1973 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1973 poetry literature Events September 16 – Chilean poet Víctor Jara, having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, is shot and killed. His last poem Estadio Chile is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees. Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in New York in 1974 and in London, England in 1984."Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943- )" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed May 7, 2008 White Pine Press founded in Buffalo, New York. The publisher is a nonprofit organization putting out poetry, fiction, essays, and literature in translation."A World of Voices" https://web.archive.org/web/20090115004608/http://www.whitepine.org/about.php 2009-01-15 , White Pines Press website, retrieved December 10, 2008 The French journal L'éphémère, founded in 1966, ceases publication this year; poets associated with it include Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet.Denis Hollier (ed.), A New History of French Literature, p. 1023, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. 0-674-61565-4 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 John Tranter: Red Movie and other poems, Angus & Robertson The Blast Area, Gargoyle Poets number 13, Makar Press Chris Wallace-Crabbe: Selected Poems, Sydney: Angus & Robertson Vinyl record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, St.Lucia Canada Alfred Bailey, Thanks for a Drowned Island."Biographical Sketch," Dr. Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey fonds, Lib.UNB.ca, Web, Jan. 5, 2009. Earle Birney: The Bear on the Delhi Road: selected poems. London: Chatto & Windus. what's so big about GREEN?. 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. Shirley Gibson, I Am Watching John Glassco, Montreal. Montreal: DC Books. Irving Layton, Lovers and lesser Men. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart."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. Dorothy Livesay, Nine Poems of Farewell. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press."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. Eli Mandel, Crusoe: Poems Selected and New Miriam Mandel, Lions at Her Face. Edmonton: White Pelican Publications."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. John Metcalf (ed.), The Speaking Earth, anthology Michael Ondaatje, Rat Jelly, Toronto: Coach House Press Al Purdy, Sex and Death F. R. Scott, The Dance Is One. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart."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, The Colour of the Times. Ten Elephants on Yonge Street. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson."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. Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. Sights and Sounds. Toronto: Macmillan. Doris Huestis Speirs, Exercise for Psyche Caribbean Mervyn Morris, The Pond, Jamaica"Selected Timeline of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" in Williams, Emily Allen, Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970–2001: An Annotated Bibliography, pp. xvii and following, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, 978-0-313-31747-7; retrieved February 7, 2009 Andrew Salkey (ed.), Breaklight, Doubleday, anthologyBreiner, Laurence A., An Introduction to West Indian Poetry, p. 253, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 978-0-521-58712-9; retrieved February 7, 2009 Dennis Scott, Uncle Time, Jamaica Derek Walcott, Another Life, St. Lucia India in English Kamala Das: The Old Playhouse and Other Poems, New Delhi: Orient Longman Alphabet of Love, New Delhi: Orient Paper BacksK. V. Surendran, "13. The Image of Woman in Kamala Das's Poems", p. 160, in Jaydipsinh Dodiya (ed.), Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9, retrieved July 17, 2010 Richard L. Bartholomew, Poems, 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 Brooks Frederick, Rocket to the Moon, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Alokeranjan Das Gupta, Poems, Calcutta: Dialogue Pub. A. K. Ramanujan, Speaking of Siva, PenguinC. S. Nanjundaiah, "Translating the Untranslatable: A Look at A. K. Ramanujan's Speaking of Siva", p. 85, in Jaydipsinh Dodiya (ed.), Indian English Poetry: Critical Perspectives, 2000, Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, 81-7625-111-9; retrieved July 17, 2010 Ireland Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry, Northern Ireland native published in the United Kingdom Thomas Kinsella: Selected Poems 1956–1968, including "Chrysalides"Crotty, Patrick, Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1995, 0-85640-561-2 New Poems 1973, including "Notes from the Land of the Dead" Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom New Zealand James K. Baxter, Two Obscene Poems, posthumous, Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United KingdomRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Allen Curnow, An Abominable Temper & Other PoemsAllen Curnow page at New Zealand Book Council website, accessed April 21, 2008 Winston Curnow (ed.), Essays on New Zealand Literature, Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books (scholarship)"Ursula Bethell / New Zealand Literature File" https://web.archive.org/web/20060306024521/http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/bethell.htm 2006-03-06 , University of Auckland Library website, accessed April 30, 2008 Keith Sinclair, The Firewheel Tree United Kingdom Dannie Abse, Funland, and Other PoemsCox, Michael (ed.), The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Peter Ackroyd, London Lickpenny Martin Booth, Coronis, including the long poem, "On the Death of Archdeacon Broix" Edwin Brock, a book of poetry"Literature" article, Britannica