1971 in poetry

none December 2020 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1971 poetry literature thumb|350px|right|Aleksandr Tvardovsky, who died this year, was a Soviet poet who, as editor of Novy Mir, fought for more independence and published Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962 Events Winter — This magazine founded in the United States by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten March – Cuban poet Herberto Padilla is arrested in Havana and released only after signing a confession stating he is a "vicious character" who took part in counterrevolutionary activities. A letter to Fidel Castro published May 20 in Paris from 60 leftist intellectuals, all supporters of the Cuban revolution, protests Padilla's treatment and accuses Castro of imposing Stalinism on Cuba. Among the 60: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Alberto Moravia, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa (who says he continues to support the Cuban revolution). Julio Cortázar of Argentina says he stands by Castro in a verse manifesto, Policrítica en la hora de los chacales April 8 – Release of Right On!, a film directed by Herbert Danska, of poetry recitations with bongo accompaniments on New York City streets April 21 – The 13th century Codex Regius is returned from Denmark to Iceland under naval escort. July 2 – Release of The Canterbury Tales, a film directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, providing a soft-pornographic, controversial version of four tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Counter/measures magazine is founded in the United States by X. J. Kennedy and his wife, Dorothy. The magazine champions poetry written in traditional patternsWeb page titled "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Joseph Charles Kennedy", at Bookrags website, retrieved March 6, 2009. and is an influence in the later creation of the New Formalism movement. 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 Atwood, Power Politics bill bissett, Nobody Owns the Earth George Bowering, Touch: Selected Poems 1960–1970 Louis Dudek, Collected Poetry. Montréal: Delta Canada."Louis Dudek: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063957/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dudek/pub.htm May 23, 2011 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden (scholarship)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Canadian Poetry" article, English "Anthologies" section, p. 164. John Glassco, Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Bill Howell, The Red Fox Irving Layton, The Collected Poems of Irving Layton. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."Irving Layton: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042105/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/layton/pub.htm July 14, 2011 ," Canadian Poetry Online, Web, May 7, 2011. Irving Layton, Nailpolish. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Kenneth Leslie, The Poems of Kenneth Leslie [ed. Sean Haldane.] Ladysmith, Quebec: Ladysmith Press.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, April 15, 2011. Richard Lewis, editor, I Breathe a New Song anthology of poems by Eskimos Dorothy Livesay: Plainsongs. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Plainsongs Extended. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Disasters of the Sun. Burnaby, BC: Blackfish Press."Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996): Works" https://web.archive.org/web/20120905023413/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Livesay.htm#works September 5, 2012 , Canadian Women Poets, Brock University. Web, March 18, 2011. Anne Marriott, Countries, Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books."Anne Marriott (1913–1997) https://web.archive.org/web/20110607142019/http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/Marriott.htm#awards June 7, 2011 ", Canadian Woman Poets, BrockU.ca, Web, April 21, 2011. George McWhirter, Catalan Poems (winner of the 1972 Commonwealth Poetry Prize) Alden Nowlan, Between Tears and Laughter Michael Ondaatje, editor, The Broken Ark, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as A Book of Beasts, 1979 (anthology)Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008. 0-88750-050-1 Andreas Schroeder, File of Uncertainties, a chapbook (Sono Nis Press) Raymond Souster, The Years.Ottawa: Oberon Press."Notes on Life and Works https://web.archive.org/web/20110817195614/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/513.html August 17, 2011 ," Selected Poetry of Raymond Souster, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 7, 2011. Phyllis Webb, Selected Poems 1954–65 Dale Zieroth and four other poets, Mindscapes India, in English Jayanta Mahapatra: Close the Sky, Ten by Ten ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Dialogue PublicationsPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp 184–185, in Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved via Google Books on July 17, 2010. Svayamvara and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Pomes / Poemes / Poemas ( Poetry in English ),Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, editor, A History of Indian literature in English, p 259, Columbia University Press, 2003, 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010. G. S. Sharat Chandra, April in Nanjangud ( Poetry in English ), London: London MagazineNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009. Michael Chacko Daniels, Split into Two ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Keki N. Daruwalla, Apparition in April ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Amaresh Datta, Captive Moments ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Subhoranjan Das Gupta, Bodhisattva and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Gopal R. Honnalgere, A Wad of Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Suniti Namjoshi: More Poems ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India.Web page titled "Suniti Namjoshi" https://web.archive.org/web/20100202031754/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9964&x=1 February 2, 2010 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Cyclone in Pakistan ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India . Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five volumes, published this year through 1976; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency Subhas Chandra Saha, editor, Modern Indo-Anglian Love Poetry, anthology; Calcutta: Writers Workshop, IndiaRajyalakshmi, P. V., The Lyric Spring: The Poetic Achievement of Sarojini Naidu, p. 214, Abhinav Publications, 1977. New Zealand Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, London: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963)Web page titled "Fleur Adcock: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20061221161150/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/adcock.htm December 21, 2006 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008. James K. Baxter, Jerusalem Daybook Bob Orr, Blue FootpathsWeb page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008. Ian Wedde, Homage to Matisse United Kingdom Fleur Adcock, High Tide in the Garden, New Zealand native living in and published in the United Kingdom George Barker, Poems of Places and People Frances Bellerby, Selected Poems George Mackay Brown Fishermen with PloughsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6. Poems New and Selected Tony Connor, In the Happy Valley John Cotton, Old Movies Maureen Duffy, Love Child Michael Ffinch, Voices Round a Star Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Language-Games Elaine Feinstein, The Magic Apple Tree, Hutchinson Robert Garioch, pen name of Robert Garioch Sutherland, The Big Music, and Other Poems Thom Gunn, Moly, with some poems written under the influence of LSD; others described the experience of taking it Adrian Henri, Autobiography Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns, prose poems James Kirkup, The Body Servant Paul Muldoon, Knowing My Place, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Sylvia Plath, American poet published in the United Kingdom (posthumous): Crossing the Water, published this year but containing poems written in 1960 and 1961 Winter Trees Jeremy Robson, editor, The Young British Poets anthology Vernon Scannell, Selected Poems Jon Silkin, Amana Grass Stephen Spender, The Generous Days Donald Ward, The Dead Snake Patricia Whittaker (poet), The Flying Men United States Dick Allen, Anon and Various Time Machine Poems Maya Angelou, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Gwendolyn Brooks: Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali The World of Gwendolyn Brooks Aloneness Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, Memorial Day Ted Berrigan, Train Ride Paul Blackburn, The Journals: Blue Mounds Entries John Ciardi, Lives of X Cid Corman, Sun Rock Man (New Directions) Ed Dorn: Spectrum Breakdown: A Microbook, Athanor BooksWeb page titled "Archive / Edward Dorn (1929–1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008. By the Sound, Frontier Press; republished with a new preface by the author, Black Sparrow Press, 1991 A Poem Called Alexander Hamilton, Tansy/Peg Leg Press Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Back Roads to Far Places (New Directions) Robert Fitzgerald, Spring Shade, collected poems and translations, 1931–1970 (New Directions) Donald S. Fryer, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean Michael S. Harper, History Is Your Own Heartbeat, won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetryWeb page titled "Michael S. Harper" at the Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008. John Hollander, The Night Mirror Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (University of California Press), Canadian writing and published in the United States; criticism Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree James McMichael, Against the Falling Evil Carl Rakosi, Ere-Voice Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change Richard Shelton, The Tattooed Desert Charles Simic, Dismantling the Silence Clark Ashton Smith, Selected Poems Richard Wilbur, translator, The School for Wives by Molière (in verse) James Wright, Collected Poems, including 30 new poems Other in English Kofi Awoonor, Night of My Blood, Ghana John Figueroa, editor, Caribbean Voices, anthology, Evans Brothers, CaribbeanBreiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p. 253, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 978-0-521-58712-9, retrieved February 7, 2009. Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum, South Africa Geoff Page and Philip Roberts, Two Poets, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, Australia Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Australia: Editor: Australian Poetry 1971, anthology, Sydney: Angus & Robertson Where the Wind Came, Sydney: Angus and Robertson 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: Denmark Jørgen Leth, Eventyret om den sædvanlige udsigt Klaus Rifbjerg, Mytologi French language Canada, in French Jacques Brault, La Poésie ce matin (published in Paris) Raoul Duguay, L'Apokalypso Paul-Marie Lapointe, Le Réel absolu (Editions de l'Hexagone) Gilbert Langevin: Ouvrir le feu Stress Rina Lasnier, La Salle des rêves Olivier Marchand, Par Détresse et tendresse (Editions de l'Hexagone) Pierre Nepveu, Voies rapides, Montréal: HMHWeb page titled "Pierre Nepveu" https://web.archive.org/web/20091125133033/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/pierre_nepveu.html November 25, 2009 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010. Claude Péloquin, Pour la Grandeur de l'Homme France Anne-Marie Albiach, EtatAuster, 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 M. Bataille, Le Cri dans le mur L. Bérimont, L'Évidence même Yves Bonnefoy, Traité du pianiste René Char: L'Honneur devant Dieu Le nu perdu ("Nakedness Lost")Denis Hollier, editor, A New History of French Literature, p 1024, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 0-674-61565-4. P. Damarix, L'Expérience magique Alain Delahaye, L'Eveil des traversees Jean Follain, Éspaces d'instants, the poet was killed in an accident days after publication Robert Marteau, Sibylles Francis Ponge, La Fabrique du Pré Jacques Roubaud, Octavio Paz, Charles Tomlinson and Edoardo Sanguineti, Renga Anthologies J. L. Bédouin, editor, La Poésie Surréaliste Pierre Seghers, editor, La Poésie symboliste Hebrew Leah Goldberg, he Shearit ha-Chaim (posthumous) I. Efros, he Shirim, collected poems D. Avidan, he Shirim Hitzoniim Y. Amichai, he Al Menat Lo Lizkor N. Yonatan, he Shirim ba-Arov ha-Yam D. Pagis, he Gilgul R. Adi, he Mishaa le-Shaa A. Eldon, he Levado ba-Zerem ha-Koved R. Shani, he Shalom la-Adoni ha-Melech M. Meir, he ha-Aretz Hahi Mitahat la-Mayim M. Oren, he Adam Muad M. Megged, editor, he Shirim Liriim, anthology of modern Hebrew poetry E. Silberschlag, he Igrotai le-Dorot Aherim R. Avinoam, he be-Misholai R. Lee, he El Parvarai ha-Shemesh Hungary György Petri, Magyarázatok M. számára India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Assamese Hiren Bhattacharya, Mor Des Mor Premar Kavita ("Poems of My Country and of My Love"); Assamese languageGeorge, K. M., editor, 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. Nilmani Phookan; Assamese language: Japani Kavita, Guwahati, Assam: Barua Book Agency, Assamese-languageWeb page titled "Nilmani Phookan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052731/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731 July 21, 2011 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Pine ("Towards the Blooming Sunflower") Other languages in India K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam-language: Anchu Sooryan, ("Five Suns")Web page titled "K. Satchidanandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721051722/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2723 July 21, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Kurukshetram, ("Studies in Modern Poetry"); scholarshipResume for K. Satchidanandan titled "K. Satchidanandan/Bio data: Highlights" at the National Translation Mission website, retrieved July 11, 2010 Nirendranath Chakravarti, Ulongo Raja, Kolkata: Ananda Publishers; Bengali-languageWeb page title "Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 February 14, 2012 , at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010. Udaya Narayana Singh, Amrtasya Putraah, Calcutta: Lok Sahitya Parishad, Maithili-languageWeb page title "Udaya Narayana Singh" https://web.archive.org/web/20090123175626/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=9331 January 23, 2009, at the Poetry International website, retrieved August 2, 2010. Vinod Kumar Shukla, Lagbhag Jai Hind, Sindhi: Ashok Vajpeyi; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Vinod Kumar Shukla" https://web.archive.org/web/20120406234836/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=12941 April 6, 2012 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved August 3, 2010. Italy Attilio Bertolucci, Viaggio d'inverno ("Winter Voyage"), marking a change of style in the author's poetry Libero De Libero, Di brace in braceBritannica Book of the Year 1974 (for events of 1973), "Literature" article, "Italian" section, page 438, mentioned this book in passing, from an earlier year than the events covered in the volume Eugenio Montale: Satura (1962–1970) (published in January); ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920–1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Diario del '71 e del '72 (poetry) a private edition of 100 copies; a second, nonprivate edition was published in 1973; Italy Norway Hans Borli, Isfuglen Alfred Hauge, Det evige sekund Peter R. Holm, Synslinjer Ernst Orvil, Dikt i utvalg Sigmund Skard, Popel ved flypass Portuguese language Brazil Joaquim Cardozo, pt De uma noite de festa Murilo Mendes, pt Convergência Henriqueta Lisboa, pt Nova lírica Manuel Bandeira, pt Meus pemas perferidos, a selection from previous books Foed Castro Chamma, pt O andarilho e a aurora Anderson Braga Horta, pt Altiplano Spanish language Latin America Delmira Agustini, Poesías completas, prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor, Uruguayan poet published in SpainWeb page titled "Delmira Agustini" https://web.archive.org/web/20110902004757/http://www.ale.uji.es/agustini.htm September 2, 2011 at the Universitat Jaume's "Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica" website, retrieved September 1, 2011 Herberto Padilla, es Por el momento, published before his arrest in Cuba (see Events above) Roberto Fernández Retamar, es A quien pueda interesar (Cuba) José Lezama Lima, es Poesía completa (Cuba) Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, es Estelas/homenajes (Nicaragua) Carlos Solórzano, es Las celdas (Guatemala) Five authors, including Agustín del Rosario, es Poesía joven de Panamá