Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of English poet Ted Hughes (and ex-wife of Canadian poet David Wevill), gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College. Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press. He said at the time: "I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I decided to starve." Poets Graves Web site, Web page titled "Charles Bukowski", accessed November 11, 2006. Howard Nemerov named Edward Mallinckrodt Distringuished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, posts which he will hold until his death in 1991. The Kenyon Review is closed by Kenyon College after 30 years; it will be restarted by the college in 1979 Sir Arthur Bliss writes a cantata "The world is charged with the grandeur of God", from Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet of the same first line. Louise Bogan retires after 38 years as poetry critic for The New Yorker. Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1961 and published intermittently thereafter, prints its last issue. Poets associated with the magazine included Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, bpNichol when he lived in Vancouver.Roberts, 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. First issue of poetry magazine The Lace Curtain founded and edited by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce under their New Writers Press imprint in Dublin. It will publish six issues until 1978 Alexander Tvardovsky, editor of Novy Mir, a Soviet literary magazine, is under attack this year and threatened with dismissal for "spreading cosmopolitan ideas", for "mocking the Soviet peoples' most sacred feelings" and for "denigrating Soviet patriotism". He responds that he was the "real patriot" and was opposed to "reactionary, nationalistic, neo-Slavophil" literary currents1970 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1969, "Literature" article, "Soviet" section, p. 485.
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 Milton Acorn, I've Tasted My Blood Earle Birney. The poems of Earle Birney: a New Canadian Library selection. (New Canadian library original N06.) Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. George Bowering, The Gangs of Kosmos Phyllis Gotlieb, Ordinary, Moving Ralph Gustafson, Ixion's Wheel Irving Layton, Selected Poems. Wynne Francis ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Irving Layton, The Whole Bloody Bird: Obs, Aphs & Pomes. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Shadow Maker Tom Marshall, The Silences of Fire Alden Nowlan, The Mysterious Naked Man Michael Ondaatje, The Man with Seven Toes, Toronto: Coach House PressWeb page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 Raymond Souster, So Far So Good: Poems, 1938/1968. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Miriam Waddington, Say Yes
India, in English
P. Lal, editor, Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and Credo, Calcutta, Writers Workshop, India, anthology (second, expanded edition, 1971, however, on page 597 of the second edition, an "editor's note" states contents "on the following pages are a supplement to the first edition" and is dated "1972")Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 597, 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") Daisy Aldan, editor, Poems of India; New York, United States.Lal, P., Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology & a Credo, p 594, 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")
United Kingdom W. H. Auden, City Without WallsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Alan Bold, A Perpetual Motion Machine Alan Brownjohn, Sandgrains on a Tray Basil Bunting, Collected Poems Charles Causley, Figure of 8 Barry Cole, Moonsearch Donald Davies, Essex Poems 1963–67 Douglas Dunn, Terry Street James Fenton, Put Thou Thy Tears Into My Bottle, poetry Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Padraic Fiacc, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: By the Black Stream (edited) The Wearing of the Black Roy Fisher, Collected Poems Thom Gunn, Poems 1950–1966 David Harsent, A Violent Country Seamus Heaney, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber A Lough Neagh Sequence, Phoenix Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Collected Poems, 1932-1967 Molly Holden, To Make me Grieve Anselm Hollo, The Coherences Elizabeth Jennings, The Animals' Arrival Tom Leonard, Scottish dialect poet, Six Glasgow Poems Laurence Lerner, Selves Christopher Logue New Numbers The Girls Michael Longley, No Continuing City Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, A Clyack-Sheaf Roger McGough, Watchwords Brian Patten, Notes to the Hurrying Man J. H. Prynne, The White Stones Iain Crichton Smith, From Bourgeois Land Jon Stallworthy, Root and Branch Edward Storey, North Bank Night David Sutton, Out on a Limb Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World Sydney Tremayne, The Turning Sky Vernon Watkins, Uncollected Poems, introduction by Kathleen Raine; Welsh poet, posthumous Kenneth White, translator, Selected Poems, translated from the original French of André Breton; publisher: Jonathan CapeAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982
