Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
R. Berndt (ed.), Love Songs of Arnhem Land (anthology)John Forbes, Tropical Skiing (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson.Les Murray, The Vernacular Republic Selected PoemsJohn Tranter, The Alphabet Murders (notes from a work in progress), Angus & RobertsonChris Wallace-Crabbe, The Foundations of Joy (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson.Earle Birney:Alphabeings and Other Seasyours. London, Ont.: Pikadilly Press.The Rugging and the Moving Times: poems new and uncollected 1976. Coatsworth, ON: Black Moss Press.Gary Geddes, War & Other MeasuresRoland Giguere, Miron translated from FrenchArchibald Lampman, Lampman’s Sonnets: The Complete Sonnets of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). ISBN 978-0-919594-50-0Irving Layton, For My Brother Jesus. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Irving Layton, The Uncollected Poems of Irving Layton: 1936-59. Ed. W. David John. Ottawa, ON: Mosaic Press.Dennis Lee. The Death of Harold Ladoo. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press.Al Purdy, Sundance at DuskJames Reaney, Selected Longer Poems.Joe Rosenblatt, Top Soil, Selected Poems (1962-1975). Press Porcepic.Charles Sangster, Norland echoes and other strains and lyrics, ed. Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)Raymond Souster, To Hell with Poetry. Burton, Ohio.AnthologiesNew Provinces reprinted—first anthology of modernist poetry in Canada (originally published 1936), including work by F. R. Scott, E. J. Pratt, Robert Finch, A. J. M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein.Arun Kolatkar, Jejuri, Bombay: Clearing House, India.Nissim Ezekiel:Hymns in Darkness, Delhi, Oxford University PressPoster Prayers,Gieve Patel, How Do You Withstand, Body, Bombay, Clearing House, Indian, Indian poetry in English-languageKeki Daruwalla, Crossing of Rivers, an experimental work published by the author's own publishing house; Bombay: Ezra-Fakir PressAdil Jussawalla, Missing Person,Jayanta Mahapatra:A Father's Hours, Calcutta: United WritersA Rain of Rites, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia PressArvind Krishna Mehrotra, Nine Enclosures,Meena Alexander, The Bird's Bright Ring, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Arundhathi Subramaniam, Nine Enclosures (poetry in English), Mumbai: Clearing HouseGauri Deshpande, An Anthology of Indo English Poetry, Delhi: Hind Pocket BooksNolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five vols, published from 1971 to this year; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution AgencyRohini K. Gupta, Karna and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers WorkshopOm Prakash Bhatnagar, Thought Poems, Aligarh: Skylark Pub.Deb Kumar Das, Winterbird Walks, Calcutta: Writers WorkshopJagannath Prasad Das, First Person, Delhi: Arnold HeinemannMukand R. Dave, Some Sheets of Paper, Aligarh: Skylark Pub.R. Parthasarathy (ed.), Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, Delhi: Oxford University PressIreland
Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University PressJohn Ennis (poet), Night on Hibernia Oldcastle: The New Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-46-5Michael Longley, Man Lying on a Wall - Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomGeorge McWhirter, Queen of the Sea, Northern Ireland poet published in CanadaNew Zealand
James K. Baxter, posthumousThe Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945–72, edited by J. E. WeirThe Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, edited by J. E. WeirAlan Brunton, Black & White Anthology, a 33-part sequence with an Asian setting, Hawk PressVincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter, biography, New ZealandKenneth Allott, Collected PoemsW. H. Auden, Collected Poems of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward MendelsonPam Ayres, Some of Me Poetry and Some More of Me PoetryFrances Bellerby, The First Known (posthumous)Zoë Brooks, Owl Shadows and Whispering Stone "parallel booklets"George Mackay Brown, WinterfoldCiarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University PressElizabeth Daryush, Collected PoemsDavid Day, Brass RubbingsPatric Dickinson, The Bearing BeastGavin Ewart, No Fool Like an Old FoolRuth Fainlight, Another Full MoonTony Flynn, SeparationsAlistair Fowler, Catagomb SuburbThom Gunn, Jack Straw's Castle, and Other PoemsAdrian Henri, One Year, Todmorden, Lancashire: Arc Publications, ISBN 978-0-902771-47-5Ted Hughes, Season SongsClive James, Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World and Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster, Australian poet resident in the