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1978 in poetry
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1978 poetry literature
Events
Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United States
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, SunblueRoberts, Neil (ed.), A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved January 3, 2009
Earle Birney, Fall by Fury & Other Makings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Earle Birney: Published Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110313081519/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/birney/pub.htm 2011-03-13 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, May 3, 2011.
Dionne Brand, Fore Day Morning: Poems
William Wilfred Campbell, Vapour and Blue: Souster selects Campbell. Raymond Souster ed. Paget Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html 2011-08-17 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, May 7, 2011.
Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man
Don Domanski, Heaven
Phyllis Gotlieb, The Works: Collected Poems
George Benson Johnston, Taking a Grip: Poems 1971-78.James Steele, "Johnston, George Benson https://web.archive.org/web/20100419174836/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004158 2010-04-19 ," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1114.
Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: Canadian Fine Editions."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm 2011-07-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011.
Irving Layton, The Tightrope Dancer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dennis Lee, The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press."Dennis Lee: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110409172935/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/lee/pub.htm 2011-04-09 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, Apr. 19, 2011.
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"Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008
Craig Powell, Rehearsal for Dancers
Al Purdy, Being Alive
Joe Rosenblatt, Loosely Tied Hands. Black Moss."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm 2011-08-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online. March 22, 2011.
A.J.M. Smith The Classic Shade: Selected Poems
Peter Trower, Bush Poems
Sean Virgo, Deathwatch on Skidegate Narrows
Miriam Waddington, Mister Never
Wilfred Watson, I Begin With Counting
George Woodcock:
The Kestrel and Other Poems of Past and Present. Sunderland, Durham: Coelfrith Press, Canada"The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives: "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
Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, criticism
India in English
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Microcosmographia Poetica, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India .Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved June 12, 2009
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Sap-wood, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.
Margaret Chatterjee, The Sound of Wings, New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann
Ireland
Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in Dublin
Thomas McCarthy, The First Convention, including "State Funeral"Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Dublin: Dolmen Press"Thomas McCarthy" https://web.archive.org/web/20100515195236/http://ireland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9272 2010-05-15 at the Poetry International Website, accessed May 2, 2008
Tom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
New Zealand
Alan Brunton, Oh Ravachol, Red MoleRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson
United Kingdom
Peter Ackroyd, Country LifeCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Al Alvarez, Autumn to Autumn and Selected Poems 1953–1976
Gillian Clarke, The Sundial, Welsh
D. J. Enright, Paradise Illustrated
Gavin Ewart, All My Little Ones (see also More Little Ones 1982)
James Fenton, A Vacant Possession, poems, TNR Publicationshttp://www.jamesfenton.com/books/ Books by Fenton jamesfenton.com 2012-03-10 2016-08-08
Roy Fisher, The Thing About Joe Sullivan
Geoffrey Grigson, The Fiesta and Other Poems
Tony Harrison, From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems
Seamus Heaney, After Summer, Gallery Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
John Heath-Stubbs, The Watchman's Flute
Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae, including the sonnet sequences "Lachrimae" and "An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England"
Ted Hughes:
Cave Birds
Moon-Bells, and Other Poems, for children
A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet, United Kingdom, biography, revision of the first edition of 1948https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/14/guardianobituaries.obituaries Obituary: A. Norman Jeffares The Guardian London John Sutherland (author) John Sutherland 2005-06-14 2008-04-22
Jenny Joseph, The Thinking Heart
Philip Larkin, Femmes Damnees
Liz Lochhead, Islands
George MacBeth, Buying a Heart (first published in the United States 1977)
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (died September 9), Collected Poems 1920–1976, two volumes (posthumous)
John Montague, The Great Cloak
Andrew Motion, The Pleasure Steamers
Norman Nicholson, The Shadow of Black Combe
Tom Paulin, Personal Column, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom
Craig Raine, The Onion, Memory
Tom Rawling, A Sort of Killing
Carol Rumens, A Necklace of Mirrors
Jon Stallworthy, A Familiar Tree
D. M. Thomas, The Honeymoon Voyage
R. S. Thomas, Frequencies
Jeffrey Wainwright, Heart's Desire
United States
Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
Paul Blackburn (died 1971), translator, Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry
Joseph Payne Brennan, As Evening Advances (Crystal Visions Press)
Robert Creeley:
Hello
LaterEverett, Nicholas, "Robert Creeley's Life and Career" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705161256/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/creeley/life.htm 2008-07-05 at the Modern American Poetry website, accessed May 1, 2008
Ed Dorn:
Hello, La Jolla, Wingbow Press,"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 978-0-914728-24-5
