1972 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1972 poetry literature thumb|right|250px|Poet Robert Creeley in 1972 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 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 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. Dennis Lee, Civil Elegies and Other Poems. Toronto: Anansi."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. 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20120402133843/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol05/devanney2.htm 2012-04-02 ." 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" https://web.archive.org/web/20120905023413/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works 2012-09-05 , 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20110607142055/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Macewen.htm 2011-06-07 ", Canadian Women Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2001. 978-0-7705-0868-5 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 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, 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, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), 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, 0-231-12810-X, 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, 81-7625-111-9, 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, 0-231-12810-X, 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, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved July 17, 2010 Ireland Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments, Dublin: The Gallery Press"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705030935/http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/ENchuilleanain/enchuill.html 2008-07-05 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, 0-85640-561-2 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, 0-19-860634-6 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" 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 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" https://web.archive.org/web/20100609012327/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/release_041310.html?id=186210 June 9, 2010 , 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 Other in English Wayne Brown, On the Coast, Caribbean"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, pp. xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved February 7, 2009 Zulfikar Ghose, The Violent West, Pakistani poet lecturing in Texas Anthony McNeill, Reel from "The Life Movie", Jamaica James Matthews and Gladys Thomas, Cry Rage!, South Africa Wole Soyinka, A Shuttle in the Crypt, Nigeria 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: French language Canada, in French Paul Chamberland, Éclats de la pierre noire d'oû rejaillit ma vie Gilles Hénault, complete works Gustave Lamarche, complete works Rina Lasnier, complete works Fernand Ouellette, complete works Suzanne Paradis, Il y eut un matin Jean-Guy Pilon, Silences pour une souveraine, Ottawa: Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa"Jean-Guy Pilon" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164351/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jeanguy_pilon.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Félix A. Savard, Le Bouscueil Gemma Tremblay, Souffles du midi Pierre Trottier, Sainte-Mémoire France Marc Alyn, Infini au delà Philippe Chabaneix, Musiques d'avant la nuit Andrée Chedid, Visage premierBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 Maurice Courant, Soleil de ma mémoire Micheline Dupray, L'Herbe est trop douce Gérard Genette, Figures III, one of three volumes of a work of critical scholarship in poetics – general theory of literary form and analysis of individual works — the Figures volumes are concerned with the problems of poetic discourse and narrative in Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust and in Baroque poetry (see also Figures I 1966, Figures II 1969) Eugène Guillevic, Encoches Edmond Jabès, AélyAuster, 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 Pierre Loubière, Mémoire buisonnière Pierre Moussaric, Chansons du temps présent Marie Noël, Chants des quatre temps (posthumous) Hélène Parmelin, De Songe et de silence Saint-John Perse, Œuvres Complètes, Paris: Gallimard"Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Denis Roche, Le Mécrit Claude Royet-Journoud, Le Renversement Claire de Soujeole, Pas dans la rosée Germany Heinrich Böll, Gedichte, nine poems Andreas Okopenko, Orte wechselnden Unbehagens Reiner Kunze, Zimmerlautstärke Peter Huchel, Neue Gedichte Günter Kunert, Offenere Ausgang Beat Brechbühl, Der gechlagene Hund pisst an die Saüle des Tempels Heiner Bastian, Tod im Leben, a long poem Hebrew Abraham Shlonsky, Ketavim David Fogel, Kol ha-Shirim, collected by Dan Pagis, edited by Y. Cohen E. Zussman, Atzai Tamid T. Ribner, Ain Lehashiv Yair Hurvitz, Narkisim le-Malhut Madmena Abba Kovner, Lahakat ha-Katzav India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Chandranath Mishra, Unata pal, humorous and satirical poems by "a major poet of Maithili", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das (a revised and expanded edition of Yugacakra 1952)Das, 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 Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, Piraha Ji Bakha, Sindhi-language Hiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"), Assamese languageGeorge, K. M. (ed.), Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: An Anthology: Surveys and Poems, p. 65, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, 978-81-7201-324-0, retrieved January 8, 2009 Namdeo