Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
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
- Leonard Cohen. Death of a Lady's Man
- Don Domanski, Heaven
- Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
- Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer
- 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, 19801
- Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
- Al Purdy, Being Alive
- Peter Trower, Bush Poems
- Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
- Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
- George Woodcock:
- The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, Canada2
- Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism2
- James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications4
- Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems
- Seamus Heaney: After Summer, Gallery Press
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
- Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
- A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 19485
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Collected Poems, two volumes (posthumous)
- John Montague, The Great Cloak
- Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory
- 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
- Robert Creeley:
- Ed Dorn:
- Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)6
- Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
- John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
- James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
- James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
- 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
- Patti Smith, Babel
- William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
- 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
Other in English
Works in other languages
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:
French language
German language
- 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, anthology9
- 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)10
- Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)10
- William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 10: 3798805202 ISBN 13: 9783798805200 (scholarship)10
Hebrew language
Spanish language
- 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, Angel González, Jaime gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral
- 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 Venezuala)
Other
Awards and honors
Other
- Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
Births
Deaths
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
- March 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
- April 14 – F.R. Leavis, 82, English literary critic
- May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
- May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
- July 2 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek
- June 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
- September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
- date not known – Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (born 1919), Argentine author and poet
Notes
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
- ^ a b Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- Britannica Book of the Year 1979 ("for events of 1978"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1979 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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