United KingdomGlyn Jones, Selected PoemsPeter Levi, Collected PoemsMichael Longley, Man Lying on a Wall Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomHugh MacDairmid, Collected PoemsHugh Maxton, The Noise of the FieldsHumphrey John Moore, Collected PoemsEleanor Murray, Black and SepiaLuke Parsons, Last PoemsBrian Patten, Vanishing TrickRodney Pybus, Bridging LoansPeter Reading, The Prison Cell and Barrel MysteryJon Silkin, The Little Time-KeeperDerek Walcott, Sea GrapesDavid Wright, A View of the NorthEdmund Leo Wright, The Horwich Hennets (the poet invented the "hennet", a 12-line hendecasyllabic verse with the rhymes "abacbcde deff")Paul Yates, Sky Made of StoneElaine Feinstein, editor and translator, Three Russian Poets: Margarite Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina, Manchester, Carcanet PressF. E. S. Finn, Here and HumanAntonia Fraser, Scottish Love PoemsDannie Abse, Poetry Dimension Annual 4Howard Sergeant, New Poems 1976/1977, P.E.N. anthologyDiane Ackerman, The PlanetsPaul Auster, translator, The Uninhabited, poetry translated from the original French of André du BouchetTed Berrigan, Red WagonElizabeth Bishop, One ActPeter Blue Cloud, Turtle, Bear, and WolfRaymond Carver, At Night The Salmon MoveMaxine Chernoff, Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation)Robert Creeley, Selected PoemsJames Dickey, The ZodiacEd Dorn, translator, Selected Poems of Cesar Vallejo, PenguinCharles Doyle, James K. Baxter, Boston: Twayne (Twayne's World Authors Series); study of the New Zealand poetIrving Feldman, Leaping ClearMarya Fiamengo, In Praise of Older WomenJohn Hollander, Reflections on EspionageRobert Lowell, Selected PoemsJames Merrill: Divine Comedies, including "Lost in Translation" and "The Book of Ephraim", a long narrative poemN. Scott Momaday, The Gourd DancerLorine Niedecker, Blue Chicory (published posthumously)Simon Ortiz, Going for the RainKenneth Rexroth, 100 More Poems from the JapaneseCharles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1936Muriel Rukeyser, The GatesAnne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street (posthumous)James Tate, Viper JazzCriticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Harold Bloom, Poetry and Repression, the final volume of a tetralogy that began with The Anxiety of Influence in 1973Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry (college textbook), originally published in 1938, goes into its fourth edition (after revised editions in 1950 and 1960); this would be the final edition before the deaths of the authors.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:
Jørgen Gustava Brandt:JothárramMit hjerte i KøbenhavnRegnansigtKlaus Høeck, Pentagram, publisher: GyldendalJørgen Nash, Her er jegHenrik Nordbrandt, Glas ("Glass") Copenhagen: Gylendal, 53 pp.Klaus Rifbjerg, StrandenJørgen Sonne, Huset ("The House")Finland
Paavo Haavikko, Viiniä, kirjoitustaHannu Mäkelä, Synkkyys pohjaton, ninn myös iloni, onneniJarkko Laine, Viidenpennin HamletMatti Rossi, Laulu tummana tuleviMatti Kuusi, Kansanruno Kalevala, a reconstruction of the folk poems that formed the basis of the Finnish national epic, Kaalevala, compiled in 1849 by Elias Lönnrot.Anne-Marie Albiach, ObjetRoland Bacri, Roland Bacri (the name of the author and book are the same)Hervé Bazin, TraitsJean Berthet, L'éternel instantPhilippe Chabaneix, Dix nouvelles romancesRené Char, Aromates chasseurs ("Hunter's Aromatic Herbs")Jean Daive, Le jeu des séries scéniquesChristian Dedeyan, Chant du HoulmeRoger Giroux, Théatre, published posthumously (died 1973)Robert Houdelot, Les TreizeEdmond Jabès, Le Livre des RessemblancesJacques Marlet, Toi qui pâlis au nom de VancouverRobert Marteau, AtlanteJacques Prévert, Grand Bal du printempsRaymond Queneau, Morale élémentaireJ. P. Seguin, LAnnée poétique 1975Criticism, scholarship and biography
John Edwin Jackson, a study of Yves BonnefoyGeorges Cartier, ChanteauxPaul Chanel Malenfant, Poèmes de la mères paysMarie Uguay, Signe et rumeurA Quebec collective of women, La Nef des sorcièresHorst Bienek, Gleiwitzer KindheitH. M. Enzensberger, Mausoleum: 37 Ballads From the History of ProgressMichael Kruger, ReginapolyErnst Meister, Im ZeitspaltAleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into German from the original Russian by Nikolaus Ehlert; first written in 1951; first published in 1974Jurgen Theobaldy and Gustav Zürcher, Veränderung der Lyrik: Über westdeutsche Gedichte seit 1965Erich Arendt, Memento und BildListed in alphabetical order by first name:
