1977 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1977 poetry literature Events January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala (although not at the inauguration itself).Garner, Dwight, "The Intersection of Poetry and Politics", article, The New York Times, December 25, 2008, retrieved same day July 11 – The English magazine Gay News is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name by James Kirkup in a case (Whitehouse v. Lemon) brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association at the Old Bailey in London.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/11/newsid_2499000/2499721.stm 11 July 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy 2013-06-29 On This Day BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307121819/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/11/newsid_2499000/2499721.stm 7 March 2008 live Poet Sarah Kirsch leaves her native East Germany for the West. In Israeli the literary journal Keshet goes defunct, while Itton and Proza are founded. 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 Robert Adamson Cross The Border Jennifer Maiden, Mortal Details, Rigmarole Les Murray, Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007 John Tranter, Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, Makar Press Canada Earle Birney: The Damnation of Vancouver. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. A satire on the modern city. Ghost in the Wheels: selected poems. 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, Web, May 3, 2011. Roo Borson, Landfall, 0-920110-32-0 American-Canadian Leonard Cohen, Death of a Ladies' Man Isabella Valancy Crawford, Hugh and Ion, Glenn Clever ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). 978-0-919594-77-7 Irving Layton, The Poems of Irving Layton. Eli Mandel ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Also published, with an introduction by Hugh Kenner, as The Selected Poems of Irving Layton. New York: New Directions, 1977."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. 0-8112-0642-4 Irving Layton, The Covenant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dorothy Livesay, Right Hand Left Hand. Erin, ON: Porcepic."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. Pat Lowther, A Stone Diary Miriam Mandel, Station 14. Edmonton: NeWest Press."Books by former English Department Students https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201912/http://www.usask.ca/english/EnglishStudentBooks.htm 2016-03-04 ," USask.ca, Web, Apr. 25, 2011. 0-920316-08-5 978-0920316085 Charles Sangster, The Angel Guest and Other Poems and Lyrics, edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. F. R. Scott, Poems of French Canada. Translated by F. R. Scott. Burnaby, B.C.: Blackfish Press."F.R. Scott: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20130408081000/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott_fr/pub.htm 2013-04-08 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Raymond Souster, Extra Innings. 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. George Woodcock, Anima, or, Swann Grown Old. A Cycle of Poems by George Woodcock, Windsor, Ontario: Black Moss 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 India, in English R. Parthasarathy, Rough Passage, Delhi: Oxford University PressNiranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p. 18 ("Works Cited"), Footnote 7, 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 Meena Alexander, I Root My Name, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230 (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved June 12, 2009 Ireland Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: The Second Voyage, including "Deaths and Engines",Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Oldcastle: 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 Harry Clifton, The Walls of Carthage Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-0-902996-51-9 Paul Muldoon, Mules, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Frank Ormsby, A Store of Candles, including "Passing the Crematorium", Oldcastle: Gallery Press Tom Paulin, A State of Justice, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand Bill Manhire, How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic Lauris Edmond, The Pear Tree: Poems Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article R. Ensing, editor, Private Gardens, anthology of New Zealand women poetsPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837 Kendrick Smithyman, Dwarf with a Billiard Cue, Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press Ian Wedde, Spells for Coming Out, New Zealand South Africa Mafika Gwala, Jol'iinkomo United Kingdom Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Kamau Brathwaite, Mother Poem Joseph Brodsky: Poems and Translations, Keele: University of Keele"Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation, accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American (but published in the United Kingdom; see United States section for a book published there) Donald Davies, To Scorch or Freeze Carol Ann Duffy and Adrian Henri, Beauty and the BeastMichelis, Angelica, "Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)", The Literary Encyclopedia; retrieved May 4, 2009. Archived 2009-05-07. Elaine Feinstein: Some Unease and Angels, Hutchinson Selected Poems, University Center, Michigan, Green River Press W. S. Graham, Implements in their Places Michael Hamburger, Real Estate Adrian Henri, City Hedges Ted Hughes, Gaudete, derived from an abandoned film scenario, the book has elements of a poetic novel, narrative poem and verse play Elizabeth Jennings, Consequently I Rejoice Norman MacCaig, Tree of Strings Sorley MacLean, pen name of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Spring Tide and Neap Tide [Reothairt is Contraigh], in Gaelic