Dhasal, Golpitha; Marathi-language"Namdeo Dhasal" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213641/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10525 2012-02-14 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Niranjan Bhagat, Kavina Ketlak Prashno (Indian, writing in Gujarati), criticismMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Vasant Abaji Dahake, Yogabhrashta (translated into English by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni as A Terrorist of the Spirit;New Delhi: Harper Collins/Indus, 1992); Marathi-language"Vasant Abaji Dahake" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050049/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2740 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010 Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Shingnaba Vol. I & II, Imphal; Meitei language"Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh" https://web.archive.org/web/20120325035434/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15992 2012-03-25 , Poetry International website, retrieved August 3, 2010 Italy Riccardo Bacchelli, La stella del mattino Marino Moretti, Tre anni e un giorno Aldo Palazzeschi, Via dalle cento stelle Tommaso Landolfi, Viola di morte, winner of the Fiuggi Prize Edoardo Sanguineti, Wirrwarr Giorgio Manganelli, Agli Dei ulteriori Ferdinando Camon, La vita eterna Norway Hans Børli, Kyndelsmesse Per Arneberg, Oktobernetter Ernst Orvil, Nok sagt Russia Konstantin Simonov, Vietnam. Summer 1970 Aleksandr Bezymenski, The Law of the Heart, collected poems David Kugultinov, Kalmyk poet, Revolt of the Intellect Spanish language Spain Matilde Camus, Manantial de amor (Love Spring) Pedro Salinas, Poesía, selected by Julio Cortázar Ángel González, Palabra sobre palabra Saul Yukievich, Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana, a collection of studies published in Spain by an Argentine Darie Novaceanu and J.M. Caballero Bonald, translators and editors, Poesía rumana contemporánea, a bilingual edition of Romanian poems translated into Spanish. Latin America Hugo Achugar, Con bigote triste Rosario Castellanos, Poesía no eres tú: Obra poética, 1948–1971 Rafael Méndez Dorich, editor, Profundo Centro, an anthology (Lima), Peru"Rafael Méndez Dorich," Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011 Aída Vitale, Oidor andante Idea Vilariño, Poemas de amor Yiddish Asya, Quiver of Boughs Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Footpaths Between Walls Ziame Telesin he זיאמה טלסין, Cries of Memory Rachel Boymvol, Longed For Zalman Shazar: During a Mission For Myself Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, Bright Stones Malka Heifetz Tussman, Leaves Do Not Fall Rachel Korn, On the Edge of a Moment Joshua Rivin, Rainbow of Song Saul Maltz, With Joy and Song (for younger readers) Other Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Upraktiske digte. Udvalg, selected poems from 1953 to 1971, Denmark Odysseus Elytis, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty (Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά) and The Monogram (Το Μονόγραμμα) Greece Nizar Qabbani, Poems Against The Law, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Karl Ristikivi, Inimese teekond ("The journey of a man"), Estonian poet published in Sweden Wisława Szymborska: Wszelki wypadek ("Could Have"), Poland Johannes Wulff, Udvalgte digte. Vi som er hinanden, collected poems from 1928 to 1970, Denmark Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Heinrich Böll, West Germany Canada See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Berengarten, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon Keats Prize: Noël Welch United States Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems National Book Award for Poetry: Frank O'Hara, The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. D. Snodgrass Births March 1 – Rie Yasumi やすみ りえ pen name of Reiko Yasumi 休 理英子, Japanese Senryū poet (a woman) April 16 – Tracy K. Smith, African American poet, United States Poet Laureate April 24 – Sinéad Morrissey, Northern Irish poet June 28 – Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic August 18 – Adda Djørup, Danish poet and fiction writer (a woman) Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and author Alissa Quart, American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor and poet Deaths thumb|right|250px|Grave of Ezra Pound Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, 65 (born 1906), German playwright and poet January 7 – John Berryman, 57 (born 1914), American poet, from suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi RiverJones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. unpaginated. 0-500-01332-2. January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish–American poet February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet c June – Winifred Mary Letts (born 1882), English writer August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer August 24 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, 83 (born 1888), Indian Tamil-language poet and freedom fighter September 25 – Alejandra Pizarnik, 36 (born 1936), Argentinian poet, suicide by overdose October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63 (born 1909), American poet October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87 (born 1885), American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, American "cowboy poet" of "Don't Fence Me In" December 10 Eileen Duggan, 78, New Zealand poet and journalist Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist and author See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry References 30em Category:20th-century poetry *