Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 return, and this year many begin publishing in that country. Radical Australian poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection Rapunzel in Suburbia, triggering a successful libel action by her lawyer ex-husband Lloyd Davies. Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks."About / Brick Books", Brick Books website, retrieved January 3, 2008
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 Earle Birney, The collected poems of Earle Birney. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Don Domanski, The Cape Breton Book of the Dead Louis Dudek. Selected Poems. Ottawa: Golden Dog, 1975."Louis Dudek: Publications ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Archibald Lampman, * Lampman's Kate: Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). Irving Layton, The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945–1968. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications ", Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Irving Layton, The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969–1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dorothy Livesay, Ice Age. Erin, ON: Porcepic."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. James Reaney, Selected Shorter Poems, Erin: Porcepic. Joe Rosenblatt, Dream Craters. Press Porcepic."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ", Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Joe Rosenblatt, Virgins & Vampires. McClelland & Stewart. Raymond Souster, Double Header: As Is; Lost & Found. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Rain Check. Ottawa:Oberon Press. Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. These Loved, These Hated Lands. Toronto: Doubleday. George Woodcock, Notes on Visitations: Poems 1936-75, Toronto: Anansi, Canada"The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives, 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
India in English Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: Lyric Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ); retrieved June 12, 2009 G. S. Sharat Chandra, Offsprings of Servagna, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. Rita Dalmiya, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Circus of Love, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Beginnings, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Pranab Bandyopadhyay, The Voice of the Indian Poets: An Anthology of Indian Poetry, Calcutta: United WritersSearch results page, WorldCat website, retrieved August 10, 2010
Ireland Eavan Boland, The War Horse,Cox, Michael (ed.), The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Stations, Ulsterman Publications North, Faber & Faber Bog Poems, Rainbow Press Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" , The Gallery Press: accessed May 4, 2008
New Zealand Alistair Campbell, Dreams, Yellow Lions Lauris Edmond, In Middle AirRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Bill Manhire, Song Cycle, New Zealand Ian Wedde: Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos Pathway to the Sea
United Kingdom
Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems Eavan Boland, The War Horse Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Edwin Brock, The Blocked HeartThe Britannica Book of the Year 1976 (for events of 1975), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1976. Alan Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life Charles Causley, Collected Poems 1951–1975 (see also Collected Poems 1997) Maureen Duffy, Evesong Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom John Fuller, The Mountain in the Sea Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop Roger Garfitt, West of Elm Robert Graves, Collected Poems Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Stations, Ulsterman Publications North, Faber & Faber Bog Poems, Rainbow Press John Heath-Stubbs, A Parliament of Birds Adrian Henri, The Best of Henri: Selected Poems 1960–70, London: Jonathan Cape, Geoffrey Hill, Somewhere is Such a Kingdom Michael Ivens, Born Early Clive James, The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: a moral poem, Australian poet resident in the United Kingdom Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, Beat and' Blood George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Christopher Middleton, The Lonely Suppers of W. V. Balloon Adrian Mitchell, The Apeman Cometh Norman Nicholson, Cloud on Black Combe Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies Ruth Pitter, End of Drought Peter Porter, Living in a Calm Country J. H. Prynne, High Pink on Chrome James Reeves, Collected Poems Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems Alan Ross, Open Sea Vernon Scannell, The Loving Game: poems Peter Scupham, Prehistories Henry Shore, Selected Poems Iain Sinclair, Lud Heat Stevie Smith, Collected Poems R. S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit, Welsh J. R. Tolkien, translator, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo John Wain, Feng: a poem Hugo Williams, Some Sweet Day
Anthologies in the United Kingdom John Barrell and John Bull (eds), The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse J. M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse Peter Redgrove (ed.), Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, , published in April (also published in the United States, in May) Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus)
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Edward Lucie-Smith, The Burnt Child, autobiography Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet Kathleen Raine, The Land Unknown, autobiography
United States
A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well John Ashbery: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Vermont Notebook Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Ed Dorn, Collected Poems: 1956–1974, Four Seasons Foundation Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox" Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece Michael S. Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility"Michael S. Harper" at Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 John Hollander, Tales Told of the Fathers Erica Jong, Loveroot Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love W. S. Merwin, The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)"W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions) Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous) Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974 Charles Wright, Bloodlines
Anthologies in the United States Duane Niatum (ed.), Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthologyPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, , retrieved February 9, 2009 Kenneth Rosen (ed.), Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published in May (published in April in the United Kingdom),
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Hollander, Vision and Resonance, criticism Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey
Other in English Dorothy Hewett, Rapunzel in Suburbia, Australia Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar, Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in PakistanAbbasi, Reema, "Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead" , article, Dawn newspaper, June 26, 2009, retrieved June 27, 2009 Jennifer Maiden, Australia: The Problem of Evil, Prism The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle Geoff Page, Smalltown Memorials, Australia (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press) Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, (also published in the United States this year)
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:
Arabic Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems? (Palestine) Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems? (Iraq) Amal Dankal, a book of poems? (Egypt)
Denmark Thorkild Bjørnvig: Delfinen Stoffets krystalhav Henrik Nordbrandt, Ode til blæksprutten og andre kærlighedsdigte ("Ode to the Octopus and Other Love Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 55 pages"Henrik Nordbrandt" at the Literatur.siden, retrieved January 29, 2010
French language
France Anne-Marie Albiach: Césure: le corpsAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Le Double Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille Yves Bonnefoy, Dans le leurre du seuil ("The Lure of the Threshold"), long poem with an epic tone and allusions to classical literatureDenis Hollier (ed.), A New History of French Literature, p. 1025, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soleil et la croix Philippe Denis, Les Cendres de la voix Robert Desnos, Destinée arbitraire, published posthumously (died 1945) Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit Jacques Dupin, Debors Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine