Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1
Listed 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 Poems
John Tranter, The Alphabet Murders (notes from a work in progress), Angus & Robertson
Chris 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 Measures
Roland Giguere, Miron translated from French
Archibald Lampman, Lampman’s Sonnets: The Complete Sonnets of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). ISBN 978-0-919594-50-0
Irving 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 Dusk
James 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.
Anthologies
New 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 Press
Poster Prayers,
Gieve Patel, How Do You Withstand, Body, Bombay, Clearing House, Indian, Indian poetry in English-language
Keki Daruwalla, Crossing of Rivers, an experimental work published by the author's own publishing house; Bombay: Ezra-Fakir Press
Adil Jussawalla, Missing Person,
Jayanta Mahapatra:
A Father's Hours, Calcutta: United Writers
A Rain of Rites, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Nine Enclosures,
Meena Alexander, The Bird's Bright Ring, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Nine Enclosures (poetry in English), Mumbai: Clearing House
Gauri Deshpande, An Anthology of Indo English Poetry, Delhi: Hind Pocket Books
Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five vols, published from 1971 to this year; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency
Rohini K. Gupta, Karna and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop
Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Thought Poems, Aligarh: Skylark Pub.
Deb Kumar Das, Winterbird Walks, Calcutta: Writers Workshop
Jagannath Prasad Das, First Person, Delhi: Arnold Heinemann
Mukand R. Dave, Some Sheets of Paper, Aligarh: Skylark Pub.
R. Parthasarathy (ed.), Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, Delhi: Oxford University Press
Ireland
Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University Press
John Ennis (poet), Night on Hibernia Oldcastle: The New Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-46-5
Michael Longley, Man Lying on a Wall - Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
George McWhirter, Queen of the Sea, Northern Ireland poet published in Canada
New Zealand
James K. Baxter, posthumous
The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945–72, edited by J. E. Weir
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, edited by J. E. Weir
Alan Brunton, Black & White Anthology, a 33-part sequence with an Asian setting, Hawk Press
Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter, biography, New Zealand
Kenneth Allott, Collected Poems
W. H. Auden, Collected Poems of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson
Pam Ayres, Some of Me Poetry and Some More of Me Poetry
Frances Bellerby, The First Known (posthumous)
Zoë Brooks, Owl Shadows and Whispering Stone "parallel booklets"
George Mackay Brown, Winterfold
Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University Press
Elizabeth Daryush, Collected Poems
David Day, Brass Rubbings
Patric Dickinson, The Bearing Beast
Gavin Ewart, No Fool Like an Old Fool
Ruth Fainlight, Another Full Moon
Tony Flynn, Separations
Alistair Fowler, Catagomb Suburb
Thom Gunn, Jack Straw's Castle, and Other Poems
Adrian Henri, One Year, Todmorden, Lancashire: Arc Publications, ISBN 978-0-902771-47-5
Ted Hughes, Season Songs
Clive 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 Kingdom
Glyn Jones, Selected Poems
Peter Levi, Collected Poems
Michael Longley, Man Lying on a Wall Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Hugh MacDairmid, Collected Poems
Hugh Maxton, The Noise of the Fields
Humphrey John Moore, Collected Poems
Eleanor Murray, Black and Sepia
Luke Parsons, Last Poems
Brian Patten, Vanishing Trick
Rodney Pybus, Bridging Loans
Peter Reading, The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery
Jon Silkin, The Little Time-Keeper
Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
David Wright, A View of the North
Edmund 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 Stone
Elaine Feinstein, editor and translator, Three Russian Poets: Margarite Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina, Manchester, Carcanet Press
F. E. S. Finn, Here and Human
Antonia Fraser, Scottish Love Poems
Dannie Abse, Poetry Dimension Annual 4
Howard Sergeant, New Poems 1976/1977, P.E.N. anthology
Diane Ackerman, The Planets
Paul Auster, translator, The Uninhabited, poetry translated from the original French of André du Bouchet
Ted Berrigan, Red Wagon
Elizabeth Bishop, One Act
Peter Blue Cloud, Turtle, Bear, and Wolf
Raymond Carver, At Night The Salmon Move
Maxine Chernoff, Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation)
Robert Creeley, Selected Poems
James Dickey, The Zodiac
Ed Dorn, translator, Selected Poems of Cesar Vallejo, Penguin
Charles Doyle, James K. Baxter, Boston: Twayne (Twayne's World Authors Series); study of the New Zealand poet
Irving Feldman, Leaping Clear
Marya Fiamengo, In Praise of Older Women
John Hollander, Reflections on Espionage
Robert Lowell, Selected Poems
James Merrill: Divine Comedies, including "Lost in Translation" and "The Book of Ephraim", a long narrative poem
N. Scott Momaday, The Gourd Dancer
Lorine Niedecker, Blue Chicory (published posthumously)
Simon Ortiz, Going for the Rain
Kenneth Rexroth, 100 More Poems from the Japanese
Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1936
Muriel Rukeyser, The Gates
Anne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street (posthumous)
James Tate, Viper Jazz
Criticism, 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 1973
Cleanth 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:
Jothárram
Mit hjerte i København
Regnansigt
Klaus Høeck, Pentagram, publisher: Gyldendal
Jørgen Nash, Her er jeg
Henrik Nordbrandt, Glas ("Glass") Copenhagen: Gylendal, 53 pp.