Amritdhari Singha, Avatar rahasya, India, Maithili-languageHeeraben Pathak, Paraloke Patra, a poem addressing her deceased husband, poet Ramnarayan Pathak; Indian poet writing in Gujarati-languageJoy Goswami Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchcho ("Sonnets of Christmas and Winter"), the author's first book of poetry; Bangladeshi-languageK. Siva Reddy, Aasupatrigeetam, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-languageNamdeo Dhasal, Priyadarshini; Marathi-languageNirendranath Chakravarti, Kobitar Bodoley Kobita, Kolkata: Bishhobani Prokashoni; Bengali-languageRajendra Kishore Panda, Anavatar O Anya Anya, Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-languageDario Bellezza, Morta segretaAlberto Bevilacqua, La crudeltàAmelia Rosselli, Documento 1966-73Angelo M. Ripellino, La splendido violino verdeMaria Luisa Spaziani, UltrasuoniGöran Sonnevi, Det omöjligaSten Hagliden, KvällsordatBarbro Lindgren, Rapporter från markenPoland
M. Jastrum (ed.), Poezja Mtodej Polski, anthologyA. Lam (ed.), Kolumbowie i wspótcześni, second edition, anthologyZ. Liberia (ed.), Poezja polska XVIII wieku ("Polish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century"), second edition, anthologyWisława Szymborska: Wielka liczba ("A Large Number")Ruy de Moura Belo, Toda a terra ("All of the Land")Carlos de Oliveira, Trabalho PoéticoEgito Gonçalves, Luz VegitalEugénio de Andrade, Limar dos PássarosAntónio Ramos Rosa, Ciclo do CavaloPedro Tamen, Agora, EstarMarcus Accioly, Sisifo, a long poem containing multiple forms of poetry, including the classical sonnet, concrete and popular Brazilian formsYolanda Jordão, Biografia do Edificio e AnexosAdélia Prado, BagagemMatilde Camus, Siempre amor ("Forever Love")Antonio Colinas, Sepulcro en TaruiniaJusto Jorge Padrón, Los círculos del infiernoClaudio Rodriguez, El vuelo de la celebraciónJosé Emilio Pacheco, Islas à la deriva (Mexico)Guadalupe Amor, El zoológico de Pita AmorJomi García Ascot, Un modo de decirA workshop in "synthetic poetry" came out with Doce modosGerrit Kouwenaar, Verzamelde Gedichten (Netherlands)Alexander Mezhirov, Под старым небом ("Under the Old Sky"), Russia, Soviet UnionSee 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.Cholmondeley Award: Peter Porter, Fleur AdcockEric Gregory Award: Stewart Brown, Valerie Gillies, Paul Groves, Paul Hyland, Nigel Jenkins, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, William PeskettConsultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): Robert Hayden appointed this year.Frost Medal: A.M. SullivanNational Book Award for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-portrait in a Convex MirrorPulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorWalt Whitman Award: Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the UniverseFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. V. CunninghamLenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Denise Levertov, The Freeing of the Dust (Judge: Hayden Carruth)Meghan O'Rourke, American writer, editor and poet; writer for Slate; a poetry editor for The Paris ReviewYolanda Wisher, African American poet and spoken word artistBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith (born 1975), New Zealand–Scots poet, artist, dramatist and novelist who wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans; a major figure of the Scottish RenaissanceJanuary 18 – Chester Kallman, 53January 22 – Charles Reznikoff, 81, American Objectivist poetMarch 10 – Louis Sissman, 48, of Hodgkin's diseaseMarch 12 – Lloyd Frankenberg, 67March 22 – Stanley Young, 69April 9 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (born 1885), Japanese, late Taishō period and Showa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopherApril 28 – Richard A. W. Hughes, British poet, author and playwrightMay 10 – Roque Dalton, executedMay 11 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (born 1884), Japanese, haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periodsAugust 19 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, 62, Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, a lyricist for Bollywood and father of psychiatrist and poet Salman AkhtarAugust 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam (also spelled "Kazi Nozrul Islam"), 77 (born 1899), Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher best known as the Bidrohi Kobi ("Rebel Poet"), popular among Bengalis and considered the national poet of BangladeshSeptember 24(?) – Pat Lowther, Canadian poet murdered by her husband, Roy LowtherOctober 15 – James McAuley, Australian poet, academic, journalist, literary criticOctober 18 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana (born 1895), Indian poet writing in Tegulu; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat ("Emperor of Poetry")December 8 – Henryk Jasiczek (born 1919), Polish journalist, poet, writer and dissidentAlso:Anne Elder 
