Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London. Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye. October 10 — Sir John Betjeman is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom."From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him", The Guardian, retrieved 5 December 2012. November — The American Poetry Review founded by Stephen Berg (poet) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. W. H. Auden, now a U.S. citizen, declares his New York neighborhood is too dangerous and returns to Oxford from the United States for the winter. The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland, goes out of existence this year. The group was started by Philip Hobsbaum when he moved to Belfast in 1963 and which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critics Edna Longley and Michael Allen. Heaney moves from Belfast to work in Dublin and live in County Wicklow. James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's best-known poets, writes two original poems on the wallpaper of a room in the home of painter Michael Illingworth and his wife Dene White. Soon after, Baxter dies. In 1973, after Baxter's death, the Illingworths remove the sections of wallpaper containing the poems and send them to the Hocken Library to be stored with Baxter's other papers."Best New Zealand Poems 2001 / James K. Baxter", Best New Zealand Poems Web site, retrieved 11 October 2007.
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 Anne Elder, For the Record A.D. Hope, Collected Poems Les Murray, Poems Against Economics Les Murray page at Poetry Archive; accessed October 15, 2007
Canada Earle Birney, Judith Copithorne, Andrew Suknaski, bill bissett, Four Parts Sand a selection of works by these concrete poets Leonard Cohen, The Energy of Slaves David Helwig, The Best Name of Silence George Johnston, Happy Enough: Poems 1935–1972.James Steele, "Johnston, George Benson ", Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1114. Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies and Other Poems. Toronto: Anansi."Dennis Lee: Publications ", Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011. Kenneth Leslie, O'Malley to the Reds And Other Poems. Halifax: By the Author.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, Apr. 15, 2011 Dorothy Livesay, Collected Poems: The Two Seasons. Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson."Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996): Works" , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, Mar. 18, 2011. Gwendolyn MacEwen: * The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan. The Armies of the Moon. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972."Gwendolyn MacEwen ", Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. Don McKay, Moccasins on Concrete: Poems (Canada) James Reaney, Poems. Charles Sangster, The St Lawrence and the Saguenay and other poems; Hesperus and other poems and lyrics, intro. Gordon Johnston (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Buffalo, N.Y.)Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles", Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. Raymond Souster, Selected Poems of Raymond Souster. Michael Maklem ed. Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works ", Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Wilfred Watson, The Sorrowful Canadians
India in English Meena Alexander, Without Place, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Ruskin Bond, It isn't Time That's Passing: Poems, 1970–71, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian Poetry in English, p. 230 (Abhinav Publications, 1984, , ), retrieved June 12, 2009 Margaret Chatterjee, The Sandalwood Tree, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Dilip Chitre, Ambulance Ride,Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p. 258, Columbia University Press, 2003, , retrieved July 18, 2010 Gauri Deshpande, Beyond the Slaughter House, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Shree Devi, Shades of Green, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Mary Vasanti Erulkar, Mandala 2/5, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Samir Das Gupta, Paling Shadows, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Nandita Haksar, Ego and Other Poems, Delhi: Orient Longman Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Gesture of Fleshless Sound, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Dilip Kumar Roy, Hark! His Flute!, Poona: Hari Krishna MandirAmrita Paresh Patel, "24. Selected Poems of Dilip Kumar Roy: A Study", p. 267, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved July 17, 2010 Syed Ameerudin: Poems of Protest, Sumter, South Carolina, United States: Poetry Eastwest; Indian poet, writing in English published in the United States What the Himalayas said and Other Poems, Madras: Kalaivendhan Publishers Pritish Nandy, editor, Indian Poetry in English, anthologyMehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p. 246, Columbia University Press, 2003, , retrieved July 18, 2010 Saleem Peerandina (ed.), Contemporary Indian Poetry in English: An Assessment and Selection, Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.J. G. Bhuva, "The Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla", p. 208, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, , retrieved July 17, 2010
