1976 in poetry

none Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1976 poetry literature Events January 1 – Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are publishedRepresentative Poetry Online, citing Facts on File 36 [1976]: 9. April 5 – 1976 Tiananmen Incident in Beijing, China: the display of poems against the Gang of Four are among events provoking a police crackdown. Lille Stesichorus, the largest fragments of work attributed to Ancient Greek poet Stesichorus, are first publishedAncher, G.; Meillier, C. (1976). Cahier de Recherches de l'Institut de Papyrologie et d'Egyptologie de Lille, 4: 279–337, 346–351. 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 R. Berndt (ed.), Love Songs of Arnhem Land (anthology)Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Australian Poetry" article, Anthologies section, p. 108. Anne Elder, posthumous, Crazy Woman John Forbes, Tropical Skiing (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Les Murray, The Vernacular Republic Selected PoemsLes Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071013031215/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=216 2007-10-13 , accessed October 15, 2007 John Tranter, The Alphabet Murders (notes from a work in progress), Angus & Robertson Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Foundations of Joy (Poets of the Month Series), Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Canada Earle Birney: Alphabeings and Other Seasyours. London, Ont.: Pikadilly Press. The Rugging and the Moving Times: poems new and uncollected 1976. Coatsworth, ON: Black Moss Press."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. Gary Geddes, War & Other Measures Roland Giguere, Miron translated from French Archibald Lampman, Lampman's Sonnets: The Complete Sonnets of Archibald Lampman, Margaret Coulby Whitridge ed. (Ottawa: Borealis). 978-0-919594-50-0 Irving Layton, For My Brother Jesus. 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 Uncollected Poems of Irving Layton: 1936-59. Ed. W. David John. Ottawa, ON: Mosaic Press. Dennis Lee. The Death of Harold Ladoo. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press."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. Al Purdy, Sundance at Dusk James Reaney, Selected Longer Poems. Joe Rosenblatt, Top Soil, Selected Poems (1962-1975). 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. Charles Sangster, Norland echoes and other strains and lyrics, ed. Frank M. Tierney (Tecumseh)Frank M. Tierney, "Sangster, Charles," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web., Oct. 15 2010. Raymond Souster, To Hell with Poetry. Burton, Ohio."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. Anthologies New Provinces reprinted—first anthology of modernist poetry in Canada (originally published 1936), including work by F. R. Scott, E. J. Pratt, Robert Finch, A. J. M. Smith, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein. India in English Arun Kolatkar, Jejuri, Bombay: Clearing House, India. Nissim Ezekiel: Hymns in Darkness, Delhi, Oxford University PressNiranjan Mohanty, "Trends in Indian Poetry in English", p. 18 ("Works Cited"), Footnote 7, 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 Poster Prayers,Anup C. Nair and Rajesh I. Patel, "22. Nissim Ezekiel the Poet: A Bird's Eyeview", pp. 248, 257-59, 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 Gieve Patel, How Do You Withstand, Body, Bombay, Clearing House, Indian, Indian poetry in English-language"Gieve Patel" https://web.archive.org/web/20100626193109/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2718 2010-06-26 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Keki Daruwalla, Crossing of Rivers, an experimental work published by the author's own publishing house; Bombay: Ezra-Fakir PressMehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.), A History of Indian Literature in English, p. 261, Columbia University Press, 2003, 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010 Adil Jussawalla, Missing Person,"Adil Jussawalla" https://web.archive.org/web/20100831235054/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2714 2010-08-31 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 10, 2010 Jayanta Mahapatra: A Father's Hours, Calcutta: United WritersPurnima Mehta, "16. Jayanta Mahapatra: A Silence-bound Pilgrim", pp. 184-85, 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 A Rain of Rites, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Nine Enclosures,Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.), A History of Indian Literature in English, p. 259, Columbia University Press, 2003, 0-231-12810-X, retrieved July 18, 2010 Meena Alexander, The Bird's Bright Ring, 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 Arundhathi Subramaniam, Nine Enclosures (poetry in English), Mumbai: Clearing House"Arundhathi Subramaniam" https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052941/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=15316 2011-07-21 , Poetry International website, retrieved July 6, 2010 Gauri Deshpande, An Anthology of Indo English Poetry, Delhi: Hind Pocket BooksJyoti Rane, "14. The Poetry of Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath", p. 172, 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 Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, five vols, published from 1971 to this year; Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Book Distribution Agency Rohini K. Gupta, Karna and Other Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop Om Prakash Bhatnagar, Thought Poems, Aligarh: Skylark Pub. Deb Kumar Das, Winterbird Walks, Calcutta: Writers Workshop Jagannath Prasad Das, First Person, Delhi: Arnold Heinemann Mukand R. Dave, Some Sheets of Paper, Aligarh: Skylark Pub. R. Parthasarathy (ed.), Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, Delhi: Oxford University PressM. Dasan, "10. The Silenced Subalterns in Kamala Das's Poetry", p. 131, 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 Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University Press John Ennis (poet), Night on Hibernia Oldcastle: The New Gallery Press, 978-0-902996-46-5 Michael Longley, Man Lying on a Wall -Cox, Michael (ed.), The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom George McWhirter, Queen of the Sea, Northern Ireland poet published in Canada New Zealand James K. Baxter, posthumous The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945–72, edited by J. E. Weir The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, edited by J. E. Weir Alan Brunton, Black & White Anthology, a 33-part sequence with an Asian setting, Hawk PressRobinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, 1998, pp. 75-76, "Alan Brunton" article by Peter Simpson Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter, biography, New Zealand United Kingdom Kenneth Allott, Collected Poems W. H. Auden, Collected Poems of W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson Pam Ayres, Some of Me Poetry and Some More of Me Poetry Frances Bellerby, The First Known (posthumous) Zoë Brooks, Owl Shadows and Whispering Stone "parallel booklets" George Mackay Brown, Winterfold Ciarán Carson: The New Estate, Blackstaff Press, Wake Forest University Press Elizabeth Daryush, Collected Poems David Day, Brass Rubbings Patric Dickinson, The Bearing Beast Gavin Ewart, No Fool Like an Old Fool Ruth Fainlight, Another Full Moon Tony Flynn, Separations Alistair Fowler, Catagomb Suburb Thom Gunn, Jack Straw's Castle, and Other Poems Adrian Henri, One Year, Todmorden, Lancashire: Arc Publications, 978-0-902771-47-5 Ted Hughes, Season Songs Clive James, Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World and Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster, Australian poet resident in the United Kingdom Glyn Jones, Selected Poems Peter Levi, Collected Poems Michael Longley, Man Lying on a Wall Northern Ireland poet published in the United Kingdom Hugh MacDiarmid, Collected Poems Hugh Maxton, The Noise of the Fields Humphrey John Moore, Collected Poems Eleanor Murray, Black and Sepia Luke Parsons, Last Poems Brian Patten, Vanishing Trick Rodney Pybus, Bridging Loans Peter Reading, The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery Jon Silkin, The Little Time-Keeper Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes David Wright, A View of the North Edmund Leo Wright, The Horwich Hennets (the poet invented the "hennet", a 12-line hendecasyllabic verse with the rhymes "abacbcde deff") Paul Yates, Sky Made of Stone Anthologies in the United Kingdom Elaine Feinstein, editor and translator, Three Russian Poets: Margarite Aliger, Yunna Morits, Bella Akhmadulina, Manchester, Carcanet Press F. E. S. Finn, Here and Human Antonia Fraser, Scottish Love Poems Dannie Abse, Poetry Dimension Annual 4 Howard Sergeant, New Poems 1976/1977, P.E.N. anthology United States Diane Ackerman, The Planets Paul Auster, translator, The Uninhabited, poetry translated from the original French of André du BouchetAuster, 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 Ted Berrigan, Red Wagon Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III, which includes the poem "One Art" Peter Blue Cloud, Turtle, Bear, and WolfPorter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 978-0-521-82283-1. Raymond Carver, At Night The Salmon Move Maxine Chernoff, Vegetable Emergency, prose poems (Beyond Baroque Foundation) Robert Creeley, Selected Poems James Dickey, The Zodiac Ed Dorn, translator, Selected Poems of Cesar Vallejo, Penguin"Archive / Edward Dorn (1929-1999)" page at Poetry Foundation, retrieved May 8, 2008 Charles Doyle, James K. Baxter, Boston: Twayne (Twayne's World Authors Series); study of the New Zealand poet Irving Feldman, Leaping Clear Marya Fiamengo, In Praise of Older Women Stratis Haviaras, Crossing the River Twice (Greek poet writing in English) John Hollander, Reflections on Espionage Robert Lowell, Selected Poems James Merrill: Divine Comedies, including "Lost in Translation" and "The Book of Ephraim", a long narrative poem N. Scott Momaday, The Gourd Dancer Lorine Niedecker, Blue Chicory (published posthumously) Simon Ortiz, Going for the Rain Kenneth Rexroth, 100 More Poems from the Japanese Charles Reznikoff, Poems 1918-1936 Muriel Rukeyser, The Gates