Klaus Rifbjerg, Stranden
Jørgen Sonne, Huset ("The House")
Finland
Paavo Haavikko, Viiniä, kirjoitusta
Hannu Mäkelä, Synkkyys pohjaton, ninn myös iloni, onneni
Jarkko Laine, Viidenpennin Hamlet
Matti Rossi, Laulu tummana tulevi
Matti 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, Objet
Roland Bacri, Roland Bacri (the name of the author and book are the same)
Hervé Bazin, Traits
Jean Berthet, L'éternel instant
Philippe Chabaneix, Dix nouvelles romances
René Char, Aromates chasseurs ("Hunter's Aromatic Herbs")
Jean Daive, Le jeu des séries scéniques
Christian Dedeyan, Chant du Houlme
Roger Giroux, Théatre, published posthumously (died 1973)
Robert Houdelot, Les Treize
Edmond Jabès, Le Livre des Ressemblances
Jacques Marlet, Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver
Robert Marteau, Atlante
Jacques Prévert, Grand Bal du printemps
Raymond Queneau, Morale élémentaire
J. P. Seguin, LAnnée poétique 1975
Criticism, scholarship and biography
John Edwin Jackson, a study of Yves Bonnefoy
Georges Cartier, Chanteaux
Paul Chanel Malenfant, Poèmes de la mères pays
Marie Uguay, Signe et rumeur
A Quebec collective of women, La Nef des sorcières
Horst Bienek, Gleiwitzer Kindheit
H. M. Enzensberger, Mausoleum: 37 Ballads From the History of Progress
Michael Kruger, Reginapoly
Ernst Meister, Im Zeitspalt
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into German from the original Russian by Nikolaus Ehlert; first written in 1951; first published in 1974
Jurgen Theobaldy and Gustav Zürcher, Veränderung der Lyrik: Über westdeutsche Gedichte seit 1965
Erich Arendt, Memento und Bild
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Amritdhari Singha, Avatar rahasya, India, Maithili-language
Heeraben Pathak, Paraloke Patra, a poem addressing her deceased husband, poet Ramnarayan Pathak; Indian poet writing in Gujarati-language
Joy Goswami Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchcho ("Sonnets of Christmas and Winter"), the author's first book of poetry; Bangladeshi-language
K. Siva Reddy, Aasupatrigeetam, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language
Namdeo Dhasal, Priyadarshini; Marathi-language
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Kobitar Bodoley Kobita, Kolkata: Bishhobani Prokashoni; Bengali-language
Rajendra Kishore Panda, Anavatar O Anya Anya, Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, Oraya-language
Dario Bellezza, Morta segreta
Alberto Bevilacqua, La crudeltà
Amelia Rosselli, Documento 1966-73
Angelo M. Ripellino, La splendido violino verde
Maria Luisa Spaziani, Ultrasuoni
Göran Sonnevi, Det omöjliga
Sten Hagliden, Kvällsordat
Barbro Lindgren, Rapporter från marken
Poland
M. Jastrum (ed.), Poezja Mtodej Polski, anthology
A. Lam (ed.), Kolumbowie i wspótcześni, second edition, anthology
Z. Liberia (ed.), Poezja polska XVIII wieku ("Polish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century"), second edition, anthology
Wisława Szymborska: Wielka liczba ("A Large Number")
Ruy de Moura Belo, Toda a terra ("All of the Land")
Carlos de Oliveira, Trabalho Poético
Egito Gonçalves, Luz Vegital
Eugénio de Andrade, Limar dos Pássaros
António Ramos Rosa, Ciclo do Cavalo
Pedro Tamen, Agora, Estar
Marcus Accioly, Sisifo, a long poem containing multiple forms of poetry, including the classical sonnet, concrete and popular Brazilian forms
Yolanda Jordão, Biografia do Edificio e Anexos
Adélia Prado, Bagagem
Matilde Camus, Siempre amor ("Forever Love")
Antonio Colinas, Sepulcro en Taruinia
Justo Jorge Padrón, Los círculos del infierno
Claudio Rodriguez, El vuelo de la celebración
José Emilio Pacheco, Islas à la deriva (Mexico)
Guadalupe Amor, El zoológico de Pita Amor
Jomi García Ascot, Un modo de decir
A workshop in "synthetic poetry" came out with Doce modos
Gerrit Kouwenaar, Verzamelde Gedichten (Netherlands)
Alexander Mezhirov, Под старым небом ("Under the Old Sky"), Russia, Soviet Union
See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Cholmondeley Award: Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock
Eric Gregory Award: Stewart Brown, Valerie Gillies, Paul Groves, Paul Hyland, Nigel Jenkins, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, William Peskett
Consultant 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. Sullivan
National Book Award for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Walt Whitman Award: Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. V. Cunningham
Lenore 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 Review
Yolanda Wisher, African American poet and spoken word artist
Birth 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 Renaissance
January 18 – Chester Kallman, 53
January 22 – Charles Reznikoff, 81, American Objectivist poet
March 10 – Louis Sissman, 48, of Hodgkin's disease
March 12 – Lloyd Frankenberg, 67
March 22 – Stanley Young, 69
April 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 philosopher
April 28 – Richard A. W. Hughes, British poet, author and playwright
May 10 – Roque Dalton, executed
May 11 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (born 1884), Japanese, haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods
August 19 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, 62, Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, a lyricist for Bollywood and father of psychiatrist and poet Salman Akhtar
August 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 Bangladesh
September 24(?) – Pat Lowther, Canadian poet murdered by her husband, Roy Lowther
October 15 – James McAuley, Australian poet, academic, journalist, literary critic
October 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 dissident
Also:
Anne Elder
