Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley. Meetings will be held at Seamus and Marie Heaney's house on Ashley Avenue. The Belfast Group will last until 1972. Russian poet Joseph Brodsky returns to Leningrad from the exile near the Arctic Circle where he had been sent when a Soviet court in 1964 convicted him of "parasitism". Starting this year and continuing for a decade, Bulgarian censors prevent publication of works by Konstantin Pavlov, poet and screenwriter who was defiant against his country's communist regime; his popularity didn't wane, as Bulgarians clandestinely copied and read his poems.No byline, "Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian Poet, Is Dead at 75", obituary, Associated Press, September 30, 2008, as it appeared on the website of The New York Times, retrieved December 11, 2008 Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort found Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), a British journal focusing on the art of translating poetry. Later defunct, the magazine was relaunched in 2004 under editors David and Helen Constantine.Web page titled "Modern Poetry in Translation" at the website of Poetry Library Southbank Centre, retrieved December 14, 2008 The journal L'éphémère founded in France; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet; it ceased publication in 1973Denis Hollier, editor, 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:
Canada Margaret Avison, The DumbfoundingRoberts, 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 Earle Birney, Selected PoemsGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Arthur Bourinot, Watcher of Men: selected poems (1947–66) George Bowering, The Silver Wire Leonard Cohen, The Parasites of Heaven John Robert Colombo, Miraculous Montages Robert Finch, Silverthorn Bush and Other Poems." Robert Finch," Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011. Lakshni Gill, During Rain I Plant Chrysanthemums Ralph Gustafson, Sift in an Hourglass George Johnston, Home Free Gwendolyn MacEwen, A Breakfast for Barbarians Richard Outram, Exultante Jubilee Joe Rosenblatt, The LSD Leacock. Toronto: Coach House Press."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. F. R. Scott, Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press."F. R. Scott: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. A. J. M. Smith, and F. R. Scott, editors, The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse, second edition (see also, first edition 1958) Raymond Souster, ed. New Wave Canada, anthology of seven young writers Miriam Waddington, The Glass Trumpet
India, in English Nissim Ezekiel, Collected Poems ( Poetry in English ),Anup C. Nair and Rajesh I. Patel, "22. Nissim Ezekiel the Poet: A Bird's Eyeview", pp 248, 257-259, 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 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Bharatmata: A Prayer ( Poetry in English ), an experimental work published by the author's own publishing house; Bombay: Ezra-Fakir PressMehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 259, Columbia University Press, 2003, , retrieved July 18, 2010 Dom Moraes, Beldam & Others ( Poetry in English ) Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 250, Columbia University Press, 2003, , retrieved July 18, 2010 Gieve Patel, Poems ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai: Nissim Ezekiel .Web page titled "Gieve Patel" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 G. S. Sharat Chandra, Bharata Natyam Dancer and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971 (however, on page 597 an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972") Leela Dharmaraj, Slum Silhouette and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 R. P. N. Sinha, editor, A Book of English Verse on Indian Soil, New Delhi: Orient LongmansLal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, second edition, 1971, and Rajyalakshmi, P. V., The Lyric Spring: The Poetic Achievement of Sarojini Naidu, p 214, Abhinav Publications, 1977
Ireland Austin Clarke, Mnemosyne Lay in Dust, Dublin: Dolmen PressM. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, "Selected Bibliography: Individual Volumes by Poets Discussed", pp 334-340 Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Thomas Kinsella, Wormwood, Dublin: Dolmen Press; book widely available in the United Kingdom Louis MacNeice, The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by E. R. Dodds, including "Mayfly", "Snow", "Autumn Journal XVI", "Meeting Point", "Autobiography", "the Libertine", "Western Landscape", "Autumn Sequel XX", "The Once-in-Passing", "House on a Cliff", "Soap Suds", "The Suicide" and "Star-gazer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom,Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, John Montague, All Legendary Obstacles, Dublin: Dolmen Press