Anne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street (posthumous) James Tate, Viper Jazz Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States Harold Bloom, Poetry and Repression, the final volume of a tetralogy that began with The Anxiety of Influence in 1973 Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry (college textbook), originally published in 1938, goes into its fourth edition (after revised editions in 1950 and 1960); this would be the final edition before the deaths of the authors Other in English Shana Yardan, The Listening of Eyes (Guyana)About Shana Yardan https://scalar.lafayette.edu/indoguyanesewomenpoets/shana-yardan-1 2022-11-29 Indo-Guyanese Women Poets Lafayette College 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 Jørgen Gustava Brandt: Jothárram Mit hjerte i København Regnansigt Klaus Høeck, Pentagram, publisher: Gyldendal"Bibliography of Klaus Høeck", Danish Arts Agency / Literature Centre; retrieved January 1, 2010 Jørgen Nash, Her er jeg Henrik Nordbrandt, Glas ("Glass") Copenhagen: Gylendal, 53 pp."Henrik Nordbrandt" https://web.archive.org/web/20101223163443/http://www.litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/henrik-nordbrandt 2010-12-23 at the Literatur.siden website, retrieved January 29, 2010 Klaus Rifbjerg, Stranden Jørgen Sonne, Huset ("The House")"Danish Poetry" article, p. 273, in Preminger, Alex, T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Finland Paavo Haavikko, Viiniä, kirjoitusta Hannu Mäkelä, Synkkyys pohjaton, ninn myös iloni, onneni Jarkko Laine, Viidenpennin Hamlet Matti Rossi, Laulu tummana tulevi Matti Kuusi, Kansanruno Kalevala, a reconstruction of the folk poems that formed the basis of the Finnish national epic, Kaalevala, compiled in 1849 by Elias Lönnrot. French language France Anne-Marie Albiach, Objet Roland Bacri, Roland Bacri (the name of the author and book are the same) Hervé Bazin, Traits Jean Berthet, L'éternel instant Philippe Chabaneix, Dix nouvelles romances René Char, Aromates chasseurs ("Hunter's Aromatic Herbs")Denis Hollier (ed.), A New History of French Literature, p. 1024, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. 0-674-61565-4 Jean Daive, Le jeu des séries scéniques Christian Dedeyan, Chant du Houlme Roger Giroux, Théatre, published posthumously (died 1973) Robert Houdelot, Les Treize Edmond Jabès, Le Livre des Ressemblances Jacques Marlet, Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver Robert Marteau, Atlante Jacques Prévert, Grand Bal du printemps Raymond Queneau, Morale élémentaire J. P. Seguin, LAnnée poétique 1975 Criticism, scholarship and biography John Edwin Jackson, a study of Yves Bonnefoy Canada Georges Cartier, Chanteaux Paul Chanel Malenfant, Poèmes de la mères pays Marie Uguay, Signe et rumeur A Quebec collective of women, La Nef des sorcières German language West Germany Horst Bienek, Gleiwitzer Kindheit Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mausoleum: Thirty Seven Ballads from the History of Progress Michael Krüger, Reginapoly Ernst Meister, Im Zeitspalt Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Prussian Nights, translated into German from the original Russian by Nikolaus Ehlert; first written in 1951; first published in 1974 Jürgen Theobaldy and Gustav Zürcher, Veränderung der Lyrik: Über westdeutsche Gedichte seit 1965Preminger, 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. East Germany Erich Arendt, Memento und Bild India Listed in alphabetical order by first name: Amritdhari Singha, Avatar rahasya, India, Maithili-languageDas, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, Sahitya Akademi, 1995. 978-81-7201-798-9; retrieved December 23, 2008 Heeraben Pathak, Paraloke Patra, a poem addressing her deceased husband, poet Ramnarayan Pathak; Indian poet writing in 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 Joy Goswami Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchcho ("Sonnets of Christmas and Winter"), the author's first book of poetry; Bangladeshi-language"Joy Goswami" https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090841/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2722 2011-09-19 , Poetry International, retrieved July 10, 2010 K. Siva Reddy, Aasupatrigeetam, 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 Namdeo Dhasal, Priyadarshini; 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 Nirendranath Chakravarti, Kobitar Bodoley Kobita, Kolkata: Bishhobani Prokashoni; Bengali-language"Nirendranath Chakravarti" https://web.archive.org/web/20120214214239/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11144 2012-02-14 , Poetry International: retrieved July 15, 2010 Rajendra Kishore Panda, Anavatar O Anya Anya, Cuttack: Grantha Mandir, 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 , Poetry International, retrieved July 26, 2010 Italy Dario Bellezza, Morta segreta Alberto Bevilacqua, La crudeltà Amelia Rosselli, Documento 1966-73 Angelo M. Ripellino, La splendido violino verde Maria Luisa Spaziani, Ultrasuoni Poland M. Jastrum (ed.), Poezja Mtodej Polski, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (eds), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Polish Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, pp. 