1978 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published
- Stevie, a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released
[edit] 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:
[edit] Canada
- Margaret Avison, Sunblue[1]
- Earle Birney, Fall by Fury
- Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man[1]
- Don Domanski, Heaven
- Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
- Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer
- Pat MacKay, The Pat Lowther Poem
- Sean O'Huigin, The Inks and the Pencils and the Looking Back
- Michael Ondaatje, Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980[2]
- Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
- Al Purdy, Being Alive
- Peter Trower, Bush Poems
- Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
- Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
- George Woodcock:
[edit] India in English
- Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Angles of Retreat, year of publication uncertain, New Delhi: Samkaleen Prakashan[4]
- Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann[4]
- Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[4]
- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop[4]
[edit] Ireland
- Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral"[5] Dublin: Dolmen Press[6]
- Tom Paulin, Personal Column,[7] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
[edit] New Zealand
- Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole[8]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Peter Ackroyd, Country Life[7]
- Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976[7]
- Gillian Clarke, The Sundial,[7] Welsh
- D. J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated[7]
- Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)[7]
- James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications[9]
- Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan[7]
- Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems[7]
- Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems[7]
- Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
- Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae,[7] including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
- Ted Hughes:
- A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948[10]
- Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart[7]
- Philip Larkin, Femmes Damnees[7]
- Liz Lochhead, Islands[7]
- George MacBeth, Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977)[7]
- Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Collected Poems 1920–1976,[7] two volumes (posthumous)
- John Montague, The Great Cloak
- Andrew Motion, The Pleasure Steamers[7]
- Norman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black Combe[7]
- Tom Paulin, Personal Column,[7] Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
- Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory[7]
- Carol Rumens, A Necklace of Mirrors[7]
- Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree[7]
- D. M. Thomas, The Honeymoon Voyage[7]
- R.S. Thomas, Frequencies[7]
- Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire
[edit] United States
- Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
- Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
- Robert Creeley:
- Hello
- Later[11]
- Ed Dorn:
- Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press,[12] ISBN 978-0914728245
- Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press[12]
- Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)[11]
- Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
- John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
- James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
- James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
- Mary Oliver:
- The Night Traveler
- Twelve Moons
- George Oppen, Primitive (Black Sparrow Press)
- Mary Oppen (George Oppen's wife), Meaning a Life, a memoir (Black Sparrow Press)
- Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
- Patti Smith, Babel
- William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
- Rosmarie Waldrop, The Road Is Everywhere or Stop This Body (Open Places)
- James Wright, To a Blossoming Pear Tree
- Louis Zukofsky:
- A (University of California Press)
- 80 Flowers
[edit] Other in English
- Jennifer Maiden, Birthstones, Angus & Robertson, Australia
[edit] Works 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:
[edit] Arabic language
- Nazir Qabbani, Syrian:
- I Love You, and the Rest is to Come
- To Beirut the Feminine, With My Love
- May You Be My Love For Another Year
[edit] French language
[edit] France
- Guillevic, Du Domaine
- Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
- Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
- Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
[edit] Canada
- Marcel Bélanger:
- Fragments paniques
- Infranoir
- Normand de Bellefeuille, La Belle Conduite
[edit] German language
[edit] Germany
- Alfred Andersch, ''Empōrt euch der Himmel ist blau
- Ingeborg Bachmann, works, in a four-volume edition
- Konrad Beyer, Gesamtwerk
- Nicolas Born, Gedichte 1967-1978
- Erich Fried, Die bunten Getûme
- J. Hans, U. Herms, and R. Thenior, Lyrik-Katalog Bundesrepublik, anthology[13]
- Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
- Johannes Schenk, Zittern
- Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935
[edit] Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
- Walter Hinck, Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess (scholarship)[14]
- Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)[14]
- William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 10: 3798805202 ISBN 13: 9783798805200 (scholarship)[14]
[edit] Hebrew language
- D. Avidan, a poetry book
- P. Sadeh, a poetry book
- E. Megged, a poetry book
- M. Ben-Shaul, a poetry book
- Zelda (poet), a poetry book
[edit] Italy
- Mario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversia
- Leonardo Sinisgalli, Dimenticatoio
- Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie
- Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973
[edit] Norway
- Hans Børli, Dag og Drøm: Dikt i utvalg ("Day and Dream") (Norway)
- Paal Brekke, Dikt 1949-1722 (Norway)
- Halldis Moren Vesaa, Dikt i samling (Norway)
[edit] Portuguese language
- Rui Knopfli, O Escriba Acocorado (Portugal)
- Waldimir Diniz, Até o 8° round (Brazilian)
- Cassiano Nunes, Madrugada (Brazilian)
- Accioly Lopes, his first volume of verse (Brazilian)
[edit] Spanish language
[edit] Spain
- Eduardo Haro Ibars, Perdiddas blancas
- Féliz de Asúa, Pasar y siete canciones (he also published a novel this year, Les lecciones suspendidas)
- Luis Antonio de Villena, Viaje a Bizancio
- Pere Gimferrer, a collection of his verse translated from Catalan to Castilian by the author
- García Hortelano, editor, anthology of verse by the Generation of the '50s, including Caballero Bonald, Angel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral
[edit] Latin America
- Oscar Hahn, Arte de morir
- Pablo Neruda, Para nacer he nacido, previously unpublished diary entries, memoirs and other writings (posthumous), put out by his widow, Matilde de Neruda and Miguel Otero Silva (of Venezuela)
[edit] Sweden
- Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
- Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
- Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter
[edit] Yiddish
- Shoyme Roitman, a poetry book
- Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
- Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
- Hayyim Plotkin, a poetry book
[edit] Other
- Odysseus Elytis, Μαρία Νεφέλη ("Maria Nefeli") Greece
- Joseph Brodsky, editor of two expatriate Russian poetry anthologies:
- Konets prekrasnoy epokh: Stikhotvoreniya 1964-71
- Chast' rechi: Stkikhotvoreniya 1972-76
- Jaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in Gujarati[15]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas
- Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
[edit] United States
- Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later the post would be called "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress"): William Meredith appointed this year.
- National Book Award for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
- Walt Whitman Award: Karen Snow, Wonders
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Josephine Miles
[edit] France
- Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silence
[edit] Other
- Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
[edit] Births
- June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer
- Also:
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Gilbert Highet, 71, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian, of cancer
- February 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905, American children's story writer and poet
- March 19 – Faith Baldwin, 84
- March 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
- April 14 – F.R. Leavis, 82, English literary critic
- May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
- May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
- July 2 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek
- June 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
- September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
- Also:
- Sankara Kurup (born 1901), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[16]
- P. Kunhiraman Nair (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[16]
- Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (born 1919), Argentine author and poet
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9781405113618, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "The Works of George Woodcock" at the Anarchy Archives website, which states: "This list is based on The Record of George Woodcock (issued for his eightieth birthday) and Ivan Avakumovic's bibliography in A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock, edited by W.H. New, 1978, with additions to bring it up to date"; accessed April 24, 2008
- ^ a b c d Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, ISBN 0856405612
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007
- ^ "Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares", The Guardian, by John Sutherland, June 14, 2005, accessed April 22, 2008
- ^ a b Everett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp 473-474
- ^ a b c Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p 474
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ a b Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, ' 'Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology' ', pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- Britannica Book of the Year 1979 ("for events of 1978"), published by Encyclopaedia Britannica 1979 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
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