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Events September 16 – Chilean poet Víctor Jara, having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, is shot and killed. His last poem Estadio Chile is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees. Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in New York in 1974 and in London, England in 1984."Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 White Pine Press founded in Buffalo, New York. The publisher is a nonprofit organization putting out poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation."A World of Voices" , White Pines Press website, retrieved December 10, 2008 The French journal L'éphémère, founded in 1966, ceases publication this year; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet.Denis Hollier (ed.), A New History of French Literature, p. 1023, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989.
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:
Australia John Tranter: Red Movie and other poems, Angus & Robertson The Blast Area, Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar Press Chris Wallace-Crabbe: Selected Poems, Sydney: Angus & Robertson Vinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, St.Lucia
Canada Alfred Bailey, Thanks for a Drowned Island."Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009. Earle Birney: The Bear on the Delhi Road: selected poems. London: Chatto & Windus. what's so big about GREEN?. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Shirley Gibson, I Am Watching John Glassco, Montreal. Montreal: DC Books. Irving Layton, Lovers and lesser Men. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Dorothy Livesay, Nine Poems of Farewell. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Eli Mandel, Crusoe: Poems Selected and New Miriam Mandel, Lions at Her Face. Edmonton: White Pelican Publications."Books by former English Department Students ," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011. John Metcalf (ed.), The Speaking Earth, anthology Michael Ondaatje, Rat Jelly, Toronto: Coach House Press Al Purdy, Sex and Death F. R. Scott, The Dance Is One. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."F. R. Scott: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, The Colour of the Times. Ten Elephants on Yonge Street. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Sights and Sounds. Toronto: Macmillan. Doris Huestis Speirs, Exercise for Psyche
Caribbean Mervyn Morris, The Pond, Jamaica"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, pp. xvii and following, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ; retrieved February 7, 2009 Andrew Salkey (ed.), Breaklight, Doubleday, anthologyBreiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p. 253, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ; retrieved February 7, 2009 Dennis Scott, Uncle Time, Jamaica Derek Walcott, Another Life, St. Lucia
India in English Kamala Das: The Old Playhouse and Other Poems, New Delhi: Orient Longman Alphabet of Love, New Delhi: Orient Paper BacksK. V. Surendran, "13. The Image of Woman in Kamala Das's Poems", p. 160, in Jaydipsinh Dodiya (ed.), Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved July 17, 2010 Richard L. Bartholomew, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ); retrieved June 12, 2009 Brooks Frederick, Rocket to the Moon, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Alokeranjan Das Gupta, Poems, Calcutta: Dialogue Pub. A. K. Ramanujan, Speaking of Siva, PenguinC. S. Nanjundaiah, "Translating the Untranslatable: A Look at A. K. Ramanujan's Speaking of Siva", p. 85, in Jaydipsinh Dodiya (ed.), Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, ; retrieved July 17, 2010
Ireland Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Thomas Kinsella: Selected Poems 1956–1968, including "Chrysalides"Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1995, New Poems 1973, including "Notes from the Land of the Dead" Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand James K. Baxter, Two Obscene Poems, posthumous, Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United KingdomRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Allen Curnow, An Abominable Temper & Other PoemsAllen Curnow page at New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Winston Curnow (ed.), Essays on New Zealand Literature, Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books (scholarship)"Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" , University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 Keith Sinclair, The Firewheel Tree