and English Paul Muldoon, Mules, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, A State of Justice, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Kathleen Raine, The Oval Portrait, and Other Poems Peter Scupham, The Hinterland R. S. Thomas, The Way of It Anthony Thwaite, A Portion for Foxes United States A. R. Ammons: Highgate Road The Selected Poems: 1951-1977 The Snow Poems John Ashbery, Houseboat Days Ted Berrigan: Clear The Range Nothing For You John Berryman, Henry's Fate and Other Poems, 1967-1972, with 45 previously unpublished "Dream Songs" (posthumous) Joseph Payne Brennan, The Riddle (Fantome Press) Frank Bidart, The Book of the Body Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, which includes "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and the villanelle, "One Art" Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech 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 (see United Kingdom section for a book published there) Robert Bly, This Body is Made of Camphor and Gopherwood Billy Collins, Pokerface Frank Belknap Long, In Mayan Splendor Michael S. Harper, Images of Kin (1977), won the Melville-Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America; nominated for the National Book Award"Michael S. Harper", Academy of American Poets, accessed April 23, 2008 Robert Lowell, Day by Day W. S. Merwin: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum"W. S. Merwin (1927- )", Poetry Foundation; retrieved June 8, 2010 Translator, Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press) W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Mason, translators, Sanskrit Love Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press) Michael Palmer, Without Music (Black Sparrow Press) Carl Rakosi, My Experience in Parnassus Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1937-1975 (published posthumously) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into English from the original Russian by Robert Conquest; first written in 1951; first published in 1974 Gary Soto, The Elements of San JoaquinPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 978-0-521-82283-1, retrieved February 9, 2009 Works published 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: Denmark Vita Andersen, Tryghedsnarkomaner Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Ophold Klaus Høeck: Projekt Perseus, publisher: Gyldendal"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Ulrike Marie Meinhof, publisher: Gyldendal Vagn Lundbye, Digte 1977 Jess Ornsbo, Digte uden arbejde Charlotte Strandgaard, Naesten kun om kaerlighed French language Canada, in French Denise Boucher and Madeleine Gagnon, Retailles Claude Gavreau, Ouvres créatrices complètes (posthumous) Michel Leclerc, La Traversée du réel Pierre Nepveu, Épisodes, Montréal: l'Hexagone"Pierre Nepveu" https://web.archive.org/web/20091125133033/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/pierre_nepveu.html 2009-11-25 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 France Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French, Irish native living in France and published in the United Kingdom Yves Bonnefoy, Rue Traversière André du Bouchet, Air (1950–1953)Auster, Paul (ed.), 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 Alain Delahaye, L'etre perdu Philippe Denis, Malgré la bouche Roger Giroux, published posthumously (died 1973): S L'arbre le Temps suivi le Lieu-Je et de Lettre Eugene Guilleveic, Du domaine Emmanuel Hocquard, Album d'images de la Villa Harris Georges Perec, Alphabets Jacques Roubaud, Autobiographie chapitre dix Alain Veinstein, Recherche des dispositions anciennes German language East Germany Sarah Kirsch, Rückenwind, love poems Paul Günter Krohn, Alle meine Namen West Germany Herbert Asmodi de, Jokers Farewell Gotthard de Beauclair, Zeit, Überzeit Rolf Haufs, Die Geschwindigkeit eines einzigen Tages Karl Krowlow, Der Einfachheit halber Norbert Mecklenburg, Naturlyrik und Gesellschaft Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (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. Hebrew Nathan Alterman, a posthumous book of poemsThis is as specific as The Britannica Book of the Year 1978, the source, gets; the book, published in 1978, covers events in 1977, "Literature" article, p. 511. O. Bernstein, a book of poems Simon Halkin, a book of the collected poems and works Hurvitz, a book of poems Shimshon Meltzer, a book of the collected poems and works Gabriel Preil, a book of poems Dalia Ravikovitch, a book of poems Yonatan Ratosh, a book of poems Shin Shalom, a book of poems Y. Wallach, a book of collected poems Meir Wieseltier, a book of poems Avot Yeshurun, a book of poems Zussman, a posthumous book of poems India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Malayalam Sugathakumari, Raathrimazha (Night Rain) Oriya Mohan Upendra Thakur, Baji Uthal Murali Rajendra Kishore Panda: Satadru Anek, Cuttack: Agradoot"Rajendra Kishore Panda" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919085035/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9302 2011-09-19 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 26, 2010 Ghunakshara, Cuttack: Cuttack Students' Store Sindhi Hari Daryani, Pala Pala Jo ParlauDas, 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, Cikha Parsram Rohra, O Nava Halaina Vara Urdu Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Dhoop Aur Chandni (The Sunlight and the Moonlight) - Collection of poems published by Radha Krishan Sehgal, Bazm-e-Seemab, J 5/21, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi in 1977. Other languages in India K. Satchidanandan, Kavita, ("Poetry"); 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 website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Nilmani Phookan; Assamese-language: Golapi Jamur Lagna, Guwahati, Assam: Bani Prakash"Nilmani