1975 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1975 poetry literature thumb|right|450px|Singer Bob Dylan and poet Allen Ginsberg, 1975 Events Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 return, and this year many begin publishing in that country. Radical Australian poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection Rapunzel in Suburbia, triggering a successful libel action by her lawyer ex-husband Lloyd Davies.Dimond, J. Kirkpatrick, P. https://books.google.com/books?id=iLkHvBvATW0C&dq=%22Rapunzel+in+Suburbia%22+libel&pg=PA130 Literary Sydney: A walking guide University of Queensland Press 2000 978-0-7022-3150-6http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s659224.htm Dorothy Hewett passes away ABC radio (PM) 2002-08-26 Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks."About / Brick Books", Brick Books website, retrieved January 3, 2008 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 Earle Birney, The collected poems of Earle Birney. 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. Don Domanski, The Cape Breton Book of the Dead Louis Dudek. Selected Poems. Ottawa: Golden Dog, 1975."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. Archibald Lampman, * Lampman's Kate: Late Love Poems of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). Irving Layton, The Darkening Fire: Selected Poems, 1945–1968. Toronto: McClelland and 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. Irving Layton, The Unwavering Eye: Selected Poems, 1969–1975. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Dorothy Livesay, Ice Age. 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. James Reaney, Selected Shorter Poems, Erin: Porcepic. Joe Rosenblatt, Dream Craters. Press Porcepic."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. Joe Rosenblatt, Virgins & Vampires. McClelland & Stewart. Raymond Souster, Double Header: As Is; Lost & Found. 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. Raymond Souster, Rain Check. Ottawa:Oberon Press. Raymond Souster and Richard Woollatt, eds. These Loved, These Hated Lands. Toronto: Doubleday. George Woodcock, Notes on Visitations: Poems 1936-75, Toronto: Anansi, Canada"The Works of George Woodcock" at Anarchy Archives, which states: "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 Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: Lyric 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 G. S. Sharat Chandra, Offsprings of Servagna, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India. Rita Dalmiya, Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Mary Ann Das Gupta, The Circus of Love, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Prabhu Siddartha Guptara, Beginnings, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, India Pranab Bandyopadhyay, The Voice of the Indian Poets: An Anthology of Indian Poetry, Calcutta: United WritersSearch results page, WorldCat website, retrieved August 10, 2010 Ireland Eavan Boland, The War Horse,Cox, Michael (ed.), The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Stations, Ulsterman Publications North, Faber & Faber Bog Poems, Rainbow Press Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Site of Ambush, Dublin: The Gallery Press"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" https://web.archive.org/web/20080705030935/http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/ENchuilleanain/enchuill.html 2008-07-05 , The Gallery Press: accessed May 4, 2008 New Zealand Alistair Campbell, Dreams, Yellow Lions Lauris Edmond, In Middle AirRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, "Lauris Edmond" article Bill Manhire, Song Cycle, New Zealand Ian Wedde: Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos Pathway to the Sea United Kingdom Arthur J. Ball, Collected Poems Thomas Blackburn, Selected Poems Eavan Boland, The War Horse Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Edwin Brock, The Blocked HeartThe Britannica Book of the Year 1976 (for events of 1975), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1976. Alan Brownjohn, A Song of Good Life Charles Causley, Collected Poems 1951–1975 (see also Collected Poems 1997) Maureen Duffy, Evesong Paul Durcan, O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom John Fuller, The Mountain in the Sea Roy Fuller, From the Joke Shop Roger Garfitt, West of Elm Robert Graves, Collected Poems Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom: Stations, Ulsterman Publications North, Faber & Faber Bog Poems, Rainbow Press John Heath-Stubbs, A Parliament of Birds Adrian Henri, The Best of Henri: Selected Poems 1960–70, London: Jonathan Cape, 978-0-224-01148-8 Geoffrey Hill, Somewhere is Such a Kingdom Michael Ivens, Born Early Clive James, The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: a moral poem, Australian poet resident in the United Kingdom Elizabeth Jennings, Growing-Points Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, Beat and' Blood George MacBeth, In the Hours Waiting for the Blood to Come Derek Mahon, The Snow Party. Oxford University Press, Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Christopher Middleton, The Lonely Suppers