Book of the Year 1974, covering events of 1973, published in 1974, pp. 425-442, the article provides no information on this book's title. Alan Brunton, Messengers in Blackface, work by a New Zealand poet published in the United Kingdom Cal Clothier, Behind Heslington Hall Tony Curtis, Walk Down a Welsh Wind, Welsh Patric Dickinson, A Wintering Tree, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy, Fleshweathercock Lawrence Durrell, Vega, and Other Poems D. J. Enright, The Terrible Shears Elaine Feinstein, The Celebrants and Other Poems, Hutchinson Michael Fried, Powers Roy Fuller, Tiny Tears Geoffrey Grigson, Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose Michael Hamburger, Ownerless Earth Seamus Heaney, a book of poetry, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom Ted Hughes, Prometheus on his Crag Thomas Kinsella, a book of poetry Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Geoffrey Holloway, To Have Eyes Michael Longley, An Exploded View George MacBeth, Shrapnel Edwin Morgan, From Glasgow to Saturn Pete Morgan, The Grey Mare Being the Better SteedSalter, Miles, "Pete Morgan obituary: Elegant, original poet much admired by his contemporaries", July 15, 2010, The Guardian, retrieved August 7, 2010 Paul Muldoon, New Weather, Northern Irish native published in the United Kingdom Brian Patten, The Unreliable Nightingale Peter Redgrove, a book of poetry Alan Ross, The Taj Express Anne Ridler, a book of poetry Carol Rumens, A Strange Girl in Bright Colours Vernon Scannell, The Winter Man Michael Schmidt, It Was My Tree Sydney Tremayne, Selected and New Poems Derek Walcott, Another Life Anthologies Philip Larkin, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse anthology of poets from the British Isles or who spent time there, 0-19-812137-7 Jon Silkin (ed.), Poetry of the Committed Individual John Bishop and Virginia Broadbent (eds), London Between the Lines Howard Sergeant (ed.), African Voices United States Frank Bidart, Golden State Robert Bly, Sleepers Joining Hands Joseph Payne Brennan, A Sheaf of Snow Poems Joseph Brodsky: Poems, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis"Joseph Brodsky / Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 / Bibliography", Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation, accessed October 18, 2007 Russian-American Victor Hernandez Cruz, Mainland Irving Feldman, Lost Originals Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Open Eye, Open Heart Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America John Logan, The Anonymous Lover, including "New Poem" and "Heart to Heart Talk with My Liver" Robert Lowell: The Dolphin, containing 103 new poems History, containing 360 poems, including more than 80 new ones and many revised For Lizzie and Harriet, 67 old poems, all revised W. S. Merwin, Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum"W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Joyce Carol Oates, Angel Fire George Quasha, Somapoetics Adrienne Rich, "Rape" Muriel Rukeyser, Breaking Open Patti Smith, Witt Mark Strand, The Story of Our Lives, Canadian native living in and published in the United States Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems Anthologies George Quasha & Jerome Rothenberg, (eds.) America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present (Random House/Viking) Ronald Gross & George Quasha, (eds.) Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems (Simon & Schuster) 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 Michel Bealieu: Variables Pulsions Yves-Gabriel Brunet, Poésies I, collected poems from 1958 to 1962 Gilles Constantineau, Nouveaux Poèmes Roland Giguère, La Main au feu, collected poems from 1949 to 1968 Gilbert Langevin: Les Ecrits de Zéro Legel Novembre Raymond LeBlanc, Cri de terre Luc Racine, Le Pays saint France Conseil international des femmes, Anthologie de la poésie féminine mondiale, Saint-Germain-des-Prés Jean Daive, Fut bâti, about the author's friendship with Paul Celan; part memoir, part prose-poem;"Jean Davie: from Under the Dome: A Memoir of Paul Celan", Salt Magazine; retrieved September 2, 2009. Archived 2009-09-04. GallimardAuster, 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 Michel Deguy, Tombeau de du Bellay Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Peut-Être une demeure Jean Loisy, Le Double Jeu Katia Granoff Méditerranée Eugene Guilleveic, Inclus Edmond Jabès, (El, ou le drier livre) Michel Leiris, Haut-malBrée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983 François Pradelle, Les Naïves Amours Denis Roche, Le Mécrit Pierrette Sartin, Le Destin accepté Philippe Soupault, Poèmes et Poésies: 1917–1973, publisher: Grasset German language East Germany Wolf Biermann, a communist living in East Germany, he could only publish these works in the West: Für meine Genossen Deutschland: ein Wintermärchen, long satirical poem on the division of Germany West Germany, Austria, Switzerland Peter Huchel, Gezähte Tage Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Kein Zauberspruch Eric Fried, Die Freiheit den Mund aufzumachen Günter Herburger, Operette J. P. Stössel, Friedenserklärung India In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name: Assamese Maheswar Neog, Pracya Sasanavali Nabakanta Barua, Mor Aru Prithivir ("Of Mine and the Earth")George, 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 Narayan Bezbarua, PunaruthanDas, 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 Nilmani Phookan, Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Phale, Guwahati, Assam: Guwahati Book Stall"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 Other in India Amrita Pritan, Kagaz te Kanvas, Punjabi K. Siva Reddy, Raktam Suryudu, Hyderabad: Jhari Poetry Circle, Telugu-language"K. Siva