Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 return, and this year many begin publishing in that country.
Radical Australian poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection Rapunzel in Suburbia, triggering a successful libel action by her lawyer ex-husband Lloyd Davies.
Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Earle Birney, The collected poems of Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Don Domanski, The Cape Breton Book of the Dead
Louis Dudek. Selected Poems. Ottawa: Golden Dog, 1975.
Archibald Lampman, * Lampman's Kate: Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis).
Irving Layton, The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945–1968. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Irving Layton, The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969–1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dorothy Livesay, Ice Age. Erin, ON: Porcepic.
James Reaney, Selected Shorter Poems, Erin: Porcepic.
Joe Rosenblatt, Dream Craters. Press Porcepic.
Joe Rosenblatt, Virgins & Vampires. McClelland & Stewart.
Raymond Souster, Double Header: As Is; Lost & Found. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Raymond Souster, Rain Check. Ottawa:Oberon Press.
Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. These Loved, These Hated Lands. Toronto: Doubleday.
George Woodcock, Notes on Visitations: Poems 1936-75, Toronto: Anansi, Canada
Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: Lyric Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
G. S. Sharat Chandra, Offsprings of Servagna, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Rita Dalmiya, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Circus of Love, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Beginnings, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India
Pranab Bandyopadhyay, The Voice of the Indian Poets: An Anthology of Indian Poetry, Calcutta: United Writers
Ireland
Eavan Boland, The War Horse, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
Stations, Ulsterman Publications
North, Faber & Faber
Bog Poems, Rainbow Press
Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press
New Zealand
Alistair Campbell, Dreams, Yellow Lions
Lauris Edmond, In Middle Air
Bill Manhire, Song Cycle, New Zealand
Ian Wedde:
Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos
Pathway to the Sea
Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems
Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems
Eavan Boland, The War Horse Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Edwin Brock, a book of poetry
Allen Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life
Charles Causley, Collected Poems 1951–1975 (see also Collected Poems 1997)
Maureen Duffy, Evesong
Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
John Fuller, a book of poetry
Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop
Roger Garfitt, West of Elm
Robert Graves, a book of poetry
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
Stations, Ulsterman Publications
North, Faber & Faber
Bog Poems, Rainbow Press
John Heath-Stubbs, a Parliament of Birds
Adrian Henri, The Best of Henri: Selected Poems 1960–70, London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0-224-01148-8
Geoffrey Hill, Somewhere is Such a Kingdom
Michael Ivens, Born Early
Clive James, The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: a moral poem, Australian poet resident in the United Kingdom
Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, Beat and' Blood
George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come
Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Christopher Middleton, a book of poetry
Adrian Mitchell, The Apeman Cometh
Norman Nicholson, Cloud on Black Combe
Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
Ruth Pitter, End of Drought
Peter Porter, Living in a Calm Country
J. H. Prynne, High Pink on Chrome
James Reeves, Collected Poems
Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems
Alan Ross, Open Sea
Vernon Scannell, a book of poetry
Peter Scupham, Prehistories
Henry Shore, Selected Poems
Iain Sinclair, Lud Heat
Stevie Smith, Collected Poems
R.S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit, Welsh
John Wain, a book of poetry
Hugo Williams, Some Sweet Day
John Barrell and John Bull (eds), The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse
J. M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse
Peter Redgrove (ed.), Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon
Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, ISBN 978-0-436-47820-8, published in April (also published in the United States, in May)
Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series
Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
Edward Lucie-Smith, The Burnt Child, autobiography
Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography
Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet
Kathleen Raine, The Land Unknown, autobiography