of W. V. Balloon Adrian Mitchell, The Apeman Cometh Norman Nicholson, Cloud on Black Combe Leslie Norris, Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies Ruth Pitter, End of Drought Peter Porter, Living in a Calm Country J. H. Prynne, High Pink on Chrome James Reeves, Collected Poems Edgell Rickword, Collected Poems Alan Ross, Open Sea Vernon Scannell, The Loving Game: poems Peter Scupham, Prehistories Henry Shore, Selected Poems Iain Sinclair, Lud Heat Stevie Smith, Collected Poems R. S. Thomas, Laboratories of the Spirit, Welsh J. R. Tolkien, translator, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo John Wain, Feng: a poem Hugo Williams, Some Sweet Day Anthologies in the United Kingdom John Barrell and John Bull (eds), The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse J. M. Cohen, A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse Peter Redgrove (ed.), Lamb and Thundercloud, from the Arvon Foundation creative writing courses at Totleigh Barton Manor in Devon Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 978-0-436-47820-8, published in April (also published in the United States, in May) Poetry Introduction (Faber & Faber) the third in the series Treble Poets (Chatto & Windus) Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom Edward Lucie-Smith, The Burnt Child, autobiography Norman Nicholson, Wednesday Early Closing, autobiography Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long, mostly travel pieces by this poet Kathleen Raine, The Land Unknown, autobiography United States A.R. Ammons, Diversifications: Poems Maya Angelou, Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well John Ashbery: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror later awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Vermont Notebook Ted Berrigan, A Feeling For Leaving Gwendolyn Brooks, Beckonings Lin Carter, Dreams from R'lyeh Robert Creeley, Backwards and The Door: Selected Poems Ed Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar, Manchester Square, Permanent Press"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved May 8, 2008 Ed Dorn, Collected Poems: 1956–1974, Four Seasons Foundation Allen Ginsberg, "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox" Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece Michael S. Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility"Michael S. Harper" at Academy of American Poets website, accessed April 23, 2008 John Hollander, Tales Told of the Fathers Erica Jong, Loveroot Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love W. S. Merwin, The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)"W. S. Merwin (1927- )" at the Poetry Foundation Web site, retrieved June 8, 2010 Joyce Carol Oates, The Fabulous Beasts George Oppen, Collected Poems (New Directions) Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems, third volume (posthumous) Carl Rakosi, Ex Cranium, Night Charles Reznikoff, Holocaust Adrienne Rich, Poems: Selected and New, 1950–1974 Charles Wright, Bloodlines Anthologies in the United States Duane Niatum (ed.), Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, New York: Harper, anthologyPorter, 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 0-06-451151-0 Kenneth Rosen (ed.), Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by American Indians, New York: Viking Press Wole Soyinka (ed.), Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published in May (published in April in the United Kingdom), 978-0-8090-7747-2 Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States John Hollander, Vision and Resonance, criticism Reed Whittemore, William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey Other in English Dorothy Hewett, Rapunzel in Suburbia, Australia Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat and Kaleem Omar, Wordfall, Oxford University Press, English-language poetry published in PakistanAbbasi, Reema, "Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead" https://web.archive.org/web/20090627164548/http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/16-journalist-poet-kaleem-omar-dead-hs-09 2009-06-27 , article, Dawn newspaper, June 26, 2009, retrieved June 27, 2009 Jennifer Maiden, Australia: The Problem of Evil, Prism The Occupying Forces, Gargoyle Geoff Page, Smalltown Memorials, Australia (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press) Wole Soyinka, editor, Poems of Black Africa, part of the Heinemann African Writers Series; published in the United Kingdom; Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 978-0-436-47820-8 (also published in the United States this year) 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: Arabic Adonis, Al-Aghani al-Thania Li Mehyar al-Dimashki ("The Second Songs of Mihyar al-Dimashki"), Syria Mahmood Darwish, a book of poems? (Palestine) Abdel Wahhab al-Bayyati, a book of poems? (Iraq) Amal Dankal, a book of poems? (Egypt) Denmark Thorkild Bjørnvig: Delfinen Stoffets krystalhav Henrik Nordbrandt, Ode til blæksprutten og andre kærlighedsdigte ("Ode to the Octopus and Other Love Poems"), Copenhagen: Gylendal, 55 pages"Henrik