Selected Poems, edited by Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press
Cynthia Dubin Edelberg, Robert Creeley's Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Albuquerque, New Mexico (criticism)
Nikki Giovanni, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
John Hollander, Spectral Emanations
bell hooks, And There We Wept: poems
James McMichael, The Lover’s Familiar
James Merrill, Mirabell: Books of Number
W. S. Merwin, Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover"W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010
Eugenio Montale, The Storm & Other Poems, translated by Charles Wright into English from the original Italian; Oberlin College Press, 0-932440-01-0
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
Peter Seaton, Agreement (New York: Asylum's Press and Eclipse Archive)Seaton Peter Agreement http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/AGREEMENT/agreement.html Eclipse 27 March 2024
Patti Smith, Babel
William Stafford, Stories That Could Be True
Mark Strand, The Late Hour, Canadian native living in and published in the United States
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
Jennifer Maiden, Birthstones, Angus & Robertson, Australia
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:
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
French language
France
Noureddine Aba, Gazelle au petit matin, Algerian writerHayes Jarrod Aba, Noureddine Encyclopedia of African Literature 2003 Routledge 0-415-23019-5 Gikandi, Simon
Yves Bonnefoy, Poèmes (1947–1975)
Jean-Pierre Faye, Verres
Jean Daive, Le cri-cerveauAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8
Philippe Denis, Revif
Emmanuel Hocquard, Les Dernieres nouvelles de l'expédition sont datées du 15 février 17 [...]
Edmond Jabès, Le Soupçon Le Désert
Joyce Mansour, Faire Signe au machiniste
Robert Marteau, Traité du blanc et des tientures
Yves Martin, Je fais bouillir mon vin
Claude Royet-Journoud, La Notion d'obstacle
Jean Max Tixier, editor, Poètes de sud, anthology; publisher: Rijois
Alain Veinstein, Vers l'absence de soutien
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, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Anthologies in German" section, pp. 473-74.
Thomas Mann, Tagebücher 1933-1934
Johannes Schenk (writer) Johannes Schenk de Johannes Schenk (Schriftsteller), Zittern
Kurt Tucholsky, Die Q-Tagebücher 1934-1935
Criticism, scholarship and biography in Germany
Walter Hinck, Von Heine zu Brecht. Lyrik im Geschichtsprozess (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "German Poetry" article, "Criticism in German" section, p. 474.
Walter Hinderer, editor, Gesch. der politschen Lyrik in Deutschland, Stuttgart (scholarship)
William H. Rey, Poesie der Antipoesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik Genesis, Theorie, Struktur, Heidelberg, 3-7988-0520-2 (scholarship)
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
India
Listed in alphabetical order by first name:
Buddhidhari Singha, Smrti-Sahasri, a kavya, Maithili-languageDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved December 23, 2008
Debarati Mitra, Jubaker Snan, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata; Bengali-language"Debarati Mitra" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040406/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2717 2012-03-25 at Poetry International; retrieved July 8, 2010
Dilip Chitre, Kavitenantarchya Kavita, Vacha Prakashan, Aurangabad; Marathi-language"Dilip Chitre" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213612/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=13518 2012-02-14 , Poetry International; retrieved July 6, 2010
Jaya Mehta, Venetian Blind; Indian poet writing in GujaratiMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson (eds), Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
K. Satchidanandan, Indian Sketchukal ("Indian Sketches"); Malayalam-language"K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 2011-07-21 , Poetry International; retrieved July 11, 2010
K. Siva Reddy, Netra Dhanussu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language"K. Siva Reddy" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919122233/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 September 19, 2011 at Poetry International; retrieved July 11, 2010
Nirendranath Chakravarti, Aaj Shokaaley, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-language"Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 at Poetry International; retrieved July 15, 2010
Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Moe-n jo dado poems read on cassette; Gujarati-language"Sitanshu Yashaschandra" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919131430/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11819 2011-09-19 at Poetry International; retrieved July 27, 2010
Varavara Rao (better known as "VV"), Swechcha or Svecha ("Freedom"), Hyderabad: Yuga Prachuranalu; Telugu-language"Varavara Rao" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214322/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15346 2012-02-14 at Poetry International; and Gopal, Venu, "Varavara Rao - A brief sketch by N. Venu Gopal (December 15, 2005)", December 15, 2005, Venu Gopal website, retrieved August 2, 2010
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 Vesaas, Dikt i samling (Norway)
Poland
Stanisław Barańczak, Sztuczne oddychanie ("Artificial Respiration"), London: Aneks"Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010
Ryszard Krynicki, Nasze zycie rośnie. Wiersze ("Our Life is Growing: Poems"); Paris: Instytut Literacki"Krynicki Ryszard" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20090425224424/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,172.php 2009-04-25 and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062736/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,74.php 2011-07-18 ), Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute"), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 26, 2010
Ewa Lipska, Piaty wybor wierszy ("Fifth Collection of Verse"); Warsaw: Czytelnik"Lipska Ewa" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php 2011-09-16 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php 2011-07-18 ), Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010
Z. Jarosiński and H. Zawarska, editors, Antologia polskiego futuryzmu i Nowej Sztuki, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp. 959-60.