Children of Albion poetry anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, edited by Michael Horovitz, was the first anthology to present a wide-ranging selection of the new British Poetry Revival movement. Poems from these writers were included in it:
John Arden Peter Armstrong Pete Brown Jim Burns Johnny Byrne Charles Cameron David Chaloner Barry Cole John Cotton Andrew Crozier Dave Cunliffe Felix de Mendelssohn Raymond Durgnat
Paul Evans Ian Hamilton Finlay Roy Fisher Harry Guest Lee Harwood Michael Hastings Spike Hawkins Geoffrey Hazard Piero Heliczer Pete Hoida Anselm Hollo Frances Horovitz Michael Horovitz
Libby Houston Mark Hyatt John James Roger Jones David Kerrison Seymour King Bernard Kops David Kozubei Herbert Lomas Anna Lovell Paul Matthews Michael McCafferty John McGrath
Tom McGrath Stuart Mills Ted Milton Adrian Mitchell Edwin Morgan Tina Morris Philip O'Connor Neil Oram Tom Pickard Paul Potts Tom Raworth Carlyle Reedy
Bernard Saint Michael Shayer David Sladen Tom Taylor Barry Tebb Chris Torrance Alexander Trocchi Gael Turnbull Patrick Waites Nicholas Snowden Willey William Wyatt Michael X
United States W. H. Auden, City without Walls Ted Berrigan, Peace: Broadside John Berryman: The Dream Songs (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) His Toy, His Dream His Rest (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Paul Blackburn, Two New Poems Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries Lucille Clifton, Good Times, selected as one of the year's best books by The New York Times Robert Creeley, PiecesEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Ed Dorn: Gunslinger: Book II, Black Sparrow PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 The Midwest Is That Space Between the Buffalo Statler and the Lawrence Eldridge, T. Williams The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot, Cottonwood Twenty-four Love Songs, Frontier Press Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, translators, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Tree Between Two Walls, Black Sparrow Press LeRoi Jones, editor, Black Magic: Poetry, 1961-1967 Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot (revised from the 1959 edition), Canadian writing and published in the United States (criticism) James Merrill, The Fire Screen W. S. Merwin: Animae, San Francisco: KayakWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Translator, Transparence of the World, poems by Jean Follain, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) Translator, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda; London: Cape (reprinted in 2004 with an introduction by Christina Garcia, New York: Penguin Books) Translator, Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Chicago: Follett (reprinted in 1988 and 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) Vladimir Nabokov, Poems and Problems, Lorine Niedecker, T & G: Collected Poems, 1936-1966 Ron Padgett, Great Balls of Fire, Holt, Rinehart & Winston Charles Reznikoff, By the Well of Living & Seeing and The Fifth Book of the Maccabees Aram Saroyan, Pages, Random House James Schuyler, Freely Espousing Charles Simic, Jim Harrison, George Quasha, Dan Gerber, J.D. Reed, Five Blind Men, (Sumac Press) Gary Snyder, Smokey the Bear Sutra Louis Zukofsky, in collaboration with his wife, Celia, publishes an experimental Latin translation Catullus
Other English language James K. Baxter, Rock Woman, New Zealand Charles Brasch: Not Far Off: Poems, Christchurch: Caxton Press, New ZealandWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Edward Brathwaite, Islands, third part of his The Arrivants trilogy, which also includes Rights of Passage (1967) and Masks (1968), Caribbean"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 Sam Hunt, From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69 New Zealand Donagh MacDonagh, A Warning to Conquerors, Ireland Les Murray, The Weatherboard Cathedral, Australia Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 Wole Soyinka, Poems from Prison (Nigeria) Derek Walcott, The Gulf, Caribbean
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, in French André Major, Poèmes pour durer Pierre Chatillon, Soleil de bivouac Jean-Guy Pilon: Comme Eau retenue (Paris), a republishing of all of his previous books of poems in one volume Saisons pour la continuelle, Paris: SeghersWeb page titled "Jean-Guy Pilon" at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Guy Robert, five books of poems