Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events Winter — This magazine founded in the United States by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten March – Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Alberto Moravia, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa (who says he continues to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales April 8 – Release of Right On!, a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York City streets April 21 – The 13th century Codex Regius is returned from Denmark to Iceland under naval escort. July 2 – Release of The Canterbury Tales, a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Counter/measures magazine is founded in the United States by X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patternsWeb page titled "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Joseph Charles Kennedy", at Bookrags website, retrieved March 6, 2009. and is an influence in the later creation of the New Formalism movement.
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 Margaret Atwood, Power Politics bill bissett, Nobody Owns the Earth George Bowering, Touch: Selected Poems 1960–1970 Louis Dudek, Collected Poetry. Montréal: Delta Canada."Louis Dudek: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden (scholarship)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. John Glassco, Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Bill Howell, The Red Fox Irving Layton, The Collected Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Irving Layton, Nailpolish. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Kenneth Leslie, The Poems of Kenneth Leslie [ed. Sean Haldane.] Ladysmith, Quebec: Ladysmith Press.Burris Devanney, Sandra Campbell and Domenico Di Nardo. "Kenneth Leslie: A Preliminary Bibliography ." Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews No.05 (Fall/Winter 1979), UWO, Web, April 15, 2011. Richard Lewis, editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by Eskimos Dorothy Livesay: Plainsongs. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Plainsongs Extended. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Disasters of the Sun. Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press."Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, March 18, 2011. Anne Marriott, Countries, Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books."Anne Marriott (1913–1997) ", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, April 21, 2011. George McWhirter, Catalan Poems (winner of the 1972 Commonwealth Poetry Prize) Alden Nowlan, Between Tears and Laughter Michael Ondaatje, editor, The Broken Ark, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as A Book of Beasts, 1979 (anthology)Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008. Andreas Schroeder, File of Uncertainties, a chapbook (Sono Nis Press) Raymond Souster, The Years.Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Phyllis Webb, Selected Poems 1954–65 Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes
India, in English Jayanta Mahapatra: Close the Sky, Ten by Ten ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Dialogue 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. Svayamvara and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Pomes / Poemes / Poemas ( Poetry in English ),Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 259, Columbia University Press, 2003, , retrieved July 18, 2010. G. S. Sharat Chandra, April in Nanjangud ( Poetry in English ), London: London MagazineNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009. Michael Chacko Daniels, Split into Two ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Keki N. Daruwalla, Apparition in April ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Amaresh Datta, Captive Moments ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Subhoranjan Das Gupta, Bodhisattva and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Wad of Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Suniti Namjoshi: More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Cyclone in Pakistan ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five volumes, published this year through 1976; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency Subhas Chandra Saha, editor, Modern Indo-Anglian Love Poetry, anthology; Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaRajyalakshmi, P. V., The Lyric Spring: The Poetic Achievement of Sarojini Naidu, p. 214, Abhinav Publications, 1977.
New Zealand Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008. James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Daybook Bob Orr, Blue FootpathsWeb page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008. Ian Wedde, Homage to Matisse
United Kingdom Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, New Zealand native living in and published in the United Kingdom George Barker, Poems of Places and People Frances Bellerby, Selected Poems George Mackay Brown Fishermen with PloughsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, . Poems New and Selected Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley John Cotton, Old Movies Maureen Duffy, Love Child Michael Ffinch, Voices Round a Star Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Language-Games Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree, Hutchinson Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, The Big Music, and Other Poems Thom Gunn, Moly, with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it Adrian Henri, Autobiography Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns, prose poems James Kirkup, The Body Servant Paul Muldoon, Knowing My Place, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Sylvia Plath, American poet published in the United Kingdom (posthumous): Crossing the Water, published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961 Winter Trees Jeremy Robson, editor, The Young British Poets anthology Vernon Scannell, Selected Poems Jon Silkin, Amana Grass Stephen Spender, The Generous Days Donald Ward, The Dead Snake Patricia Whittaker (poet), The Flying Men
United States Dick Allen, Anon and Various Time Machine Poems Maya Angelou, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Gwendolyn Brooks: Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali The World of Gwendolyn Brooks Aloneness Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, Memorial Day Ted Berrigan, Train Ride Paul Blackburn, The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries John Ciardi, Lives of X Cid Corman, Sun Rock Man (New Directions) Ed Dorn: Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook, Athanor BooksWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929–1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008. By the Sound, Frontier Press; republished with a new preface by the author, Black Sparrow Press, 1991 A Poem Called Alexander Hamilton, Tansy/Peg Leg Press Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions) Robert Fitzgerald, Spring Shade, collected poems and translations, 1931–1970 (New Directions) Donald S. Fryer, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean Michael S. Harper, History Is Your Own Heartbeat, won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetryWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008. John Hollander, The Night Mirror Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (University of California Press), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree James McMichael, Against the Falling Evil Carl Rakosi, Ere-Voice Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence Clark Ashton Smith, Selected Poems Richard Wilbur, translator, The School for Wives by Molière (in verse) James Wright, Collected Poems, including 30 new poems
Other in English Kofi Awoonor, Night of My Blood, Ghana John Figueroa, editor, Caribbean Voices, anthology, Evans Brothers, CaribbeanBreiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p. 253, Cambridge University Press, 1998, , retrieved February 7, 2009. Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum, South Africa Geoff Page and Philip Roberts, Two Poets, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, Australia Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Australia: Editor: Australian Poetry 1971, anthology, Sydney: Angus & Robertson Where the Wind Came, Sydney: Angus and Robertson
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:
Denmark Jørgen Leth, Eventyret om den sædvanlige udsigt Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi
French language Canada, in French Jacques Brault, La Poésie ce matin (published in Paris) Raoul Duguay, L'Apokalypso Paul-Marie Lapointe, Le Réel absolu (Editions de l'Hexagone) Gilbert Langevin: Ouvrir le feu Stress Rina Lasnier, La Salle des rêves Olivier Marchand, Par Détresse et tendresse (Editions de l'Hexagone) Pierre Nepveu, Voies rapides, Montréal: HMHWeb page titled "Pierre Nepveu" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010. Claude Péloquin, Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme
France Anne-Marie Albiach, EtatAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 M. Bataille, Le Cri dans le mur L. Bérimont, L'Évidence même Yves Bonnefoy, Traité du pianiste René Char: L'Honneur devant Dieu Le nu perdu ("Nakedness Lost")Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1024, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 . P. Damarix, L'Expérience magique Alain Delahaye, L'Eveil des traversees Jean Follain, Éspaces d'instants, the poet was killed in an accident days after publication Robert Marteau, Sibylles Francis Ponge, La Fabrique du Pré Jacques Roubaud, Octavio Paz, Charles Tomlinson and Edoardo Sanguineti, Renga
Anthologies J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie Surréaliste