Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, EnglandL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United StatesStevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is releasedListed 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, SunblueEarle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: PoemsWilliam Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press.Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's ManDon Domanski, HeavenPhyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected PoemsGeorge 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 PoemSean O'Huigin, The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking BackMichael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980Craig Powell, Rehearsal for DancersAl Purdy, Being AliveJoe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss.A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected PoemsPeter Trower, Bush PoemsSean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate NarrowsMiriam Waddington, Mister NeverWilfred Watson, I Begin With CountingGeorge Woodcock:The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, CanadaThomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticismK. 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-HeinemannIreland
Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in DublinThomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral" Dublin: Dolmen PressTom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomNew Zealand
Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red MolePeter Ackroyd, Country LifeAl Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976Gillian Clarke, The Sundial, WelshD. J. Enright, Paradise IllustratedGavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR PublicationsRoy Fisher, The Thing About Joe SullivanGeoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other PoemsTony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other PoemsSeamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomJohn Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's FluteGeoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England"Ted Hughes:Cave BirdsMoon-Bells, and Other Poems, for childrenA. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948Jenny Joseph, The Thinking HeartPhilip Larkin, Femmes DamneesLiz Lochhead, IslandsGeorge 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 CloakAndrew Motion, The Pleasure SteamersNorman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black CombeTom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United KingdomCraig Raine, The Onion, MemoryTom Rawling, A Sort of KillingCarol Rumens, A Necklace of MirrorsJon Stallworthy, A Familiar TreeD. M. Thomas, The Honeymoon VoyageR. S. Thomas, FrequenciesJeffrey Wainwright, Heart's DesireMaya Angelou, And Still I RisePaul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour PoetryJoseph Payne Brennan, As Evening Advances (Crystal Visions Press)Robert Creeley:HelloLaterEd Dorn:Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press, ISBN 978-0-914728-24-5Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox PressCynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy DayJohn Hollander, Spectral EmanationsJames McMichael, The Lover’s FamiliarJames Merrill, Mirabell: Books of NumberW. S. Merwin, Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: WindhoverEugenio Montale, The Storm & Other Poems, translated by Charles Wright into English from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, ISBN 0-932440-01-0Mary Oliver:The Night TravelerTwelve MoonsGeorge 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 LanguagePeter Seaton, Agreement (New York: Asylum's Press)Patti Smith, BabelWilliam Stafford, Stories That Could Be TrueMark Strand, The Late Hour, Canadian native living in and published in the United StatesRosmarie Waldrop, The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body (Open Places)James Wright, To a Blossoming Pear TreeLouis Zukofsky:A (University of California Press)80 FlowersJennifer Maiden, Birthstones, Angus & Robertson, AustraliaListed 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 ComeTo Beirut the Feminine, With My LoveMay You Be My Love For Another YearNoureddine Aba, Gazelle au petit matin, Algerian writerYves Bonnefoy, Poèmes (1947–1975)Jean-Pierre Faye, VerresJean Daive, Le cri-cerveauPhilippe Denis, RevifEmmanuel Hocquard, Les Dernieres nouvelles de l'expédition sont datées du 15 février 17 [...]Edmond Jabès, Le Soupçon Le DésertJoyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machinisteRobert Marteau, Traité du blanc et des tienturesYves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vinClaude Royet-Journoud, La Notion d'obstacleJean Max Tixier, editor, Poètes de sud, anthology; publisher: RijoisAlain Veinstein, Vers l'absence de soutienMarcel Bélanger:Fragments paniquesInfranoirNormand de Bellefeuille, La Belle ConduiteAlfred Andersch, ''Empōrt euch der Himmel ist blauIngeborg Bachmann, works, in a four-volume editionKonrad Beyer, GesamtwerkNicolas Born, Gedichte 1967-1978Erich Fried, Die bunten GetûmeJ. Hans, U. Herms, and R. Thenior, Lyrik-Katalog Bundesrepublik, anthologyThomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934Johannes Schenk, ZitternKurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935Criticism, 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 bookP. Sadeh, a poetry bookE. Megged, a poetry bookM. Ben-Shaul, a poetry bookZelda (poet), a poetry bookListed in alphabetical order by first name:
Buddhidhari Singha, Smrti-Sahasri, a kavya, Maithili-languageDebarati Mitra, Jubaker Snan, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata; Bengali-languageDilip Chitre, Kavitenantarchya Kavita, Vacha Prakashan, Aurangabad; Marathi-languageJaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in GujaratiK. Satchidanandan, Indian Sketchukal ("Indian Sketches"); Malayalam-languageK. Siva Reddy, Netra Dhanussu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-languageNirendranath Chakravarti, Aaj Shokaaley, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageSitanshu Yashaschandra, Moe-n jo dado poems read on cassette; Gujarati-languageVaravara Rao (better known as "VV"), Swechcha or Svecha ("Freedom"), Hyderabad: Yuga Prachuranalu; Telugu-languageMario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversiaLeonardo Sinisgalli, DimenticatoioEugenio Montale, Tutte le poesieFranco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973Hans 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: AneksRyszard Krynicki, Nasze zycie rośnie. Wiersze ("Our Life is Growing: Poems"); Paris: Instytut LiterackiEwa Lipska, Piaty wybor wierszy ("Fifth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: CzytelnikZ. Jarosiński and H. Zawarska, editors, Antologia polskiego futuryzmu i Nowej Sztuki, anthologyAdam Zagajewski, List ("A Letter"), Poznañ: Od NowaRui 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 blancasFéliz de Asúa, Pasar y siete canciones (he also published a novel this year, Les lecciones suspendidas)Luis Antonio de Villena, Viaje a BizancioPere Gimferrer, a collection of his verse translated from Catalan to Castilian by the authorGarcía Hortelano, editor, anthology of verse by the Generation of the '50s, including Caballero Bonald, Ángel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos BarralAlfonso Calderón, Poemas para Clavecin ("Poems for Harpsichord"), ChileOscar Hahn, Arte de morirPablo 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, SanningsbarriārenTobias Berggren, BergsmusikEva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakterShoyme Roitman, a poetry bookRachel Boymvol, a poetry bookJacob Shargel, a poetry bookHayyim Plotkin, a poetry bookOdysseus Elytis, Μαρία Νεφέλη ("Maria Nefeli"), GreeceJoseph Brodsky, editor of two expatriate Russian poetry anthologies:Konets prekrasnoy epokh: Stikhotvoreniya 1964-71Chast' rechi: Stkikhotvoreniya 1972-76Klaus Høeck, Denmark:Skygger, publisher: SwingTopia eller Che GuevaraSeán Ó Ríordáin, Tar éis mo Bháis ("After my Death"), IrelandSjón, Sýnir ("Visions"), IcelandSee 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. ThomasEric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-SmithAML 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 NemerovPulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard NemerovWalt Whitman Award: Karen Snow, WondersFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine MilesGuillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silenceCuba: Casa de las Américas prize for poetry: Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for SobrevivoSoviet Union: USSR State Prize: Andrei VoznesenskyJune 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writerOctober 24 — Kei Miller, Jamaican-born poet and writerAlso — Jen Hadfield, EnglishBirth 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 cancerFebruary 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905, American children's story writer and poetMarch 19 – Faith Baldwin, 84, American romantic novelist and poetMarch 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poetApril 14 – F.R. Leavis, 82, English literary criticApril 16 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, 97, English versifierMay 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poetMay 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poetJuly 2 – Aris Alexandrou, 56, Greek poetJune 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicideSeptember 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poetAlso:Sankara Kurup (born 1901), Indian, Malayalam-language poetP. Kunhiraman Nair (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poetJ. Rodolfo Wilcock (born 1919), Argentine author and poet 