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none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1979 poetry literature Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College in the United States 10 years after the original publication was closed. Jahrbuch der Lyrik ("Poetry Yearbook"), an annual poetry anthology, is launched in Germany, nine years before the similar series The Best American Poetry is begun. Each year's edition, containing 100 poems, is published in the spring by Beck, and is edited by Christoph Buchwald along with a guest editor. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011000/http://www.pw.org/mag/0303/newssofer.htm 2007-09-28 Sofer, Dalia, ""Best" Anthologies: A Global Trend", an article in Poets & Writers magazine, March 2003, accessed April 14, 2007 Poetry Canada Review founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada; the publication folds in 1994.Web page titled "Literary Archives / Poetry Canada Review", at the Library and Archives Canada website, retrieved January 3, 2009 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 Where I Come From Robert Gray, Grass script Jennifer Maiden, The Border Loss, Angus & Robertson Les Murray, The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989 John Tranter: Dazed in the Ladies Lounge, Island Press (Australia) Editor, The New Australian Poetry (anthology)Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p 108 Chris Wallace-Crabbe: The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers, Sydney: Angus & Robertson Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry (scholarship), Melbourne: Hutchinson Canada Dionne Brand, Earth Magic Paul Dutton, Right Hemisphere, Left Ear Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do Candice James, A Split in the Water. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books.A split in the water https://canada.on.worldcat.org/oclc/6279335 21 December 2025 Irving Layton, Droppings from Heaven. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Irving Layton, The Tamed Puma. Toronto: Virgo Press. Irving Layton, There Were No Signs. Toronto: Madison Gallery."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. Dennis Lee.The Gods. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."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. Steven McCaffery and B.P. Nichol, In England Now That Spring Susan Musgrave, A Man to Bury, A Man to Marry Michael Ondaatje (also see "Anthologies in Canada" section below): There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978, New York: W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1979Web page titled "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 0-393-01191-7, 978-0-393-01191-3 (published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980) Claude Glass (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press Charles Sangster, Hesperus and other poems and lyrics (revised edition), edited by Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. Raymond Souster, Hanging In: New Poems. 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. James Wreford Watson, Countryside Canada."J(ames) Wreford Watson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Bookrags. com, Web, Apr. 21, 2011. Anthologies in Canada Michael Ondaatje: Editor, A Book of Beasts, animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of The Broken Ark, 1971 Editor, The Long Poem Anthology, Toronto: Coach House 0-88910-177-9 India, in English K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Leaves from a Log: Fragments of a Journey, New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann Kamala Das, Old Playhouse and Other Poems ( Poetry in English ), Madras: Orient LongmanNiranjan 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 via Google Books on July 17, 2010 Eunice de Souza, Fix ( Poetry in English ), Bombay: Newground, India.Web page titled "Eunice de Souza" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919131732/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16077 September 19, 2011 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 8, 2010 Jayanta Mahapatra, Waiting ( Poetry in English ), New Delhi: Samkaleen PrakashanPurnima 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 Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Continuations ( Poetry in English ), Calcutta: Writers Workshop Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Feeling FossilsNaik, 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 via Google Books, June 12, 2009 Ireland Harry Clifton, Office of the Salt Merchant, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 978-0-902996-84-7 Ireland Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Field Work,Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Faber & Faber Hedge School, Janus Press Ugolino, Carpenter Press Gravities, Charlotte Press A Family Album, Byron Press Thomas Kinsella, One and Other Poems, including "Anniversaries"Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1995, 0-85640-561-2 Michael Longley, The Echo Gate. Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978, including "A Dying Art", "Ecclesiastes", "An Image from Beckett", "Lives", "The Snow Party", "A Refusal to Mourn" and "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom New Zealand Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963): The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New York: 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 2006-12-21 at the University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 26, 2008 Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books Allen Curnow, An Incorrigible MusicAllen Curnow Web page at the New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Bill Manhire, Dawn/Water Bob Orr, Poems for MoiraWeb page titled "Bob Orr" at Best of New Zealand Poems 2001 website, accessed April 23, 2008 Anthologies John Jessop, editor, International Anthology of Concrete Poetry, vol. i George Swede, editor, The Canadian Haiku Anthology South Africa Mazisi Kunene, Emperor Shaka the Great: a Zulu Epic United Kingdom Fleur Adcock (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963): The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (New Zealand poet who moved to England in 1963) Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books Kingsley Amis, Collected Poems 1944–1979 James Berry, Fractured Circles Anne Born, Changing Views Robert Conquest, Forays Patric Dickinson, Our Living John, and Other Poems Maureen Duffy, Memorials of the Quick and the Dead Douglas Dunn, Barbarians Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Hibiscus in the North D. J. Enright, A Faust Book John Fuller, Lies and Secrets W. S. Graham, Collected Poems 1942–1977 Thom Gunn, Selected Poems 1950–1975 (see also Poems 1969 in poetry, Collected Poems 1993) Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Field Work, Faber & Faber Hedge School, Janus Press Ugolino, Carpenter Press Gravities, Charlotte Press A Family Album, Byron Press Ted Hughes: Moortown Remains of Elmet Elizabeth Jennings, Moments of Grace P. J. Kavanagh, Life Before Death Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat, translated by John Heath-Stubbs and Peter Avery Michael Longley, The Echo Gate Roger McGough, Holiday on Death Row Derek Mahon, Poems 1962-1978. Oxford University Press Pete Morgan, The Spring CollectionSalter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010 Brian Patten, Grave Gossip Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Peter Reading, Fiction United States John