A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems
Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well
John Ashbery:
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Vermont Notebook
Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving
Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings
Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh
Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems
Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press
Ed Dorn, Collected Poems: 1956–1974, Four Seasons Foundation
Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox"
Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece
Michael S. Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility
John Hollander, Tales Told of the Fathers
Erica Jong, Loveroot
Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love
W. S. Merwin, The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)
Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts
George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions)
Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous)
Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night
Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust
Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974
Charles Wright, Bloodlines
Duane Niatum (ed.), Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthology ISBN 0-06-451151-0
Kenneth Rosen (ed.), Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press
Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published in May (published in April in the United Kingdom), ISBN 978-0-8090-7747-2
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
John Hollander, Vision and Resonance, criticism
Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey
Dorothy Hewett, Rapunzel in Suburbia, Australia
Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar, Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in Pakistan
Jennifer Maiden, Australia:
The Problem of Evil, Prism
The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle
Geoff Page, Smalltown Memorials, Australia (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press)
Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, ISBN 978-0-436-47820-8 (also published in the United States this year)
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:
Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria
Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems? (Palestine)
Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems? (Iraq)
Amal Dankal, a book of poems? (Egypt)
Thorkild Bjørnvig:
Delfinen
Stoffets krystalhav
Henrik Nordbrandt, Ode til blæksprutten og andre kærlighedsdigte ("Ode to Cephalopods and Other Love Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 55 pages
Anne-Marie Albiach:
Césure: le corps
Le Double
Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille
Yves Bonnefoy, Dans le leurre du seuil ("The Lure of the Threshold"), long poem with an epic tone and allusions to classical literature
Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soleil et la croix
Philippe Denis, Les Cendres de la voix
Robert Desnos, Destinée arbitraire, published posthumously (died 1945)
Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit
Jacques Dupin, Debors
Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine
Pierre Loubière, Poèmes à la craie
Saint-John Perse, Chant pour un équinoxe , Paris: Gallimard
Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris
Criticism and scholarship
Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française
volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century
volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Herbert Asmodi, Jokers Gala
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwärts 1 und 2 (posthumous)
Frank Geerk, Notwehr
Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grünen Eck
Kaspar H. Spinner, Zur Struktur des lyrischen Ich Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (scholarship)
Kostas Varnalis, Orgi laou
Nikiforos Vrettakos, Diamartiria
Kostas Stergiopoulos, Eklipsi
Yiorgos Yeralis, Elliniki nikhta
Yannis Ritsos:
Kodonostasio
O tikhos mesa ston kathrefti
Hartina
Petrinos khronos (written in the Makronisos concentration camp in 1949)
Imnos kai thrinos yia tin Kipro, about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
Meletes, a book of essays
M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman
Haim Gouri, Ad Kav Ha-Nesher ("The Eagle Line"), by an Israeli writing in Hebrew
Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously
I. Pinkas, Al Kav Hamashveh
Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously
D. Rokeah, Ir Shezemana Kayitz
Y. Tan-Pai, Olam Kazeh Olam Kaba
A. Trainin, Ha-Shaar Hasotum
Nathan Yonathan, Shirim
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Amarjit Chandan, Kauan Nahin Chahega, Rangshala, Chandigarh; Punjabi-language
K. Siva Reddy, Charya, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language
Namdeo Dhasal, Moorkha Mhatarayane Dongar Halavile; Marathi-language