Ireland Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" at The Gallery Press website, accessed May 4, 2008 Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Pearse Hutchinson, Watching the Morning Grow, including "Sometimes Feel", Gallery PressCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, Thomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom John Montague, The Rough Field W. R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumous
New Zealand James K. Baxter: Autumn Testament, not posthumous Stonegut Sugar Works, Junkies and the Fuzz, Ode to Auckland, and Other Poems, posthumous Alistair Campbell, Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch: Pegasus Press Allen Curnow, Trees, Effigies, Moving ObjectsAllen Curnow Web page at New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Bill Manhire, The Elaboration Kendrick Smithyman, Earthquake Weather
United Kingdom J. R. Ackerley (died 1967), Micheldever and Other Poems James Aitchison, Sounds Before Sleep Anne Beresford, Footsteps Martin Booth, The Crying Embers Alan Brownjohn, Warrior's CareerCox, Michael (ed.), The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Florence Bull, Saint David's Day Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Rain-Giver Douglas Dunn, The Happier Life D. J. Enright, Daughters of Earth Elaine Feinstien, At the Edge, Sceptre Press James Fenton, Terminal Moraine "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Seamus Heaney, Wintering Out, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Michael Horovitz, The Wolverhampton Wanderer Ted Hughes, Selected Poems 1957–1967 (see also Selected Poems 1982, New Selected Poems 1995) Thomas Kinsella, Notes from the Land of the Dead Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Liz Lochhead, Memo for Spring George MacBeth, Collected Poems 1958-70 Derek Mahon, Lives. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare Edwin Morgan, Glasgow Sonnets Norman Nicholson, A Local Habitation Brian Patten, And Sometimes It Happens Mervyn Peake, A Book of Nonsense Peter Porter, Preaching to the Converted Sally Purcell, The Holly Queen Peter Redgrove, Dr Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit, and Other Poems R. S. Thomas, H'm, Welsh Norman Nicholson, A Local Habitation Kathleen Raine, the Lost Country W. R. Rodgers, Collected Poems, Northern Ireland poet, published in the United Kingdom; posthumous Vernon Scannell, Selected Poems Peter Scupham, The Snowing Globe Stevie Smith, Scorpion, and Other Poems, posthumous Charles Tomlinson, Written on Water
Anthologies in the United Kingdom Helen Gardner, The New Oxford Book of English Verse, replaced the 1939 revised selection by Quiller-Couch. 1972 John Heath-Stubbs, co-editor, Penguin Modern Poets 20
United States A.R. Ammons: Briefings: Poems Small and Easy Collected Poems: 1951–1971, winner of the National Book Award in 1973 John Ashbery, Three Poems W. H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Tom Clark, Back In Boston Again John Berryman, Delusions, Etc. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) posthumous Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, editors, An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press) Harold Bloom, Yeats (criticism)Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, 1986 paperback edition, Bibliographical Note, p 130 Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, McFadden, Robert D., "Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55", obituary, The New York Times, January 29, 1996, accessed October 18, 2007 Russian–American Gwendolyn Brooks, Aurora Robert Creeley, A Day BookEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008 Stephen Dobyns, Concurring Beasts Ed Dorn: The Hamadryas Baboon at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Wine Press"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at Poetry Foundation; retrieved May 8, 2008 Gunslinger, Book III: The Winterbook, Prologue to the Great Book IV Kornerstone, Frontier Press H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Hermetic Definition Michael S. Harper, Song: "I want a Witness""Michael S. Harper" at Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 LeRoi Jones as Amiri Baraka, Spirit Reach Philip Levine, They Feed They Lion Archibald MacLeish, The Human Season: Selected Poems, 1926–1972, selected poems James Merrill, Braving the Elements Ned O'Gorman, The Flag the Hawk Flies Mary Oliver, The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems George Oppen, Collected Poems (only in Great Britain) and Seascape: Needle's Eye Michael Palmer, Blake's Newton (Black Sparrow Press) Kenneth Rexroth: 100 Poems from the French (translator) Orchard Boat (translator) Theodore Roethke, Straw for Fire, posthumous selections made by David Wagoner from the poet's notebooks Louis Simpson, Adventures of the Letter I, including "American Dreams" and "Doubting" Patti Smith, Seventh Heaven James Tate, Absences Eleanor Ross Taylor, Welcome EumenidesNews release, "Eleanor Ross Taylor Awarded 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize" , April 13, 2010, The Poetry Foundation, retrieved June 9, 2010 Rosmarie Waldrop, The Aggressive Ways of the Casual Stranger (Random House) J. Rodolfo Wilcock (Argentine), La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, translated as The Temple of Iconoclasts
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