittemore, The Mother's Breast and the Father's House
George Quasha (with Susan Quasha), An Active Anthology (Sumac Press)
Ernesto Cardenal, translated from Spanish, Homage to the American Indians
W. S. Merwin and Clarence Brown, translation, Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, New York: New York Review of Books)
Michael Smith, translator, Trilice, from the original Spanish of César Vallejo
J. M. Cohen, translator, Sent off the Field from the original Spanish of Fuera del juego by Heberto Padilla
Christopher Hope, Cape Drives (South Africa)
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Poul Borum, Sang til dagens glæde
Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Her omkring
Klaus Høeck, Transformations, publisher: Gyldendal
Henrik Nordbrandt, Opbrud og ankomster ("Departures and Arrivals"), Copenhagen: Gylandal, 72 pages
Vagn Steen, Fuglens flugt i halvkrystal
Rémi-Paul Forgue, Poèmes du vent et des ombres
Michel Garneau, Moments
Jean Royer, La parole me vient de ton corps suivi de Nos corps habitables: Poèmes, 1969-1973, Montréal: Nouvelles éditions de l'Arc
Anne-Marie Albiach, "HII" linéaires
Michel Béguey, Par des chemins secrets
Maurice Courant, O toi que le vent glace
Philippe Denis, Cabier d'ombres
Pierre Emmanuel, Sophia
Claude Fourcade, Le Florilège poétique
Roger Giroux, Voici, published posthumously (died 1973)
Eugène Guillevic, encoches
Philippe Jaccottet, Chant d'en bas
Patrice de La Tour du Pin, Psaumes de tous mes temps
Jean Lebrau, Singles
Jean-Claude Renard, Le Dieu de nuit
Robert Mallet, Quand le mirior s'etonne
Pierre Menanteau, Capitale du souvenir
Alain Veinstein, Répétition sur l'amas
Criticism, scholarship and biography in France
Jean Follain, Collège, memoirs
Pierre Segher, La Résistance et ses poètes
Andrée Sodenkamp La Fête debout (Belgium)
Jürgen Becker, Das Ende der Landschaftsmalerei
Erich Fried, Gegengift
Hermann Kesten, Ich bin der ich bin
N. Alterman, Regayim (posthumous)
T. Carmi, Hitnatzlut ha-Mechaber
Haim Gouri, Mar`ot Gihazi ("Gehazi Visions"), Israel
Y. Lerner, Shirim
N. Sach, Mivhar
H. Schimmel, Shirai Malon Zion
A Shllonsky, Sefer ha-Sulamot (posthumous)
N. Stern, Bain Arpilim
M. Wieseltier, Kach
György Petri, Körülírt zuhanás
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Debarati Mitra, Indian, Bengali-language:
Andha Skoole Ghanta Baje. Kolkata: Satarupa
Amar Putul, Kolkata: Satarupa
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Khola Muthi, Kolkata: Aruna Prokashoni; Bengali-language
Jayant Kaikini, Rangadindostu doora, Sagar, Karnataka: Akshara Prakashana, Indian, Kannada-language poet, short-story writer, and screen writer
K. Satchidanandan, Atmagita ("The Song of the Self"); Malayalam-language
Niranjan Bhagat, Yantravijnan and Mentrakavita, criticism; Gujarati-language
Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Odysseusnu-n Halesu, Mumbai and Ahmedabad: R R Sheth & Co.; Gujarati-language
Thangjam Ibopishak Singh, Shingnaba ("Challenge") (Co-authored), Imphal: Authors; Meitei language
Francisco Alvim, Passatempo
Geraldo Carneiro, Na Busca do Sete-Estrelo
Ledo Ivo, O Sinal Semafórico (posthumous)
Stella Leonardos:
Amanhecéncia
Romançário
Ariano Suassuna, A Farsa da Boa Preguiça
Ruy de Moura Belo, A margem da alegria ("The Riverbank of Happiness")
Fiama Brandão, collected verse, with additions
Fernando Echevarria, A Base e o Timbre
Egito Gonçalves, Destruição: Dois Pontos
Herberto Helder, collected poems to date
Jorge de Sena, Conheço o Sal
Pedro Támen, Os 42 Sonetos
M. Kanoatov, The Voice of Stalingrad (translated into Russian from Tajik), 1973
M. Lukonin, Frontline Verse
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prussian Nights (finished in 1951), published in the original Russian in Paris
L. Tatyanichev, The Honey Season
Reidar Ekner, Efter flera tusen rad
Lars Forssell, Det möjiliga
