Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell start the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry.Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions. Poets solicited for the publication promised to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine was planned. Morrow then started the magazine, financing the first few issues himself.Three new Hebrew literary journals appear this year in Israel: Mahbarot, edited by Y. Kenaz, Rosh a poetry journal edited by O. Bartena, and Hazerem hehadash, founded by a group of young ex-soldiers.Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:
Roo Borson (American-Canadian):In the Smoky Light of the Fields, ISBN 0-88823-024-9Rain, ISBN 0-920806-19-8Fred Cogswell, A Long ApprenticeshipLouis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press.Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping DaughterRobert Finch, Variations and Theme.Gail Fox, In Search of Living ThingsRalph Gustafson, Landscape with RainIrving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press.Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon Press.Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions.Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected ten-volume collection)Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country. Don Mills, ON: Academic Press.Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar CryAnne Szumigalski, A Game of AngelsTom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competitionPhyllis Webb, Wilson's BowlA. J. Seymour, A Treasury of Guyanese PoetryPamela Mordecai, Mervyn Morris, editors, Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems, Publisher: Heinemann Educational BooksLorna Goodison, Tamarind SeasonMutabaruka, The First Poems: 1970–1979Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United StatesMeena Alexander, Stone Roots ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United StatesDilip Chitre, Travelling In A Cage ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai:Clearing HouseKeki Daruwalla:Editor, Two Decades of Indian Poetry 1960-1980, Delhi: VikasWinter Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd.E. V. Ramakrishnan:A Python in A Snake Park ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa and Co. ISBN 81-7167-194-2Being Elsewhere in Myself ( Poetry in English ), Kolkata: Writers Workshop , India.Jayanta Mahapatra, The False Start ( Poetry in English ) , Bombay: Clearing House , India .Ireland
Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, Irish poet published in the United KingdomDermot Bolger, The Habit of FleshSeamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomThomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United KingdomPaul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomTom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomNew Zealand
James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumousCharles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington ; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiographyAlistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard PressLauris Edmond:Wellington Letter: A Sequence of PoemsSeven: PoemsSalt from the NorthW. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New ZealandAlistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthologyIan Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973–1977Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, Irish poet published in the United KingdomAlan Brownjohn, A Night in the GazeboDavid Constantine, A Brightness to Cast ShadowsWendy Cope, Across the CityDonald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other PoemsLawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. BrighamGavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990)Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice, Faber & Faber/Next EditionsJames Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphletRoy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980John Fuller, The January DivanRoy Fuller, The Reign of SparrowsGeoffrey Grigson, History of HimSeamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomAdrian Henri, From the Loveless MatelFrances Horovitz, Water Over StoneElizabeth Jennings, A Dream of SpringLinton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a BitchThomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United KingdomLaurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers, South African native living and published in the United KingdomGeorge MacBeth, Poems of Love and DeathNorman MacCaig, The Equal SkiesPete Morgan, One Greek AlphabetPaul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomTom Paulin, The Strange Museum, Northern Ireland native published in the United KingdomKathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978Jeremy Reed, Bleecker StreetJon Silkin, The Psalms With Their SpoilsAnthony Thwaite, Victorian VoicesJohn Wain, Poems, 1949–1979Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collectionD. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above)Blake Morrison, editor, The MovementCharles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translationGeoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical VerseGavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light VerseValentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War VerseMeena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United StatesA.R. Ammons, Selected Longer PoemsTed Berrigan:So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems (ISBN 0-912652-61-6)Carrying a TorchElizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979)Philip Booth, Before SleepJoseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Russian-AmericanLucille Clifton, Two-Headed WomanGeorge F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, CaliforniaBilly Collins, Video PoemsAllen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly LoveGalway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal WordsJames McMichael, Four Good ThingsWilliam Meredith, The CheerJames Merrill, Scripts for the PageantHoward Nemerov, SentencesMolly Peacock, And Live ApartJames Schuyler, The Morning of the PoemFrederick Seidel, SunriseLouis Simpson, Caviare at the FuneralMark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United StatesDerek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United StatesRosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press)Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press)Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic)Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman (biography)Lew Welch, I Remain (letters; Grey Fox Press), posthumousLorna Goodison, Tamarind Season, JamaicaPhilip Salom, The Silent Piano (Fremantle Arts Centre) ISBN 978-0-909144-31-9, AustraliaChris Wallace-Crabbe, editor, The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthologyListed 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:
