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none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1980 poetry literature Events Three new Hebrew literary journals appear this year in Israel: Mahbarot, edited by Y. Kenaz, Rosh a poetry journal edited by O. Bartena, and Hazerem hehadash, founded by a group of young ex-soldiers. Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell start the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry. Conjunctions literary magazine gets its start one afternoon late this year when founding editor Bradford Morrow sits in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California talking over the idea of assembling a publication to celebrate James Laughlin, editor of New Directions Publishing. Poets solicited for the publication promise to send in work for future issues of the magazine, not realizing that no magazine is planned at this stage. Morrow then starts the magazine, financing the first few issues himself. December 19 – Guatemalan poet Alaíde Foppa is abducted and never seen again.Cocco Elisa Alaíde Foppa: una vita da dissidente Alaíde Foppa: a dissident's life Cuadernos del Hipogrifo 2023 20 11–25 https://www.revistaelhipogrifo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/11-25.pdf 2025-05-27 it 2420-918X 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 thumb|right|150px|Canadian poet John Newlove in June of this year Roo Borson (American-Canadian): In the Smoky Light of the Fields, 0-88823-024-9 Rain, 0-920806-19-8 Fred Cogswell, A Long Apprenticeship Louis Dudek, Cross-Section: Poems 1940-1980. Toronto: Coach House Press."Louis Dudek: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110523063957/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dudek/pub.htm 2011-05-23 ," Canadian Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, May 6, 2011. Dorothy Farmiloe, Words for My Weeping Daughter Robert Finch, Variations and Theme." Robert Finch," Online Guide to Writing in Canada. Web, Mar. 17, 2011. Gail Fox, In Search of Living Things Ralph Gustafson, Landscape with Rain Irving Layton, For My Neighbours in Hell. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press."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. Miriam Mandel, Where Have You Been?. Edmonton: Longspoon 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. Joe Rosenblatt, The Sleeping Lady. Exile Editions."Joe Rosenblatt: Publications https://web.archive.org/web/20110814050155/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/rosenblatt/pub.htm 2011-08-14 ," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 22, 2011. Raymond Souster, Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1940-55) (first of a projected ten-volume collection) Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country. Don Mills, ON: Academic 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. Andrew Suknaski, Montage for an Interstellar Cry Anne Szumigalski, A Game of Angels Tom Wayman, Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country, including "Garrison", first prize-winner of the U.S. Bicentennial poetry competition Phyllis Webb, Wilson's BowlRoberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009 Caribbean A. J. Seymour, A Treasury of Guyanese Poetry"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, page xvii and following pages, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009 Pamela Mordecai, Mervyn Morris, editors, Jamaica Woman: An Anthology of Poems, Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season Mutabaruka, The First Poems: 1970–1979 Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States India, in English Meena Alexander, Stone Roots ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United StatesWeb page titled "Meena Alexander" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919141926/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10598 2011-09-19 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 15, 2010 Dilip Chitre, Travelling In A Cage ( Poetry in English ), Mumbai:Clearing HouseWeb page titled "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 website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Keki Daruwalla: Editor, Two Decades of Indian Poetry 1960-1980, Delhi: VikasWeb page titled "Keki Daruwalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100131210510/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2725 2010-01-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Winter Poems ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd. E. V. Ramakrishnan: A Python in A Snake Park ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Rupa and Co. 81-7167-194-2Web page titled "E.V. Ramakrishnan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110411011844/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=14027 2011-04-11 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 28, 2010 Being Elsewhere in Myself ( Poetry in English ), Kolkata: Writers Workshop, India. Jayanta Mahapatra, The False Start (Poetry in English), https://web.archive.org/web/20070520014453/http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra/ 2007-05-20 Jayata Mahapatra Web page at the Orissa Gateway Web site, accessed October 16, 2007 Bombay: Clearing House, India . Ireland Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Dermot Bolger, The Habit of