Adam Zagajewski, List ("A Letter"), Poznañ: Od Nowa"Some information about Adam Zagajewski" https://web.archive.org/web/20100625081739/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/arts_culture/literature/poetry/zagajewski/bio/adzag.htm 2010-06-25 , cached page from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts website, cached on February 24, 2005 by the "Info-Poland" website, retrieved February 25, 2010
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, Ángel González, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral
Latin America
Alfonso Calderón, Poemas para Clavecin ("Poems for Harpsichord"), Chile"Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies" https://web.archive.org/web/20111228235620/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341019&CategoryId=13003 2011-12-28 , obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009
Arturo Corcuera, Los Amantes, Peru
Oscar Hahn, Arte de morir
Pablo Neruda (died 1973), Para nacer he nacido, previously unpublished diary entries, memoirs and other writings, put out by his widow, Matilde de Neruda and Miguel Otero Silva (of Venezuela)
Luis Alberto Spinetta, Guitarra Negra (Black Guitar) - first edition of the only book written by the singer Luis Alberto Spinetta of Argentina.
Sweden
Tomas Tranströmer, Sanningsbarriāren
Tobias Berggren, Bergsmusik
Eva Runefelt, Aldriga och barnsliga trakter
Yiddish
Shloyme Roitman, a poetry book
Rachel Boymvol, a poetry book
Jacob Shargel, a poetry book
Chaim 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
Klaus Høeck, Denmark:
Skygger, publisher: Swing"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010
Topia eller Che Guevara
Seán Ó Ríordáin, Tar éis mo Bháis ("After my Death"), IrelandBoylan Henry 1998 A Dictionary of Irish Biography 3rd 350 Dublin Gill and Macmillan 0-7171-2945-4
Sjón, Sýnir ("Visions"), Iceland
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
AML Award for "Poetry Honorable Mention" Clinton F. Larson for "The Western World " and Marden J. Clark for "God's Plenty" and Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown for "Grandmother"
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
Cuba: Casa de las Américas prize for poetry: Claribel Alegria of El Salvador, for Sobrevivo
Soviet Union: USSR State Prize: Andrei Voznesensky"Famed Russian poet Voznesensky dies at 77", June 1, 2010, Agence France Press, retrieved June 3, 2010
Births
June 7 – Jesse Ball, American poet and writer
October 24 – Kei Miller, Jamaican-born poet and writer
September 4 – Natalie Diaz, Mojave American poet, language activist, professional basketball player and educator
Also
Jen Hadfield, English poet and visual artist
J. O. Morgan, Scottish poet
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 2 – G. Sankara Kurup, 76 (born 1901), Indian Malayalam-language poet
February 22 – Phyllis McGinley, 72 (born 1905), American children's story writer and poet
March 19 – Faith Baldwin, 84, American romantic novelist and poet
March 22 – John Hall Wheelock, 91, American poet
April 14 – F. R. Leavis, 82, English literary critic
April 16 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, 97, English versifier
April 28 – Walter Fischer, 77, Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party officialUeLEX https://uelex.de/uebersetzer/fischer-walter/ Walter Fischer, 1901–1978
May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84, English novelist and poet
May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, 74, American modernist poet
July 2 – Aris Alexandrou, 56, Greek poet
June 3 – Frank Stanford, 29, American poet, by suicide
September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid, 86, Scottish poet
Also:
Sankara Kurup (born 1901), Indian, Malayalam-language poetPaniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M. (ed), Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp. 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
P. Kunhiraman Nair (born 1909), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
J. Rodolfo Wilcock (born 1919), Argentine author and poet
Notes
Britannica Book of the Year 1979 ("for events of 1978"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1979 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections)
See also
Poetry
Poetry
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
Category:20th-century poetry
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