United Kingdom Dannie Abse, Funland, and Other PoemsCox, Michael (ed.), The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Peter Ackroyd, London Lickpenny Martin Booth, Coronis, including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix" Edwin Brock, a book of poetry"Literature" article, Britannica Book of the Year 1974, covering events of 1973, published in 1974, pp. 425-442, the article provides no information on this book's title. Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom Cal Clothier, Behind Heslington Hall Tony Curtis, Walk Down a Welsh Wind, Welsh Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy, Fleshweathercock Lawrence Durrell, Vega, and Other Poems D. J. Enright, The Terrible Shears Elaine Feinstein, The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson Michael Fried, Powers Roy Fuller, Tiny Tears Geoffrey Grigson, Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose Michael Hamburger, Ownerless Earth Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom Ted Hughes, Prometheus on his Crag Thomas Kinsella, a book of poetry Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Geoffrey Holloway, To Have Eyes Michael Longley, An Exploded View George MacBeth, Shrapnel Edwin Morgan, From Glasgow to Saturn Pete Morgan, The Grey Mare Being the Better SteedSalter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, 2010, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010 Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom Brian Patten, The Unreliable Nightingale Peter Redgrove, a book of poetry Alan Ross, The Taj Express Anne Ridler, a book of poetry Carol Rumens, A Strange Girl in Bright Colours Vernon Scannell, The Winter Man Michael Schmidt, It Was My Tree Sydney Tremayne, Selected and New Poems Derek Walcott, Another Life
Anthologies Philip Larkin, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse anthology of poets from the British Isles or who spent time there, Jon Silkin (ed.), Poetry of the Committed Individual John Bishop and Virginia Broadbent (eds), London Between the Lines Howard Sergeant (ed.), African Voices
United States Frank Bidart, Golden State Robert Bly, Sleepers Joining Hands Joseph Payne Brennan, A Sheaf of Snow Poems Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis"Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography", Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation, accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Victor Hernandez Cruz, Mainland Irving Feldman, Lost Originals Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Open Eye, Open Heart Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America John Logan, The Anonymous Lover, including "New Poem" and "Heart to Heart Talk with My Liver" Robert Lowell: The Dolphin, containing 103 new poems History, containing 360 poems, including more than 80 new ones and many revised For Lizzie and Harriet, 67 old poems, all revised W. S. Merwin, Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum"W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Joyce Carol Oates, Angel Fire George Quasha, Somapoetics Adrienne Rich, "Rape" Muriel Rukeyser, Breaking Open Patti Smith, Witt Mark Strand, The Story of Our Lives, Canadian native living in and published in the United States Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Anthologies George Quasha & Jerome Rothenberg, (eds.) America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (Random House/Viking) Ronald Gross & George Quasha, (eds.) Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems (Simon & Schuster)
Works published in other languages Listed 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 Canada Michel Bealieu: Variables Pulsions Yves-Gabriel Brunet, Poésies I, collected poems from 1958 to 1962 Gilles Constantineau, Nouveaux Poèmes Roland Giguère, La Main au feu, collected poems from 1949 to 1968 Gilbert Langevin: Les Ecrits de Zéro Legel Novembre Raymond LeBlanc, Cri de terre Luc Racine, Le Pays saint
France Conseil international des femmes, Anthologie de la poésie féminine mondiale, Saint-Germain-des-Prés Jean Daive, Fut bâti, about the author's friendship with Paul Celan; part memoir, part prose-poem;"Jean Davie: from Under the Dome: A Memoir of Paul Celan", Salt Magazine; retrieved September 2, 2009. Archived 2009-09-04. GallimardAuster, Paul (ed.), The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982. Michel Deguy, Tombeau de du Bellay Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Peut-Être une demeure Jean Loisy, Le Double Jeu Katia Granoff Méditerranée Eugene Guilleveic, Inclus Edmond Jabès, (El, ou le drier livre) Michel Leiris, Haut-malBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 François Pradelle, Les Naïves Amours Denis Roche, Le Mécrit Pierrette Sartin, Le Destin accepté Philippe Soupault, Poèmes et Poésies: 1917–1973, publisher: Grasset
German language East Germany Wolf Biermann, a communist living in East Germany, he could only publish these works in the West: Für meine Genossen Deutschland: ein Wintermärchen, long satirical poem on the division of Germany
West Germany, Austria, Switzerland Peter Huchel, Gezähte Tage Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Kein Zauberspruch Eric Fried, Die Freiheit den Mund aufzumachen Günter Herburger, Operette J. P. Stössel, Friedenserklärung
India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Assamese Maheswar Neog, Pracya Sasanavali