Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed.
Jahrbuch der Lyrik ("Poetry Yearbook"), an annual poetry anthology, is launched in Germany, nine years before the similar Best American Poetry series is begun. Each year's edition, containing 100 poems, is published in the spring by Beck, and is edited by Christoph Buchwald along with a guest editor.
Poetry Canada Review founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada, the publication folded in 1994.
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Robert Adamson Where I Come From
Robert Gray, Grass script
Jennifer Maiden, The Border Loss, Angus & Robertson
Les Murray, The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989
John Tranter:
Dazed in the Ladies Lounge, Island Press (Australia)
Editor, The New Australian Poetry (anthology)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe:
The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers, Sydney: Angus & Robertson
Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry (scholarship), Melbourne: Hutchinson
Dionne Brand, Earth Magic
Paul Dutton, Right Hemisphere, Left Ear
Candice James, "A Split In The Water" Fiddlehead Poetry Books
Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do
Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Irving Layton, The Tamed Puma. Toronto: Virgo Press.
Irving Layton, There Were No Signs. Toronto: Madison Gallery.
Dennis Lee.The Gods. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Steven McCaffery and B.P. Nichol, In England Now That Spring
Susan Musgrave, A Man to Bury, A Man to Marry
Michael Ondaatje (also see "Anthologies in Canada" section below):
There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978, New York: W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1979 ISBN 0-393-01191-7, ISBN 978-0-393-01191-3 (published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980)
Claude Glass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press
Charles Sangster, Hesperus and other poems and lyrics (revised edition), edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)
Raymond Souster, Hanging In: New Poems. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
James Wreford Watson, Countryside Canada.
Michael Ondaatje:
Editor, A Book of Beasts, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of The Broken Ark, 1971
Editor, The Long Poem Anthology, Toronto: Coach House ISBN 0-88910-177-9
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Leaves from a Log: Fragments of a Journey, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann
Kamala Das, Old Playhouse and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Orient Longman
Eunice de Souza, Fix ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Newground, India.
Jayanta Mahapatra, Waiting ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Samkaleen Prakashan
Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Continuations ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop
Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Feeling Fossils
Ireland
Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, ISBN 978-0-902996-84-7 Ireland
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
Field Work, Faber & Faber
Hedge School, Janus Press
Ugolino, Carpenter Press
Gravities, Charlotte Press
A Family Album, Byron Press
Thomas Kinsella, One and Other Poems, including "Anniversaries"
Michael Longley, The Echo Gate. Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978, including "A Dying Art", "Ecclesiastes", "An Image from Beckett", "Lives", "The Snow Party", "A Refusal to Mourn" and "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
Allen Curnow, An Incorrigible Music
Bill Manhire, Dawn/Water
Bob Orr, Poems for Moira
John Jessop, editor, International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, vol. i
George Swede, editor, The Canadian Haiku Anthology
Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963):
The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)
Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books
Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems 1944–1979
James Berry, Fractured Circles
Anne Born, Changing Views
Robert Conquest, Forays
Patric Dickinson, Our Living John, and Other Poems
Maureen Duffy, Memorials of the Quick and the Dead
Douglas Dunn, Barbarians
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Hibiscus in the North
D. J. Enright, A Faust Book
John Fuller, Lies and Secrets
W. S. Graham, Collected Poems 1942–1977
Thom Gunn, Selected Poems 1950–1975 (see also Poems 1969 in poetry, Collected Poems 1993)
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom:
Field Work, Faber & Faber
Hedge School, Janus Press
Ugolino, Carpenter Press
Gravities, Charlotte Press
A Family Album, Byron Press
Ted Hughes:
Moortown
Remains of Elmet
