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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
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, Sunblue1
- Earle Birney, Fall by Fury
- Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man1
- 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, 19802
- 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:
New Zealand
- Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red Mole4
United Kingdom
- James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publications5
- Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems
- Seamus Heaney: After Summer, Gallery Press
- John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
- Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Rivival of Christian Architecture in England"
- A. Norman Jeffares, W.B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 19486
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Collected Poems, two volumes (posthumous)
- John Montague, The Great Cloak
- Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory
- R.S. Thomas, Frequencies
- Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire
United States
- Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
- Paul Blackburn, translator (posthumous), Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
- Robert Creeley:
- Hello
- Later7
- Ed Dorn:
- Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press,8 ISBN 978-0914728245
- Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press8
- Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)7
- 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
Other in English
- Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, Dolmen Press, Dublin, Ireland9
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:
French language
France
- Guillevic, Du Domaine
- Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
- Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
- Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
Canada
- Marcel Bélanger:
- Fragments paniques
- Infranoir
- Normand de Bellefeuille, La Belle Conduite
German language
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, anthology10
- Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
- Johannes Schenk, Zittern
- Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
- Walter Hinck, Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess (scholarship)11
- Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)11
- William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, ISBN 10: 3798805202 ISBN 13: 9783798805200 (scholarship)11
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
Italy
- Mario Luzi, Al Fuoco della controversia
- Leonardo Sinisgalli, Dimenticatoio
- Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie
- Franco Fortini, Una volta per sempre, poesie 1938-1973
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)
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)
Spanish language
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
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)
Sweden
- Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
- Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
- Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter
Yiddish
- Shoyme Roitman, a poetry book
- Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
- Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
- Hayyim Plotkin, a poetry book
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 Gujarati12
Awards and honors
Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
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
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
France
- Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Jean-Claude Renard, La Lumière du silence
Other
- Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (Cuba): Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
Births
- June 7 — Jesse Ball, American poet and writer
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
- date not known – Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, (born 1919), Argentine author and poet
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
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Thomas McCarthy" at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 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
- 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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