Nordbrandt" https://web.archive.org/web/20101223163443/http://www.litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/henrik-nordbrandt 2010-12-23 at the Literatur.siden, retrieved January 29, 2010 French language France Anne-Marie Albiach: Césure: le corpsAuster, 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 Le Double Jean l'Anselme, La Foire à la ferraille Yves Bonnefoy, Dans le leurre du seuil ("The Lure of the Threshold"), long poem with an epic tone and allusions to classical literatureDenis Hollier (ed.), A New History of French Literature, p. 1025, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989 0-674-61565-4 Charles Bory, L'Enfant-soleil et la croix Philippe Denis, Les Cendres de la voix Robert Desnos, Destinée arbitraire, published posthumously (died 1945) Philippe Dumaine, Aux Passeurs de la nuit Jacques Dupin, Debors Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, De La Source azurine Pierre Loubière, Poèmes à la craie Saint-John Perse, Chant pour un équinoxe , Paris: Gallimard"Saint-John Perse: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Bibliography" at the Nobel Prize Website, retrieved July 20, 2009. 2009-07-24. Jean-Louis Vallas, Resonances de Paris Criticism and scholarship Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française volume on the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century volume on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries German language West Germany Herbert Asmodi de, Jokers Gala Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Westwärts 1 und 2 (posthumous) Frank Geerk, Notwehr Klaus Konjetsky, Poem vom Grünen Eck Kaspar H. Spinner, de Zur Struktur des lyrischen Ich Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft unset (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. Greece Kostas Varnalis, el Orgi laou Nikiforos Vrettakos, el Diamartiria Kostas Stergiopoulos, el Eklipsi Yiorgos Yeralis, el Elliniki nikhta Yannis Ritsos: el Kodonostasio el O tikhos mesa ston kathrefti el Hartina el Petrinos khronos (written in the Makronisos concentration camp in 1949) el Imnos kai thrinos yia tin Kipro, about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus el Meletes, a book of essays Hebrew M. Dor, Mappot Hazeman Haim Gouri, Ad Kav Ha-Nesher ("The Eagle Line"), by an 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 "Haim Gouri" page at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, accessed October 6, 2007 Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously I. Pinkas, Al Kav Hamashveh Y. Ratosh, three slim volumes which appeared simultaneously D. Rokeah, Ir Shezemana Kayitz Y. Tan-Pai, Olam Kazeh Olam Kaba A. Trainin, Ha-Shaar Hasotum Nathan Yonathan, Shirim India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Amarjit Chandan, Kauan Nahin Chahega, Rangshala, Chandigarh; Punjabi-language"Amarjit Chandan" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050623/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10489 2011-07-21 at Poetry International; retrieved July 6, 2010 K. Siva Reddy, Charya, 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 at Poetry International; retrieved July 11, 2010 Namdeo Dhasal, Moorkha Mhatarayane Dongar Halavile; Marathi-language"Namdeo Dhasal" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214213641/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=10525 2012-02-14 , Poetry International; retrieved July 15, 2010 Nilmani Phookan, Kaint Golap Aru Kaint, Guwahati, Assam: Dutta Barua, Assamese-language"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 , "Poetry International"; retrieved July 16, 2010 Rajendra Kishore Panda, Gouna Devata, Patanagarh, Orissa: Varnamala, Oraya-language"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 Suresh Joshi, Pratyancha, Indian, Gujarati-languageMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson (eds), Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Italy Carlo Bordini, Strana categoria Pier Paolo Pasolini, La nuova gioventú Giovanni Raboni, Cadenza d'inganno Anthology Marco Forti (ed.), Almanacco dello Specchio for 1975, an anthology (from Arnoldo Mondadori's publishing house) that includes poems by Eugenio Montale, Mario Luzi, Albino Pierro, Vasco Pratolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giovanni Testori, Giovanni Guiducci, Rossana Ombres Portuguese language Portugal A. Ramos Rosa, Animal Olhar Fiama Brandão, Novas Visões do Passado A.-F. Alexandre, Sem Palavras nem Coisas Russia N. Dorizo, The Sword of Victory. Verses, Poems and Songs Yu. Drunina, The Star of the Trenches. New Poems K. Vanshenkin, Campfire Reminiscences. Wartime Lyrics Ya. Smelyakov, Verses of Many Years B. Kunyayev, Devotion. Poems I. Molchanov, Half a Century. Verses G. Korshak, The Stellar Hour I. Ulyanova, Birch Tree Rain A. Roshka, Steel and Flint (translated into Russian from Moldavian) S. Eraliyev, Herald's Word (translated into Russian from Kirgiz) Soviet anthology Winds of Different Colors Spanish language Spain Vicente Gaos, Diez siglos de poesía Luis Cernuda, Antología poetica, introduction and selection by Philip Silver Latin America Juan Gonzalo Rose, Obra poética (Peru) Javier Sologuren, translator from Swiss, Italian and