Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events 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. 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 Publishing. Poets solicited for the publication promise to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine is planned at this stage. Morrow then starts the magazine, financing the first few issues himself. December 19 – Guatemalan poet Alaíde Foppa is abducted and never seen again.
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
Roo Borson (American-Canadian): In the Smoky Light of the Fields, Rain, Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter Robert Finch, Variations and Theme." Robert Finch," Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011. Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain Irving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon Press."Books by former English Department Students ," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011. Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. 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."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition Phyllis Webb, Wilson's BowlRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
Caribbean A. J. Seymour, A Treasury of Guyanese Poetry"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 Pamela Mordecai, Mervyn Morris, editors, Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems, Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season Mutabaruka, The First Poems: 1970–1979 Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States
India, in English Meena Alexander, Stone Roots ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Dilip Chitre, Travelling In A Cage ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai:Clearing HouseWeb page titled "Dilip Chitre" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Keki Daruwalla: Editor, Two Decades of Indian Poetry 1960-1980, Delhi: VikasWeb page titled "Keki Daruwalla" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Winter 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. Web page titled "E.V. Ramakrishnan" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Being Elsewhere in Myself ( Poetry in English ), Kolkata: Writers Workshop, India. Jayanta Mahapatra, The False Start (Poetry in English), Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007 Bombay: Clearing House, India .
Ireland Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Dermot Bolger, The Habit of Flesh Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995,
New Zealand James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumous Charles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiographyWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press Lauris Edmond: Wellington Letter: A Sequence of PoemsRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Seven: Poems Salt from the North W. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand Alistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthologyPreminger, 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, "Anthologies" section, p 837 Ian Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973–1977
United Kingdom
Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Alan Brownjohn, A Night in the Gazebo David Constantine, A Brightness to Cast Shadows Wendy Cope, Across the City Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. Brigham Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990) Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice, Faber & Faber/Next Editions James Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980 John Fuller, The January Divan Roy Fuller, The Reign of Sparrows Geoffrey Grigson, History of Him Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Adrian Henri, From the Loveless Matel Frances Horovitz, Water Over Stone Elizabeth Jennings, A Dream of Spring Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Laurence 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 Kingdom George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies Pete Morgan, One Greek AlphabetSalter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010 Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978 Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979 Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collection
Anthologies in the United Kingdom D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above) Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
United States Meena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) Ted Berrigan: So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems () Carrying a Torch Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979) Philip Booth, Before Sleep Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman George 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, CaliforniaEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Billy Collins, Video Poems Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980 Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words James McMichael, Four Good Things William Meredith, The Cheer James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant Howard Nemerov, Sentences Molly Peacock, And Live Apart James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem Frederick Seidel, Sunrise Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press) Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press) Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic)Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman (biography) Lew Welch, I Remain (letters; Grey Fox Press), posthumous
Other in English Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season, Jamaica Philip Salom, The Silent Piano (Fremantle Arts Centre) , Australia Chris Wallace-Crabbe, editor, The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology
Works published 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:
Denmark Klaus Høeck, Denmark: Bowie, Bowie, with Asger Schnack, publisher: GyldendalWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010