Phookan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052731/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 2011-07-21 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Editor, Kuri Satikar Asomiya Kavita, an anthology of modern Assamese poetry; Guwahati, Assam: Asom Prakashan Parishad Siddayya Puranika, Vacanodyana, modern vachana poetry, Kannada-language Italy Bartolo Cattafi, Marzo e le sue idi Giovanni Guidici, Il male de creditori Tommaso Landolfi, Il tradimento Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie, publisher: MondadoriEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 (enlarged edition published posthumously in 1984) Maria Luisa Spaziani, Transito con catene Norway Hans Børli, no Vinden ser aldri pa veviserne Jan Magnus Bruheim, Lyrespelaren Gunvor Hofmo, Hva fanger natten Peter R. Holm, I disse bilder Stein Mehren, Det trettende stjernebilde Sigmund Skard, Ord mot mørkret Helge Vatsend, Livets bok Portuguese language Portugal Ruy de Moura Belo, Despeço-me da terra da alegria ("I Bid Farewell to the Land of Happiness")da Silva, Jaime H., "BELO, Ruy de Moura", article, p. 185, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, retrieved September 6, 2011 Herberto Helder, Cobra António Ramos Rosa, Boca Incompleta Sophia Andresen, O Nome das Coisas Fiama Brandão, Homenagem à Literatura Liberto Cruz, Distància Vitorino Nemésio, Sapateia Açoriana Brazil Carlos Nejar, Árvore do mundo Décio Pignatari Poesia / Pois é / Poesia (poems) Comunicacao poética (critical theory about poetry) Murilo Mendes, a posthumous collection of poems edited by João Cabral de Melo Neto, with a study by José Guilherme Merquior Russia Arkadi Kuleshov, a book of poems Bella Akhmadulina: Candle Dreams of Georgia Alexander Mezhirov, Очертания вещей ("Outline of things"), Russia, Soviet Union Valentin Sorokin, a book of poems Stepan Shchipachev, a book of poems Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, narrative poem, much of it composed in his head when he was in concentration camps Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a book of poems "[L]esser-known poets who attracted attention": Konstantin Vanshenkin Anatoly Zhigulin Rimma Kazakova Viktor Bokov Maya Borisova Stanslav Zolotsev Spanish language Spain Francisco Brines, Insistencia en Luzbel Matilde Camus, Cancionero de Liébana ("Collection of verse of Liebana") José María Valverde, Ser de palabra Latin America Mario Benedetti, La casa y el ladrillo ("The House and the Brick"), Uruguay"Biblioteca de autores contemporaneos / Mario Benedetti - El autor"(in Spanish), retrieved May 27, 2009. 2009-05-30. Antonio Cisneros, el libro de dios y de los húngaros (Peru) Jaime Sabines, Nuevo recuento de poemas (Mexico) Efraín Huerta, Circuito interior (Mexico) David Huerta, Cuadernos de noviembre (Mexico) Yiddish Dovid Hofshteyn, a two-volume selection of poems Josl Lerner, Till Dawn Breaks, partly written in a German-Romanian death camp during World War II Chaim Maltinsky ru Мальтинский, Хаим Израилевич, My Mother's Resemblance Hirsch Osherovich, Song in a Labyrinth Shloyme Roitman, My Israel Shofar Ephraim Roitman, The Earth Sings Motl Saktzier, With a Burned Pencil, about his experiences in Soviet gulags M. M. Shafir, Words of Endearment Avrom Sutzkever, Poems from My Diary Rajzel Żychlińsky, The Sun of November Other languages Stanisław Barańczak, Ja wiem, ze to niesluszne ("I Know It's Not Right"), Paris: Instytut Literacki; Polish"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 Anne-Marie Berglund, Luftberusningen, Sweden Chen Yi, Selected Poems; China Odysseus Elytis, Signalbook (Σηματολόγιον); Greece Ndoc Gjetja, Qëndresa ("Center"); Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation), retrieved June 10, 2010 Gozo Yoshimasu, river, Written in Cursive Characters; Japan Lars Gustafsson, Sonetter; Sweden Per E. Rundquist, Men störst av allt är kärleken till vem; (Sweden Piotr Sommer, W krześle; Poland"Piotr Sommer" https://web.archive.org/web/20101011221045/http://poland.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14531&x=1 October 11, 2010 , "Poetry International": retrieved February 19, 2010 Marlene van Niekerk, Sprokkelster; South Africa Wen Wu-pin, Battle Songs of Tachai; China Yasuo Irisawa, Moon and Other Poems; Japan Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) Canada 1977 Governor General's Awards United Kingdom Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson United States AML Award for Poetry to Linda Sillitoe for "The Old Philosopher, Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter" and Arthur Henry King for "The Field Behind Holly House" Bollingen Prize: David Ignatow National Book Award for Poetry: Richard Eberhart, Collected Poems, 1930-1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies Walt Whitman Award: Lauren Shakely, Guilty Bystander Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louis Coxe Births April 18 — Ilya Kaminsky, Soviet-born Russian- and English-language poet September 25 — Sole, American hip hop artist Jenni Fagan, Scottish novelist and poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 5 — Artur Adson, 87, Estonian poet and critic January 21 — Sandro Penna, 70, Italian February 2 — Rashid Hussein, 41, Palestinian Arabic poet in the United States, in fire April 7 — Elizabeth Daryush, 96, English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges April 11 — Jacques Prévert, 77, French September 12 — Robert Lowell, 60, American, from a heart attack November 30 — Miloš Crnjanski, 84, Serbian poet and novelist December 18 — Louis Untermeyer, 92, American author, poet, anthologist and editor December 30 — Katherine C. Biddle, 87, American Also — Gitaujali Badruddin, 16, Indian girl poet Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1978 ("for events of 1977"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1978 (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 *