Elizabeth Jennings, Moments of Grace
P. J. Kavanagh, Life Before Death
Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Peter Avery
Michael Longley, The Echo Gate
Roger McGough, Holiday on Death Row
Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978. Oxford University Press
Pete Morgan, The Spring Collection
Brian Patten, Grave Gossip
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Peter Reading, Fiction
John Ashbery, As We Know
Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Yo-Yo's With Money
Joseph Payne Brennan, Webs of Time (Macabre House)
Maxine Chernoff, Utopia TV Store (The Yellow Press)
Robert Creeley, Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, edited by Donald Allen (Bolinas, California), criticism
Federico Garcia Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca Chosen by Paul Blackburn
John Hollander, Blue Wine
Paul Hoover, Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert (The Yellow Press)
Stanley Kunitz, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
Denise Levertov, Collected Earlier Poems
Gary Miranda, Listeners at the Breathing Place
F. A. Nettelbeck, Bug Death
Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (chapbook)
George Quasha, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands (Station Hill Press)
Frank Stanford, You, posthumous chapbook (Lost Roads Publishers)
Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons
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:
Inger Christensen, Brev i April ("Letter in April")
Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
Dylan Forever, publisher: Swing
Winterreise, publisher: Gyldendal
Henrik Nordbrandt, Spøgelseslege
Jean Royer, Les heures nues, Montréal: Nouvelles Éditions de l'Arc
Marie Uguay Signe et rumeur
Noureddine Aba, Gazelle après minuit, Algerian writer
Alain Bosquet, Poémes, un, his collected works up to 1967
André du Bouchet, Laisses
Pierre Emmanuel, Una, ou la mort, la vie
Claude Esteban, Terres, travaux du cœur, Flammarion
Guillevic, Etier
André Pieyre de Mandiargues, L'ivre Oeil
Patrick Reumaux, Repérages du vif
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Ajmer Rode, Surti, London, Ontario: Third Eye Publications, ISBN 0-919581-59-5 Chandigarh: Raghbir Rachna Parkashan; Punjabi-language
Gita Parikh, Bhinash; Gujarati-language
K. Satchidanandan, Ezhuthachan Ezhutumbol, ("When the Poet Writes"); Malayalam-language
Kunwar Narain, Apne Samne, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Hindi-language
Malika Amar Sheikh, Valuchya Priyakar, Mumbai: Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Prabodhini; Marathi-language
Rajendra Bhandari, Hiundey yee chisa raatka pardeharuma ("In the Veils of Cold Wintry Nights"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Padmakala Prakashan; Nepali-language
Poland
Stanisław Barańczak, Etyka i poetyka ("Ethics and Poetics"), criticism; Paris: Instytut Literacki
Ewa Lipska:
Dom spokojnej młodości ("A Home for Youth"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
Zywa smierc, ("Living Death"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie
Matilde Camus, Corcel en el tiempo ("Steed of the time")
Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Harald Hartung, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1: Am Rand der Zeit ("Poetry Yearbook 1: On the Edge of Time"), publisher: Claassen; anthology; Germany
Haim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in Hebrew
Nizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic
Awards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Odysseus Elytis, Greek
See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Cholmondeley Award: Alan Brownjohn, Andrew Motion, Charles Tomlinson
Eric Gregory Award: Stuart Henson, Michael Jenkins, Alan Hollinghurst, Sean O'Brien, Peter Thabit Jones, James Lindesay, Walter Perrie, Brian Moses
AML Award for Poetry to Marden J. Clark for "Moods: Of Late" and Edward L. Hart for "To Utah"
Bollingen Prize: W.S. Merwin
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Archibald MacLeish
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Now and Then
Walt Whitman Award: David Bottoms, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: May Swenson and Mark Strand
February 4 - Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist and critic
Jonathan Edwards, Welsh poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 8 - Alexandru A. Philippide (born 1900), Romanian
February 9 - Allen Tate (born 1899), American poet, of emphysema
June 15 - Ernst Meister (born 1911), German
September 7 - I. A. Richards (born 1893), influential English literary critic and rhetorician
October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop (born 1911), American poet, from an aneurism
December 7 - Nicolas Born (born 1937), German poet, from cancer