Gunnar Harding and Rolf Aggestam, editors, Tjugo unga poeter, an anthology of modern poetry
Lars Norén, Dagliga och nattliga dikter
Tomas Tranströmer, Baltics (Östersjöar)
Pinche Berman, Love
Moshe Brodersohn, The Last Song (posthumous)
Meir Charatz:
Heaven and Earth
In Strange Paradise
Eliezer Greenberg, Memorabilia
Shifrah Kholodenko, The Word
Rachel Kramf, Clouds Wish to Cry
Saul Maltz, Poems of My Profound Belief
Joseph Mlotek and Eleanor Mlotek, editors, Pearls from Yiddish Poetry (anthology), poems printed in the Sunday editions of the New York Jewish Daily Forward
Roza Nevadovska, Poems of Mine (posthumous)
Hillel Shargel, A Window to Heaven
Abraham Sutzkever, The Fidlerose
Malka H. Tuzman, Under Your Mark
Freed Weininger, In the Wide Outside
Isaac Yanosovich, The Other Side of Wonder
Hersh Leib Young, In the Astral Spheres
Vicente Aleixandre, Diálogos del conocimiento
Matilde Camus, Templo del Alba ("Temple of Dawn")
Pablo Neruda:
La rosa separada
Jardín de invierno
Defectos escogidos
2000 El corazón amarillo
Libro de las preguntas
Elegía
El mar y las campanas
Efraín Huerta, Los eróticos y otros poemas (Mexico)
Elvio Romero, Antología poética 1947-73, second edition (Paraguay)
Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Quinta estación
Odysseas Elytis, Τα Ετεροθαλή ("Step-Poems") Greece
Lo Fu (poet) (Luo Fu),Magical Songs, Chinese (Taiwan)
See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Cholmondeley Award: D.J. Enright, Vernon Scannell, Alasdair Maclean
Eric Gregory Award: Duncan Forbes, Roger Garfitt, Robin Hamilton, Frank Ormsby, Penelope Shuttle
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ted Hughes
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Stanley Kunitz appointed this year.
Frost Medal: John Hall Wheelock
National Book Award for Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 and Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell, The Dolphin
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Léonie Adams
French Academy: Grand Prix de la Poésie: Philippe Soupault
September 20 – Owen Sheers, Fijian-born Welsh poet, novelist and journalist
William Allegrezza, American poet
Choman Hardi, Kurdish poet, translator and painter
Scott Ransopher, American poet and Buddhist philosopher
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 20 – Edmund Blunden (born 1896), English poet, author and critic
February 4 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (born 1892), Japanese, Showa period poet
March 19 – Austin Clarke, Irish poet, novelist and playwright
April 18 – Eric Roach (born 1915), Tobagonian poet, suicide
June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan poet, author, writer, journalist and diplomat
July 5 – John Crowe Ransom, 86, American poet, editor and academic critic
July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, 83, Swedish poet, author, playwright, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951
July 24 – Parker Tyler, 70, American film critic and poet
August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, 66, Polish-born English polymath and poet
September 6 – Julian Davis, 72, American
September 15 – Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name (together with Utosei and then Jugatsutei) of Arishima Mibuma (born 1882), Japanese novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle
October 4 – Anne Sexton, 45, American poet, suicide;
October 9 – Padraic Fallon, 69, Irish (see "Works published in English" section, above)
October 16 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (born 1906), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
October 21 – Kaoru Maruyama 丸山 薫 (born 1899) Japanese
October 28 – David Jones, 78, English poet and artist
December 16 – Kostas Varnalis (born 1884), Greek
Also:
Buddhadeb Bosu (born 1908), Bengali
Paula Ludwig (born 1900), German