Flesh Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965-1975, Faber & Faber, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", Faber and Faber, Irish poet published in the United KingdomCrotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 New Zealand James K. Baxter, Collected Poems, posthumous Charles Brasch, Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, autobiographyWeb page titled "Charles Brasch: New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060928202053/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/brasch.htm September 28, 2006 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Alistair Campbell, The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press Lauris Edmond: Wellington Letter: A Sequence of PoemsRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Seven: Poems Salt from the North W. H. Oliver, Out of Season: Poems, Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, New Zealand Alistair Patterson, editor, Fifteen Contemporary New Zealand Poets, anthologyPreminger, 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 Ian Wedde, Castaly: Poems 1973–1977 United Kingdom Eavan Boland, In Her Own Image, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Alan Brownjohn, A Night in the Gazebo David Constantine, A Brightness to Cast Shadows Wendy Cope, Across the City Donald Davie, In the Stopping Train, and Other Poems Lawrence Durrell, Collected Poems: 1931–1974, edited by James A. Brigham Gavin Ewart, The Collected Ewart 1933–1980 (see also Collected Poems 1990) Elaine Feinstein, The Feast of Eurydice, Faber & Faber/Next Editions James Fenton, A German Requiem: A Poem, Salamander Press, a pamphlet Web page titled "Books by Fenton" at the James Fenton Web site, accessed October 11, 2007 Roy Fisher, Poems 1955–1980 John Fuller, The January Divan Roy Fuller, The Reign of Sparrows Geoffrey Grigson, History of Him Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems 1965–1975 (see also New Selected Poems 1990), Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Adrian Henri, From the Loveless Matel Frances Horovitz, Water Over Stone Elizabeth Jennings, A Dream of Spring Linton Kwesi Johnson, Inglan is a Bitch Thomas Kinsella, Poems 1956–1973, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Laurence Lerner, A.R.T.H.U.R. & M.A.R.T.H.A.; or, The Loves of the Computers, South African native living and published in the United Kingdom George MacBeth, Poems of Love and Death Norman MacCaig, The Equal Skies Pete Morgan, One Greek AlphabetSalter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010 Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Tom Paulin, The Strange Museum, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Kathleen Raine, The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems 1975–1978 Jeremy Reed, Bleecker Street Jon Silkin, The Psalms With Their Spoils Anthony Thwaite, Victorian Voices John Wain, Poems, 1949–1979 Benjamin Zephaniah, Pen Rhythm, his first published collection Anthologies in the United Kingdom D. J. Enright, editor, The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (see above) Blake Morrison, editor, The Movement Charles Tomlinson, editor, The Oxford Book of Verse in English translation Geoffrey Grigson, editor, Oxford Book of Satirical Verse Gavin Ewart, editor, Penguin Book of Light Verse Valentine Cunningham, editor, Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse United States Meena Alexander, Stone Roots, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, by an Indian writing and living in the United States A.R. Ammons, Selected Longer PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi) Ted Berrigan: So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems (0-912652-61-6) Carrying a Torch Elizabeth Bishop, That was Then, published posthumously (died 1979) Philip Booth, Before Sleep Joseph Brodsky: A Part of Speech, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Web page titled "Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography" at the "Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation", accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman George F. Butterick and Richard Blevins, editors, Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, first volume published this year (ninth and last volume published in 1990), Santa Barbara, CaliforniaEverett, 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 Billy Collins, Video Poems Allen Ginsberg, Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947–1980 Daniel G. Hoffman, Brotherly Love Galway Kinnell, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words James McMichael, Four Good Things William Meredith, The Cheer James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant Howard Nemerov, Sentences Molly Peacock, And Live Apart James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem Frederick Seidel, Sunrise Louis Simpson, Caviare at the Funeral Mark Strand, Selected Poems, Canadian native living in and published in the United States Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, St. Lucia native living in and published in the United States Rosmarie Waldrop, When They Have Senses (Burning Deck Press) Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 Philip Whalen, Enough Said (Grey Fox Press) Ray Young Bear, winter of the salamander (sic)Porter, 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 Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman (biography) Lew Welch, I Remain (letters; Grey Fox Press), posthumous Other in English Lorna Goodison, Tamarind Season, Jamaica Philip Salom, The Silent Piano (Fremantle Arts Centre) 978-0-909144-31-9, Australia Chris Wallace-Crabbe, editor, The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, anthology 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 Klaus Høeck, Denmark: Bowie, Bowie, with Asger Schnack, publisher: GyldendalWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck" https://web.archive.org/web/20250826151839/http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Bstage%5D=5&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Buid%5D=115&tx_lfforfatter_pi2%5Blang%5D=_eng&id=2092&no_cache=1 2025-08-26 , website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Eno One, with Asger Schnack, publisher: Albatros Nul (med Asger Schnack og F.P.Jac), publisher: Sommersko Renaldo & Clara (med Asger Schnack), publisher: Virkelyst Klaus Rifbjerg, Livsfrisen French language Canada, in French Suzanne Jacob, Poèmes I : Gémellaires, Montréal: Le BiocreuxWeb page titled "Suzanne Jacob" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164010/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/suzanne_jacob.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Pierre Nepveu, Couleur chair, Montréal: l'HexagoneWeb page titled "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 Edmond Robillard, Le temps d'un peu ... : Poèmes, Montréal: Éditions Albert-le-GrandWeb page titled "Edmond Robillard" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164310/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/edmond_robillard.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 Jean Royer, Faim souveraine, l'HexagoneWeb page titled "Jean Royer" https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164236/http://www.academiedeslettresduquebec.ca/jean_royer.html 2011-07-06 at L’Académie des lettres du Québec website (in French), retrieved October 20, 2010 France Yves Bonnefoy, Entretiens sur la poésie, France Philippe Denis: Carnet d'un aveuglementAuster, 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 Surface d'écueil Emmanuel Hocquard, Une journée dans le détroit Edmond Jabès, L'Ineffacable L'Inaperçu Abdellatif Laabi, Moroccan author writing in and published in France: Le Règne de barbarie. Seuil, Paris (épuisé) Histoire des sept crucifiés de l'espoir. La Table rase, Paris Jean Max Tixier, editor, fr Vers une logoqie poétique, publisher: La Table Rase Germany West Germany Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Christoph Meckel, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2 ("Poetry Yearbook 2"), publisher: Claassen; anthologyWeb page titled "Übersicht erschienener Jahrbücher" https://web.archive.org/web/20110717152959/http://www.fischerverlage.de/sixcms/media.php/690/Lyrik_2008%20mit%20Uebersicht.pdf 2011-07-17 at Fischerverlage website, retrieved February 21, 2010 Ernst Jandl, Der gelbe Hund Johanna Moosdorf, Sieben Jahr sieben Tag W. Schubert and K. H. Höfer, editors, Ansichten über Lyrik, anthology, poems and prose since OpitzPreminger, 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 East German exiles Roger Loewig, Ein Vogel bin ich ohne Flügel Thomas Brasch, Der Schöne 27. September Günter Kunert, Abtötungsverfahren Hebrew Natan Sach, he Tsfonit misrahit Dan Pagis, editor, an anthology of medieval Hebrew love poetry Mavet ve' ahava, an anthology of Egyptian poetry in Hebrew translation India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Gulzar, Kuch Aur Nazme, New Delhi: Radhakrishna Prakashan; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Gulzar" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Kedarnath Singh, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan; HindiWeb page titled "Kedarnath Singh" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 11, 2010 M. Gopalakrishna Adiga, Mulaka Mahasayaru, India, Kannada-languageDas, 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 via Google Books on December 23, 2008 Nilmani Phookan, 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 2011-07-21 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 16, 2010 Rajendra Kishore Panda, Nija Pain Nanabaya, Samabesha, Bhubaneswar: Prakashani, Oraya-languageWeb page titled "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 Panna Nayak, Philadelphia; Gujarati-languageMohan, 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, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Prabhu Chugani, Surkh Gulab Suraha, a collection of five-line poems in a form invented by him; the book received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981, Indian, Sindhi-language Italian Piero Bigongiari, Moses Valerio Magrelli, Ora serrata retinae Eugenio Montale, L'opera in versi, the Bettarini-Contini edition (published in 1981 as Altri verse e poesie disperse), publisher: Mondadori; ItalyEugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Edoardo Sanguineti, Stracciafoglio Antonio Porta, Passi passaggi Maurizio Cucchi, Le meraviglie dell'acqua Ugo Reale, Il cerchio d'ombra Norway Ernst Orvil, Nær nok (Norwegian) Harald Sverdrup, Fugleskremsel (Norwegian) Marie Takvam, Falle og reise seg att (Norwegian) Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Tryptyk z betonu, zmeczenia