Klaus Høeck, Denmark:Bowie, Bowie, with Asger Schnack, publisher: GyldendalEno One, with Asger Schnack, publisher: AlbatrosNul (med Asger Schnack og F.P.Jac), publisher: SommerskoRenaldo & Clara (med Asger Schnack), publisher: VirkelystKlaus Rifbjerg, LivsfrisenSuzanne Jacob, Poèmes I : Gémellaires, Montréal: Le BiocreuxPierre Nepveu, Couleur chair, Montréal: l'HexagoneEdmond Robillard, Le temps d'un peu ... : Poèmes, Montréal: Éditions Albert-le-GrandJean Royer, Faim souveraine, l'HexagoneYves Bonnefoy, Entretiens sur la poésie, FrancePhilippe Denis:Carnet d'un aveuglementSurface d'écueilEmmanuel Hocquard, Une journée dans le détroitEdmond Jabès, L'Ineffacable L'InaperçuAbdellatif Laabi, Moroccan author writing in and published in France:Le Règne de barbarie. Seuil, Paris (épuisé)Histoire des sept crucifiés de l'espoir. La Table rase, ParisJean Max Tixier, editor, Vers une logoqie poétique, publisher: La Table RaseChristoph Buchwald, general editor, and Christoph Meckel, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2 ("Poetry Yearbook 2"), publisher: Claassen; anthologyErnst Jandl, Der gelbe HundJohanna Moosdorf, Sieben Jahr sieben TagW. Schubert and K. H. Höfer, editors, Ansichten über Lyrik, anthology, poems and prose since OpitzRoger Loewig, Ein Vogel bin ich ohne FlügelThomas Brasch, Der Schöne 27. SeptemberGünter Kunert, AbtötungsverfahrenNatan Sach, Tsfonit misrahitDan Pagis, editor, an anthology of medieval Hebrew love poetryMavet ve' ahava, an anthology of Egyptian poetry in Hebrew translationListed in alphabetical order by first name:
Gulzar, Kuch Aur Nazme, New Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan; Hindi-languageKedarnath Singh, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan; HindiM. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Mulaka Mahasayaru, India, Kannada-languageNilmani Phookan, Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Barua Book Agency, Assamese-languageRajendra Kishore Panda, Nija Pain Nanabaya,Samabesha, Bhubaneswar: Prakashani, Oraya-languagePanna Nayak, Philadelphia; Gujarati-languagePrabhu Chugani, Surkh Gulab Suraha, a collection of five-line poems in a form invented by him; the book received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981, Indian, Sindhi-languagePiero Bigongiari, MosesValerio Magrelli, Ora serrata retinaeEugenio Montale, L'opera in versi, the Bettarini-Contini edition (published in 1981 as Altri verse e poesie disperse), publisher: Mondadori; ItalyEdoardo Sanguineti, StracciafoglioAntonio Porta, Passi passaggiMaurizio Cucchi, Le meraviglie dell'acquaUgo Reale, Il cerchio d'ombraErnst Orvil, Nær nok (Norwegian)Harald Sverdrup, Fugleskremsel (Norwegian)Marie Takvam, Falle og reise seg att (Norwegian)Poland
Stanisław Barańczak, Tryptyk z betonu, zmeczenia i sniegu ("Triptych with Concrete, Fatigue and Snow"), Kraków: KOSM. Korolko, editor, Średniowieczna pieśn religina polska, second edition, anthologyA. Lam, editor, Ze struny na strune, anthologyBronisław Maj, Wiersze ("Poems"); Warsaw: NOWAPiotr Sommer, Pamiątki po nasJan Twardowski,Niebieskie okulary ("Blue Sunglasses"), Kraków: ZnakMário Cláudio, EstánciasMário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Primavera Autónomia das EstradasCarlos Drummond de Andrade, Esquecer para lembrar (the third volume of his poetic autobiography)Mário ChamieAstrid CabralLiane dos SantosTarik de SousaDante de Milano, complete poemsPaulo Mendes Campos, complete poemsAfonso Félix de Sousa, book of poemsAleksandr Blok (1880–1921), much of his poetry was republished in this year, his centenary, including a six-volume edition of his collected works and Blok in the Reminiscences of ContemporariesMatilde Camus, Perfiles ("Profiles")Antonio Colinas, AstrolabioLeopoldo Azancot, La novia judiaLars Forssell, StenarYlva Eggehorn, Hjärtats KnytnãvsslagTobias Berggren, ThrenosBegt Emil Johnson, VinterminneLeyzer Aichenrand, Landscape of Fate, Yiddish in SwitzerlandSamih al-Qasim, Je t'aime au gré de la mort, PalestinianSimin Behbahani, Khatti ze Sor'at va Atash ("A Line of Speed and Fire"), PersiaMairtin O Direain, Danta, including "Deiradh Re", "Cuimhne an Domhnaigh", and "Cranna Foirtil", Gaelic-language, IrelandAwards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, and (since 1951) exile.Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the HoneysuckleSee 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy FullerEric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckianAcademy of American Poets Fellowship: Mona Van DuynAML Award for Poetry to Emma Lou Thayne for "Once in Israel"Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, Selected Poems (April 14)American Academy of Arts and Letters: John Ashbery elected a member of the Literature DepartmentFellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mona Van DuynWalt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets: Jared CarterPremios de la Crítica awards in poetry:Castilian: Luis Rosales, Diario de una resurrecciónCatalan: Miquel Martí i Pol, Estimada MartaGalician: Eduardo Moreiras, O libro dos mortosBasque: Juan Mari Lekuona, Ilargiaren eskolanBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – George Sutherland Fraser (born 1915), Scottish poet and criticFebruary 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attackFebruary 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, American poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailmentMarch 25 – James Wright, 52, American, of cancerMarch 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, CzechApril 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painterApril 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politicianJune 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poetJuly 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomatJuly 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actorAugust 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911), New Zealand poet and publisherSeptember 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), AustralianSeptember 25 – Marie Under (born 1883), EstonianOctober 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacherOctober 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricistNovember 21 – A. J. M. Smith (born 1902), CanadianNovember 28 – Julia Reynolds, 98 