Ashbery, As We Know Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff, Yo-Yo's With Money Joseph Payne Brennan, Webs of Time (Macabre House) Maxine Chernoff, Utopia TV Store (The Yellow Press) Robert Creeley, Was That a Real Poem and Other Essays, edited by Donald Allen (Bolinas, California), criticismEverett, 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 Federico García Lorca (posthumous), translated by Paul Blackburn, Lorca/Blackburn: Poems of Federico García Lorca Chosen by Paul Blackburn John Hollander, Blue Wine Paul Hoover, Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert (The Yellow Press) Stanley Kunitz, The Poems of Stanley Kunitz Denise Levertov, Collected Earlier Poems Gary Miranda, Listeners at the Breathing Place F. A. Nettelbeck, Bug Death Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (chapbook) George Quasha, Giving the Lily Back Her Hands (Station Hill Press) Frank Stanford, You, posthumous chapbook (Lost Roads Publishers) Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons 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 Inger Christensen, Brev i April ("Letter in April")http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm Inger Christensen Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) Petri Liukkonen Kuusankoski Public Library Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20090123041708/http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ingerc.htm 23 January 2009 dead Klaus Høeck, Denmark: Dylan Forever, publisher: SwingWeb page titled "Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", website of the Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre, retrieved January 1, 2010 Winterreise, publisher: Gyldendal Henrik Nordbrandt, Spøgelseslege French Canada, in French Jean Royer, Les heures nues, Montréal: Nouvelles Éditions de l'ArcWeb 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 Marie Uguay Signe et rumeur France Noureddine Aba, Gazelle après minuit, Algerian writerSellin Eric Gazelle après minuit by Noureddine Aba World Literature Today 1980 54 4 684–685 10.2307/40135559 40135559 Alain Bosquet, Poémes, un, his collected works up to 1967 André du Bouchet, LaissesAuster, 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 Emmanuel, Una, ou la mort, la vie Claude Esteban, Terres, travaux du cœur, Flammarion Guillevic, Etier André Pieyre de Mandiargues, L'ivre Oeil Patrick Reumaux, Repérages du vif India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Ajmer Rode, Surti, London, Ontario: Third Eye Publications, 0-919581-59-5 Chandigarh: Raghbir Rachna Parkashan; Punjabi-languageWeb page titled https://web.archive.org/web/20120420011408/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11767 2012-04-20 at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Geeta Parikh, Bhinash; 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 K. Satchidanandan, Ezhuthachan Ezhutumbol, ("When the Poet Writes"); Malayalam-languageWeb page titled "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 Kunwar Narain, Apne Samne, New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan; Hindi-languageWeb page titled "Kunwar Narain" at the "Poetry International" website, retrieved July 12, 2010 Malika Amar Sheikh, Valuchya Priyakar, Mumbai: Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Prabodhini; Marathi-languageWeb page titled "Malika Amar Sheikh" https://web.archive.org/web/20110920051450/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2727_id=13518 2011-09-20 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Rajendra Bhandari, Hiundey yee chisa raatka pardeharuma ("In the Veils of Cold Wintry Nights"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Padmakala Prakashan; Nepali-languageWeb page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" https://web.archive.org/web/20130530191831/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 2013-05-30 at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Poland Stanisław Barańczak, Etyka i poetyka ("Ethics and Poetics"), criticism; Paris: Instytut LiterackiWeb 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 Ewa Lipska: Dom spokojnej młodości ("A Home for Youth"), selected poems, Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackieWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (in English https://web.archive.org/web/20110916151616/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,78,121.php 2011-09-16 and Polish https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062801/http://www.instytutksiazki.pl/pl,ik,site,8,5,21.php 2011-07-18 ), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 Zywa smierc, ("Living Death"); Kraków: Wydawnictwo literackie Spanish Spain Matilde Camus, Corcel en el tiempo ("Steed of the time") Latin America Alaíde Foppa, Las palabras y el tiempo ("Words and time"), Guatemalan poet published in MexicoCocco 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 Other Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Harald Hartung, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1: Am Rand der Zeit ("Poetry Yearbook 1: On the Edge of Time"), publisher: Claassen; anthology; GermanyWeb 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 Haim Gouri, Ayuma, Israeli writing in Hebrewhttp://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 Archived copy 2007-10-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024232/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=101 2007-09-30 Web page titled "Haim Gouri" at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature Web site, accessed October 6, 2007 Nizar Qabbani, I Testify That There Is No Woman But You, Syrian poet writing in Arabic Awards and honors Nobel Prize in Literature: Odysseus Elytis, Greek Canada See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Prix Émile-Nelligan: François Charron, Blessures United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Alan Brownjohn, Andrew Motion, Charles Tomlinson Eric Gregory Award: Stuart Henson, Michael Jenkins, Alan Hollinghurst, Sean O'Brien, Peter Thabit Jones, James Lindesay, Walter Perrie, Brian Moses United States AML Award for Poetry to Marden J. Clark for "Moods: Of Late" and Edward L. Hart for "To Utah" Bollingen Prize: W.S. Merwin American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Archibald MacLeish Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Now and Then Walt Whitman Award: David Bottoms, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: May Swenson and Mark Strand Births February 4 - Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist and critic October 16 - Jonathan Edwards, Welsh, English-language poet Aifric Mac Aodha, Irish-language poet and editor Qabaniso Malewezi ('Q'), Malawian musician and English-language poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 8 - Alexandru A. Philippide (born 1900), Romanian February 9 - Allen Tate (born 1899), American poet, of emphysema June 15 - Ernst Meister (born 1911), GermanHofmann, Michael Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2006 July 15 - Juana de Ibarbourou (born 1892), Uruguayan September 5 - John Bradburne (born 1921), English poet and missionary, killed by guerillas September 7 - I. A. Richards (born 1893), influential English literary critic and rhetorician October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop (born 1911), American poet, from an aneurism December 7 - Nicolas Born (born 1937), German poet, from cancer 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) See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Category:20th-century poetry *