i sniegu ("Triptych with Concrete, Fatigue and Snow"), Kraków: KOSWeb page titled "Rymkiewicz Jaroslaw Marek" https://web.archive.org/web/20110916194011/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,139.php 2011-09-16 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 M. Korolko, editor, pl Średniowieczna pieśn religina polska, second edition, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp 959-960 A. Lam, editor, Ze struny na strune, anthology Bronisław Maj, Wiersze ("Poems"); Warsaw: NOWAWeb pages titled "Maj Bronisław" (both English version https://web.archive.org/web/20110911011122/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,113.php 2011-09-11 and Polish version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062910/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,13.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Institute Ksiazki ("Book Institute") website, "Bibliography" section, retrieved March 2, 2010 Piotr Sommer, Pamiątki po nasWeb page titled "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" website, retrieved February 19, 2010 Jan Twardowski, Niebieskie okulary ("Blue Sunglasses"), Kraków: ZnakWeb page titled "Jan Twardowski" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718063117/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,34.php 2011-07-18 , at the Institute Ksiazki website (in Polish), "Bibliography: Poetry" section, retrieved February 24, 2010 Portuguese language Portugal Mário Cláudio, Estáncias Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Primavera Autónomia das Estradas Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Esquecer para lembrar (the third volume of his poetic autobiography) Mário Chamie Astrid Cabral Liane dos Santos Tarik de Sousa Dante de Milano, complete poems Paulo Mendes Campos, complete poems Afonso Félix de Sousa, book of poems Russia Aleksandr Blok (1880–1921), much of his poetry was republished in this year, his centenary, including a six-volume edition of his collected works and Blok in the Reminiscences of Contemporaries Spanish language Spain Matilde Camus, Perfiles ("Profiles") Antonio Colinas, Astrolabio Leopoldo Azancot, La novia judia Sweden Lars Forssell, Stenar Ylva Eggehorn, Hjärtats Knytnãvsslag Tobias Berggren, Threnos Begt Emil Johnson, Vinterminne Other languages Leyzer Aichenrand, Landscape of Fate, Yiddish in Switzerland Samih al-Qasim, Je t'aime au gré de la mort, Palestinian Simin Behbahani, Khatti ze Sor'at va Atash ("A Line of Speed and Fire"), Persia Mairtin O Direain, Danta, including "Deiradh Re", "Cuimhne an Domhnaigh", and "Cranna Foirtil", Gaelic-language, Ireland Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, translator, literary critic, and (since 1951) exile. Australia Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle Canada See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Prix Émile-Nelligan: Claude Beausoleil, Au milieu du corps l’attraction s’insinue (poèmes 1975-1980) United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian United States Academy of American Poets Fellowship: Mona Van Duyn AML Award for Poetry to Emma Lou Thayne for "Once in Israel" Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, Selected Poems (April 14) American Academy of Arts and Letters: John Ashbery elected a member of the Literature Department Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Mona Van Duyn Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets: Jared Carter Spanish Premios de la Crítica awards in poetry: Castilian: Luis Rosales, Diario de una resurrección Catalan: Miquel Martí i Pol, Estimada Marta Galician: Eduardo Moreiras, O libro dos mortos Basque: Juan Mari Lekuona, Ilargiaren eskolan Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 3 – George Sutherland Fraser (born 1915), Scottish poet and critic February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attack February 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, American poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment March 25 – James Wright, 52, American, of cancer March 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painter April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician June 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poet July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor August 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911), New Zealand poet and publisher September 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), Australian Macartney, Frederick Thomas Bennett (Fred) (1887-1980) Macartney, Frederick Thomas (Fred) (1887–1980) Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macartney-frederick-thomas-fred-10892 2007-10-02 September 25 – Marie Under (born 1883), Estonian October 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacher Haley, Martin Nelson (1905 - 1980) Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/haley-martin-nelson-10392 2007-12-21 October 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist November 21 – A. J. M. Smith (born 1902), Canadian November 28 – Julia Reynolds, 98 See also Poetry Poetry List of years in poetry List of poetry awards Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1980 ("for events of 1979"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1980 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections) Category:20th-century poetry *