959-60 A. Lam (ed.), Kolumbowie i wspótcześni, second edition, anthology Z. Liberia (ed.), Poezja polska XVIII wieku ("Polish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century"), second edition, anthology Wisława Szymborska: Wielka liczba ("A Large Number") Portuguese language Portugal Ruy de Moura Belo, Toda a terra ("All of the Land")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 Carlos de Oliveira, Trabalho Poético Egito Gonçalves, Luz Vegital Eugénio de Andrade, Limar dos Pássaros António Ramos Rosa, Ciclo do Cavalo Pedro Tamen, Agora, Estar Brazil Marcus Accioly, Sisifo, a long poem containing multiple forms of poetry, including the classical sonnet, concrete and popular Brazilian forms Yolanda Jordão, Biografia do Edificio e Anexos Adélia Prado, Bagagem Spanish language Spain Matilde Camus, Siempre amor ("Forever Love") Antonio Colinas, Sepulcro en Taruinia Justo Jorge Padrón, Los círculos del infierno Claudio Rodriguez, El vuelo de la celebración Latin America Guadalupe Amor, El zoológico de Pita Amor Jomi García Ascot, Un modo de decir Arturo Corcuera, Las sirenas y las estaciones (Peru) José Emilio Pacheco, Islas à la deriva (Mexico) A workshop in "synthetic poetry" came out with Doce modos Sweden Göran Sonnevi, Det omöjliga Sten Hagliden, Kvällsordat Barbro Lindgren, Rapporter från marken Other languages Gerrit Kouwenaar, Verzamelde Gedichten (Netherlands) Alexander Mezhirov, Под старым небом ("Under the Old Sky"), Russia, Soviet UnionShrayer, Maxim, "Aleksandr Mezhirov", p. 879, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry, M.E. Sharpe, 2007, 0-7656-0521-X, 978-0-7656-0521-4; retrieved May 27, 2009 Awards and honors Canada See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock Eric Gregory Award: Stewart Brown, Valerie Gillies, Paul Groves, Paul Hyland, Nigel Jenkins, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, William Peskett 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"): Robert Hayden appointed this year. Frost Medal: A.M. Sullivan National Book Award for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Walt Whitman Award: Laura Gilpin, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: J. V. Cunningham Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Denise Levertov, The Freeing of the Dust (Judge: Hayden Carruth) Births September 2 – Tim Key, English comic performer and performance poet Jen Hadfield, British poet and visual artist Meghan O'Rourke, American writer, editor and poet; writer for Slate; a poetry editor for The Paris Review Yolanda Wisher, African American poet and spoken word artist Deaths thumb|150px|Grave of Polish journalist, poet, writer and dissident Henryk Jasiczek. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 22 – Charles Reznikoff, 81 (born 1894), American Objectivist poet March 7 – Tove Ditlevsen, 58 (born 1917), Danish poet and fiction writer, suicide by overdose March 10 – L. E. Sissman, 48 (born 1928), American poet, advertising executive and Quiz Kid, of Hodgkin's disease March 12 – Lloyd Frankenberg, 67 (born 1907), American poet, anthologist and critic, husband of painter Loren MacIver April 9 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o", 90 (born 1885), Japanese, late Taishō period and Shōwa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher April 28 – Richard Hughes, 76 (born 1900), English poet, fiction writer and screenwriter May 11 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi, 91 (born 1884), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Shōwa periods July 4 – Antoni Słonimski, 80, (born 1895), Polish poet and writer July 11 – León de Greiff, 80, (born 1895), Colombian poet August 9 – José Lezama Lima, 65, (born 1910), Cuban poet and writer August 19 – Jan Nisar Akhtar, 62 (born 1914), Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, a lyricist for Bollywood and father of psychiatrist and poet Salman Akhtar August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam (also spelled "Kazi Nozrul Islam"), 77 (born 1899), Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher best known as the Bidrohi Kobi ("Rebel Poet"), popular among Bengalis and considered the national poet of Bangladesh September 30 – Paul Dehn, 63 (born 1912), English screenwriter and poet October 15 – James McAuley, 59 (born 1917), Australian poet, academic, journalist and literary critic October 18 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, 81 (born 1895), Indian poet writing in Telugu; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat ("Emperor of Poetry") October 23 – Anne Elder, 58 (born 1918), Australian ballet dancer and poet, of cardiopulmonary disease December 8 – Henryk Jasiczek, 57 (born 1919), Polish journalist, poet, writer and dissident Full date unknown – Henriette Sauret (born 1890), French poet, political writer, journalist See also Poetry Poetry List of poetry awards List of years in poetry Notes Britannica Book of the Year 1977 ("for events of 1976"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica 1977 (source of many items in "Works published" section and rarely in other sections) Category:20th-century poetry *