Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United States
Stevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Margaret Avison, Sunblue
Earle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: Poems
William Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press.
Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man
Don Domanski, Heaven
Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
George Benson Johnston, Taking a Grip: Poems 1971-78.
Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions.
Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dennis Lee, The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press.
Pat MacKay, The Pat Lowther Poem
Sean O'Huigin, The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking Back
Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980
Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
Al Purdy, Being Alive
Joe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss.
A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected Poems
Peter Trower, Bush Poems
Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
Wilfred Watson, I Begin With Counting
George Woodcock:
The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, Canada
Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann
Ireland
Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in Dublin
Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral" Dublin: Dolmen Press
Tom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole
Peter Ackroyd, Country Life
Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976
Gillian Clarke, The Sundial, Welsh
D. J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated
Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)
James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications
Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan
Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems
Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems
Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England"
Ted Hughes:
Cave Birds
Moon-Bells, and Other Poems, for children
A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948
Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart
Philip Larkin, Femmes Damnees
Liz Lochhead, Islands
George MacBeth, Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977)
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Collected Poems 1920–1976, two volumes (posthumous)
John Montague, The Great Cloak
Andrew Motion, The Pleasure Steamers
Norman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black Combe
Tom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory
Tom Rawling, A Sort of Killing
Carol Rumens, A Necklace of Mirrors
Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree
D. M. Thomas, The Honeymoon Voyage
R. S. Thomas, Frequencies
Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire
Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
Joseph Payne Brennan, As Evening Advances (Crystal Visions Press)
Robert Creeley:
Hello
Later
Ed Dorn:
Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press, ISBN 978-0-914728-24-5
Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press
Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)
Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
W. S. Merwin, Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover
Eugenio Montale, The Storm & Other Poems, translated by Charles Wright into English from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, ISBN 0-932440-01-0
Mary Oliver:
The Night Traveler
Twelve Moons
George Oppen, Primitive (Black Sparrow Press)
Mary Oppen (George Oppen's wife), Meaning a Life, a memoir (Black Sparrow Press)
Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
Peter Seaton, Agreement (New York: Asylum's Press)
Patti Smith, Babel
William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
Mark Strand, The Late Hour, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
Rosmarie Waldrop, The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body (Open Places)
James Wright, To a Blossoming Pear Tree
Louis Zukofsky:
A (University of California Press)
80 Flowers
Jennifer Maiden, Birthstones, Angus & Robertson, Australia
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:
Nazir Qabbani, Syrian:
I Love You, and the Rest is to Come
To Beirut the Feminine, With My Love
May You Be My Love For Another Year
Noureddine Aba, Gazelle au petit matin, Algerian writer
Yves Bonnefoy, Poèmes (1947–1975)
Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
Jean Daive, Le cri-cerveau
Philippe Denis, Revif
Emmanuel Hocquard, Les Dernieres nouvelles de l'expédition sont datées du 15 février 17 [...]
Edmond Jabès, Le Soupçon Le Désert
Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
Robert Marteau, Traité du blanc et des tientures
Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
Claude Royet-Journoud, La Notion d'obstacle
Jean Max Tixier, editor, Poètes de sud, anthology; publisher: Rijois
Alain Veinstein, Vers l'absence de soutien
Marcel Bélanger:
Fragments paniques
Infranoir
Normand de Bellefeuille, La Belle Conduite
Alfred Andersch, ''Empōrt euch der Himmel ist blau
Ingeborg Bachmann, works, in a four-volume edition
Konrad Beyer, Gesamtwerk
Nicolas Born, Gedichte 1967-1978
Erich Fried, Die bunten Getûme
J. Hans, U. Herms, and R. Thenior, Lyrik-Katalog Bundesrepublik, anthology
Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
Johannes Schenk, Zittern
Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