Reddy" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919122233/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=16074 September 19, 2011 , "Poetry International"; retrieved July 11, 2010 Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh, Sandrembi Thoraklo Nahum Ponjel Sabige, Imphal: V.I. Publications; 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 Eugenio Montale, Diario del '71 e del '72 (poetry) Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (a private edition of 100 copies was published in 1971)Eugenio Montale, Collected Poems 1920-1954, translated and edited by Jonathan Galassi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, 0-374-12554-6 Almanacco dello Specchio for 1973, an anthology of poetry, including translated poetry Franco Fortini, Questo muro, collected poems from 1962 to 1972 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Trasumanar e organizzar Libero De Libero, Scempio e lusinga, collected poems written from 1930 to 1956 Marino Moretti, Le poverazze Soviet Union M. Bazhan, The Spark from Uman Recollections (translated into Russian from Ukrainian), 1973Britannica Book of the Year 1975, published by The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1975, "Literature" article, "Russian" section, "Soviet Literature" subsection, p. 465; although the book is for "Events of 1974" the article specifically cites each of these works as published in Russian in 1973. P. Brovka, We Are Children of One Mother (translated into Russian from Belarusian) B. Istru, Pain of a Shadow (translated into Russian from Moldavian) R. Margiani, From the Book of Brotherhood (translated into Russian from Georgian) S. Orlov, Loyalty Spanish language José Carlos Becerra, El otoño recorre las islas, collected poetry from 1960 to 1970, edited by José Emilio Pacheco and Gabriel Zaid Alfonso Calderón, Isla de los Bienaventurados ("Island of the Blessed"), Chile"Chile National Literature Prize Winner Alfonso Calderon Dies" https://web.archive.org/web/20111228235620/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341019&CategoryId=13003 2011-12-28 , obituary, August 8, 2009, Latin American Herald Tribune, retrieved September 4, 2009. Archived 2009-09-07. Matilde Camus, Bestiario poético ("Poetic Book of Aaimals") Ernesto Cardenal, Canto nacional, Nicaragua Rosario Castellanos, "Valium 10" Rafael Méndez Dorich, Globos cautivos, posthumously published (Lima), Peru"Rafael Méndez Dorich," Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011 Enrique Fierro, Mutaciones, Uruguay Ulalume González de León, Plagio, Uruguay Alvaro Mutis, Summa de magroll el Gaviero, Colombia José Miguel Oviedo, Estos trece José Emilio Pacheco, Irás y no volverás, Mexico Justo Jorge Padrón, Mar de la noche Gabriel Zaid, Práctica mortal, Mexico Other Ruy de Moura Belo, Portugal: País possível ("The Possible Country"), consisting of a single, long poem, Pequena História Trágico-Trerrestre ("Brief Tragi-Terrestrial History")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 Transporte no tempo ("Borne through Time") Odysseus Elytis, The Trills Of Love (Τα Ρω του Έρωτα), Greece Klaus Høeck, Rejse l-V, publisher: Grevas; Denmark"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre; retrieved January 1, 2010. Awards and honors English language Canada See 1973 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs 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"): Daniel Hoffman appointed this year. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Crowe Ransom Bollingen Prize: James Merrill National Book Award for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Collected Poems, 1951-1971 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin, Up Country Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: W. S. Merwin French language France Max Jacob prize: Hubert Juin for Le Cinquième Poème Guillaume Apollinaire prize: Marc Alyn Grand Priz of the French Academy: André Frénaud Grand Aigle d'Or: Eugène Guillevic Births January 1 – Bryan Thao Worra, Laotian-American author, poet and playwright January 7 – Natalia Belchenko, Ukrainian poet and translator November 17 – Paul Vermeersch, Canadian poet date not known: Ben Doller, born Ben Doyle, American Duo Yu, Chinese Sonnet L'Abbé, Canadian Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 26 – Noël Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack May 20 – Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron May 23 – Kenneth Allott, 60 (born 1912) Welsh poet, academic and authority on Matthew Arnold June 4 – Arna Bontemps, 70 (born 1902), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack August 17 – Conrad Aiken, 84, American fiction writer and poet, of a heart attack September 2 – J. R. R. Tolkien, 81, English novelist, poet and academic September 16 – Víctor Jara, 40, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, by political murder September 20 – William Plomer, 69, South African-born British poet, novelist, literary editor and librettist, sometimes writing as Robert Pagan September 23 – Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia September 28 – W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann, 47 (born 1926) Austrian poet and author November 22 – Ramon Guthrie, 77, American poet, author and academic November 23 – Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet November 24 – John G. Neihardt (born 1881), American author and poet December 11 – May Wedderburn Cannan, 80 (born 1893), English war poet December 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner, 82 (born 1891), German poet and playwright December 30 – Vagaland, pen name of Thomas Alexander Robertson, 64 (born 1909), Shetland Scottish poet See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Category:20th-century poetry *