Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7 a.m.1971 Britannica Book of the Year, covering events of 1970, published by The Encyclopædia Britannica (1971), "Literature" article, "Canada" section, "French Language" subsection, page 457 Release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear (especially "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo") and Lewis Carroll First issue of Tapia (later named the Trinidad & Tobago Review) published"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 In the United Kingdom, "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices", a poem by Pete Morgan, is set to music by Al Stewart and included in his "Zero She Flies" album this year.Salter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010
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 Robert Adamson Canticles on the Skin B. Elliott and A. Mitchell, Bards in the Wilderness: Australian Colonial Poetry to 1920, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 John Tranter, Parallax, South Head Press
Canada Earle Birney, Rag & Bone Shop. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart)."Earle Birney: Published Works ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 3, 2011. Joan Finnigan, It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out Gail Fox, Dangerous Season R.A.D. Ford, The Solitary City, his poems and translations from Russian and Portuguese John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse Michael Ondaatje: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (adapted by Ondaatje into a play of the same name in 1973), Toronto: AnansiWeb page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943–)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 ; New York: Berkeley, 1975 Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Joe Rosenblatt, Bumblebee Dithyramb."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications ", Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011.
Anthologies in Canada Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poems John Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songs Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. New Poems of the Seventies. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead, eds. Made in Canada. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970. Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Generation Now. Longman Canada.
India in English Shiv Kumar, Articulate Silences ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .P. Lal (1971), p 658 Keki N. Daruwalla, Under Orion ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . also New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt Ltd.;Web page titled "Keki Daruwalla" , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Sukanta Chaudhuri, The Glass King and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Gauri Deshpande, Lost Love ( Poetry in English ), Suniti Namjoshi, More Poems( Poetry in English ),P. Lal (1971), p 366 Roshen Alkazi, Seventeen More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . (see also Seventeen Poems 1965)Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Margaret Chatterjee, Towards the Sun ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Peacock Smiles ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . N. Prasad, Iconography of Time, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .P. Lal (1971), p 408 Monika Varma, Green Leaves & Gold ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .P. Lal (1971), p 560
Ireland Leland Bardwell, The Mad Cyclist Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Night Drive, Gilbertson A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Sonnets Bill Manhire, Malady F. McKay, New Zealand Poetry, scholarshipPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "History and Criticism" section, p 837 Vincent O'Sullivan, editor, An Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand Verse J. E. Weir, The Poetry of James K. Baxter, a critical study
United Kingdom
Dannie Abse, Selected Poems Margaret Atwood, The Journals of Susanna Moodie George Barker, At Thurgarton Church R. H. Bowden, Poems from Italy Frederick Broadie, My Findings Michael Dennis Browne, The Wife of Winter Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin Donald Davie, Six Epistles to Eva Hesse C. Day-Lewis, The Whispering RootsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Patric Dickinson, More Than Time Clifford Dyment, Collected Poems D.J. Enright, Selected Poems W.S. Graham, Malcolm Mooney's Land Ian Hamilton, The Visit Tony Harrison, The Loiners Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Night Drive, Gilbertson A Boy Driving His Father to Confession, Sceptre Press Glyn Hughes, Neighbours Ted Hughes, Crow C. Day-Lewis, The Whispering Roots George MacBeth, The Burning Cone Norman MacCaig, A Man in My Position Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Poems Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, William Neill