French, Las uvas del racimo (Peru) Raúl Gonzáles Tuñón, Antología poética (Argentina), posthumous Margit Frenk, Cancionero folklórico, anthology of popular poetry Juan Gelman, Obra poética (Argentina) Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Tierra que habla (Nicaragua) Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuaderno paralelo (Cuba) Jorge Enrique Adoum, Informe personal sobre la situación (Ecuador) Olga Orozco, Museo salvage (Argentina) Hernán Levín, El que a hierro mata (Chile) Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, text of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard for 1971–72 José Coronel Urteche, Rápido tránsito, critical essays Sweden Kjell Espmark, Det obevekliga paradiset, the last volume of a trilogy Claes Andersson, Rums kamrater Ylva Eggehorn, Han Kommer Yiddish Hirsch Osherovich, The World of Sacrifices Arye Shamri, Rings in Stem Hillel Shargel, A Tree in the Window Moshe Shklar, In Imagination Sealed Moyshe Nadir, A Day in a Garden Aleph Katz, Morning Star Jacob Friedmann, Poems and Songs, three volumes (posthumous) Other Zbigniew Herbert, Mr. Cogito, which was translated into 15 languages and dramatized in 1975; Poland Ndoc Gjetja, Shqiponja rreh krahët ("Beats Eagle Wings"), Albania"Ndoc Gjetja, hera e fundit në bibliotekën publike", June 8, 2010, Telegrafi of Pristina (Google translation), retrieved June 10, 2010 Miroslav Holub, a book of poetry? Czechoslovakia: Czech Julian Przyboś, Poems and Notes (posthumous), Poland Jan Skacel, a book of poetry? Czechoslovakia: Czech Nichita Stănescu, selected poems Romania Ion Alexandru, selected poems Romania Awards and honors Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator English language Canada See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson United States Bollingen Prize: Archie Randolph Ammons National Book Award for Poetry: Marilyn Hacker, Presentation Piece Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder, Turtle Island Walt Whitman Award: Reg Saner, Climbing into the Roots Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Hayden Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Cid Corman, O/I (Judge: Hayden Carruth) French language France Prix Appolinaire: Charles Le Quintrec, jeunesse de Dieu Grand Prix de poésie of the French Academy: Gabriel Audisio, Racine de tout Spanish language Casa de las Américas prizes: Omar Lara (Chile), ¡Oh buenas maneras! Manuel Orestes Nieto (Panama), Dar la cara Other A Soviet state prizes for poetry: K. Kuliyev, The Book of the Earth L. Martynov, Hyperboles Births August 13 – Andrea Gibson (died 2025), American poet August 20 – Matthew and Michael Dickman, American poets December 21 – Srijato (Srijato Bandopadhyay), Bengali poet Nick Laird, Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist Tony Tost, American poet Razvan Tupa, Romanian poet Deaths thumb|Roque Dalton Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, 59 (born 1915), New Zealand–Scots poet, artist, dramatist and novelist who wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans; a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance January 18 – Chester Kallman, 53 (born 1921), American-born poet and librettist January 21 – Mascha Kaléko, 67 (born 1907), German-language poet February 5 – Janko Glazer, 81 (born 1893), Slovenian poet, literary historian, librarian and editor February 10 – Nikos Kavvadias, 65 (born 1910), Russian-born Greek poet and sailor February 14 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist March 2 – Helen Cruickshank (born 1886), Scottish poet, suffragette and nationalist March 3 – Sir T. H. Parry-Williams (born 1887), Welsh poet, translator and academic March 22 – Stanley Young, 69 (born 1906), American poet, playwright, publisher and literary reviewer April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, 35 (born 1940) German poet, killed in hit-and-run-accident in London May 10 – Roque Dalton, 39 (born 1935), leftist Salvadoran poet, journalist and political activist who wrote on death, love and politics, executed July 10 – Sir Francis Meynell, 84 (born 1891), English poet August 3 – Andreas Embirikos, 73 (born 1901), Greek surrealist poet and psychoanalyst August 5 – Vojko Gorjan, 26 (born 1949), Slovenian postmodernist poet September 4 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (born 1897), Japanese poet September 20 – Saint-John Perse, 88, French diplomat and poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 September 24(?) – Pat Lowther, 40 (born 1935), Canadian poet, murdered by her husband, Roy Lowther October 27 – Vayalar Ramavarma, 47 (born 1928), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and film songwriterPaniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp. 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009 October 28 – Patrice de La Tour du Pin, 64 (born 1911), French writer November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, Italian film director, author and poet Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1976 ("for events of 1975"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1976 (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 *