Walter Hinck, Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess (scholarship)
Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)
William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-7988-0520-2 (scholarship)
D. Avidan, a poetry book
P. Sadeh, a poetry book
E. Megged, a poetry book
M. Ben-Shaul, a poetry book
Zelda (poet), a poetry book
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Buddhidhari Singha, Smrti-Sahasri, a kavya, Maithili-language
Debarati Mitra, Jubaker Snan, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata; Bengali-language
Dilip Chitre, Kavitenantarchya Kavita, Vacha Prakashan, Aurangabad; Marathi-language
Jaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in Gujarati
K. Satchidanandan, Indian Sketchukal ("Indian Sketches"); Malayalam-language
K. Siva Reddy, Netra Dhanussu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Aaj Shokaaley, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language
Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Moe-n jo dado poems read on cassette; Gujarati-language
Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Swechcha or Svecha ("Freedom"), Hyderabad: Yuga Prachuranalu; Telugu-language
Mario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversia
Leonardo Sinisgalli, Dimenticatoio
Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie
Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973
Hans Børli, Dag og Drøm: Dikt i utvalg ("Day and Dream") (Norway)
Paal Brekke, Dikt 1949-1722 (Norway)
Halldis Moren Vesaa, Dikt i samling (Norway)
Poland
Stanisław Barańczak, Sztuczne oddychanie ("Artificial Respiration"), London: Aneks
Ryszard Krynicki, Nasze zycie rośnie. Wiersze ("Our Life is Growing: Poems"); Paris: Instytut Literacki
Ewa Lipska, Piaty wybor wierszy ("Fifth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: Czytelnik
Z. Jarosiński and H. Zawarska, editors, Antologia polskiego futuryzmu i Nowej Sztuki, anthology
Adam Zagajewski, List ("A Letter"), Poznañ: Od Nowa
Rui Knopfli, O Escriba Acocorado (Portugal)
Waldimir Diniz, Até o 8° round (Brazilian)
Cassiano Nunes, Madrugada (Brazilian)
Accioly Lopes, his first volume of verse (Brazilian)
Eduardo Haro Ibars, Perdiddas blancas
Féliz de Asúa, Pasar y siete canciones (he also published a novel this year, Les lecciones suspendidas)
Luis Antonio de Villena, Viaje a Bizancio
Pere Gimferrer, a collection of his verse translated from Catalan to Castilian by the author
García Hortelano, editor, anthology of verse by the Generation of the '50s, including Caballero Bonald, Ángel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral
Alfonso Calderón, Poemas para Clavecin ("Poems for Harpsichord"), Chile
Oscar Hahn, Arte de morir
Pablo Neruda, Para nacer he nacido, previously unpublished diary entries, memoirs and other writings (posthumous), put out by his widow, Matilde de Neruda and Miguel Otero Silva (of Venezuela)
Luis Alberto Spinetta, Guitarra Negra (Black Guitar) - first edition of the only book written by the singer Luis Alberto Spinetta of Argentina.
Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter
Shoyme Roitman, a poetry book
Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
Hayyim Plotkin, a poetry book
Odysseus Elytis, Μαρία Νεφέλη ("Maria Nefeli"), Greece
Joseph Brodsky, editor of two expatriate Russian poetry anthologies:
Konets prekrasnoy epokh: Stikhotvoreniya 1964-71
Chast' rechi: Stkikhotvoreniya 1972-76
Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
Skygger, publisher: Swing
Topia eller Che Guevara
Seán Ó Ríordáin, Tar éis mo Bháis ("After my Death"), Ireland
Sjón, Sýnir ("Visions"), Iceland
See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D. M. Thomas, R. S. Thomas
Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
AML Award for "Poetry Honorable Mention" Clinton F. Larson for "The Western World " and Marden J. Clark for "God's Plenty" and Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown for "Grandmother"
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): William Meredith appointed this year.
National Book Award for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Walt Whitman Award: Karen Snow, Wonders
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Miles
Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silence
Cuba: Casa de las Américas prize for poetry: Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
Soviet Union: USSR State Prize: Andrei Voznesensky
June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer
October 24 — Kei Miller, Jamaican-born poet and writer
Also — Jen Hadfield, English
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 20 – Gilbert Highet, 71, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian, of cancer
February 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905, American children's story writer and poet
March 19 – Faith Baldwin, 84, American romantic novelist and poet
March 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
April 14 – F.R. Leavis, 82, English literary critic
April 16 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, 97, English versifier
May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
July 2 – Aris Alexandrou, 56, Greek poet
June 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
Also:
Sankara Kurup (born 1901), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
P. Kunhiraman Nair (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
J. Rodolfo Wilcock (born 1919), Argentine author and poet