and Stuart MacGregor, Four Points of a Saltire (includes some poems in Scottish Gaelic) Derek Mahon, Beyond Howth Head Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Walter de la Mare, The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare Stuart Montgomery, Circe Brian Patten, The Homecoming Christopher Pilling, Snakes and Girls, won the new Poets Award sponsored by Leeds university and the Yorkshire Post Peter Porter, The Last of England Burns Singer, Collected Poems (posthumous) Iain Crichton Smith, Selected Poems Charles Tomlinson, The Way of a World John Wain, Letters to Five Artists Ted Walker, The Night Bathers Hugo Williams, Sugar Daddy Mary Wilson (wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson), Selected Poems, "easily the 'best selling'" poetry book of the year.1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Literature" article, "English" section, "Poetry" subsection, page 460 Clive Young, Ashdragons, Flowerdeath and Sun
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Alan Bold, editor, The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse Peter Robins, editor, Doves for the Seventies Edward Lucie-Smith, editor, British Poetry since 1945, Penguin (2nd edition 1985) F.E.S. Finn, editor, Poems of the Sixties Howard Sergeant, editor, Poetry of the 1940s
United States A.R. Ammons, Uplands John Ashbery, The Double Dream of Spring Paul Blackburn: The Assassination of President McKinley Three Dreams and an Old Poem Gin: Four Journal Pieces Louise Bogan, A Poet's Alphabet Philip Booth, Margins Stanley Burnshaw, The Seamless Web Gwendolyn Brooks, Family Pictures Raymond Carver, Winter Insomnia J. P. Clark, Casualties: Poems 1966–68, Nigerian poet published in the United States Clark Coolidge, Space, Harper & Row L. Sprague de Camp, Demons and Dinosaurs James Dickey, The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy Ed Dorn: Gunslinger I & II, Fulcrum PressWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929–1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Songs Set Two: a Short Count, Frontier Press, Michael S. Harper, Dear John, Dear Coultrane,Web page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 nominated for the National Book Award John Hollander, Images of Voice, criticism David Ignatow, Poems: 1934-1969 LeRoi Jones, It's Nation Time Shirley Kaufman, the Floor Keeps Turning Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet William Meredith, Earth Walk W. S. Merwin: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971) Signs, with graphics by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall PressWeb page titled "W. S. Merwin (1927–)" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Lorine Niedecker, My Life by Water: Collected Poems, 1936-1968 (Fulcrum Press) Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Ezra Pound's Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX to CXVII Mark Strand, Darker, Canadian native living in and published in the United States May Swenson, Iconographs Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take Reed Whittemore, Fifty Poems Fifty William Carlos Williams, Imaginations (posthumous)
Other in English J. P. Clark, Casualties: Poems 1966–68, Nigerian poet published in the United States
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:
Arabic language Nizar Qabbani, Syrian: Savage Poems Book of Love 100 Love Letters
Denmark Thorkild Bjørnvig, a book of "collected or selected works"1971 Britannica Book of the Year (covering events of 1970), 1971, published by the Encyclopædia Britannica, this is as much information about the book as is given in the "Literature" article, "Danish" subsection, page 456 Regin Dahl, Ærinde uden betydning Ivan Malinovski, a book of "collected or selected works" Jess Ørnsbo, a book of "collected or selected works" Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi, Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, pp 270-274, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
French language
Canada Gaston Miron, L'Homme Rapaillé Yves Préfontaine: Débâcle À l'Orée des travaux Fernand Dumont, Parler de septembre Raoul Duguay, Manifeste de l'Infonie Nicole Brossard, Suite logique Louis-Philippe Hébert, Les Mangeurs de terre
France M. Béalu, La Nuit nous garde Alain Bosquet and Pierre Seghers, Poèmes de l'année L. Brauquier, Feux d'épaves Mohammed Dib, FormulairesBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Emily Dickinson, Poésies complètes, translated from the original English by Guy Jean Forgue; Aubier-Flammarion Pierre Emmanuel, pen name of Noël Mathieu, Jacob Andre Frenaud, Depuis toujours déjaAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 Eugene Guilleveic, Paroi Michel Leiris, Mots sans mémoire C. Le Quintrec, La Marche des arbres M. Manoll, Incarnada J.L. Moreau, Sous le masque des mots J. Tardieu, Poèmes à jouer Vandercammen, Horizon de la vigie
Germany Paul Celan, Lightduress (Lichtzwang, Romanian, writing in German)
Hebrew M. Temkin, Shirai Yerushalayim