Nilmani Phookan, Kaint Golap Aru Kaint, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua, Assamese-language
Rajendra Kishore Panda, Gouna Devata, Patanagarh, Orissa: Varnamala, Oraya-language
Suresh Joshi, Pratyancha, Indian, Gujarati-language
Pier Paolo Pasolini, La nuova gioventú
Giovanni Raboni, Cadenza d'inganno
Marco Forti (ed.), Almanacco dello Specchio for 1975, an anthology (from Arnoldo Mondadori's publishing house) that included poems by Eugenio Montale, Mario Luzi, Albino Pierro, Vasco Pratolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Testori, Giovanni Guiducci, Rossana Ombres
A. Ramos Rosa, Animal Olhar
Fiama Brandão, Novas Visões do Passado
A.-F. Alexandre, Sem Palavras nem Coisas
N. Dorizo, The Sword of Victory. Verses, Poems and Songs
Yu. Drunina, The Star of the Trenches. New Poems
K. Vanshenkin, Campfire Reminiscences. Wartime Lyrics
Ya. Smelyakov, Verses of Many Years
B. Kunyayev, Devotion. Poems
I. Molchanov, Half a Century. Verses
G. Korshak, The Stellar Hour
I. Ulyanova, Birch Tree Rain
A. Roshka, Steel and Flint (translated into Russian from Moldavian)
S. Eraliyev, Herald's Word (translated into Russian from Kirgiz)
Winds of Different Colors
Vicente Gaos, Diez siglos de poesía
Luis Cernuda, Antología poetica, introduction and selection by Philip Silver
Juan Gonzalo Rose, Obra poética (Peru)
Javier Sologuren, translator from Swiss, Italian and French, Las uvas del racimo (Peru)
Raúl Gonzáles Tuñón, Antología poética (Argentina), posthumous
Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklórico, anthology of popular poetry
Juan Gelman, Obra poética (Argentina)
Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Tierra que habla (Nicaragua)
Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuaderno paralelo (Cuba)
Jorge Enrique Adoum, Informe personal sobre la situación (Ecuador)
Olga Orozco, Museo salvage (Argentina)
Hernán Levín, El que a hierro mata (Chile)
Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, text of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard for 1971–72
José Coronel Urteche, Rápido tránsito, critical essays
Kjell Espmark, Det obevekliga paradiset, the last volume of a trilogy
Claes Andersson, Rums kamrater
Ylva Eggehorn, Han Kommer
Hirsh Osherovitch, The World of Sacrifices
Arie Shamri, Rings in Stem
Hillel Shargel, A Tree in the Window
M. Shklar, In Imagination Sealed
Moshe Nadir, A Day in a Garden
Alef Katz, Morning Star
Yakov Friedman, Poems and Songs, three volumes (posthumous)
Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975; Poland
Ndoc Gjetja, Shqiponja rreh krahët ("Beats Eagle Wings"), Albania
Miroslav Holub, a book of poetry? Czechoslovakia: Czech
Julian Przybos, Poems and Notes (posthumous), Poland
Jan Skacel, a book of poetry? Czechoslovakia: Czech
Nichita Stănescu, selected poems Romania
Ion Alexandru, selected poems Romania
Awards and honors
Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator
See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards
Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond
Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson
Bollingen Prize: Archie Randolph Ammons
National Book Award for Poetry: Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
Walt Whitman Award: Reg Saner, Climbing into the Roots
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Hayden
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Cid Corman, O/I (Judge: Hayden Carruth)
Prix Appolinaire: Charles Le Quintrec, jeunesse de Dieu
Grand Prix de poésie of the French Academy: Gabriel Audisio, Racine de tout
Casa de las Américas prizes:
Omar Lara (Chile), ¡Oh buenas maneras!
Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama), Dar la cara
A Soviet state prizes for poetry:
K. Kuliyev, The Book of the Earth
L. Martynov, Hyperboles
August 20 – Matthew and Michael Dickman, American poets
December 21 – Srijato (Srijato Bandopadhyay), Bengali poet
Tony Tost, American poet
Razvan Tupa, Romanian poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
February 10 – Nikos Kavadias, Greek
February 14 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
March 2 – Helen Cruickshank (born 1886), Scottish poet, suffragette and nationalist
March 3 – Sir T. H. Parry-Williams (born 1887), Welsh poet, translator and academic
April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (born 1940) German poet
May 10 – Roque Dalton, 39 (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist who wrote on death, love, and politics; executed
July 10 – Sir Francis Meynell, 84, English
September 4 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (born 1897) Japanese
September 20 – Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960
October 27 – Vayalar Rama Varma (born 1928), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriter
November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet
November 23 – Francis Webb, 52, Australian poet
Also:
Andreas Empeirikos (born 1901), Greek
Janko Glazer (born 1893)
Vojko Gorjan (born 1949)