M.L. Mendoza, es Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres Spain Delmira Agustini, Poesías completas, prólogue and notes by Manuel Alvar, posthumously published (died 1914), Barcelona: Editorial Labor, Uruguayan poet published in Spain Vicente Aleixandre, es Poesía superrealista Justo Jorge Padrón, Los oscuros fuegos José Angel Valente, es Las palabras de la tribu, essays José María Valverde, es Enseñanzas de la edad, 1945–70 Sweden Ylva Eggehorn, Ska vi dela Bo Setterlind, Himlen har landat Karl Vennberg, Sju ord pa tunnelbanan Lars Forssell, Oktober dikter ("October Poems") Gören Palm, Varför har nätterna inga namn? Kerstin Thorvall, Följetong i skärt och svart Yiddish Broche Coodley, Not on Bread Alone Leon Kusman, Ballads of a Generation Beryl Segal, Poems for Children Meyer Stiker, Jewish Landscape, Volume 2 M. M. Saffir, Creator of Various Dreams Menachem Stern, Songs at Midnight Rochelle Weprinski, The Only Star Aaron Zeitlin, Poems of Destruction and Faith Joseph Kerler, Song Between Teeth Jacob Sternberg, The Circle of Years Other Simin Behbahani, Rastakhiz ("Resurrection"), Persia Paul Celan, Snow Part (Schneepart), German Odysseus Elytis, Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας ("The Sovereign Sun"), Greece Alan Llwyd, Y March Hud ("The Magic Horse"), Welsh F. Pratz, Deutsche Gedichte von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart, anthology, GermanPreminger, 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. Ndoc Gjetja, Rrezatim ("Radiation"), his first book of poetry; Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation of Web page), retrieved June 10, 2010 Seán Ó Ríordáin, Línte Liombó (Limbo Lines), Irish language in IrelandBoylan Henry 1998 A Dictionary of Irish Biography 3rd 350 Dublin Gill and Macmillan 0-7171-2945-4 Siegbert Prawer, editor, Seventeen Modern German Poets, anthology published by Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, poems in German Hans Verhagen, Duizenden zonsondergangen ("Thousands of sunsets"), Netherlands Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat Canada See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. United Kingdom Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize: Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns Cholmondeley Award: Charles Causley, Gavin Ewart, Hugo Williams Eric Gregory Award: Martin Booth, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Warman, John Welch Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stephen Spender First Whitbread Award for Poetry: Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns 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"): Josephine Jacobsen appointed this year. Bollingen Prize: Richard Wilbur and Mona Van Duyn Frost Medal: Melville Cane National Book Award for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: James Wright Elsewhere Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award for Poetry: Rosemary Rolleston, William & Mary Rolleston Births January 16 – Damian and Jason Walford Davies, Welsh poets and academics January 31 – Santiago B. Villafania (died 2024), Filipino poet writing in Pangasinan and Englishhttps://www.pen-international.org/news/philippines-pen-mourns-the-passing-of-poet-and-pen-philippines-member-santiago-b-villafania Philippines: PEN mourns the passing of poet and PEN Philippines member, Santiago B. Villafania PEN International 2024-02-26 2024-02-28 June 28 – Sophie Hannah, English poet and novelist September 27 – Petrus Akkordeon, German poet October 18 – Jan Wagner, German poet November 18 – Terrance Hayes, American poet Matthew Hollis, English poet, literary biographer and editor Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 2 – E. V. Knox (born 1881), English poet and satirist May 9 – Ogden Nash, 68, American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse March 7 – Stevie Smith, 67, British poet and novelist, of a brain tumor March 9 – Jean Follain, French poet March 17 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), Japanese, late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru June 5 – Clifford Dyment (born 1914), British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist June 6 – Edward Andrade (born 1887), English physicist and poet. June 13 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (born 1890), Japanese, poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Yaso Saijō, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine June 25 – Charles Vildrac, French poet and playwright July 3 – Jim Morrison, 27, American singer, songwriter, poet; best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors July 13 – R. A. K. Mason (born 1905), New Zealand September (exact date not known) — Paul Blackburn, 44, American poet and translator, from esophageal cancer September 9 – Lenore G. Marshall, 72 September 20 or September 21 (sources differ) – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature October 10 – J. C. Beaglehole (born 1901), New Zealand historian and poet November 14 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一 京助 (born 1882), Japanese linguist and poet, father of linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi November 19 – Jacob Glatstein, 75, American Yiddish poet and critic November 25 – Andrew Young (born 1885), Scottish-born poet and clergyman December 14 – Munir Chowdhury also "Munier Chowdhury" (born 1925), Bengali educator, playwright, literary critic and political dissident December 18 – Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 61, Russian poet, editor of the official Soviet literary journal Novy Mir who fought hard to maintain its independence See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *