Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events March 4 — Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Dissident Russian poet Dmitri Prigov is arrested by the K.G.B for distributing his samizdat poetry and briefly confined in a psychiatric hospital before being freed after protests by other poets such as Bella Akhmadulina New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago English poet Wendy Cope's Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis is a best-seller
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:
Canada Don Domanski, Hammerstroke Canada Louis Dudek, Zembla's Rocks. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1986."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Archibald Lampman, The Story of an Affinity, D.M.R. Bentley ed. (London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press). Irving Layton, Dance With Desire: Love Poems. Toronto:McClelland & Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Dennis Lee, editor, The New Canadian Poets (anthology)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p 164 Dorothy Livesay, The Self-Completing Tree: Selected Poems. Victoria: Porcepic."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works", Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Man with Three Violins."Gwendolyn MacEwen," Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. HMS Press (Toronto) Anne Marriott, Letters from Some Island: New Poems, Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press."Anne Marriott (1913-1997)", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 21, 2011. Michael Ondaatje: All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadian published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland PatternWeb page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie Raymond Souster, It Takes All Kinds. Ottawa: Oberon Press,"Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Wilfred Watson, Collected Poems (introduction by Thomas Peacocke)Shirley Neuman, "Watson, Wilfred ," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 2284.
India, in English Jayanta Mahapatra, Dispossessed Nests ( Poetry in English ), Jaipur: Nirala PublicationsPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184-185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse Suniti Namjoshi, Flesh and Paper, (with Gillian Hanscombe), Jezebel Tapes and Books, Devon, and Ragweed, Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 V. K. Gokak, editor, The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, New Delhi: Sahitya Academy; anthologyR. Saraswathi, "The Theme of Love in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri", p 64, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Niranjan Mohanty, editor, The Golden Voices: Poets from Orissa Writing in English, Berhampur University: Poetry Publications; anthologyNiranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p 17, Footnote 7, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010
Ireland Eavan Boland, The Journey, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Dermot Bolger, Internal Exiles Seamus Heaney, Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Irish native at this time living in the United States Alan Moore (poet) Opia, Anvil Press Poetry, , Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems 1968–1983, including "Lunch with Pancho Villa", "Cuba", "Anseo", "Gathering Mushrooms", "The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, Dublin: The Gallery PressWeb page titled "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008 Frank Ormsby, A Northern Spring, including "Home", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press James Simmons, Poems 1956–1986, including "One of the Boys", "West Strand Visions" and "From the Irish", Oldcastle: The Gallery Press
New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963): Hotspur: a ballad, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University PressWeb page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United StatesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Allen Curnow, The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983–1985Allen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Lauris Edmond, Seasons and CreaturesRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Cilla McQueen, Wild SweetsCilla McQueen – NZ Literature File – LEARN – The University Of Auckland Library Les Murray, editor, Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry, Melbourne, Collins Dove (new edition, 1991) Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Norman Simms, Silence and Invisibility: A Study of the New Literature from the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand, scholarshipPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837
United Kingdom Dannie Abse, Ask the Bloody HorseCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963): The Incident Book, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Selected Poems, Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press Eavan Boland, The Journey, and Other Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Charles Causley, Early in the Morning Jack Clemo, A Different Drummer Tony Connor, Spirits of Place Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis Kevin Crossley-Holland, Waterslain Carol Ann Duffy, Thrown Voices Helen Dunmore, The Sea Skater Elaine Feinstein, Badlands, Hutchinson Roy Fuller, Outside the Canon Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States Adrian Henri, Collected Poems Ted Hughes, Flowers and Insects George MacBeth, The Cleaver Garden Edwin Morgan, From the Video Box Grace Nichols, Whole of a Morning Sky Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Sky Ray Lolly Peter Reading, Stet E. J. Scovell, Listening to Collared Doves Penelope Shuttle, The Lion From Rio Jon Silkin, The Ship's Pasture John Stallworthy, The Anzac Sonata R.S. Thomas, Experimenting with an Amen Abdullah al-Udhari, editor and translator, Modern Poetry of the Arab World, Penguin, anthology
United States A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition Ralph Angel, Anxious Latitudes Gwendolyn Brooks, The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems Alan Brunton, New Order, New York:Red Mole, work by a New Zealand poet in the United States Raymond Carver, Ultramarine Henri Cole, The Marble Queen Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Over All the Obscene Boundaries Alice Fulton, Palladium Marilyn Hacker, Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons Seamus Heaney: Clearances, Cornamona Press, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States John Hollander, In Time and Place Paul Hoover, Nervous Songs, (L'Epervier Press) Jane Kenyon, The Boat of Quiet Hours Li-Young Lee, Rose Mary Oliver, Dream Work Michael Ondaatje: All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Canadian published in the United States; Milwaukie: Woodland Pattern Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukie Carl Rakosi, Collected Poems published by the National Poetry Foundation Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse Rosmarie Waldrop, Streets Enough to Welcome Snow (Station Hill)
Anthologies in the United States Philip Dacey and David Jauss, editors of the New Formalist anthology, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms Ron Silliman, editor, In the American Tree, anthology of Language poets
Other in English Paula Burnett, Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, anthology"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, St. Lucia native living in the United States
Works published in other languages
Danish Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Giv dagen dit lys ("Give the Day Your Light")"Danish Poetry" article, p 273, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Niels Frank, Digte i kim, DenmarkAndersen, Jørn Erslev, translated by: David McDuff, "Author Profile: Niels Frank", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Christian Graugaard, Kan jeg købe dine øjnes blå dans ("Can I Buy Your Eyes Blue Dance") this poet's web page at the Dansk Literaturpriser website, retrieved January 27, 2009
French language Kama Sywor Kamanda, Chants de brumes, Congo native writing in French Abdellatif Laabi, L'Écorché vif. L'Harmattan, Paris, Moroccan author writing in and published in France Jean Royer, Le chemin brûlé, Montréal: l'Hexagone; CanadaWeb page titled "Jean Royer" at L'Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Marie Uguay, Poèmes (contains Signe et rumeur, L'Outre-vie, and Autoportraits) French-Canada (posthumously published)
India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Nirendranath Chakravarti, Jabotiyo Bhalobashabashi, Kolkata: Proma Prokashoni; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Rajendra Bhandari, Yee shabdaharu: yee harafharu ("These Words: These Lines"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan; Nepali-languageWeb page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Jatayu, Mumbai and Ahmedabad: R R Sheth & Co.; Gujarati-languageWeb page titled "Sitanshu Yashaschandra" at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 27, 2010 Namdeo Dhasal, Gandu Bagicha Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Namdeo Dhasal" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010