United Kingdom W. H. Auden, English poet published in the United States: About the House, first published in the United States, 1965Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Collected Shorter Poems 1927–57 Karen Gershon, Selected Poems Gavin Bantock, Christ George Barker, Dreams of a Summer Night John Betjeman, High and Low Basil Bunting, Briggflatts Angela Carter, Unicorn Lawrence Durrell, The Ikons, and Other Poems Tom Earley, A Welshman in Bloomsbury Gavin Ewart, Pleasures of the Flesh Elaine Feinstein, In a Green Eye, Goliard Press Robert Graves, Collected PoemsRichard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, J. C. Hall, The Burning Hare Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Philip Hobsbaum, In Retreat Christopher Isherwood, Exhumations, stories, articles and poetry; an English writer living in and published in the United States Elizabeth Jennings, The Mind Has Mountains Thomas Kinsella, Wormwood, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Philip Larkin, The North Ship Richard Logue, Logue's ABC Norman MacCaig, Surroundings Louis MacNeice, The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by E. R. Dodds, including "Mayfly", "Snow", "Autumn Journal XVI", "Meeting Point", "Autobiography", "the Libertine", "Western Landscape", "Autumn Sequel XX", "The Once-in-Passing", "House on a Cliff", "Soap Suds", "The Suicide" and "Star-gazer", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Ruth Pitter, Still by Choice Sir Herbert Read, Collected Poems, Horizon Press Peter Redgrove, The Force and Other Poems, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Jon Silkin, New and Selected Poems Stevie Smith, The Frog Prince, and Other Poems Gillian Smyth, The Nitrogen Dreams of a Wide Girl Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press, American R.S. Thomas, Pietà, Welsh Anthony Thwaite and John Hollander publish the first anthology of double dactyls, Jiggery Pokery Charles Tomlinson, American Scenes, and Other Poems, London: Macmillan David Wevill, A Christ of the Ice Floes
United States A.R. Ammons, Northfield Poems John Ashbery, Rivers and Mountains Ted Berrigan, Some Things Paul Blackburn, 16 Sloppy Haiku and a Lyric for Robert Reardon Sing Song translator, Poem of the Cid Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Robert Creeley, Poems 1950-1965Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Robert Duncan, The Years as Catches Randall Jarrell (died 1965), The Lost World (published posthumously) Josephine Jacobsen, The Animal Inside LeRoi Jones, Black Art Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree James Merrill, Nights and Days W. S. Merwin, Collected Poems, New York: AtheneumWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Sylvia Plath, Ariel, New York: Harper & Row (London: Faber and Faber 1965) American poet in the United Kingdom A. K. Ramanujan, The Striders (Indian poet living in the United States) Kenneth Rexroth, Collected Shorter Poems Adrienne Rich, Necessities of Life, W. W. Norton & Company Theodore Roethke, Roethke: Collected Poems Anne Sexton, Live or Die Louis Simpson, Selected Poems (West Indian poet living in the United States) Gary Snyder, A Range of Poems, London: Fulcrum Press William Stafford, The Rescued Year Robert Penn Warren, Selected Poems, New and Old: 1923-1966 Louis Zukofsky, All: the collected short poems 1956–1964, W. W. Norton & Company
Criticism, scholarship, biography Wallace Stevens, Letters of Wallace Stevens (posthumous), edited by Holly Stevens (his daughter)Web page titled "Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 9, 2009. 2009-05-04.
Other in English James K. Baxter, Pig Island Letters (New Zealand) Louise Bennett, Jamaica Labrish, Jamaica"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 John Pepper Clark, A Reed in the Tide (Nigeria) Keith Harrison, Points in a Journey (Australia)
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 Benny Anderson (poet), Portrætgalleri Thorkild Bjørnvig, Vibrationer Poul Borum, Dagslys Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Der er æg i mit skæg (prose sketches and poetry) Knud Holst, Samexistens Henrik Nordbrandt, Digte ("Poems")Web page titled "Henrik Nordbrandt" at the Poetry International website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Bundgård Povlsen, Døgndrift
Finland Paavo Haavikko, Puut, kaikki heidän vihreytensä, ("The Trees, All Their Greenness") Eeva-Liisa Manner, Kirjoitettu kivi ("The Inscribed Stone"), poems and translations from contemporary Spanish poets Pentti Saarikoski, Ääneen ("Out Loud")
French language
Canada, in French Roger Brien: Prométhée Le Jour se lève Roland Giguère, L'Age de la parole Marie Laberge, D'un Cri à l'autre Rina Lasnier, L'Arbre blanc Suzanne Paradis, Le Visage offensé